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2…………> COVID19 Vaccine Maker: Down

Battered by a steep broad-market selloff this week, Moderna shares fell for a sixth straight session as experts questioned whether Covid-19 vaccine sales alone will help justify the firm’s meteoric valuation, intensifying a crash that’s wiped out more than 60% of the value in one of last year’s top stocks and turned it into this year’s worst performer.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2022/01/21/moderna-stock-crash-intensifies-losses-top-130-billion-after-scientists-find-covid-boosters-arent-halting-omicron-infections/amp/

3…………> Aircraft Giant: Up & Flying

Stratolaunch’s Roc—the biggest airplane in the world—returned to the sky last week, completing its first test flight in more than eight months.

https://www.flyingmag.com/worlds-largest-airplane-takes-flight-for-the-first-time-in-eight-months/

4…………> Philly High-Rise On Fire

The horrendous blaze started at 11:15 am local time on the weekend at 20th and Market Streets, and firefighters have rushed to the scene of a fire that engulfed a skyscraper. 

https://sputniknews.com/20220123/firefighters-rush-to-central-philadelphia-after-high-rise-catches-fire–videos-1092469309.html

5…………> Lucky Border Crosser: Denmark

Dutch police say they have found a stowaway alive in the wheel section of a plane that landed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport from South Africa, in a flight from Johannesburg to Amsterdam that take about 11 hours, as the carrier had made one stop in Nairobi, Kenya.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60104010

2…………> Wild CA Wildfire

An unseasonal wildfire raging in California’s Monterey County, forced evacuations and the closure of Highway 1, with the National Weather Service (NWS) reported a “surreal fire behaviour given the wet Oct and Dec”.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60092300

3…………> Saturn Moons: Water Inside

Data from the Cassini mission pointing to Mimas possibly having an interior ocean, with a team of scientists published suggesting that Saturn’s mini-moon may have a “liquid water ocean beneath a 24-31 km thick ice shell”.

https://sputniknews.com/20220122/ocean-inside-saturns-moon-mimas-may-have-water-under-icy-surface-1092440897.html

4…………> US/Israel Missile Test

Israel and the United States have completed a successful flight test of the Arrow-3 ballistic missile interceptor, at a test site in central Israel, the ballistic missile interceptor detected and destroyed a target in outer space, the ministry said in a statement.

https://english.news.cn/20220118/52c36d24859c4456960c557adc077e8c/c.html

2…………> Biden in Ukraine: Lethal Aid

Some 90 tones of US “lethal aid” has arrived in Ukraine, amid tensions over Russia’s troop build-up on the border, being the first shipment of a recently approved package of US military aid for Ukraine and included ammunition for “front-line defenders”.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60096261

3…………> Lost in the Atlantic: French Explorer

A 75-year-old Frenchman who was trying to row across the Atlantic Ocean has been found dead at sea, as adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin had previously made the crossing in a large barrel in 2019. He had triggered two distress beacons last night.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60097918

4…………> Manchu-Picchu Secret

Researchers from the University of Warsaw managed to discover more than a dozen new buildings belonging to the Inca Empire’s Machu Picchu complex using a special laser technology that gets ever more frequent use by the archaeologists – lidar.

https://sputniknews.com/20220122/scientists-discover-hidden-ritual-site-at-machu-picchu-using-lasers-1092454096.html

5…………> New Omicron Covid: Data

BA.2, nicknamed “Omicron’s little brother”, made its first appearance in France a few weeks ago, and introduced for the first time by Véran during a press conference on January 20, this new Covid-19 derivative is being scrutinized by scientists. 

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20220122-scientists-scrutinise-characteristics-of-new-covid-19-omicron-sub-variant-ba-2

6…………> A Message of Peace