<p>Week after week we bring you the&nbsp;latest and greatest music on your favorite radio station 104.2 NileFM, and while you send in your requests as well as your selections for your favorite songs, you shape Egypt's biggest chart,&nbsp;NileFM's "Hit 30 Egypt"!</p>
<p>If you want to stay ahead of the game and always be up to date on what's going to happen on the show, not to mention the charts, check out this week's hits below!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>30) To Be Young &ndash; Anne-Marie ft. Doja Cat</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/5uf7BzRBZwA" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></strong></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>29) Ice Cream &ndash; BLACKPINK with Selena Gomez</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/vRXZj0DzXIA" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>28) Talk About Love &ndash; Zara Larson ft. Young Thug</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/H50LW6zGr54" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>27) Save Your Tears &ndash; The Weeknd</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/XXYlFuWEuKI" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>26) Come &amp; Go &ndash; Juice WRLD ft. Marshmello</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/5Di20x6vVVU" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>25) Vibez&ndash; Zayn</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/VSpgaN3wuag" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>24) Lemonade &ndash; Internet Money ft. Don T&rsquo;oliver, Gunna &amp; Nav</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/0opZqh_TprM" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>23) Feel &ndash; Fletcher</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/l4u9OLBp-mk" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>22) Better &ndash; Zayn</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/NAo38Q9c4xA" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>21) Paradise &ndash; MEDUZA ft. Dermot Kennedy</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/e7HBypw4lhY" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></strong></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>20) Prisoner &ndash; Miley Cyrus ft. Dua Lipa</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/0ir1qkPXPVM" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>19) Flames &ndash; Mod Sun ft. Avril Lavigne</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MG4WiGodGgo" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>18) Welcome Back &ndash; Ali Gatie ft. Alessia Cara</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/KFF9ccipraw" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>17) 34+35 &ndash; Ariana Grande</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/B6_iQvaIjXw" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>16) Treat People with Kindness &ndash; Harry Styles</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/L0X03zR0rQk" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>15) Hate the Way &ndash; G Eazy ft. Blackbear</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/HCQ6uf0HTGw" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>14) Tick Tock &ndash; Clean Bandit and Mabel</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/yC8SPG2LwSA" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>13) Anyone &ndash; Justin Bieber<br /></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/KIK3azN4w34" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>12) Over Now &ndash; Clavin Harris &amp; The Weeknd</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/quFlP3cRCFs" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>11) What you Know Bout Love &ndash; Pop Smoke</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/uuodbSVO3z0" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>10) Life goes on &ndash; BTS</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-5q5mZbe3V8" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>9) Lonely &ndash; Justin Bieber &amp; Benny Blanco</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xQOO2xGQ1Pc" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>8) Feed the Fire &ndash; SG Lewis ft. Lucky Daye</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-gd1ZRLBvw8" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>7) Levitating &ndash; Dua Lipa and DaBaby</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/TUVcZfQe-Kw" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>6) Mood &ndash; 24KGoldn ft. Iann Dior</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/GrAchTdepsU" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>5) Positions &ndash; Ariana Grande</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/tcYodQoapMg" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>4) Golden &ndash; Harry Styles</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/P3cffdsEXXw" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>3) Therefore I Am &ndash; Billie Eilish</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/RUQl6YcMalg" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>2) Lighter &ndash; Nathan Dawe ft. KSI</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Di0nAk2_Tpw" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>1) Girl Like Me &ndash; Black Eyed Peas ft. Shakira</strong></span></p>
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Check out the list of the hottest music on NileFM's Hit 30

This Week's Hottest Tracks On NileFM's "Hit 30 Egypt"

<p>As promised, singer Lana Del Rey dropped the title track for her upcoming album &ldquo;Chemtrails Over The Country Club&rdquo; along with a music video for the song, and a release date for the upcoming album. The album was initially set for release in 2020 but was postponed on account of COVID-19.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>The singer recently did an interview with BBC Radio 1 where she explained that she struggled with the album as she knew where she wanted the album to be but simultaneously didn&rsquo;t know if she actually managed to realize her vision or not.[article id=7396]&ldquo;This is the first album where I knew what I wanted it to be but I didn&rsquo;t know if I got there. &lsquo;Norman [F***ing Rockwell!&rsquo;], I knew. &lsquo;Norman&hellip;&rsquo;, I wrote a couple of songs &ndash; the title track and also a song called &lsquo;Love Song&rsquo; and I was like I know what my album is and I know where I&rsquo;m going,&rdquo; said Del Rey.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I think with this album it feels very much like when you&rsquo;re reaching in a relationship. You&rsquo;re like beckoning it, like &lsquo;I want it so bad&rsquo;. I felt like that with &lsquo;Chemtrails&hellip;&rsquo;, but not so much the title track,&rdquo; she continued.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check out the track below:</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/vBHild0PiTE" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The song was received with love from fans who have been anticipating the album for quite some time now and garnered over two million views on YouTube in just over 16 hours.</p>
<p>Of course, fans were eager to find out when the album was going to get released, and Del Rey did not disappoint and revealed the release date for the album - March 19, 2021.</p>
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Lana Del Rey appeases fans as she drops the music video for her song Chemtrails Over The Country Club and tells them the release date for the upcomign album.

Lana Del Rey Drops “Chemtrails Over The Country Club” Music Video & Reveals Release Date For Upcoming Album

<p>Yesterday, mega pop star Tamer Hosny&rsquo;s &lsquo;Erfa&rsquo; Eidak&rsquo; (or 'Hands Up'), featuring Egyptian rapper Marwan Moussa and up-and-coming artist Hoda Sherbeeny was released as the official song for the upcoming World Men&rsquo;s Handball Championship 2021.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Directed by Ashraf Hamdy, the upbeat bilingual track and video clip highlights a myriad of beautiful destinations within Egypt, such as the Nile River, ancient temples, the ever-stunning Khan El-Khalili, and Nubian architecture.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/PqSZQBBdB58" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The upcoming 27th edition of the championship &ndash; set to take place from January 13 to January 31 &ndash; will bring together 32 international teams, who have recently been spotted sightseeing and exploring Egypt up close, according to several social media posts by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.</p>
<p>Initially, the championship was permitting 30% audience capacity, but Egypt&rsquo;s Council of Ministers has since revised its decision and has decided that the championship will be held without an audience, as a safety measure amidst the second wave of Coronavirus.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-bfcSuV6lSc" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The championship will be hosted by four different venues across Egypt: namely, the Cairo International Stadium, The Sports City Hall in the New Administrative Capital, the Egyptian Handball Federation's new headquarters in 6th of October City, and the Borg El Arab hall in Alexandria.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

Tamer Hosny's 'Erfa' Eidak', featuring Marwan Moussa and Hoda Sherbeeny, is the official song for the upcoming 2021 World Men’s Handball Championship.

Tamer Hosny’s ‘Erfa’ Eidak’ is the Official Song for 2021 World Men’s Handball Championship

<p>Singer Avril Lavigne has been teasing a new project on her Instagram account for a few days now, appearing with MOD SUN, and Machine Gun Kelly, and now we got a new song featuring the singer in a punk rock anthem.</p>
<p>Titled &ldquo;Flames&rdquo;, the single is a great song to show off the singer&rsquo;s return to the music scene since her release of the album &ldquo;Head Above Water&rdquo; which released back in 2019, and it&rsquo;s also a return to form for the &ldquo;Sk8er Boi&rdquo; singer as it evokes much of the rock value she was known for during her earlier career.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check out the song below:</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MG4WiGodGgo" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The singer was very happy with the song, releasing a few photos with MOD SUN, as well as asking fans to give her feedback on the song on Twitter</p>
<p>&ldquo;What do you guys think of our new song &ldquo;FLAMES&rdquo; tell me in the replies!&rdquo; wrote Lavigne.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">What do you guys think of our new song "FLAMES" tell me in the replies!<br />Out everywhere now! Let's go <a href="https://twitter.com/MODSUN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@modsun</a> ____ <a href="https://t.co/CgCESN6xjb">pic.twitter.com/CgCESN6xjb</a></p>
&mdash; Avril Lavigne (@AvrilLavigne) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvrilLavigne/status/1348054194134069248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2021</a></blockquote>
<p>Of course, messages of love and support from fans poured in, with many more asking for when she&rsquo;s going to drop her own album, unfortunately, she didn&rsquo;t reveal anything yet, however, we do know that she&rsquo;s been working with MOD SUN and Machine Gun Kelly since the end of December, and the song dropped quick so we might get an album really soon, then again we might end up waiting for something coming later this year.</p>
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MOD SUN drops new single featuring Avril Lavigne.

Avril Lavigne Features on New Single “Flames” Along With Singer MOD SUN

<p>The last remaining member of the Bee Gees, Barry Gibb, decided to take his and his brothers&rsquo; songs to a whole other level as he decided to reimagine some of them with a whole cast of collaborators on his upcoming album. But one of the songs, with the legendary Dolly Parton, takes his reimagining to a whole new level.</p>
<p>Titled &ldquo;Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook Vol. 1&rdquo;, Gibb has taken some of the Bee Gees' hits down the country route, but the song &ldquo;Words&rdquo; with iconic country singer Dolly Parton has really struck a chord with fans.</p>
<p>"I was bitten by Nashville, you know? Because Nashville is about music; it's about real songs, This is where I gotta go. This is the kind of music I love," said the singer during an interview on CBS Sunday Morning.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/VilWNtkXp78" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>"Dolly said to me, 'Where I'm standing,' she said, 'is where I sang "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene" in the same afternoon,' so that's very special, very special to be in that environment," Gibbs explained about his recording with Parton.</p>
<p>The twelve-track album will have an amazing cast of country singers including Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert, Sheryl Crow, and Olivia Newton-John among others.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check out the song below:</strong></span></p>
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Barry Gibb and Dolly Parton collaborate in "Words" reimagining.

Dolly Parton Joins Bee Gees' Barry Gibb To Reimagine Band's Classic Hit “Words”

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<p>Actress Rebel Wilson is in the best shape of her life, as she&rsquo;s been working all year last year to get on a healthy lifestyle, but all that could have easily ended prematurely as she revealed that while once traveling in Africa she was kidnapped and held hostage overnight.</p>
<p>In an interview with Ant Middleton on his show &ldquo;Straight Talk&rdquo; on Sky One, the &ldquo;Pitch Perfect&rdquo; star revealed that once in Mozambique, she and several women were held at gunpoint and taken out of their cars and hauled to an undisclosed location in the middle of nowhere, there they would spend the night, before being to told get on a truck and let go.</p>
<p>The actress talked about how she felt calm under pressure as she and the women worked together to stay united to make sure nothing happens to them.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/bXAJXP6bvyM" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>"These men come on another truck with a lot of guns. Yeah, with the big guns, and were like, 'You've got to get off your truck.' They took us to this house in the middle of nowhere,&rdquo; said the actress.</p>
<p>"I feel like I was very good in the crisis. I was like a team leader. They sat us down. I said, 'Everybody link arms,' I'm petrified in the night they might want to take one of the girls or something. Luckily, we weren't harmed, she continued.</p>
<p>Wilson suspects that the gunmen most likely smuggled something using the trucks they were in, and once the job was done, they let the women go before crossing the border into South Africa.</p>
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<p>"They came and said, 'Oh, your truck is ready now you can go- go, go,' you know. So we just didn't ask any questions, we got back on that truck and just got back out of there and then crossed the South African border a few hours later. I think maybe those guys used us to smuggle illegal things in the bottom of the truck." she explained.&nbsp;</p>

The actress was on holiday with her friends when they were entangled in a smuggling operation.

Rebel Wilson Reveals That She Was Once Kidnapped & Taken Hostage In Africa

<p>Get ready people because we&rsquo;re about to make a lot of people feel old, yes, the Pok&eacute;mon franchise is 25 years old, and to celebrate the anniversary, they&rsquo;re collaborating with singer Katy Perry for a special event in 2021.</p>
<p>According to the announcement, Perry is working with the brand and heading up the &ldquo;P25 Music&rdquo; team-up between Pok&eacute;mon and Universal Music Group, as she and several other artists will be participating in the celebration. Pok&eacute;mon also released a teaser trailer on its YouTube channel where it featured a Pok&eacute;ball going through different areas and environments taking a look at previous moments from the franchise and its development.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re kicking off our 25th-anniversary celebration by taking a walk down memory lane!&rdquo; its description reads.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/l_ZHajviuAY" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The singer shared the video on her Instagram account where she revealed that when she was in junior high she used to exchange her POGS (Milk Caps) for Pok&eacute;mon cards and that she&rsquo;s feeling &ldquo;electric&rdquo; about it, which seems to be the same teaser that shows up at the end of the video Pok&eacute;mon released, so it&rsquo;s likely that she will be releasing a song titled that or something to that effect.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Pok&eacute;mon has been a constant in my life from playing the original video games on my Game Boy to trading Pok&eacute;mon TCG cards at lunch to the adventures of catching Pok&eacute;mon on the street with Pok&eacute;mon GO,&rdquo; Perry said in a statement.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve even visited the Pok&eacute;mon Caf&eacute; in Japan while on tour! It is an honor to be chosen to help celebrate a franchise that has given me so much joy in the last 25 years, and to be able to watch it evolve in the ways it&rsquo;s provided that kind of electric joy for the kids in my life and around the world,&rdquo; she continued.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1610618954-Katy-Perry_FINAL_Credit_Christine-Hahn.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="930" />&ldquo;In Katy Perry, we see a kindred spirit to Pok&eacute;mon, whose world is bright, fun, and uplifting. Katy is a wonderful ambassador to help us celebrate 25 years of Pok&eacute;mon, and we can&rsquo;t wait for music fans everywhere to experience the exciting collaborations we have planned,&rdquo; said Colin Palmer, vice president of marketing at The Pok&eacute;mon Company International.</p>
<p>Something interesting is happening and we can't wait to find out!</p>

Katy Perry is collaborating with Pokémon on something for the latter's 25 anniversary!

Pokémon Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary With New Katy Perry Collaboration

<p>Fan-favorite Billie Eilish has just revealed that she&rsquo;ll be treating her supporters to a look into her private life with an upcoming photobook entitled "By Billie-.&rdquo;</p>
<p>According to her website, the book reads like a &ldquo;stunning visual narrative journey through her life,&rdquo; created with her hardcore fans in mind and set to include hundreds of never-before-seen photos. "By Billie-" is intended to take her fans through a journey of her inner character, and give readers insight into her childhood, her life on tour, and more personal details.</p>
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<p>To go with the photobook, Eilish will also be releasing a standalone audiobook, featuring exclusive content revolving around the pop artist's own reflections on her life, telling rare stories, and taking a walk down memory lane with moments from both her personal and professional life, including many family memories. It will also come through with memories from the artist&rsquo;s early years all the way to her breakout success. In Eilish&rsquo;s words, it will &ldquo;provide a truly intimate window into her journey."</p>
<p>The photobook and audiobook will both be released on May 11, 2021, and is currently available for <a href="https://pitchfork.com/news/billie-eilish-to-release-new-photo-book/">pre-ordering</a> in the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/n7VHYBkCbF4" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>February 26, 2021 will mark the release date of an upcoming documentary film &ndash; directed by R. J. Cutler - entitled "Billie Eilish: The World&rsquo;s a Little Blurry." The film will take viewers behind the scenes of the creation process of Eilish&rsquo;s debut studio album, "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?".&nbsp;</p>

Billie Eilish is releasing an audiobook and photobook revealing moments and memories from her personal life.

Billie Eilish Lets Fans Into Her Personal Life With Upcoming Photobook and Audiobook

<p>It looks like originality has gone out the window at Hollywood, as not too long ago we reported that a movie about the Rubik&rsquo;s Cube is in the works, and now the board game &ldquo;Risk&rdquo; is getting the same treatment, and the creator of &ldquo;House Of Cards" is behind the adaptation.</p>
<p>First off, what is &ldquo;Risk&rdquo;? It&rsquo;s a game where players move armies on a world map as they fight to win territories until one of them accomplishes world domination. So the "House of Cards" tie-in is making more sense now, it will be interesting to see how creator Beau Willimon adapts the board game into a TV series.</p>
<p>This yet-to-be-titled TV show will be the first project between Willimon and Jordan Tappis&rsquo; production company Westward and the company Entertainment One Ltd. (eOne) as part of a multi-million dollar deal.</p>
<p>&ldquo;<iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/5g48vXnnf30" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>"All of us at Westward are thrilled to join forces with eOne to bring to life some of the most successful IP in the marketplace as well as partner on our extensive slate of scripted television shows, We&rsquo;re excited to develop Risk as our first project together,&rdquo; Willimon and Tappis said in a statement.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&ldquo;As we continue to build out eOne&rsquo;s world-class content slate, we couldn&rsquo;t think of more perfect partners than Beau and Jordan &ndash; whose award-winning storytelling and imagination are among the best in the business,&rdquo; said eOne&rsquo;s global television president Michael Lombardo.</p>
<p>&ldquo;In Beau, we&rsquo;ve found an amazing combination of brilliant producer, singular creator, and avid fan of Risk. We can&rsquo;t wait to work with him and the rest of the Westward team to reimagine that brand and so much more,&rdquo; he continued.</p>
<p>So far no cast, plot, or release date have been revealed.</p>

Risk is getting turned into a TV show by “House Of Cards” Creator

“Risk” Board Game Set to Be Turned Into TV Series by “House Of Cards” Creator

<p>Americans reaaaaally love their sitcoms, and while &ldquo;Friends&rdquo; used to be one of the most-watched shows for years, there&rsquo;s apparently another holder for the title at least for 2020, as it was revealed that &ldquo;The Office&rdquo; was reportedly the most-preferred show during the pandemic lockdown.</p>
<p>According to IGN, Nielsen SVOD Content Ratings Service, 57 billion minutes of &ldquo;The Office&rdquo; was streamed in 2020 alone making it the most-streamed show in the USA in 2020.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/DVPEsKCL20Q" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Nielsen SVOD Content Ratings Service measure viewings on connected TVs when it comes to streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Disney+, and according to its ratings for 2020 it looks like that there is no streaming service even close to the level of popularity compared to Netflix, with the exception of Disney+, and it&rsquo;s because of the content.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/eW7Twd85m2g" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>It&rsquo;s a bold claim we know, but looking at Nielsen SVOD Content Ratings Service lists of most-watched shows, and original series for 2020, it&rsquo;s dominated by Netflix entries, with the exception of &ldquo;The Mandalorian&rdquo; which made it in fifth place in the top streamed original series of 2020.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check out the full list below:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Top Streaming Content of 2020: Acquired Series</strong></span></p>
<p>The Office (Netflix) - 57.1 billion minutes watched</p>
<p>Grey's Anatomy (Netflix) - 39.4 billion minutes watched</p>
<p>Criminal Minds (Netflix) - 35.4 billion minutes watched</p>
<p>NCIS (Netflix) - 28.1 billion minutes watched</p>
<p>Schitt's Creek (Netflix) - 23.7 billion minutes watched</p>
<p>Supernatural (Netflix) - 20.3 billion minutes watched</p>
<p>Shameless (Netflix) - 18.2 billion minutes watched</p>
<p>New Girl (Netflix) - 14.5 billion minutes watched</p>
<p>The Blacklist (Netflix) - 14.4 billion minutes watched</p>
<p>Vampire Diaries (Netflix) - 14.0 billion minutes watched</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Top Streaming Content of 2020: Original Series</strong></span></p>
<p>Ozark (Netflix) - 30.4 billion minutes watched</p>
<p>Lucifer (Netflix) - 18.9 billion minutes watched</p>
<p>The Crown (Netflix) - 16.2 billion minutes watched</p>
<p>Tiger King (Netflix) - 15.6 billion minutes watched</p>
<p>The Mandalorian (Disney+) - 14.5 billion minutes watched</p>
<p>The Umbrella Academy (Netflix) - 13.4 billion minutes watched</p>
<p>The Great British Baking Show (Netflix) - 13.2 billion minutes watched</p>
<p>Boss Baby: Back in Business (Netflix) - 12.6 billion minutes watched</p>
<p>Longmire (Netflix) - 11.3 billion minutes watched</p>
<p>You (Netflix) - 10.9 billion minutes watched</p>
<p>It looks like other streaming services like HBO Max, Disney+, Peacock, and the rest need to up their game when it comes to content, and for the rest of us to enjoy the competition, and the shows too.</p>

The Office was the most watched show of 2020 by a long shot!

“The Office” Was the Most-Streamed TV Show of 2020 With 57.1 Billion Minutes Viewed in the U.S. Alone

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<p>An Egyptian appeals court has acquitted TikTok influencers Mawada El-Adham and Haneen Hossam, who were arrested last year and sentenced to two years in prison for violating Egyptian family values and traditions with their online content which was followed by millions of people.</p>
<p>Three other people who were arrested in connection with the same case were also let off in the acquittal.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The initial verdict, which was issued towards the end of last July included two years in prison and a fine of EGP 300,000 each. The case went on to become one of the most controversial topics of Egypt&rsquo;s lockdown era with many people calling for the influencers&rsquo; release online.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/tqUBd_VId4o" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>However, the new ruling has exempted all fines and prison sentences.</p>
<p>El-Adham, 22, amassed a huge following on TikTok with her dancing and lip-syncing videos, her videos were not extreme by any means and did not involve any revealing clothes or suggestive poses, which was why many were confused by the ruling and thought it was unjust. El-Adham was apprehended in May after an arrest warrant was issued. She tried to evade the police by going to the North Coast, but in the end she was tracked down and brought in.</p>
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<p>Hossam, who is also in her early 20s, managed to amass a huge following on TikTok. She was arrested in April 2020 on charges of inciting debauchery and human trafficking. A video was posted by Hossam where she was encouraging Egyptian girls to publish videos of themselves and speak with strangers online through a video-sharing platform called Likee, from which she had received money to bring in more people.[article id=7122]The other three people who were just released were charged with helping El-Adham and Hossam evade police officials and concealing important evidence in the case. They were also charged with publishing things online that intended to sway public opinion in the two girls&rsquo; favor, and that they were using unlicensed software to publish these things.</p>
<p>In 2020, Egyptian police officials arrested many other women over similar charges namely of violating family values with their online content. Many are still in prison now.</p>

After they were sentenced to two years in prison and a EGP 300,000 fine, both girls were released.

Egypt Acquits TikTok Influencers Mawada El-Adham & Haneen Hossam from Prison Sentence & Fines

<p>In one of the most Coronavirus-ridden states in the US, at least two gorillas at California&rsquo;s San Diego zoo have just tested positive for the virus, according to representatives from the zoo and Governor of California Gavin Newsom. The gorillas began exhibiting various symptoms of the virus, including coughing, which promoted the zoo to test them for COVID-19 through fecal samples on January 6, and the results came out positive on January 11.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/dCVVefSVxrw" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>According to the zoo, this is the first-ever known instance of the virus in great apes, despite the fact that research has previously proven that non-human primates could contract it.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ID_D6qv1o8o" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Because the gorillas live as a family, it is highly likely that all members of the troop have been exposed to COVID-19.</p>
<p>"Aside from some congestion and coughing, the gorillas are doing well," commented Lisa Peterson, Executive Director of San Diego Zoo Safari Park. "The troop remains quarantined together and are eating and drinking. We are hopeful for a full recovery."</p>
<p>Located in Balboa Park, San Diego Zoo hosts more than 3,500 animals of over 800 different species and subspecies, making it one of the largest and most diverse zoos in the world. It has been closed since December 6 2020 to curb the further spread of Coronavirus.</p>
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At least two gorillas have tested positive for Coronavirus in California's San Diego zoo.

Two Gorillas Test Positive for COVID-19 in US Zoo

<p>Talk show host Reham Saeed has filed a complaint to the Egyptian Media Syndicate against Sayed Ali, host of &lsquo;Hadrat Al-Mowaten&rsquo; talk show on the &lsquo;Al-Hadath Al-Youm&rsquo; channel, for defamation and blackmail.</p>
<p>In her complaint, Saeed stated that Ali falsely claimed that she was engaged to a jeweler and alluded to blackmailing her by expressing his knowledge of several secrets about her personal life, which would cause her major scandals should they come out. Saeed also accused Ali of undermining her in what has become an ongoing issue.</p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YhLAkMx3JAQ?start=3166" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>In December 2020, Saeed stirred public controversy for featuring a disturbing scene showing fox hunting on her talk show Sabaya Al-Khair on Al-Nahar channel, which was subsequently suspended by Egypt&rsquo;s Supreme Council for Media Regulation pending investigations of the incident.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FRehamSaeedOfficial%2Fposts%2F2035959240038909&amp;width=500&amp;show_text=true&amp;height=683&amp;appId" width="500" height="683" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Saeed then took to her Facebook page to apologize for the incident, stating that it was not intention to cause any harm or offend her audience, especially animal rights activists.</p>

Reham Saeed has submitted a complaint to the Egyptian Media Syndicate, accusing talk show host Sayed Ali of defamation and blackmail. 

Reham Saeed Files Complaint to Egyptian Media Syndicate Against Talk Show Host Sayed Ali

<p>On Monday, Minister of Health Hala Zayed announced in a press conference in Cairo that Egypt is set to receive a shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine from the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI) within two-three days.</p>
<p>Although remaining unconfirmed, Zayed stated that the vaccine will, &ldquo;most probably will be the Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine.&rdquo; This comes after Egypt&rsquo;s agreement in November 2020 with GAVI, which stated that the alliance will supply the country with 20 million doses of any coronavirus vaccines which have been granted emergency approval from the World Health Organization (WHO).</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/WFtCrFLy4qA" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Also according to Zayed, &ldquo;GAVI will provide us [Egypt] with 20% of our needs [for the vaccination.] The urgent needs will be fulfilled during the first quarter [of the year]&hellip;.with delivery set to begin&hellip;within two to three weeks at most.&rdquo; She also added that a final contract will be signed with GAVI regarding the shipment within the coming two days.</p>
<p>The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is currently pending approval by the Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA) which, according to Zayed, is set to be finalized within a few days.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Sterilising immunity means that the immune system is able to prevent a virus from replicating in your body. Not all vaccines provide this so what does that mean for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> vaccines potential in preventing the spread of the virus? <a href="https://t.co/vzXeOUxAPg">https://t.co/vzXeOUxAPg</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ConversationUK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ConversationUK</a></p>
&mdash; Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (@gavi) <a href="https://twitter.com/gavi/status/1348668492917088260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
<p>Zayed commented that more batches of the EDA-approved Chinese Sinopharm Coronavirus vaccine will be delivered within the coming days.</p>
<p>So far, Egypt has designated 34 vaccination centers across the country.</p>

Egypt is set to receive a shipment of a Coronavirus vaccine from the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations within two to three days. 

Egypt to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine from the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations This Week

<p>Scientists working on the conservation of giraffes in Africa discovered two &ldquo;Dwarf Giraffes&rdquo; which have been studied due to their smaller stature.</p>
<p>The first was found in Uganda, and it was getting closer to adulthood, measuring around 2.6-meters tall, and the second was found in Namibia, reaching the total height of 2.86m. Both giraffes are significantly smaller than the average 4.9 to 6.1-meters height of common giraffes.</p>
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<figcaption><em>The first one found in Uganda</em></figcaption>
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<p>Giraffes are the tallest mammals on the planet, so finding these two outliers came as a bit of a shock for scientists, as dwarfism aka skeletal dysplasia is rare in the wild and this is the first time it was found in giraffes.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The initial reaction was disbelief,&rdquo; said Michael Brown, a conservation science fellow with the Giraffe Conservation Foundation and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.</p>
<figure class="image"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1610362633-giraffe.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="465" />
<figcaption><em>A dwarf-giraffe compared to a regular one</em></figcaption>
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<p>Both giraffes were afflicted by skeletal dysplasia which affects bone growth and thus results in a shorter stature than normal.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t believe it at first,&rdquo; said David O&rsquo;Connor, president of Save Giraffes Now and member of the IUCN Giraffe and Okapi Specialist Group. &ldquo;I thought it was photoshopped, to be honest.&rdquo;</p>
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<figcaption><em>The second one found in Namibia</em></figcaption>
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<p>Scientists are astonished that both of these giraffes were able to survive that long, to begin with as wild giraffes have a rough time surviving to adulthood as is, so to see two afflicted with such a disease to reach adulthood is astounding, especially that it would be hard for them to defend themselves against faster predators, and the fact that their shorter legs will not be as effective for kicking (which is a giraffe's main defense) is going to shorten their lifespan.</p>
<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s easy to imagine how this might make them more susceptible to predation since they lack the ability to effectively run and kick, which are two of the giraffe&rsquo;s most effective anti-predator tactics,&rdquo; Dr. Brown said. &ldquo;Additionally, given the mechanics of giraffe mating, I&rsquo;d speculate that for both of these giraffes, mating would be physically challenging.&rdquo;</p>

The two giraffes were discovered in two different places on the African continent.

Scientists Shocked Over Discovery of Two Dwarf Giraffes in Africa

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<p>Egypt&rsquo;s Ministry of Planning and Economic Development has set aside EGP 49 million to install a pedestrian bridge and river marina where boats can dock opposite the palace on the banks of the Nile to help transport visitors and avoid streets&rsquo; congestion.</p>
<p>The chunk of funding was approved to bolster ongoing restoration work at Mohamed Ali Palace in Shubra El-Kheima, which began a few years ago under the auspices of the Supreme Council of Antiquities which operated under the umbrella of the Ministry of Tourism &amp; Antiquities.</p>
<p>The new funding is a part of the ministry&rsquo;s budget for the 2020/2021 fiscal year, and reflects El-Sisi&rsquo;s cabinet&rsquo;s commitment to supporting and launching national projects that have a cultural and historic significance.&nbsp;</p>
<p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FMPEDEGYPT%2Fposts%2F4334184043265042&amp;width=500&amp;show_text=true&amp;height=729&amp;appId" width="500" height="729" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The ongoing renovation work on the palace began back in 2017 after express instructions from El-Sisi at a conference held at the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) back then. The palace was in need of serious restoration work after a car bomb damaged a portion of it back in 2016.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The total cost of restoring the palace has reached 194 million pounds so far, divided between the restoration of the Fusqia kiosk, which cost EGP 155 million pounds, and the Saraya El-Gabalaya building which cost EGP 39 million.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/SP3JtFaoQ0A" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The Ministry of Antiquities, in cooperation with Qalyubia Governorate, is developing a plan to operate a river bus that can reach the palace by bus. The ministry also aims to transform the palace into a tourist site that witnesses the establishment of many artistic and cultural activities.</p>
<p>Construction of the palace began in 1808 and completed in 1821, it was one of Mohamed Ali&rsquo;s many homes. He chose it because it is an isolated place, perfect for an official residence away from the Citadel, his main residence in Cairo. The Palace of Mohammad Ali or Shubra Palace is distinguished by its style of decoration that mixes between the Islamic and European styles of architecture.</p>

The palace was one of Mohamed Ali's secondary homes, secluded, and beautiful.

Egypt to Build a Pedestrian Bridge & Boat Marina Opposite Shubra El-Kheima's Iconic Mohamed Ali Palace

<p>Camilla, Duchess Of Cornwall has launched a new project in the form of a new Instagram account that highlights and shares the discovery of new books and talking to the &ldquo;extraordinary people&rdquo; who wrote them.</p>
<p>The account, titled &ldquo;The Reading Room&rdquo;,&nbsp; was launched at the beginning of the year, and while it would actually take a further dive later in mid-January, she did start with one book called &ldquo;The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse&rdquo; by author Charlie Mackesy.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Welcome to HRH The Duchess of Cornwall&rsquo;s Reading Room! We&rsquo;re excited for you to join us when the first season launches later in January 2021. Ahead of that, HRH is sharing this special book and her conversation with @charliemackesy to kick off the New Year,&rdquo; reads the first post on the account.</p>
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<p>The account is already doing well bringing in more than 25 thousand followers in just five days, she also had a video chat with Mackesy and posted about it on the new account, where they discussed the book, which the Duchess called was &ldquo;Warm, funny, profoundly moving and beautifully illustrated, this charming book leaves you feeling better about the world."&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check it out below:</strong></span></p>
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<p>This is just the start, and we can easily expect more to come in the following months starting January 15, 2021, especially knowing that the duchess is an avid reader herself as per her page on the Royal Family&rsquo;s website.</p>
<p>"As an enthusiastic reader, The Duchess works to promote the benefits of reading both to children and adults. She often reads aloud to children, and has engaged with adult readers aiming to improve their reading skills,&rdquo; reads the official post.</p>
<p>&ldquo;She is Patron of a number of literacy charities, including the National Literacy Trust, Book Trust, First Story, the Wicked Young Writer's Awards, and Beanstalk. Her Royal Highness has been an Honorary Judge for the BBC Radio 2 500 Words creative writing competition since 2016,&rdquo; it continues.</p>
<p>The Duchess appeared last during this Christmas Eve to do a dramatic reading for &ldquo;Twas the Night Before Christmas&rdquo; along with Prince Charles as well as with several celebrities including Tom Hardy, Daniel Craig, and Dame Judi Dench.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check it out below:</strong></span></p>
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Camilla Duchess Of Cornwall launches "The Reading Room" on Instagram to discover new books and meet the people behind them.

Camilla, Duchess Of Cornwall Launches Very Own Book Club On New Instagram Account

<p>Renowned fashion designer Pierre Cardin has just passed away at the age of 98. The designer reached international acclaim with his outrageously futuristic designs that were all the rage in the 1960s and 70s.</p>
<p>According to his family, Cardin passed away at a hospital in Neuilly, west of Paris of natural causes.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/R0-e1wLSCh0" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Born in Italy in 1922, Cardin&rsquo;s family emigrated to France when he was a young child. He quickly showed an aptitude for design and founded his own fashion house in France in 1950. He went on to build one of the most successful global fashion empires in the following decades.&nbsp;</p>
<p>His designs were lauded for being ahead of their time, with his Space Age styles from the 1960s and 70s getting a great deal of international attention when they were first launched.&nbsp;</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/FUB6v8UL9oc" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>He is also widely considered one of the designers who worked to bring high fashion to the masses, and he is credited with popularizing turtleneck sweaters for men and bodysuits for women.&nbsp;</p>
<p>His fashions were criticized for ignoring the female body, opting for more androgynous styles that were often very impractical to wear. But you know the rule with fashion, if you&rsquo;re comfortable, you probably don&rsquo;t look good.</p>
<p>R.I.P.</p>

The designer was known for his out-of-this-world geometric fantasies.

Renowned Fashion Designer Pierre Cardin Dies Aged 98

<p>The Royal Mummies Parade which will see the transfer of a number of ancient Egyptian royals' mummies from their current location at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to their new home at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization was one of the most anticipated events of the year, however, due to the harsher second wave of COVID-19 and returning safety restrictions, the Ministry of Tourism &amp; Antiquities has decided to postpone the event to 2021.</p>
<p>The news comes from Akhbar Al-Youm which announced the Ministry&rsquo;s decision to delay the festivities to make sure the event goes smoothly without any issues and to keep viewers and audiences who wish to see the parade safe from any possibility of infection.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609143742-5f9a4547--4-1024x1024.jpg" alt="" />The delay comes as no surprise, especially considering the rise in COVID-19 cases Egypt has been witnessing throughout the past couple of weeks. The second wave, as it has officially been called, is leading the government to push for harsher restrictions over venues and other events to make sure the spread of COVID-19 is brought to a minimum. The government decided to halt all New Year's celebrations this year, urging citizens to make sure they stay safe, and lower contact and gatherings as best they can.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609143767-0b51d32f-1044927370_0_316_3077_2047_1200x0_80_0_1_33b9130a785f8882b3283279212209a0.jpg" alt="" />22 Royal Mummies were to be transferred in a huge parade moving from their current home at the Egyptian Museum to their permanent display at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat this year, the 22 mummies include 18 Pharaohs and 4 Queens, and some of the most prominent monarchs in Ancient Egyptian history like King Ramses II, King Thutmose III, and Queen Hatshepsut.</p>
<p>According to several local publications, the spectacle would have taken over an hour as the parade made its way through Egyptian streets accompanied by a procession, music, and armed guard worthy of royalty.</p>
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Royal Mummies Parade postponed to 2021 because of COVID-19

Royal Mummies Parade Delayed To 2021 Due To COVID-19

<p>Every country has its own customs and traditions and while most of the world celebrates Christmas in the same way aka with presents and family gatherings, some countries add their own little flair to the celebrations, which make for some pretty weird traditions developing.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The Anti-Santa</strong></span></p>
<p>While people are more aware of the lovable red suit-wearing Santa Claus, Germany also another Christmas figure called Krampus aka the Anti-Santa. Krampus is a half-goat, half-demon entity whose sole purpose is to punish naughty kids. While Santa leaves the good kids gifts, Krampus usually kidnaps the bad kids and takes them to his lair where he um&hellip; eats them. That's festive.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608037090-Krampus_at_Perchtenlauf_Klagenfurt.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="575" />Christmas means&hellip; KFC?</strong></span></p>
<p>While Japan has a lot of weird things as is, they have an even weirder tradition during Christmas and it&rsquo;s that they have to have good old Kentucky Fried Chicken! Forget the Christmas turkey, KFC in Japan is where it&rsquo;s at. Demand is so high for the delicious chicken that people in reserve their food in advance.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608037198-image.jpg" alt="" />Rolling To Church<br /></strong></span></p>
<p>While a lot of people go to church to pray on the Christian holy day, in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, on Christmas morning people attend a church service called Misa de Aguinaldo (Early Morning Mass), but instead of walking to the church they um&hellip; skate there. Not only that but the tradition is now so well-established that many of the city's streets are closed to traffic from 8 AM to keep skaters safe.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608037343-Ingle-International-Travel-Insurance-157618477.jpg" alt="" />Good luck webbing</strong></span></p>
<p>While the rest of the world decorates the Christmas tree with ornaments and glittery baubles, Ukrainians add a piece of artificial spider webbing to the tree. The origin of the tradition comes from an old folks tale where an old woman didn&rsquo;t have enough money to buy decorations for her Chrismas tree, but after waking up from her sleep on Christmas, she found her tree covered with sparkling spider webbing as a decoration, and the tradition stuck ever since.</p>
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<p>While people usually exchange presents on Christmas, Icelanders, on the other hand, have a unique and great tradition, it&rsquo;s called &ldquo;Christmas Book Flood&rdquo; or Jolabokaflod which started back in WWII. During the war, Icelandic families exchanged brand new books as presents and spent the same day reading them together, this tradition has increased literacy in the country dramatically, not only that but Icelanders have become proficient writers as well, leading to one in every 10 Icelanders being a published author.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608037549-IMG_0523.jpg" alt="" />Keep your Santa, Italy has La Befana</strong></span></p>
<p>While the children of the world expect a big fat guy wearing a red suit to get them their gifts, in Italy, children expect Belfana the witch, yes, she&rsquo;s a good witch who also comes down chimneys and leaves the good kids presents. According to several sources, the legend started when three wise men invited a witch to accompany them to see baby Jesus, but she stated that she was busy, with what? With giving away toys, of course.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608037706-La_Befana_Italien.jpg" alt="" />Gone but not forgotten</strong></span></p>
<p>In Portugal, during the traditional Christmas feast, families set the table and add an unoccupied place for relatives who have passed away, so that they remember them after their passing, as it would also bring in good luck to the household too.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Who needs stockings, when you have awesome shoes</strong></span></p>
<p>In the Netherlands, they celebrate St. Nicholas&rsquo; day which is on December 6 more than Christmas itself, and on that day, children leave their best and cleanest shoes next to the fireplace where Santa would come and leave gifts for them in the shoes. He would also leave potatoes for the naughty kids.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608037846-rawImage.jpg" alt="" />A poop log, yes, a poop log</strong></span></p>
<p>Ok, so this a really weird one, in Catalonia, Spain, a hollow log named Ti&oacute; de Nadal or the Christmas log, is brought home and taken care of by the kids where they put it under a blanket to keep it warm, feed it nuts and treats between Dember 8 and 24. On Christmas day, however, the same kids are tasked with singing a traditional song with the lyrics&nbsp; "Poop log, Poop nougats, Hazelnuts, and mato cheese, If you don't poop well, I'll hit you with a stick, Poop log!", as they beat it with sticks.</p>
<p>After that the blanket is removed to reveal the treats, and the poor poop log is thrown in the fire to keep everybody warm&hellip;. Yeah, that&rsquo;s a thing.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608037909-Tio_de_Nadal.jpg" alt="" />Horse skulls, your typical Christmas ornament</strong></span></p>
<p>Our last one comes from Wales, where people celebrate Mari Lwyd which first started back in the 1800s. The tradition has people covered with a cloth holding a pole with a horse&rsquo;s skull at the end of it, they go around the town, challenging people at their home with a rhyming competition. If the person can out rhyme the horrifying visitors they leave, but if they win, the person has to invite them into his home for some food and drink before they sing again and leave, imagine a higher level of trick or treat.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608037970-P1100897.jpg" alt="" /></p>

A list of weird Christmas traditions from around the world

10 Weirdest Christmas Traditions From Around The World

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<p>It looks like WhatsApp&rsquo;s update in its privacy policy is doing great for every other texting service except for WhatsApp itself, as many users started a mass exodus from the Facebook-owned company, and while many have switched to Signal, especially after Tesla CEO Elon Musk&rsquo;s endorsement, another alternative, Telegram, has also seen a surge in popularity.</p>
<p>In an announcement sent to its users, Telegram revealed that it had surpassed 500 million active users, with 25 million of them joining in the last 72 hours alone, the message was sent with a thank you note for helping the app reach the milestone, and that users can use the app&rsquo;s features to welcome their friends or contacts who recently joined the app.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check out the message below:</strong></span></p>
<figure class="image"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1610612467-uploads2Fcard2Fimage2F15907162F709c7208-7e7a-4bab-9bdd-1cd24dd5d8d6.jpg2Ffull-fit-in__950x534.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="636" />
<figcaption><em>Image Courtesy of STAN SCHROEDER/MASHABLE</em></figcaption>
</figure>
<p>Telegram CEO and founder Pavel Durov is a strong advocate of users&rsquo; privacy, he had to leave his previous project, social networking site VK, due to clashes with Russian authorities over keeping users&rsquo; data private. He sent a message on his Telegram channel stating that download surges aren&rsquo;t something new in the history of the app, but this time, why they&rsquo;re migrating is what is making it so special.</p>
<p>"These new users came from across the globe. We've had surges of downloads before, throughout our 7-year history of protecting user privacy. But this time is different. People no longer want to exchange their privacy for free services," wrote Durov.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1610612586-gettyimages-917260478.jpg" alt="" />This comes as no surprise as many have decided to jump ship from the highly popular app WhatsApp after it announced that it was changing its privacy policy starting from February 9, which will give Facebook more access to its users&rsquo; information, leading to a mass migration with many picking two of the biggest alternatives Signal or Telegram which in turn led to a surge of downloads on both apps, and economic ripples as both companies&rsquo; stocks skyrocketed on the stock market.</p>

Telegram's number of active users skyrockets after mass migration from WhatsApp.

Telegram Reaches 500 Million Active Users Amidst WhatsAppageddon

<p>Elon Musk - aka the newly-announced richest man in the world - and Facebook are not exactly friends. The tech mogul has been a longtime skeptic of the platform due to their their fluctuating privacy policies and various other ongoing issues. After WhatsApp updated their privacy policy earlier this year to give Facebook a little more access to users' personal information, he recommended that people use Signal instead, which was followed by a significant migration of WhatsApp users to messaging platform signal.</p>
<p>We don't exactly know how much of said migration was a direct result of Musk's statement, but, owing to his mass loyal following and the timing, we strongly he had a major impact.</p>
<p>The new WhatsApp privacy policy - taking effect in February 2021 - says that the app is now reserving the right to share data it collects about users with the broader Facebook network (which also includes Instagram) regardless of whether or not you have accounts on said platforms or not, inducing anxiety in many users. Musk, on the other hand, kept his cool and simply took to his Twitter to recommend that users flock to Signal instead.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1610448385-5.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="393" />Two simple words, "use signal", were enough to trigger a surge in Signal downloads on both the App Store and Google Play&nbsp; About 7.5 accumulated downloads from both stores, to be very precise.&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Use Signal</p>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1347165127036977153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2021</a></blockquote>
<p>Facebook doesn&rsquo;t exactly have a squeaky clean record when it comes to users&rsquo; information, as it was leaked several times where third-party companies have been granted to access users&rsquo; private information without their consent. This even prompted Musk to not only completely remove his information and page from the website, but also his companies&rsquo;, namely SpaceX and Tesla.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1610448455-55.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="371" /></p>

Signal downloads surge after Elon Musk endorses the app as a replacement to WhatsApp.

Signal Downloads Surge After Elon Musk Endorsement Due to Updated WhatsApp Privacy Policy

<p>Ever since WhatsApp stated that they&rsquo;re updating their Privacy Policy this year, people have been opting out of the service in search of a more secure messaging application. This prompted the company to release a statement to clarify the misinformation.</p>
<p>According to the updated privacy policy, &ldquo;WhatsApp is now reserving the right to share data it collects about you with the broader Facebook network, which includes Instagram, regardless of whether you have accounts or profiles there,&rdquo; as per Bloomberg.</p>
<p>The new policy revolves around monetizing the platform which is something that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has previously mentioned. Despite the company's refutal, WhatsApp clearly declared that &ldquo;[it] receives information from, and shares information with, the other Facebook Companies. We [WhatsApp] may use the information we receive from them, and they may use the information we share with them, to help operate and market services.&rdquo;</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1610444926-5.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="393" />This new privacy policy has not taken effect yet, however, will be mandatory starting February 9, 2021. You can read it in full&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/updates/privacy-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.&nbsp;</p>
<p>As expected, many Whatsapp users were concerned, leading them to abandon the messaging app, and the company subsequently decided to release a statement saying that they wanted to be 100% transparent and stressed that they do not share any of the messages with Facebook.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We want to address some rumors and be 100% clear. We continue to protect your private messages with end-to-end encryption. Our privacy policy update does not affect the privacy of your messages with friends or family. Learn more about how we protect your privacy as well as what we do NOT share with Facebook&rdquo;, wrote WhatsApp in a post on Facebook.</p>
<p>They also added a few infographics, explaining what happens to the messages and what Facebook can and cannot see.</p>
<p>Is it too late to reassure users? Well, we don't know.&nbsp; What we do know is that there has been a surge in the downloads for both Signal and Telegraph messaging apps ever since the new privacy policy was announced, WhatsApp has most likely already lost a lot of users.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check out the infographics below:</strong></span></p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1610444946-138236297_3805219316203932_372321265656404949_o.png" alt="" width="620" height="620" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1610444961-138288704_3805219939537203_1051506840032634605_o.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="620" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1610444967-138297046_3805220119537185_1089589248404808831_o.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="620" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1610444974-138312111_3805220516203812_82280673818888392_o.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="620" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1610444980-138462549_3805220636203800_9027628000359882004_o.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="620" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1610444987-138517054_3805220292870501_4502829464456146434_o.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="620" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1610445011-138541435_3805219606203903_620815453755953424_o.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="620" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1610445020-138675202_3805219809537216_1788367059697946914_o_-_Copy.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="620" /></p>

People are jumping ship after Whatsapp changes its Privacy Policy.

WhatsApp Releases Statement Clarifying its Controversial Privacy Policy Update

<p>Wikipedia is one of the most-used websites on the web, especially that it has almost every piece of information you might need in one place, helping people study, work, research, and even settle a bet or an argument. But we found a few things that you probably didn&rsquo;t know about the free community-managed online encyclopedia.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>There&rsquo;s a statue dedicated to Wikipedia:<br /></strong></span></p>
<p>There&rsquo;s an actual Wikipedia Monument in Poland called the &ldquo;Pomnik Wikipedil&rdquo; which was designed by Armenian sculptor Mihran Hakobyan and is an homage to contributors on the website. The statue itself is the logo of the website held up by four people who are the contributors standing over paper and books which represent the knowledge the website now holds.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609153147-Wikipedia_Monument_2.jpg" alt="" />First!</strong></span></p>
<p>While you might have thought that a celebrity or a religious figure would be the first person to have an article dedicated to them on the website, it was actually a philosopher who got the first article written about them, 18th-century Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid,</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609153208-ThomasReid.jpg" alt="" width="609" height="735" />It can affect tourism</strong></span></p>
<p>People do their research about their holiday destination before they travel, which make sense that if any improvements are done on the page of a certain travel destination or city on the website would see some effect on the tourism of that area, and that&rsquo;s what Italian researchers found with a 9% change margin too.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609153360-240727401.jpg" alt="" />In the top 15</strong></span></p>
<p>Wikipedia is considered to be one of the top 15 most-visited websites internationally currently ranking at the 13th spot, however, it&rsquo;s the world&rsquo;s only major website run by a nonprofit organization.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609153371-55.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="353" />One dedicated editor!</strong></span></p>
<p>Editor Giraffedata is one of the most active editors on the website, they&rsquo;re so dedicated that they went over 47,000 edits to change the phrase &ldquo;comprised of&rdquo; because they think it&rsquo;s poor English.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609153385-88.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="208" />Dogs come first</strong></span></p>
<p>One of the first articles to ever get written on the website was about the standard poodle and at the time it simply said "A dog by which all others are measured," but now it has more than 6,000 words, 234 of which are the word Poodle itself.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609153397-Full_attention_8067543690.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="410" />It has an asteroid named after it</strong></span></p>
<p>That&rsquo;s right, the online encyclopedia has a real Vestian asteroid name after it, called the 274301 Wikipedia, not so catchy we&rsquo;re afraid, it&rsquo;s orbiting the inner region of the asteroid belt, and has a one-kilometer diameter.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609153408-4.jpg" alt="" />The community is still going strong</strong></span></p>
<p>According to Mashable, almost seven million people supported the website with donations in 2019, but with more people staying at home and needing it more than ever, hopefully, more people will support the nonprofit for years to come.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609153418-7.jpg" alt="" />It&rsquo;s even fashionable</strong></span></p>
<p>French fashion house &Eacute;rudes collaborated with the Wikimedia Foundation to create a Wikipedia-themed fashion line for their 2020 Spring/Summer lineup, which featured all kinds of apparel.&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609153436-709393-etudes-x-wikipedia-des-fringues-inspir-amp_article_image-1-1140x670.jpg" alt="" />They have a lot of stats!!!!</strong></span></p>
<p>The website has more than 55 million articles in over 300 languages, 280,000 editors contribute to the website every month, and the website is visited by 1.5 billion unique devices from all over the world monthly.</p>

A list of things you probably didn't know about Wikipedia.

10 Facts About Wikipedia You Probably Didn’t Know

<p>People are usually stuck with the original sound of their horns when they buy their car, however, in a highly anticipated software update for Tesla car owners, they can now change the sound of their horn to pretty much anything they want now, everything from goat screams to an ice-cream truck. Users have full control.</p>
<p>During the past Christmas weekend, Elon Musk announced that Tesla car owners would be able to change their horn sound with the latest update. People can now select from pre-recorded sounds, or record some of their own, and we can already imagine someone putting Darth Vader&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Imperial March&rdquo; on there to make an entrance every time they arrive, there&rsquo;s even a &ldquo;Witcher&rdquo; tone that does the first part of &ldquo;Toss A Coin For Your Witcher&rdquo; song too.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check out some people enjoying the new feature:</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ApEGAvmxWy8" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/cQTBFAgNGR0" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/q42Y8cnt9P0" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The concept was already teased by Musk back in August, as people were asking if they&rsquo;ll ever be able to change the horn sound especially that most of the newer cars had an external speaker for the car, and he confirmed that it was &ldquo;definitely coming&rdquo; so it was nice to see that he kept his promise.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Also definitely coming haha. Will only be on relatively recent cars, as we didn't have an outside speaker until about a year ago. Can change inside sound easily.</p>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1294377824355094528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
<p>Musk usually listens to his Tesla car owners' suggestions, as well as his followers on Twitter. Musk has made a habit out of responding to tweets by confirming if some new feature is coming or not, one good example of that would be the &ldquo;dog mode&rdquo; feature which accommodates the car for dogs when left alone in the car providing them with cool air if the car is parked in a hot area.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/T2rbdMlmpYY" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>

Tesla Owners Can Now Change The Sounds Of Their Car Horns To Anything They Want

<p>South Korean researchers have developed a mobile phone screen that can repair itself after it cracks in just a few minutes, cutting down on pricy repair bills.</p>
<p>The process uses embedded linseed oil in the screen to form microcapsules to repair cracks as they appear. When the screen is not working properly, the transparent linseed oil is released and proceeds to harden inside the fissures and cracks of the phone, repairing the damages.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609158526-1609151438_245_Self-healing-phone-screens-fix-cracks-in-minutes.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="381" />The whole process can take up to 20 minutes to repair 95% of the cracks but goes down to 10 minutes when exposed to UV rays of the sun.</p>
<p>Linseed oil is used to treat cricket bats and preserve art pieces because it has no color, is easily obtainable, and hardens at room temperature.</p>
<p>Dr. Yong-Chae Jung, the head of the Institute of Advanced Composites Materials at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology led the study and was published in the peer-reviewed journal Composite Part B: Engineering, which shows how the material was made and its effectiveness.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609158555-self-healing-feature.png" alt="" width="620" height="342" />The process of layering the typical glass screen with the linseed oil film covering had only be tested in laboratories thus far, and in the journal, the team of researchers envisions that the technology could be applied to a wide range of products like solar power panels.</p>
<p>While Apple had revealed their own efforts to create a self-healing screen for phones, tablets, and computers back in 2013, this is the first time the technology has proven successful and implementable.</p>
<p>So, perhaps Samsung phones will one day have the ability to heal themselves from an accident drop by just leaving it out in the sun for a few minutes.</p>

The screen uses the oil of linseed to fill in cracks and self repair

South Korea Develops Self-Repairing Phone Screen 

<p>Billionaire Elon Musk is one of the smartest people around with his companies SpaceX and Tesla being at the forefront of their respective fields, especially the latter being the leader in electric cars today, but that wasn&rsquo;t ways the case as Musk revealed that at one point, he was willing to sell the company to none other than Apple but they refused him.</p>
<p>In a Twitter post, the tech billionaire revealed that back when the company was struggling to develop the Tesla Model 3, he reached out to a fellow billionaire, Apple current CEO Tim Cook to talk about the possibility of selling Tesla to Apple which back then was worth a tenth of its current value, however, Cook refused to take the meeting, and the rest is as they say history.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">During the darkest days of the Model 3 program, I reached out to Tim Cook to discuss the possibility of Apple acquiring Tesla (for 1/10 of our current value). He refused to take the meeting.</p>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1341485211209637889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
<p>This comes after several rumors have started showing up that Apple is developing a new car, for the year 2024, which many trusted leakers have refuted to begin with especially that the rumors started that Apple is developing the car for a 2021 launch.</p>
<p>The response also comes after Musk responded to someone by the name of Brett Winton, who stated that according to leaks, Apple was working on a monocell battery for their upcoming rumored vehicle, to which Musk explained that the &ldquo;monocell is electrochemically impossible, as max voltage ~100X too low&rdquo;.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Strange, if true. <br /><br />- Tesla already uses iron-phosphate for medium range cars made in our Shanghai factory.<br /><br />- A monocell is electrochemically impossible, as max voltage is ~100X too low. Maybe they meant cells bonded together, like our structural battery pack?</p>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1341484482302533635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
<p>Nevertheless many stated that they appreciated that Apple didn&rsquo;t buy Tesla, as it wouldn&rsquo;t have been the customer-friendly company it is today, especially that Musk listens to his customers, users, and audience when it comes to features they&rsquo;d like to add to their car in updates and so on, compared to Apple which is constantly removing something from their phones like the headphone jack in previous models, and now the power brick starting from the iPhone 12.</p>

Elon Musk once thought of selling Tesla to apple but they refused to meet with him.

Elon Musk Reveals That He Once Offered To Sell Tesla To Apple But Was Rejected

<p>Apple Inc. will be pressing ahead with the long-awaited move into electric vehicles as they announced that they will be releasing a self-driving car in 2024.</p>
<p>The Apple car will be equipped with Apple&rsquo;s own battery technology, which they say will be a revolutionary leap in electric vehicles. The latest news is a reversal from earlier announcements that Apple would partner with traditional automakers like BMW or Volkswagen due to the feasibility of starting car production from scratch.</p>
<p>Apple first announced their interest in entering the electric vehicle and self-driving car market back in 2014, and have already designed an operating system for self-driving cars that have seen a limited rollout.</p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ggU1CMkhNuM" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Apple&rsquo;s announcement that it's planning on launching its first passenger car in 2024 using its own battery technology to &ldquo;radically&rdquo; reduce the price of EV batteries was met with both praise and skepticism.</p>
<p>According to Reuters, the tech giant has renewed its efforts to join the electric car race with its project, codenamed Project Titan, which has been in development since 2014.</p>
<p>Beyond self-driving technology that Apple has already developed in partnership with Uber, Apple said that their car will use a unique &ldquo;monocell&rdquo; battery that employs larger cells, allowing for a more compact battery which will make the car cheaper than the multi-cell designs used by current electric cars.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608725134-an-artists-imagining-of-an-apple-car.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="326" />The battery will be experimenting with a lithium iron phosphate battery chemistry as opposed to the current lithium-ion, making it less prone to overheating, a change that investment bank Morgan Stanley said will make for fierce competition to current electric vehicle juggernaut Tesla.</p>
<p>The announcement is an about-face for the company, after confirming in 2017 it was dropping its plans for an autonomous car in 2017. CEO of Apple Tim Cook said that they would instead be focused on developing the systems rather than an actual car.</p>
<p>Elon Musk responded to the announcement saying that the battery that Apple is describing is impossible, and will be 100 times less powerful than the batteries on Tesla cars.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Strange, if true. <br /><br />- Tesla already uses iron-phosphate for medium range cars made in our Shanghai factory.<br /><br />- A monocell is electrochemically impossible, as max voltage is ~100X too low. Maybe they meant cells bonded together, like our structural battery pack?</p>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1341484482302533635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
<p>Beyond the battery, many question the ability of Apple to start a car production line which has to produce around 100,000 cars a year to be profitable, still Apple might not even produce a car as past comments indicate that it&rsquo;s the progression of AI and battery technology that interests Apple, not making an actual car.</p>
<p>So far, autonomous vehicles have proven extremely difficult to actually make viable for the streets, and progress on AI with investments gained from people who believe Apple could break into the car market could prove a boost to the technological capacity of Apple&rsquo;s products in general.</p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qf6VrDZ04EQ" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Tim Cook made that point earlier, stating that &ldquo;We explore many different things, many different technologies. And at first, we might not know what product it might wind up in. And then later we&rsquo;ll see that that really cool technology enables maybe things that we&rsquo;re doing today to take on something bigger, maybe something new.&rdquo;</p>
<p>So the announcement could be just an attempt to spur on development into AI technology, and the exactitude of self-driving cars and the requirements fr AI could be just a more tangible goal than Apple announcing that they want to get really really good at AI.</p>
<p>So, if you want to live in a world where you can stay entirely enclosed in Apple-based technology, you might be better to believe in an Apple car when you&rsquo;re riding in one.</p>

The new car will be a competitor with Tesla, if it's ever made.

Apple Says It Will Make Its Own Self-Driving Car By 2024

<p>In the biggest reinvention of the KFC bucket in history, KFC has rolled out a gaming console whose defining feature isn&rsquo;t that It has a wide variety of games or a particularly speedy processor, but that it&rsquo;ll warm your chicken while you play, and before you check to see if they moved April Fools to December, it's absolutely real and KFC is absolutely serious about this.</p>
<p>While news of a KFC console, called KFConsole, dates back to June following the PlayStation 5 reveal, it was deemed a joke as it was detailed to include a built-in grill and deep fryer. However, now the real console has shed off its redundancies and will only have a chicken warmer.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">The future of gaming is here.<br /><br />Introducing the KFConsole. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PowerYourHunger?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PowerYourHunger</a> <a href="https://t.co/ssUrX41Ab1">pic.twitter.com/ssUrX41Ab1</a></p>
&mdash; KFC Gaming (@kfcgaming) <a href="https://twitter.com/kfcgaming/status/1271487675929890816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
<p>KFC promises to &ldquo;end the console wars&rdquo; in their elaborate marketing campaign that has seen the restaurant chain expand into game creation as well as producing romance movies, cosmetics, and other products that are outside the bun (crap, that&rsquo;s Burger King).</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">The console wars are ____.<br /><br />Introducing the KFConsole. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PowerYourHunger?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PowerYourHunger</a> <a href="https://t.co/k7AM6g61Ip">pic.twitter.com/k7AM6g61Ip</a></p>
&mdash; KFC Gaming (@kfcgaming) <a href="https://twitter.com/kfcgaming/status/1341428570388901891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
<p>&ldquo;Never risk letting your chicken go cold again thanks to the patented Chicken Chamber,&rdquo; reads Cooler Master&rsquo;s description, the company that designed the built-in chicken warmer continued that &ldquo;utilizing the system&rsquo;s natural heat and airflow system you can now focus on your gameplay and enjoy hot, crispy chicken between rounds.&rdquo;</p>
<p>In case you&rsquo;re still in disbelief, Intel&rsquo;s PR representative tweeted in a less over the top manner that &ldquo;Yes it&rsquo;s real. And yes, it has a chicken warmer,&rdquo; ending with a nervous smiley face emoji. Intel is the company behind the KFConsole&rsquo;s processor, no, not chicken processor, the computer chip inside the console.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Yes it's real. Yes, it's powered by Intel. And yes, it has a chicken warmer. _ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KFConsole?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#KFConsole</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IntelGaming?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IntelGaming</a> <a href="https://t.co/WniXumUZZ2">pic.twitter.com/WniXumUZZ2</a></p>
&mdash; Mark Walton (@markalexwalton) <a href="https://twitter.com/markalexwalton/status/1341430877356765185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
<p>KFC Gaming Twitter confirmed the hype in a video, mostly that it's not a hoax, and to unveil the chicken warming chamber.</p>
<p>Cooler Master is the brains behind the KFConsole, which unveiled their masterpiece in a post that emphasized the legendary status of the new gaming platform, stating &ldquo;The KFConsole has arrived. Forged in the fires of the KFC ovens and built by Cooler Master from the ground up, there has never been a tastier way to experience the latest titles in stunning 4k, 240fps.&rdquo;</p>
<p>While deprived of a deep fryer, which would have made for interesting burn lawsuits down the road, the console is virtual-reality-ready and supports ray tracing.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608721365-chest.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="388" />This isn&rsquo;t KFC&rsquo;s first foray into atypical marketing campaigns. In 2019, KFC released a real game called &ldquo;I Love You Colonel Sanders Dating Simulator Game,&rdquo; where the players are enrolled in a cooking class and have a crush on a hipster Colonel Sanders, as well as producing a television movie starring Mario Lopez as a sizzling Sanders called &ldquo;A Recipe for Seduction.&rdquo;</p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/I9mgD1DpmZ8" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>KFC also rolled out a line of cosmetics which include a chicken-scented sunscreen, KFC nail polish that tastes like fried chicken (get it? It&rsquo;s finger-lickin' good), and a line of KFC Crocs.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, KFC hasn&rsquo;t yet revealed where we can get our greasy hands on the bucket for the 21st century, and there will be no doubt a number of KFC fanatics who buy them for maybe the best piece of memorabilia in the golden age of consumerism, so if you have always been playing games while eating cold chicken you might want to stay on top of the updates before they are sold out.</p>

The console includes a chicken warmer, in case your overheating console ever made you think if you can heat meats on it.

OK, Turns Out KFC Is Actually Releasing A Gaming Console That Warms Your Chicken As You Play

<p>If you didn&rsquo;t already know, Facebook knows a lot about you, and a lot of your private information is being handled by the social media platform for a multitude of things including advertising and so forth, but &ldquo;how much of my personal data is being used exactly?&rdquo; you might be asking yourself, and after Apple released it&rsquo;s latest iOS update, it&rsquo;s actually a LOT.</p>
<p>Apple released its latest iOS update 14.3 just a couple of days ago and it included an update to its proprietary application store the &ldquo;App Store&rdquo; which now provides the user with all the information they need to know about how the application they downloaded uses their personal information and data, and what came next is actually really scary as a whole.</p>
<p>The information Facebook knows about a user is utterly ridiculous, because not only does it know everything about your physical address, name, and phone number, it looks at photos, videos, purchases, precise location, search history, and browsing history, sooooo&hellip; it might be more than what you thought.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check out the full list courtesy of Mashable:</strong></span></p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608209176-100.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="993" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608209191-uploads2Fcard2Fimage2F15842252Fe5f74ff8-ff0b-4eba-ac85-5c9760827f5f.png2Ffull-fit-in__950x534.png" alt="" width="620" height="993" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608209198-uploads2Fcard2Fimage2F15842302Fdb1e0594-3928-428c-a9dd-e93bde272733.png2Ffull-fit-in__950x534.png" alt="" width="620" height="993" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608209592-88888888.png" width="620" height="993" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608209212-uploads2Fcard2Fimage2F15842352F4c0ef23e-0e17-48fd-ac9b-4de45c7fa12e.png2Ffull-fit-in__950x534.png" alt="" width="620" height="993" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608209271-uploads2Fcard2Fimage2F15842372F4a67b5f1-296d-4d52-b2a7-0e60ca393154.png2Ffull-fit-in__950x534.png" alt="" width="620" height="993" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608209284-uploads2Fcard2Fimage2F15842402Fa57f040f-8f75-4041-b88f-89302d5ca257.png2Ffull-fit-in__950x534.png" alt="" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608209291-uploads2Fcard2Fimage2F15842422F523de0bc-811b-4e97-82dd-eb2890f2f47b.png2Ffull-fit-in__950x534.png" alt="" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608209298-uploads2Fcard2Fimage2F15842452F8a21f416-ee1b-417b-b60e-19b97eb92d86.png2Ffull-fit-in__950x534.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="993" /></p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608209490-555.jpg" width="620" height="993" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608209310-uploads2Fcard2Fimage2F15842472F9a796d81-4473-4321-8778-2b9d118a928b.png2Ffull-fit-in__950x534.png" alt="" width="620" height="993" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608209316-uploads2Fcard2Fimage2F15842502F079e4e40-fc4a-4b3d-a92a-ee68c099b7c0.png2Ffull-fit-in__950x534.png" alt="" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608209322-uploads2Fcard2Fimage2F15842522Ffd9eb514-4189-4da6-8c04-97f5a495209d.png2Ffull-fit-in__950x534.png" alt="" width="620" height="993" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608209330-uploads2Fcard2Fimage2F15842552F91b2d9d7-8802-4637-901b-973a215288e3.png2Ffull-fit-in__950x534.png" alt="" width="620" height="993" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608209339-uploads2Fcard2Fimage2F15842572F7f641217-b8bf-4354-af3e-f1410cb18204.png2Ffull-fit-in__950x534.png" alt="" width="620" height="993" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608209346-uploads2Fcard2Fimage2F15842602F3abc6ed6-4420-40cf-9b0d-12662dd52a48.png2Ffull-fit-in__950x534.png" alt="" /><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608209352-uploads2Fcard2Fimage2F15842622F323c1794-1e6b-4d82-b4f5-71852e7a1b88.png2Ffull-fit-in__950x534.png" alt="" />Of course, Facebook didn&rsquo;t appreciate it&rsquo;s dirty laundry being shown to the world like that, so the company paid for a full-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and The Washington Post basically stating that their focus is on small businesses and how this reveal would limit their capability to run personalized ads to reach their potential customers effectively.</p>
<p>They also stated that several small businesses depended on social media websites like Facebook to reach their customers especially after the spread of COVID-19 and the lockdown rules.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1608209879--1x-1.jpg" alt="" />&ldquo;Apple is behaving anti-competitively by using their control of the App Store to benefit their bottom line at the expense of creators and small businesses,&rdquo; said Dan Levy, head of Facebook&rsquo;s small business program, which is ironic since Facebook was sued earlier this month by state and federal regulators for alleged anti-competitive behavior too.</p>

Apple exposes Facebook in latest iOS update that shows all the user information used by the app

Apple’s Latest iOS Update Shows How Your Data Is Being Used By Facebook & It’s Terrifying

Check out the most important Business, Tech, Startups, Gaming &amp; Entrepreneurship on Nile FM website

Geekdom

<p>An unstoppable soul who stands in a class of her own, Nicole Moudaber is one of the techno world&rsquo;s most iconic and hardworking contemporary artists!</p>
<p>Ignited by an internal combustion engine fuelled by raw emotion, Nicole Moudaber is at the forefront of her own movement. Catch her DJ set every Friday from 11 pm till midnight!</p>

In the Mood with Nicole Moudaber

<p>Every week we are handing over the Nile FM Airwaves to some of Egypt's best DJs for one whole hour. The local music scene's up-and-coming, or already established curators of mixed music, will be given the chance to shine to the whole world! Send us a link to your mixes via djoftheweek@nrp.net.eg. Then sit back and check out the show each and every Thursday from 9 pm till 10 pm.&nbsp;</p>

DJ of the Week

<p>If you&rsquo;re not an avid follower of dance music but are tuned into popular culture at all you&rsquo;ve likely experienced music touched by the hands of John Digweed. One of the most successful dance music shows achieved a near cult status with listeners John shares his platform weekly by bringing in worldwide guest DJ's.</p>
<p>As a person, John's lack of pretense is enveloped in imagination and invention. A good reason for John being one of the most respected analyzed and imitated DJ's in the world.</p>

Transitions with John Digweed

<p>Thursdays will sound even better in 2021 as Hassan Rassmy&nbsp;will be returning to our airwaves to take you on a journey through the higher frequencies of dance&nbsp;music! Hassan's specialty is Progressive House, Deep House, and&nbsp;Tech-House, which is exactly what he delivers during the first hour of his two-hour weekly show! The second half of the show includes an exclusive international mix from Hassan's weekly guest. So let's buckle up and get this party started!</p>

Pulsar

<p>Spectrum is the brand new radio show by Joris Voorn, allowing him to share the full reach of his extensive musical tastes with both his loyal fan base and new listeners alike. The show reflects this with regular premiers of new music from Joris and other artists in his world, as well as regularly featuring live sets captured at some of the world's most iconic dance music venues.</p>

Spectrum with Joris Voorn

<p>English record label, events, and music brand Hedkandi, which is owned by Ministry of Sound, is a true connoisseur of dance music from all over the world. NileFM is proud to host some of the label's best dance music every Thursday from 8 p.m. till 10 p.m. to kick off your weekends with the energy you need to finish them off right!&nbsp;</p>

Hedkandi

<p>Each week, the one and only Simon Ramsden will be treating you to a daily &ldquo;Power Hour&rdquo; from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. And on Thursdays, an extended version of the &ldquo;Power Hour&rdquo; will go on till 8 p.m.</p>

Power Hour

<p>Every Thursday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Gazlan will be taking you on a two-hour journey around different parts of Egypt and the world. Exploring what each place has to offer, from outdoor activities &amp; watersports, to simply relaxing and enjoying mother nature. If you have a penchant for wanderlust, "Gaz Guides" is for you!</p>

Gaz Guides

<p>Created to inspire your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing, delve into the wonders of your own inner awakening and tune in for a guided journey meant for you to thrive! By pairing a holistic approach with the trendiest fads in wellness and therapy galore, Murad walks you through an exclusively tailored and totally wholesome experience, aired right at the pickup of your weekend and spiced with just the right amount of excitement to get you motivated and focused. Catch Murad every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on 104.2 NileFM!</p>

Totally Wholesome

<p>The ingenious moments where comedy solves a curveball that life threw you; the humorous incidents with family members, friends, coworkers, strangers, and life that are out of your hands; the angry moments where you can&rsquo;t believe that such a crazy incident is happening to you but later on discover that there was a solution all along. We all go through our fair share of craziness every day, and Hisham will guide us towards taking it all with a grain of salt and a big grin. Join Hisham Sundays to Wednesdays from 9 p.m. till 11 p.m.!&nbsp;</p>

How Crazy Are We?

Phunkadelics

NileFM Drive

<p>Every weekend, Kenzy will be counting down the week's HOTTEST 30 songs on the only official chart countdown for Egypt! Find out the music that really matters! Will your favorite song make it to number 1? And if so, how long will it stay there?! Join Kenzy every Saturday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., with reruns on Tuesdays from 10 p.m. till 12 a.m.</p>

Hit 30 Egypt

<p>Had you had a long, tiresome week that&rsquo;s consumed all of the energy that you need to do the things you actually want to do over the weekend? It&rsquo;s all good. All you have to do is join Sally on Happy Weekends! She&rsquo;ll have the music, the chitchat, and all the quirkiness you&rsquo;ll need to get you back on track to have an awesome couple of days off! Weekends from 1 PM - 3 PM.</p>

Happy Weekends

<p>Each weekday from 3-4 pm, Feedo delivers you Egypt&rsquo;s hit music, but with a slight difference. In the mix, non-stop! All the biggest current songs mixed back to back. If it were food it would be delicious, so we couldn&rsquo;t think of any better name than &ndash; Mix-A-Licious!</p>

Mixalicious

<p>Tune in every weekday morning from 11 a.m. to On Demand with Mickey and Basmah! You&rsquo;ll be in complete control of the music, along with something a little different every day. Spill your heart out on Sunday Secrets!</p>

On Demand

<p>Its 2021 and Zeinab is continuing her award-winning show with all kinds of fun and games just for you!</p>

Good Vibes Only

The Big Breakfast Show

<p>Three hours of non-stop feel good anthems to get you pumped for the weekend. Whether you're getting ready for a fun night out or heading home for a cozy night in, this upbeat soundtrack is guaranteed to put a smile on your face. Turn up the music and sing along to all your favorite happy tunes, every Thursday at 9 pm.</p>

Feel Good Thursday

<p>Highlighting the best and greatest from the world of Rock. The Rock Show is the perfect blend of current, modern, and old-school classics. Join Omar on Mondays to hear about some of the best emerging artists, and local bands too!&nbsp;</p>

The Late Night Rock Show

<p>Some say &ldquo;They don't make them like they used to", and we certainly agree.</p>
<p>For a full hour, we spin out all your favorite classic hits from the 60s through the 90s that bring back those good oldies. Every day at 7 am, it's time for some serious nostalgia.</p>

Flashback

<p>The world's premier radio show comes to NileFM.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>With over 30 Million listeners turning in each week around the world, NileFM joins the elite rank of stations putting their listeners in 'a state of trance'.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Join one of the World's top DJs Armin Van Buuren&nbsp;for 2 hours of the best Trance tracks &amp; sets known to mankind!</p>

A State Of Trance (ASOT)

<p>It's your weekly dose of Hip-Hop &amp; R'n'B with DJ Feedo.</p>
<p>All the newest Hip-Hop releases, the best old school jams, East Coast/West Coast, Shacktown, the dirty South, the Middle East and beyond.</p>
<p>There's also Jam IT or Slam IT, where you decide the playlist and an EXCLUSIVE DJ Feedo Mix.</p>
<p>Friday at 7 pm.</p>

Friday Night Flavas

<p>Sit back and enjoy the chill-out sounds of oriental-inspired music; the perfect setting for a drive in your car, or just an escape from the stress of the day. It's the show that brings a little dose of local flavor.</p>
<p>Don't miss it, Saturdays from 10 p.m. till midnight!</p>

Nile Bazaar

<p>American Top 40 - or AT40 - is an internationally syndicated, independent song countdown radio program created by Casey Kasem, Don Bustany, Tom Rounds, and Ron Jacobs.</p>
<p>The program is hosted by Ryan Seacrest, and features the current Top 40 songs in America, in addition to celebrity interviews, song breakout predictions, and many other features and segments.</p>
<p>AT40 currently broadcasts in Egypt and the Middle East only on your #1 Hit Music radio station, NileFM.</p>

AT 40 With Ryan Seacrest

<p>Come hang with Mohannad as he showcases the #Hottest7Tunes of the day, a few of his bizarre thoughts with a daily #MoeMessage, get to test your luck with LIVE games; &ldquo;Would you Rather?" and "Mohannad or Google?&rdquo;, and so much more. He may also talk about food. A lot.&nbsp;</p>

Chat n’ Chill

<p>Egyptian comedian extraordinaire Ahmed Helmy is going to be playing Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz in an upcoming TV series set to be written by veteran scriptwriter Abdel Reheem Kamal.</p>
<p>When we think of who could play Mahfouz in a film, Helmy certainly does not come to mind, but he has proven to be an actor worth his salt throughout his career, not only delivering various kinds of comedy and delivering them well, he also gave us several dramatic moments worth mentioning.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/VS3GpttFA_8" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Apparently, he has been aware of this project for a while and has been doing extensive research to take on the role, as well he should since all eyes will be on him to do Mahfouz justice. Mahfouz is arguably the most influential Egyptian author and one of the most prominent figures in Egypt&rsquo;s cultural history, so he is widely beloved both in Egypt and out.[article id=6878]News of Helmy taking the role first broke last week on Al-Qahira W Al-Nas's "Hadith Al-Qahira" with Khairy Ramadan who received a tip from an inside source that Helmy had met with the scriptwriter several times to prepare.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Another TV series titled &ldquo;Cairo&rdquo; is also in the works that is adapting 5 of Mahfouz&rsquo;s most prominent works into one epic show that is set to debut in 2022.</p>
<p>We&rsquo;ll have to wait and see if either show is any good.</p>

Helmy has been aware of this role for months and has been working hard to prepare for it.

Ahmed Helmy Set to Portray Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz In Upcoming TV Series

<p>Today, residents of the MENA region are going to be able to catch a truly rare celestial event as three planets in our solar system are going to be visible in the sky at the same time, forming a beautiful little triangle.</p>
<p>Jupiter, Saturn, and Mercury will be visible in the night sky just above the horizon 45 minutes after sundown in the Arab world today, let&rsquo;s hope all the damned fog in Cairo clears up for tonight because it sounds like the kind of thing you don&rsquo;t want to miss.</p>
<p>If you want to catch this rare phenomenon, there are a few things you should consider: firstly, the meeting of the planets will be pretty low on the horizon, so you have to have a clear view of the night sky i.e. not obstructed by buildings, so if you live in Mohandessin or Downtown Cairo, you might want to drive out to 6th October so you have a full view of the night sky.&nbsp;</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/9Wi_H0IxYX8" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p>Also, experts are saying that people might need to bring a pair of binoculars along so that you can really see it up close. It&rsquo;s supposed to be quite an impressive sight. In what is referred to as a celestial summit meeting, and a triple conjunction, the three planets will fit within a circle smaller than 5 degrees.</p>
<p>The Astronomical Society in Jeddah says that Jupiter will be seen directly above Saturn and that although Saturn is nearly as bright as a star of the first degree (basically the brightness of the brightest stars in our sky), it will not be able to compete with the brightness of Jupiter, which is 11 times larger than Saturn. Jupiter is the fourth brightest celestial body in our solar system, after the sun, moon, and Venus, respectively.&nbsp;</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1610271415-riau24_1610159607.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="324" />Mercury is set to appear to the upper left of Saturn.&nbsp;</p>
<p>As the planets continue on their orbits, Jupiter and Saturn will drop below our horizon, while Mercury&rsquo;s orbit will take it further up and away from our horizon.</p>

The event is quite rare and will be seen all over the MENA region.

Arab World to Witness Rare Conjunction of Mercury, Jupiter & Saturn Tonight

<p>Egypt&rsquo;s Dar al-Iftaa has issued a new fatwa warning against false prescriptions and medical advice being issued by unlicensed individuals for the treatment of COVID-19.</p>
<p>According to several sources, there have been prescriptions for medications to treat COVID-19 making the social media rounds. The phenomenon is prolific enough that Egypt&rsquo;s highest justiciary Islamic advisory has decided to denounce it with a fatwa.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Dar al-Iftaa said in a statement that while it may be presented with good intentions, inexperienced medical advice is not a good idea, because even if two people have the same symptoms, the same kind of medications may not work for them, which is something that can only be determined by medical professionals.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FEgyptDarAlIfta%2Fposts%2F4247533468609736&amp;width=500&amp;show_text=true&amp;height=193&amp;appId" width="500" height="193" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Egypt&rsquo;s COVID-19 case count has been on the rise as of late, and many people are choosing to take their treatments into their own hands without being examined by medical professionals, opting to take medications and quarantine till they get better.</p>
<p>Dar al-Iftaa&rsquo;s statement cited the words of Prophet Mohamed who warned against people giving medical advice when they don&rsquo;t have the necessary experience to do so since this can cause more harm than good in the end.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FEgyptDarAlIfta%2Fposts%2F4247580205271729&amp;width=500&amp;show_text=true&amp;height=269&amp;appId" width="500" height="269" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Citing a law passed back in 1955, Dar al-Iftaa reminded people that pharmacists are also not to be listened to with regards to medical prescriptions since they are not licensed under Egyptian law to practice medicine, merely to dispense medications prescribed by doctors. Anyone is liable to legal action if they prescribe medication without having the necessary medical credentials.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Finally, Dar al-Iftaa warned people against circulating any medical advice on their social media pages, because even though they mean to help, they simply don&rsquo;t know what their actions may unleash, and contrary to what they might think, unless they are doctors, they don&rsquo;t have the necessary experience to disseminate any medical information.</p>

As Egypt's second wave of COVID-19 rages, a great deal of false information about treatments in being circulated.

Egypt's Dar al-Iftaa Issues Fatwa Against False COVID-19 Medical Prescriptions Being Circulated Online

<p>After announcing that the upcoming 2021 IHF World Men's Handball Championship which is set to kick off in Egypt on January 13 would be allowing a 30% audience capacity, Egypt's Council of Ministers has revised its initial decision, and has asked all audience members to stay home as the nation grapples with the ongoing second wave of COVID-19.</p>
<p>The upcoming event will see the participation of 32 international teams, many of whom arrived in Egypt ahead of the event and have been out sightseeing as per social media posts by the Ministry of Tourism &amp; Antiquities.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FEgyptianCabinet%2Fposts%2F1829804237197933&amp;width=500&amp;show_text=true&amp;height=752&amp;appId" width="500" height="752" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>At the end of December, the Youth Ministry announced that the championship would be held at 30% audience capacity and that a &ldquo;bubble&rdquo; system would be implemented to make sure that players, coaches, and other personnel involved in the event would be entirely separate from the audience.&nbsp;</p>
<p>However, the decision received widespread backlash all over social media, with many decrying the blatant disregard for the ongoing health crisis, which has been intensifying in recent weeks, with a marked upsurge in both the number of new daily infections and deaths.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Femysofficial%2Fposts%2F3754622044585552&amp;width=500&amp;show_text=true&amp;height=243&amp;appId" width="500" height="243" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>According to public statements made by German goalkeeper Johannes Bitter, there was also significant resistance from players and coaches to have an audience present at the event. The European Handball Players Union (EHPU) reportedly sent a letter to the world association president Hassan Mostafa on behalf of the captains and players of the European national teams set to take part in the championship, urging him to ban an audience at the event to avoid unnecessary risks to the players and the spectators alike.[article id=7303]After meeting with the world association president and the Minister of Youth &amp; Sports, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly decided to acquiesce and not allow audience attendance at the upcoming event.</p>
<p>If you&rsquo;re a handball fan and had been planning to go to the event, fear not, as the championship matches in their entirety will be broadcast on Egyptian television channel OnTime Sports.&nbsp;</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ddILn7OAE_0" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The championship will take place at four different venues all over Egypt including Cairo International Stadium, which can accommodate 20,000 spectators; the Sports City Hall in the New Administrative Capital (NAC), which can accommodate 7,000 spectators; the Egyptian Handball Federation hall at the federation&rsquo;s new headquarters in 6th of October City, which can accommodate 5,000 spectators; and the Borg El Arab hall in Alexandria, which has room for 5,000 spectators.</p>
<p>The tournament is set to kick off on Wednesday, January 13 with the Pharaohs&rsquo; clash with Chile in the opening game of Group G.</p>

The European Handball Players' Union wrote a letter to Egyptian officials to cancel audience participation at the event.

Egypt Bans Audience Participation at Handball World Cup After COVID-19 Concerns from European Teams

<p>Owing to its dynamic archaeological and cultural history and incredibly scenic landscapes, the country of Egypt has captivated writers for centuries. Very few countries come close to Egypt in terms of its historical complexity and depth, which is why it makes perfect sense why Om El Donya was not only the setting but also the inspiration behind some of the greatest pieces of modern literature. We&rsquo;ve compiled a list of our favorite novels set in Egypt, by renowned Egyptian and non-Egyptian writers for your reading pleasure. In the midst of a pandemic, the increasing importance of social distancing and the increasingly cold weather, we couldn&rsquo;t think of a better time to cozy up with a book.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie</strong></span></p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609935713-vaccine2_1.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="900" />First published in 1937, the famous detective fiction novel tells the story of French private investigator Hercule Poirot who visits Egypt and finds himself tasked with the mission to solve two murder mysteries. A film adaptation of the novel &ndash; starring Gal Gadot, Kenneth Branagh and Tom Bateman &ndash; is set for release in 2021. Fun fact: Agatha Christine was staying at Aswan&rsquo;s Old Cataract Hotel when writing the novel.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Beer in the Snooker Club - Waguih Ghali</strong></span></p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609935993-vaccine2_2.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="900" />Published in 1964, and largely considered one of the most iconic pieces of Egyptian literature, Ghali&rsquo;s semi-autobiographical novel &lsquo;Beer in the Snooker Club&rsquo; follows old friends Ram and Font as they reminisce in a Cairo bar about their days spent in London drinking Bass beer and reflect on the 1952 revolution and how it has impacted their lives.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>A Woman of Cairo - Noel Barber</strong></span><br /> <br /> <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609936163-vaccine2_3.jpg" alt="" />This 1984 novel is set during the final years of the British occupation in Egypt and revolves around the love story between childhood friends and neighbors in Garden City, the daughter of an Egyptian Pacha and the daughter of a British diplomat, which is made much more complicated during the Egyptian uprising against the British occupation.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The Open Door - Latifa Al-Zayyat</strong></span></p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609936278-vaccine2_4.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="900" />Al-Zayyat&rsquo;s novel was considered a literary pinnacle of Egyptian feminism, the 1946 coming-of-age novel follows the protagonist Layla through a political and sexual awakening and her desire to dissent against the patriarchal system.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>River God - Wilbur Smith</strong></span></p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609936382-vaccine2_5.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="900" />This 1993 novel takes readers back to the 15tth Dynasty of Egypt and tells the story of Taiya, a eunuch slave, and his experiences in Egypt, including his flight along with the Egyptian population from the Hyksos invasion, and their subsequent return. The writer also wrote The Seventh Scroll, Warlock, The Quest, Desert God, and Pharoah, all set in Ancient Egypt.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Zainab - Mohammed Hussein Heikal</strong></span></p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609936655-Zainab.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="900" />Published in 1913 and renowned for being the first modern Egyptian novel, Zainab takes readers to the countryside and provides an interesting fictive commentary on the intricacies of men and women and the relationship dynamics between laboring cotton workers and plantation owners. It is the first Egyptian novel to feature dialogue in colloquial vernacular as opposed to Modern Standard Arabic.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Miramar - Naguib Mahfouz</strong></span></p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609936826-Miramar.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="900" />This book list wouldn't be complete without the iconic Nobel-prize winning writer Naguib Mahfouz. While Mahfouz's "Cairo Trilogy" is widely regarded as his best work, we think "Miramar" is the most romantic. Set in 1960s Alexandria, the multiprespective novel follows residents of the titular Miramar Pension, with all voices based around Zahra, a servant who moves away from her village to live in the coastal city.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durrell</strong></span></p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609936955-Alexandria_Quartet.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="900" />Published between 1957 and 1960 and set in Alexandria, this tetrology of novels explores one set of events and characters before and during World War II, with the fourth book set six years later. With modern love at its core, the series explores relativity, contiuum and subject-object relations. In 1998, Modern Library ranked the series as number 70 in its list of 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The Wiles of Men and Other Stories - Salwa Bakr</strong></span></p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609937057-The_Wiles_of_Men.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="900" />Set in contemporary Cairo, this riveting and powerful anthology sees writer Salwa Bakr explore some of the biggest issues impacting the then-modern Egyptian woman in the capital's underpirveledged communities. Published in 1992, it is comprised of thirteen stories and one short novella.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The Tent by Miral al-Tahawy</strong></span></p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1609937187-The_Tent.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="900" />al-Tahawy's novel "The Tent" revolves around a group of female Bedouin and peasant characters under the mercy of an absent father and his harsh mother. The novel lets readers into the women's quarters, including the details of their daily lives.&nbsp;</p>

We've compiled a list of our favourite books set in Egypt, by both Egyptian and non-Egyptian authors.

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