News: 2022-05-07_22-27-50_le-prix-du-kerosene-cloue-les-avions-nig

  ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Le prix du kérosène cloue les avions nigérians au sol, une première mondiale

(2022-05-07_22-27-50 (Belga))


Tous les vols intérieurs au Nigeria seront suspendus pour une durée indéterminée, ont indiqué les syndicats de l’aviation locaux. Cette décision est liée à l’augmentation des prix du kérosène qui rend les vols intérieurs non-rentables. Le Nigeria est le premier pays à immobiliser des avions en raison du prix du carburant.

La guerre en Ukraine a engendré une forte hausse des prix sur les marchés pétroliers. Le coût du kérosène a triplé au Nigeria, de sorte que les compagnies aériennes locales ne peuvent plus supporter cette augmentation, affirment les syndicats. De nombreuses compagnies aériennes fonctionnaient déjà à perte.


The Least Successful Executions
History has furnished us with two executioners worthy of attention.
The first performed in Sydney in Australia. In 1803 three attempts were
made to hang a Mr. Joseph Samuels. On the first two of these the rope
snapped, while on the third Mr. Samuels just hung there peacefully until he
and everyone else got bored. Since he had proved unsusceptible to capital
punishment, he was reprieved.
The most important British executioner was Mr. James Berry who
tried three times in 1885 to hang Mr. John Lee at Exeter Jail, but on each
occasion failed to get the trap door open.
In recognition of this achievement, the Home Secretary commuted
Lee's sentence to "life" imprisonment. He was released in 1917, emigrated
to America and lived until 1933.
-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"