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A British woman who was blasted in the face as she fled the Tunisian beach massacre refused to let go of the body of her dead husband as paramedics desperately tried to get her to safety, it emerged last night. A doctor who was the first to reach the couple has told how Gina Van Dort simply would not let go of her husband Chris Dyer, who had been shot in the head. In a testament to her love for Mr Dyer, doctors said, she managed to write a note to communicate with staff and immediately asked for her wedding ring, which had been removed before surgery which included a tracheotomy. Surveyor Mrs Van Dort, 30, and Mr Dyer, 32, an engineer, had been married for two years and were in the second week of their holiday. They were cut down by AK47 rounds as they ran into the front garden of the Imperial Marhaba hotel.  They collapsed but despite her horrific injuries Mrs Van Dort found the strength to clasp her husband’s bullet-ridden body. When she came round from emerge...

At an exchange rate of N196.90k to a dollar, the country’s fuel subsidy has dropped from the N51.61 per litre it recorded last week to N45.66 per litre, according to the pricing template by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA). With this latest development, as at Monday this week, the daily payment on subsidy has therefore dropped from N2.06 billion to N1.8 billion as at June 19 2015. The landing cost of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise known as petrol, also dropped from N123.12 per litre as at June 11 to N117.17, while the Expected Open Market Price also dropped from N138.61 per litre to N132.66. Based on daily petrol consumption of 40 million litres, a figure supplied by the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, the total subsidy to be paid by the Federal Government to marketers on the product as of June 22 would be N1.8 billion down from N2.06 billion at N51.61 per litre on June 11. Subsidy refers to the money paid, usually by the government, t...

As written by Gordon Mah Ung of PC World Humans like to celebrate barriers being broken. The speed of sound. The first 1GHz processor, or 1TB hard drive. So get ready to pop the California sparkling wine, because we just smashed right through the 64GB system RAM barrier. That barrier, if you didn’t know, has vexed consumer computing for years now. Mainstream desktop PCs have all featured four slots for a maximum of 32GB of DDR3 RAM. At the high-end, prosumer PCs doubled that to eight slots for a maximum of 64GB DDR3.  With the move last year to DDR4 RAM in Intel’s Haswell-E, we were promised we’d finally break the 64GB mark. That time has come. Last month both Corsair and Kingston announced 128GB memory kits using 16GB DDR4 memory modules. We had to try one out.  What made this possible If you’re wondering why we’ve been locked in at 64GB for so long, it’s mostly due to the technology and process changes. DDR3 modules topped out at 8GB, in what’s ...

Very sad! A sightseeing plane crashed into a granite rock face in southeast Alaska Thursday killing all nine people on board, US police said. Emergency crews were able to reach the aircraft and confirm the deceased, but weather in the fjords prevented recovery efforts, Megan Peters from Alaska’s Department of Public Safety said. “Due to inclement weather, the body recovery effort will not be attempted until tomorrow,” she said in a statement. The plane, a single-engine DeHavilland DHC-3 Otter, went down near down near Ketchikan, the Federal Aviation Administration said. A tour helicopter spotted the plane’s wreckage some 800 feet above a lake in the Misty Fjords wilderness area, police said. The fjords are surrounded by lush forests and nearly vertical rock faces. Tour companies offer rides through the fjords, many of which include a water landing in a seaplane. The plane crashed sometime around midday and was reported overdue in the afternoon when it did not retur...