Maths and physics teacher has won $1 million Global Teacher Prize
A secondary maths and physics teacher in Kenya has received the $1 million Global Teacher Prize.
The Dubai-based foundation Varkry has given the prize to Peter Tabichi, a 36-year-old teacher from the Keriko Mixed Day Secondary School in the remote village of Pwani.
He has been commended for his work in leading his poorly-resourced school to victory after taking on the country’s best schools in national science competitions.
He also gives away 80 percent of his monthly income to the poor.
104-year-old woman 'arrested'
Police have arrested a 104-year-old woman in Bristol for being an “upstanding citizen”.
Anne Brokenbrow has had no prior run-ins with the law but says she wanted to find out what being arrested was like.
She said it was “very exciting” when police showed up at her care home, handcuffed her and drove her away in a police car with its siren and flashing blue lights on.
Review: The Book of Mormon at QPAC
When South Park came out in 1997, I was its youthful target audience and it was the perfect antithesis to The Simpsons. Crude humour and full of vulgar language with episodes based around anal probing and a talking poo, but as the audience grew so did the show, evolving into something far more intelligent satirising everything from politics, race, worldly events and copious amounts of religious based satire.
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Review: Heroes presented by the Centenary Theatre Group
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VulgarGrad: The Odessa Job
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American Football: American Football (3)
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