NEW YORK: A US judge has ruled in favour of the parents of a 21-year-old dead cadet saying they can use his frozen sperm to produce a child. West Point cadet Peter Zhu died in February in a skiing accident. His parents had moved the court for the use of his sperms to continue his legacy and their family lineage. New York Supreme Court Judge John Colangelo issued this ruling last week, two months after he granted Yongmin and Monica Zhu’s request to save the sperm. Zhu’s parents had petitioned a court in March in order to allow the hospital to proceed with a sperm retrieval procedure. Peter’s sperm has been stored in a local sperm bank for the past couple of months while Colangelo made his decision on what could be done with it. IANS
Musk hires meme-maker to handle Tesla’s social media
San Francisco: Billionaire businessman Elon Musk has hired famous meme-creator, Adam Koszary to be the social media manager for his Electric Vehicle (EV) company, Tesla. Koszary, the programme manager for The Museum of English Rural Life, run by the University of Reading, will join Tesla in July. The museum’s twitter account, @TheMerl went viral last April when Koszary, who was trawling the archive looking for an image to mark International Unicorn Day, posted an old archived picture of a large sheep with unusual horns and captioned it: “Look at this absolute unit”. In the social networking lingo, the term “absolute unit” stands for anything over-sized and the picture of the large sheep went viral online overnight. IANS
Send your name to NASA to fly aboard Mars 2020 rover
Washington: Although it will be years before the first humans set foot on Mars, NASA is inviting the public to submit their names to fly to the Red Planet aboard the US space agency’s Mars 2020 rover. The names, stenciled on chips, will be sent on the rover, which represents the initial leg of humanity’s first round trip to another planet. The rover is scheduled to launch as early as July 2020, with the spacecraft expected to touch down on Mars in February 2021. The rover will search for signs of past microbial life, characterise the planet’s climate, collect samples for future return to Earth, and pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet. PTI
Kenyan author, LGBT activist Wainaina dies at 48
Nairobi: One of Africa’s best-known authors and gay rights activists, Binyavanga Wainaina, has died at age 48, a colleague and friend said. The Kenyan author died in Nairobi after an illness, Tom Maliti, the chairman of the Kwani Trust which Wainaina founded, said. Wainaina, who won the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing, was a key figure in the artistic community who promoted local authors. Friends and supporters in an outpouring of tributes on Wednesday shared his work including his biting essay “How to Write About Africa.” “Always use the word ‘Africa’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Safari’ in your title,” it began. It quickly became one of Granta magazine’s best-loved essays. AP
Competing for a cause
NEW YORK: Competitors pull a JetBlue A320 aircraft as they compete in a “Plane Pull” at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Law enforcement officers from communities in New York and the UK competed to raise Awareness for the “Joining Against Cancer in Kids” Foundation. AFP
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