2015-02-26 Tanzania Health

Buchosa savours improved health, education sectors   
Daily News
RESIDENTS of Buchosa constituency have expressed optimism over a bright future, citing satisfactory improvement in health, education and infrastructure sectors. In separate interviews with the “Daily News,” the residents and local government officials said ...

2015-02-26 Tanzania Science

PBS   

Teaching computers how to play Atari better than humans   
PBS
Tom Clarke of Independent Television News reports on how an artificial intelligence business owned by Google has created software that can teaching itself to play classic Atari games better than a human. RELATED. RELATED. The deep Q-network (DQN) ...

2015-02-26 Tanzania Sports

Firstpost   

Sri Lanka wins toss, bats 1st vs Bangladesh in World Cup   
New Zealand Herald
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) " Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews won the toss and elected to bat first Thursday in its Cricket World Cup Pool A match against Bangladesh at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Sri Lanka included Dinesh Chandimal in the only ...

2015-02-26 Tanzania Entertainment

MiamiHerald.com   

New Gucci designer debuts as Milan celebrates youth   
The Denver Post
MILAN (AP) — Fashion is always about renewal, but in this round of Milan Fashion Week it's not just the collections that are getting a fresher-upper but, it seems, much of the Italian fashion system. Gucci's new designer Alessandro Michele, a brand insider ...

2015-02-26 Tanzania Technology

Latest mobile brand to launch in Dar   
Daily News
A NEW mobile phone brand namely Obi Mobiles, co-founded by veteran marketer and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Apple John Sculley, will be launched next month in Tanzania. According to a statement by Managing Director of Obi Mobiles in ...

2015-02-26 Tanzania Business

Professional services firm advises on investment   
Daily News
ERNST & Young (EY) has advised the government to improve investment incentives to encourage increased flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country. EY is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London. It is one of the “Big ...

2015-02-26 Tanzania World

Aga Khan Varsity in major learning drive   
Daily News
THE Aga Khan University (AKU) is planning to inject into the country over 700 million US dollars (about 1.3 trillion/-) to develop the education sector through setting up of new campuses, programmes and facilities. The new investments, planned to start this ...

2015-02-26 Tanzania Africa

Fox News   

Kidnappers Of American Missionary In Nigeria Demand Ransom   
CBS Local
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The armed men who abducted an American missionary earlier this week in southern Nigeria have demanded a ransom of nearly $300,000, police said Wednesday. Rev. Phyllis Sortor was kidnapped from the Hope Academy ...

2015-02-26 Tanzania Tanzania

WB approves 60 million USD to finance affordable housing in Tanzania   
Xinhua
DAR ES SALAAM, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank said on Wednesday it has approved 60 million U.S. dollars in new financing to help Tanzania develop a viable mortgage finance market for affordable housing. "The new financing will build on the ...