The Daily Populous

Sunday April 16th, 2017 night edition

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At least 68 children were among 126 people killed in Saturday's bomb attack on buses carrying evacuees from besieged Syrian towns, activists say.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said at least 109 evacuees from government-held towns were killed, along with aid workers and rebel soldiers.

The explosion shattered buses and set cars on fire, leaving a trail of bodies, as the convoy waited in rebel territory near Aleppo.

Separately, several people, mostly children, are reported to have been injured by shelling in the capital, Damascus.

At least three shells landed near the central Umayyad Square, state and pro-government media outlets reported.

In his Easter Sunday address, Pope Francis called the bombing a "vile attack on fleeing refugees".

A previous attempt at mutual evacuations failed in December when rebels burnt coaches due to be sent to the towns. »

Georgia officials dismiss 89 cases linked to fired officers shown kicking, punching motorist

Authored by abcnews.go.com

Days after two officers in suburban Atlanta were fired when videos surfaced showing them kicking and punching a motorist, authorities have reportedly dismissed nearly 90 cases involving the pair.

Sixty-three cases were dismissed in Gwinnett County Recorder's Court and 26 in Gwinnett County State Court, according to ABC affiliate WSB-TV in Atlanta.

McDonald and Bongiovanni were fired Thursday after videos emerged online showing a man being punched and kicked during a traffic stop, police said. »

TIL: Only about 8% of the world's money exists as physical money, the rest is on computers

Authored by money.howstuffworks.com

After World War II, banks would record information about the day's transactions onto large magnetic reels, which were taken to the regional Federal Reserve Bank.

This system eliminated the need for the large denominations that were printed prior to the war to facilitate these large-scale transfers.

There are three other important steps in the history of electronic money:. »

Computers Create Recipe for Two New Magnetic Materials

Authored by pratt.duke.edu

Material scientists have predicted and built two new magnetic materials, atom-by-atom, using high-throughput computational models.

In a new study, materials scientists from Duke University provide a shortcut in this process.

And, to prove it works, they’ve created two magnetic materials that have never been seen before. »