The flag of Norway is deep red with a dark blue cross outlined in white. The red, white and blue colors are inspired by the flags of France, United Kingdom and the United States. The colors represent liberty and independence. The flag was created in 1821 by Fredrik Meltzer, who was a member of Norway's parliament, but it wasn't flown until 1899, when Norway and Sweden ended their union.
Flag of Iceland
The flag of Iceland has a white-fimbriated red Nordic cross on a blue field.
Riedisheim
Riedisheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France. In 2015, 12,151 people lived there.
Tschiertschen-Praden
Tschiertschen-Praden is a municipality of the district Plessur in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It started on 1 January 2009 when Praden and Tschiertschen combined.
Flag of Somalia
The flag of Somalia was created in 1954. It has a single white five-pointed star centered on a light blue field.
Hashem Asad Allah
Hashem Asad Allah (Arabic:هاشم أسد الله)(Born 15 December 1985) is a Kuwaiti actor, producer and presenter at Alrai TV.
In 2005, he started his career as a presenter in Alrai TV. He is an actor but he best known as a presenter because he has anchored several shows in Kuwait’s Alrai TV channel over the past 13 years.
Kache Aye Shoi
Kache Aye Shoi(English: come close my friend) was a Bengali television serial which used to air on Zee Bangla. It Started Chandini Saha and Gourob Roy Chaudhary in Lead roles.
Tumi Robe Nirobe
Tumi Robe Nirobe (English: your voice in the silence) was a Bengali television soap opera which aired on Bengali General Entertainment Channel Zee Bangla. The show telecasted Monday through Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
The plot revolves around the love story of two special people, Jheel (Shweta Bhattacharya) and Sanju (Shubhankar Saha). They are both deaf and mute. Jheel is the lead dancer of a group called Taal. This dance group is again special because all the performers of this group are deaf and mute. Jheel has a sister Dighi who is also deaf and mute. These two orphan sisters are trying to live their lives against all odds. In the course of time Jheel and Sanju meet through Sanju's father (Arjun Chakraborty). How Jheel and Sanju develop the most special relationship is the story of "Tumi Robe Nirobe".
Rannaghor
Rannaghor is a Popular cookery show which airs on Zee Bangla. It is hosted by Sudipa Mukherjee. Sometimes in the special episodes, it had also been hosted by film personalities, such as Sonali Chowdhury and Manali Dey. It is the third longest-running Indian television series.
Everyday a person is invited to the show who prepares a certain item.
Many eminent figures of Bengal including Raja Narayan Deb, Srabanti Chatterjee, Tanusree Chakraborty, Usha Uthup Koel Mallick Dev and others have appeared in the show..
2018 Hawaii false missile alert
On January 13, 2018, a false ballistic missile alert was issued by the Emergency Alert System and Commercial Mobile Alert System over television, radio, and cellphones in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The alert said that there was an incoming ballistic missile threat to Hawaii, advised residents to seek shelter, and said "this is not a drill".
The message was sent at 8:07 a.m. HST. 38 minutes later a second message was sent describing the first as a "false alarm". State officials later blamed a button pushed in error during a shift change at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency for the false first message.
Governor David Ige publicly said he was sorry for the false alert. The United States Federal Communications Commission and the Hawaii House of Representatives announced investigations into the incident.
Doodhnath Singh
Doodhnath Singh (17 October 1936 – 12 January 2018) was an Indian Hindi language writer, critic, playwright, editor and poet. He was born in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh. Singh did his masters in Hindi from the University of Allahabad. He served as an assistant professor there till 1994. In 2014, the Government of Uttar Pradesh honoured him with their Bharat Bharti Samman.
Some of Singh's well known works were "Sapaat Chehre Wala Aadmi", "Aakhri Kalaam", "Nishkaasan," "Bhai Ka Shok Geet", "Dharmakshetra-Kurukshetra" and "Surang se Lautate Huye". He also authored three collections of poems, "Ek Aur Bhi Aadmi Hai", "Agli Shatabdi Ke Naam" and "Yuva Khusboo". He was also a literary critic.
Singh died on 12 January 2018 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh of prostate cancer at the age of 81.
Yılmaz Onay
Yılmaz Onay (April 20, 1937 – January 9, 2018) was a Turkish author, artist, theatre director, playwright and translator. He was born in Gaziantep, Turkey.
He translated plays, which most of them are known plays of Bertolt Brecht, stories, novels, books of poems and non-fiction books from German to Turkish and write plays and novels; all published.
As a director, he staged most of Brecht’s works, in a theatre called Epic Theatre which he was one of the frontiers of this theatre movement in Turkey. He was known for staging a known play "Fear and Misery of the Third Reich" written by Brecht.
Onay died in Gaziantep of stomach cancer on January 9, 2018 at the age of 80.
Stephane Gauger
Stephane Gauger (August 30, 1969 – January 11, 2018) was a Vietnamese-born American movie director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. He was born in Ho Chi Minh City. He was raised in Orange County, California. He was best known for his movies "Owl and the Sparrow", "Saigon Electric" and "Chinatown Squad".
Gauger was a nominee of the Breakthrough Director Award at the 2007 Gotham Awards and the John Cassavetes Award at the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards (for his work with "Owl and the Sparrow" (2007)).
On January 11, 2018, Gauger died of a stroke in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam at the age of 48.
Claude Lelouch
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French movie director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. He was born in Paris, France. He is known for his work in the musical epic "Les Uns et les Autres" (1981). He also directed "C'était un rendez-vous". He won two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Movie and for Original Screenplay.
In 1993, he was the President of the Jury at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival.
Tschiertschen
Tschiertschen is a village in the municipality of Tschiertschen-Praden of the district of Plessur in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
The formerly independent municipality merged with Praden to form Tschiertschen-Praden on January 1, 2009.
Flag of Gabon
The flag of Gabon has three horizontal bands of green, gold, and blue.
Flag of Eswatini
The flag of Eswatini was adopted on October 6, 1968.
It has a horizontal bands of blue (top and bottom) and the yellow-edged red (triple width) with the large black and white Nguni shield covering two spears and the staff decorated with the feather tassels called "injobo" (tassels-bunches of feathers of the widowbird and the lourie) all centered horizontally of the red band.
Spanky Manikan
Spanky Manikan (March 22, 1942 – January 14, 2018) was a Filipino actor for theater, movie and television. He was born in Manila.
Manikan was known for his roles as Orly in "Himala" (1981) and as NAVA in the 1986 movie "Behind Enemy Lines", co-starring David Carradine. He won the Metro Manila Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "Himala" in 1982. At the time of his death, Manikan was starring as Mr. Jang in the drama series "My Love from the Star".
Manikan died of lung cancer on January 14, 2018 in Manila at the age of 75.
Flag of Namibia
The flag of Namibia was adopted on 21 March 1990 upon independence from South Africa. It was designed by Frederick Brownell.
It has a white-edged red diagonal band radiating from the lower hoist-side corner. The upper triangle is blue, charged with a gold sun with 12 triangular rays and the lower triangle is green.
Mohammed Hazzaz