Earthquake hits near Iran nuclear power plant

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near an Iranian nuclear power plant.

The powerful tremor hit 17 kilometres south-southeast of Borazjan near the Bushehr nuclear power plant early this morning.

Local news agency IRNA said so far, there were no reports of any deaths or damage, citing Jahangir Dehghani, the head of Bushehr's crisis management centre.

Two weeks ago a magnitude 5.1 earthquake hit the same area without causing any casualties or major damage.

The Bushehr nuclear power plant is able to produce 1,000 megawatts of power and was built by Russia and officially handed over in September 2013.

Today's incident comes among a deadly and chaotic two days for the nation of Iran.

The nation chose today to strike US air bases in retaliation for the US drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, the top military figure in Iran.

Earlier today, a Ukrainian passenger jet crashed killing all 176 people on board.

The flight took off from Imam Khomeini International Airport in the Iranian capital of Tehran, when a fire struck one of its engines.

More than 50 mourners were killed this morning during a stampede at the funeral processions for Soleimani.

The victims were among more than a million who gathered in Tehran to mourn the Iranian commander's killing by US airstrikes last week.

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Top 25 smartest countries in the world 2019

Arogbonlo Israel

It is debatable to say the human race has been blessed with bunch of pretty clever people who have contributed their quota to the development of the society at large.

During our short time on this planet we’ve seen several inventions and discoveries, some have traveled to space, built the limited slip differential and invented an drone for wide coverage. Yes, all clever stuff.

But (most of) these inventions, discoveries and great leaps forward are collective efforts rather than the inspired genius and toil of one lonely, dedicated man or woman. Which begs the question (sort of), of which is the cleverest nation in the world?

VANGUARD using the current National Intelligent Quotient (IQ) by FORBES as yardstick, gathered the following as the top 25 smartest countries in the world:

RANKING  COUNTRY                                                               AVERAGE IQ

1	Singapore	107.1
2	China	105.8
3	Hong Kong	105.7
4	South Korea	104.6
4	Taiwan	104.6
6	Japan	104.2
7	Finland	100.9
8	Canada	100.4
8	Netherlands	100.4
10	Liechtenstein	100.3
11	Switzerland	100.2
12	Mongolia	100
13	Macao	99.9
14	Estonia	99.4
15	Belgium	99.3
16	Australia	99.2
17	UK	99.1
18	Austria	99
19	Czech Republic	98.9
19	New Zealand	98.9
21	Germany	98.8
22	Sweden	98.6
22	Iceland	98.6
24	France	98.1
25	Hungary