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New Zealand universities face fines after dorm death

Tuesday, 15 October 2019

New Zealand universities and dorm accommodation providers were told Tuesday they could face hefty fines following a gruesome case in which a student’s decomposing body lay undetected in his room for weeks. Education Minister Chris Hipkins said the teenager’s fate, which emerged last month, showed voluntary standards aimed at caring for students in halls of residence had failed. He said a mandatory code of practice would come into force in 2021, including fines of NZ$100,000 ($63,000) ...

Authors Atwood and Evaristo jointly win Booker Prize

Tuesday, 15 October 2019

Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments” and Bernardine Evaristo’s “Girl, Woman, Other” jointly won the Booker Prize in London on Monday, in a surprise announcement by the judges of the major literary prize. “Neither of us expected to win this,” Atwood said in her acceptance speech in a televised ceremony. “The Testaments,” published last month, is the sequel to the Canadian author’s best-selling 1985 novel “The Handmaid’s ...

Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer win 2019 Nobel economics prize

Monday, 14 October 2019

Economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize for creating an experimental approach to alleviating global poverty, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. “This year’s Laureates have introduced a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty,” the academy said in a statement. The nine million Swedish crown ($915,300) economics prize is a later ...

Man detained in Scotland not French murder suspect: UK police

Sunday, 13 October 2019

A French man arrested at Glasgow airport is not the murder suspect wanted for killing his wife and four children eight years ago, Scotland’s police said Saturday. “Inquiries were undertaken to confirm the man’s identity. Following the results of these tests it has been confirmed that the man arrested is not the man suspected of crimes in France,” police said in a statement, adding that the man has been released.

Indian Prime Minister Modi picks up trash from beach

Saturday, 12 October 2019

As part of his cleanliness drive, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi picked up trash on Saturday from a beach in the southern temple town where he hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping.Modi released a short video on Twitter showing him walking barefoot in the sand, collecting the trash in a bag on Saturday morning in Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu state.He tweeted, “Let us ensure our public places are clean and tidy.”Modi launched a “Clean India” campaign after he became prime ...

Frenchman wanted for family’s murder arrested after 8-year hunt

Saturday, 12 October 2019

One of France’s most wanted men has been arrested in Scotland, eight years after vanishing without trace following the murder of his wife and four children.Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes was subject to an international arrest warrant for the 2011 killings in a mystery that has transfixed France.The aristocratic businessman was stopped at Glasgow airport on Friday after arriving on a flight from Paris, according to two French sources close to the investigation.The sources confirmed a fingerprint ...

Jane Fonda arrested in climate protest at US Capitol

Saturday, 12 October 2019

Oscar-winner Jane Fonda was arrested Friday outside the US Capitol where she was protesting climate change and demanding action to protect the environment. The 81-year-old film star, longtime activist and exercise guru was taken into custody with several others after 10 minutes of protesting on the Capitol steps, a video posted on Fonda’s Facebook page showed. “Today, the United States Capitol Police arrested 16 individuals for unlawfully demonstrating on the East Front of the US ...

NASA launches satellite to explore where air meets space

Friday, 11 October 2019

NASA launched a satellite on Thursday night to explore the mysterious, dynamic region where air meets space.The satellite - called Icon, short for Ionospheric Connection Explorer - rocketed into orbit following a two-year delay. It was dropped from a plane flying over the Atlantic off the Florida coast.Five seconds after the satellite’s release, the attached Pegasus rocket ignited, sending Icon on its way.The ionosphere is the charged part of the upper atmosphere extending several hundred ...

Museum explores spooky science behind ‘Frankenstein’, ‘The Mummy’

Friday, 11 October 2019

What is the spookiest thing about “Frankenstein,” “The Mummy” and “Dracula”? The hideous monster? The ancient curse? The sharp fangs? Or the fact that these classic horror films were all rooted in real-life scientific experiments and discoveries? That is the premise of a new exhibition at Los Angeles’ Natural History Museum, showcasing movie props from Hollywood’s golden age of horror alongside scientific artifacts that inspired them. The &ldquo ...

Manned SpaceX mission will happen in first quarter of 2020: NASA boss

Friday, 11 October 2019

NASA boss Jim Bridenstine said on Thursday that the first manned mission into orbit by SpaceX’s Crew Dragon would take place in the first quarter of next year, pending the satisfactory outcome of tests. On a visit to the SpaceX headquarters, Bridenstine praised Elon Musk’s SpaceX for its “fail fast, then fix” approach to spacecraft design after a personal briefing on the company’s long-delayed Crew Dragon capsule - a display of unity amid a rare public ...

New Zealand universities face fines after dorm death

Authors Atwood and Evaristo jointly win Booker Prize

Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer win 2019 Nobel economics prize

Man detained in Scotland not French murder suspect: UK police

Indian Prime Minister Modi picks up trash from beach

Frenchman wanted for family’s murder arrested after 8-year hunt

Jane Fonda arrested in climate protest at US Capitol

NASA launches satellite to explore where air meets space

Museum explores spooky science behind ‘Frankenstein’, ‘The Mummy’

Manned SpaceX mission will happen in first quarter of 2020: NASA boss

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