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Nobel science laureates stress urgency of addressing climate

Saturday, 7 December 2019

Three of this year's Nobel Prize laureates say addressing climate change is of great importance.Winners of the prizes in physics, chemistry and economics made the assessment Saturday at a news conference ahead of next week's presentation of the prizes. The remarks come as a global summit on climate change takes place in Madrid.Didier Queloz, who shared the physics prize for discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star, took issue with people who shrug off climate change on the grounds that ...

Indian border officials on lookout for fugitive cosmic guru

Saturday, 7 December 2019

Indian border officials and embassies have issued an alert for a fugitive guru accused of rape, the government said, days after the holy man announced the creation of his own “cosmic” country. Swami Nithyananda – one of many self-styled Indian “godmen” with thousands of followers and a chequered past – is wanted by police for alleged rape, sexual abuse, and abduction of children. Earlier this week, he announced online that he has created his own new country ...

Jury: Elon Musk did not defame British caver in tweet

Saturday, 7 December 2019

Elon Musk defeated defamation allegations on Friday from a British cave explorer who claimed he was branded a pedophile when the Tesla CEO called him “pedo guy” in an angry tweet. Vernon Unsworth, who participated in the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped for weeks in a Thailand cave last year, had sought $190 million in damages from a man his lawyer called the “billionaire bully.” It took less than an hour for an eight-person jury in Los Angeles federal ...

Woman tries to pry open mountain lion’s jaws to save her dog

Friday, 6 December 2019

A Southern California woman punched a mountain lion Thursday and tried to pry its jaws open to save her dog from an attack in her backyard, but the pet was killed, officials said.The woman suffered a minor cut after the mountain lion attacked her miniature Schnauzer in the city of Simi Valley, police Sgt. Keith Eisenhour told KNBC-TV.The woman’s name was not released.“She obviously cared about her dog very much, as all dog owners do,” Eisenhour said. “She tried to fend ...

Spain hospital saves British woman after 6-hour heart stop

Friday, 6 December 2019

A 34-year-old British woman has been revived by Spanish doctors after enduring a six-hour cardiac arrest.Barcelona’s Vall d’Hebron hospital said on Thursday that Audrey Marsh got caught in a snowstorm in the Spanish Pyrenees on November 3 and suffered severe hypothermia before entering cardio-respiratory arrest.Six hours later, after being rescued by helicopter, she was revived in the hospital.Hospital doctor Eduard Argudo said Marsh arrived with a body temperature of 20 degrees ...

Sydney smoke crisis ‘longest on record’

Thursday, 5 December 2019

Australian bushfires have caused unprecedented pollution in Sydney and along the country’s east coast, officials said Thursday, with smoke and dust burning residents’ eyes and prompting a spike in respiratory complaints.Hundreds of bushfires have burned out of control since September up and down the eastern seaboard, blanketing cities from Sydney to Brisbane in smoke for weeks on end.The extent of the crisis was made clear Thursday, with the New South Wales department of environment ...

New app predicts water-related conflict up to year in advance

Thursday, 5 December 2019

Conflicts over water are likely to flare up in Iraq, Mali and India in the coming year, according to the developers of an app launched on Thursday which aims to help prevent violence by flagging up potential flashpoints. They said the "groundbreaking" early warning tool, which has also predicted risks in Iran, Nigeria and Pakistan, could spot the likelihood of conflicts - including water-related violence - up to 12 months in advance. Climate change, increasing populations, rapid ...

Elon Musk insists no one interpreted tweet to mean pedophile

Thursday, 5 December 2019

A British cave explorer who helped rescue a dozen boys and their football coach from a flooded Thailand cave last year testified Wednesday that Elon Musk branded him a pedophile and sullied his reputation. Vernon Unsworth choked up as he described the effect of Musk’s “pedo guy” tweet that the Tesla CEO said he fired off in anger after Unsworth belittled the sub Musk built for the rescue that was never used. “I was effectively given a life sentence with no parole,” ...

Jay-Z marks 50th birthday with return to Spotify

Wednesday, 4 December 2019

Rap mogul Jay-Z celebrated his fiftieth birthday and surprised fans Wednesday by putting his catalog back on streaming giant Spotify, after a two-year hiatus. The billionaire artist, who owns rival streaming service Tidal, had pulled the majority of his discography from Spotify in 2017, months before dropping his “4:44” album exclusively on his own upstart platform. The introspective album prompted a surge of interest in the paid subscription service Tidal -- which also exclusively ...

Japan anti-high heels campaigner steps up to fight ‘glasses ban’

Tuesday, 3 December 2019

A Japanese woman whose campaign against mandatory high heels in the workplace won broad public support has stepped up her fight against strict corporate dress codes -- including a de-facto ban on women wearing glasses.Actress and freelance writer Yumi Ishikawa shot to prominence this year with her drive against Japanese office culture, in which high heels are seen as near-obligatory when job-hunting or working in the office.Known by the slogan “#KuToo” -- a play on words from the ...

Nobel science laureates stress urgency of addressing climate

Indian border officials on lookout for fugitive cosmic guru

Jury: Elon Musk did not defame British caver in tweet

Woman tries to pry open mountain lion’s jaws to save her dog

Spain hospital saves British woman after 6-hour heart stop

Sydney smoke crisis ‘longest on record’

New app predicts water-related conflict up to year in advance

Elon Musk insists no one interpreted tweet to mean pedophile

Jay-Z marks 50th birthday with return to Spotify

Japan anti-high heels campaigner steps up to fight ‘glasses ban’

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