The LINK spacecraft, which Lee’s team came up with, is a three-armed robot, about the size of a fridge, bristling with cameras and guidance systems and driven by small thrusters. Launched on Friday, the spacecraft will spend the next few weeks waking up its systems one-by-one: power, navigation, the cameras and sensors it will rely […]
Continue ReadingBBC Weather says a large area of high pressure is currently building from the Azores towards Portugal and Spain and that by the weekend, heat is forecast to climb across France and southern Britain. And as Europe braces for sweltering conditions, millions of Americans celebrating the July Fourth holiday weekend are already being affected by […]
Continue ReadingAt least 32 people were killed and 16 others injured after an overcrowded passenger bus plunged into a ravine in south-western Pakistan. The bus was travelling from Quetta to Peshawar, when it crashed in the Dana Sar mountain range, on the border between Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, at about 08:00 local time (03:00 GMT) […]
Continue ReadingNow, weeks after Iran allowed the partial reopening of the strait – under a ceasefire agreement with the US that is mostly holding – the sea is calm once more and fishermen are returning. One of them, Abdol Rahman, took the BBC through the strait for a close-up view of how the war has affected […]
Continue ReadingOne nugget that stood out to me as I dug through all the various polls of the last several months was a survey conducted by The Times that suggested, despite the overall pessimism about the Dream in this moment, “61% of poll respondents said they believed in the concept”. Brandon Patty, a 44-year-old clerk and […]
Continue ReadingAlthough there is statutory maternity and paternity leave – which guarantees time off and partial income compensation – not everyone takes it. Women can get six weeks before their due date and eight weeks after giving birth. Fathers get up to four weeks of flexible paid leave within eight weeks of a child’s birth. Both […]
Continue ReadingA trial of potential treatments for the strain of virus behind the current deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has begun, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced. The first patient has been enrolled in the DRC, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Thursday. More than 1,400 cases and 438 […]
Continue ReadingRyanair and the boss of Berlin Airport have warned of severe disruption to summer travel because of the new digital EU border check system. Ryanair said families could face “queue chaos” and urged governments to postpone the system until after the summer holiday period. Berlin Airport’s Aletta von Massenbach said non-EU nationals were having to […]
Continue ReadingA man has been rescued alive after being trapped for eight days in the rubble of a building that collapsed after twin earthquakes in Venezuela. Emergency workers managed to free Hernán Gil more than 100 hours after they had first located him under 140 tonnes of rubble. Almost 2,300 people are confirmed to have died […]
Continue ReadingResidents of an Ethiopian town have been forced to kill hundreds of their own dogs after three children died from rabies. Powerful community groups in the central town of Hossana told residents they would be fined and arrested if they did not kill their dogs, even if the animals had been vaccinated for rabies, residents […]
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