Antione Bondaz, a specialist on north-eastern Asia, told Le Monde Kim Jong-un’s latest test is proof Pyongyang is “ready” to strike the US. Mr Bondaz said: “North Korea is sending a strong message: it wants Washington to know that it can make as many nuclear weapons as it wants and […]
Daily Archives: September 5, 2017
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Russian gas giant Gazprom plans to lay the 1,200-km Nord Stream 2 pipeline through the Baltic Sea to the German coast near Greifswald, where it would connect to the European gas transport networks (AFP Photo/OLGA MALTSEVA) More Saint Petersburg (AFP) – Russian environmentalists on Tuesday said the planned Nord Stream […]
The team from Japan’s Keio University found a black hole, which is 100,000 times the size of our sun, within a molecular gas cloud near the centre of the Milky Way. And they believe its discovery might help explain the evolution of the phenomena. Professor Tomoharu Oka, who led the […]
Erna Solberg’s concern comes as Brexit Secretary David Davis announced the UK is considering becoming members of EFTA temporarily, in order for Britain to remain in the EU’s common market, the European Economic Area (EEA). Ms Solberg, whose poll results have increased ahead of the Norway election on the September […]
Erika Andiola felt uneasy as she handed over a stack of personally identifying information to the federal government back in 2012, allowing them to photograph her and take her fingerprint. As an undocumented immigrant who came to the US from Mexico when she was a kid, Andiola had been trained […]
Beyoncé, Blake Shelton, Barbra Streisand and Oprah Winfrey will headline a one-hour benefit telethon to benefit Hurricane Harvey victims that will be simulcast next week on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and CMT. The event will be telecast live at 8 p.m. ET on Sept. 12, and on tape delay at […]
(CUMBERLAND, Maine) — Maine lobstermen Alex Todd has hauled in blue lobsters and even some lobsters that were half blue, or half orange. But he says those don’t compare on the scale of weirdness to the translucent crustacean that he recently pulled up in a trap. The lobster that Todd […]
A charismatic owl iconic to Pacific Coast forests is no longer ruling the roost, and scientists now have another tool for understanding its decline. Researchers have assembled the California Academy of Sciences’ first-ever animal genome after sequencing the DNA of the northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina). Academy scientists and […]