Month: July 2020

Officials in Argentina have begun an investigation into what caused a power cut that left the entire country in the dark for a day. The outage began at 7am on Sunday, with Argentina’s population of 44 million, and many residents of neighbouring Uruguay, and some parts of Paraguay, waking up to Father’s Day with no…

Une équipe de l’Institut Gustave Roussy a réussi à éliminer des métastases localisées dans le foie grâce à un robot permettant de guider la diffusion de micro-ondes directement dans les tumeurs. Une première qui s’est “parfaitement déroulée”. Sommaire Une “précision balistique” Une technique qui pourrait se démocratiser Le traitement du cancer du foie métastatique est…

Bestseller-owned brand Jack & Jones has held its first digital collection launch, marking what the group described as a “big step forward” in its digitalisation transformation. The brand streamed its Spring 2021 collection launch via a two-day series of live streams from the brand’s HQ in Brande to colleagues from 21 countries around the world.…

Renault could announce as soon as Wednesday the return to Formula 1 of Fernando Alonso, according to a report from British newspaper The Sun. The story alleges that Renault F1 boss Cyril Abiteboul has informed the French outfit’s team members that an announcement regarding the 2021 season was impending and involved a driver that has…

The windows are painted black inside the wooden shack by the river in Guarumu, a tiny village in northern Colombia. The floor is stained heavily with blood and there is a stench of rotting flesh leaking from what used to be the kitchen. Farmers, shopkeepers and miners are among locals to have been tortured to death…

Zimbabwe’s former First Lady Grace Mugabe faces a second allegation of assault after she was accused of beating an employee at the family’s Harare mansion. Mrs Mugabe, 53, is said to have become enraged that her 95-year-old husband gave the housekeeper a cash wedding gift, punching and striking the woman about the face with a…

In a vast exhibition hall in Berlin’s riverside docks, they are setting up the stage for a Green Party European election rally. Engineers are testing the spotlights, while backstage make-up artists set to work on the candidates. It’s a far cry from the village halls and community centres where Europe’s Greens usually meet — in…

Austria’s far-right interior minister, Herbert Kickl, has said his under-fire Freedom Party (FPO) would support a vote of no confidence in the conservative chancellor, Sebastian Kurz. A small opposition party has said it will propose such a vote and Mr Kickl, whom Mr Kurz is seeking to have sacked, told Tuesday’s edition of the mass-circulation…

Three people were shot dead and more than a dozen wounded in a confrontation between soldiers and civil rights protestors, Pakistan’s army said. Troops opened fire when a checkpoint in North Waziristan was shot at by protestors led by two members of Pakistan’s national assembly, the military said. However leaders of the Pashtun Protection Movement…

A rare all-white panda has been caught on camera at a nature reserve in southwest China, showing albinism exists among wild pandas in the region, state media reported. The spotless, red-eyed animal was photographed while trekking through the forest mid-April in southwestern Sichuan province, said official news agency Xinhua on Saturday. Wildlife experts said it was the first time…