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Cuba and Russia sign agreements in transport, technology and energy
HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) — Cuba and Russia signed new agreements in areas such as transport, technology and energy on Thursday (December 8) after the conclusion of the fourteenth meeting of its Intergovernmental Commission in Havana. The meeting was led by Russian Vice-President Dmitri Rogozin and Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, Cuba’s Vice President of the Council of Ministers, who co-chairs the bilateral commission for economic-trade and scientific-technical cooperation. In total, Moscow and Havana signed seven legal instruments […]
France to unveil copy of landmark prehistoric art cave
by Pascale Mollard Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — The last of four boys who discovered the Lascaux cave paintings, a stunning display of prehistoric art in southwest France, will visit a new replica of the site Saturday. Simon Coencas, now 89, will join President Francois Hollande for the inauguration of the display at a visitors’ centre in Montignac, a village at the foot of the hills where he discovered the cave as a […]
E-cigarettes a ‘major public health concern’: US surgeon general
by Kerry SHERIDAN MIAMI, United States (AFP) — E-cigarette use is exploding among young people and is now “a major public health concern,” the US Surgeon General warned Thursday, sparking disagreement from experts in Britain where the devices are seen more favorably. The battery-powered devices heat a liquid containing nicotine into a vapor that is inhaled, and some experts worry that a new generation of smokers is becoming addicted. About one in six US high […]
Giraffes ‘threatened with extinction’
PARIS, France (AFP) – by Marlowe HOOD Wild giraffe numbers have plummeted by 40 percent in the last three decades, and the species is now “vulnerable” to extinction, a top conservation body warned Thursday. The population of the world’s tallest land mammal dropped to below 100,000 in 2015, mainly due to shrinking habitat and illegal hunting, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reported. The group added 742 newly-discovered birds to the global […]
Designer Carolina Herrera is honored at Lincoln Center’s Corporate Fund Fashion Gala
NEW YORK CITY, United States (Reuters) — Veteran designer Carolina Herrera was honored by the Lincoln Center Corporate Fund on Tuesday (December 6) for her 35-year and counting, contribution to the fashion industry. Herrera was presented with “The Women’s Leadership Award” by Harper’s BAZAAR editor in chief, Glenda Bailey. “Coming from Lincoln Center, I think is one of the cultural places of New York, it means a lot,” said Herrera on the red carpet. A […]
A black bear cub gets stuck in tree near a North Carolina apartment building
NORTH CAROLINA, Unite States (Reuters) — Residents in Washington, North Carolina woke up on Wednesday (December 7) to find a black bear cub hanging out in a tree near their apartment building, NBC reported. Local media said it was not unusual to see black bears in trees in the area and that they eventually come down at night time and leave, but animal control officers remained in the neighborhood to ensure the residents and the […]
JetPack Aviation shows off its portable, turbine-powered backpack
LONG BEACH, California (Reuters) — JetPack Aviation took to the skies above the port of Long Beach, California to demonstrate their latest portable, turbine-powered backpack. According to the Los Angeles area company, the JB-10 is the smallest and lightest jetpack ever created. It can fly for around 10 minutes at altitudes over 6,500 feet (1981 meters) and speeds greater than 65 mph (104 kph). Those figures were unimaginable even ten years ago, the company’s CEO […]
Future buildings could grow their own foundations
NEWCASTLE, England (Reuters) — What do you get if you put an architect, civil engineer, computer scientist, and microbiologist into a room? A future building that grows its own foundations. This might sound like a less than funny joke. In fact, it’s the result of a unique project launched by researchers at the universities of Newcastle and Northumbria, in England, to create a new generation of building materials that are partly living and able to […]
Solar panels repay their energy ‘debt’: study
by Mariëtte Le Roux PARIS, France (AFP) — The climate-friendly electricity generated by solar panels in the past 40 years has all but cancelled out the polluting energy used to produce them, a study said Tuesday. Indeed, by some calculations, the so-called “break-even point” between dirty energy input and clean output may already have arrived, researchers in the Netherlands reported. “We show strong downward trends of environmental impact” of solar panel production, the team wrote […]
Polar bear numbers to plunge a third as sea ice melts: study
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France ( AFP ) – Polar bear numbers could drop a third by mid-century, according to the first systematic assessment, released Wednesday, of how dwindling Arctic sea ice affects the world’s largest bear. There is a 70 percent chance that the global polar bear population –- estimated at 26,000 -– will decline by more than 30 percent over the next 35 years, a period corresponding to three generations, the study found. Other assessments have […]
Earth’s days getting longer, slower: study
PARIS, France (AFP) — Earth’s days are getting longer but you’re not likely to notice any time soon — it would take about 6.7 million years to gain just one minute, according to a study published on Wednesday. Over the past 27 centuries, the average day has lengthened at a rate of about +1.8 milliseconds (ms) per century, a British research team concluded in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A. This was “significantly […]
