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MERIGNAC, France (Reuters) — This aircraft has a very special mission. It allows its passengers to experience zero gravity – or weightlessness – the next best thing to being in the International Space Station. Passengers of the Zero-G plane, an Airbus A310, can experience zero gravity for over 20 seconds at a time when the plane leaps through the sky. Company Novespace runs the program with French space agency CNES, allowing researchers to study the […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — A Brazilian nursery school guard burned four toddlers and their teacher to death after spraying them with alcohol and setting them alight Thursday in an attack which horrified the nation. Dozens of people were also hurt in the blaze while the guard, who was reported to be mentally ill, died after succumbing to his own burn injuries. The tragedy occurred in a modest quarter of Janauba, a city of […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s public broadcaster has vowed to reform its working practices as it revealed that a young reporter died of heart failure after logging 159 hours of overtime in a month. NHK reporter Miwa Sado, 31, who had been covering political news in Tokyo, was found dead in her bed in July 2013, reportedly clutching her mobile phone. A year later, Japanese authorities said her death was linked to excessive overtime. She […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice has granted the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s motion to withdraw the tax evasion complaints against Mighty Corporation. This was after President Rodrigo Duterte said he had directed the BIR and the Department of Finance to accept the company’s P25-billion offer to settle its tax liabilities. In its two-page resolution, the DOJ noted that the National Internal Revenue Code “recognizes the authority of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Internal […]
(Eagle News) — Tinangay ng mga hindi pa kilalang mga suspek ang aabot sa higit P600,000 na mga gadget at mga personal na kagamitan, matapos na pagnakawan, basagin ang salamin ng limang kotse sa magkakahiwalay na lugar sa Quezon City nitong Huwebes ng gabi, Oktubre 4. Ilan sa mga nabiktima ay nakaparada lamang sa Scout Tobias, Mother Ignacia. Ilang minuto at oras lamang ang pagitan nang maisagawa ang pagnanakaw. Sa kwento ng mga may-ari ng […]
SUZUKA, Japan (AFP) — Sebastian Vettel posted the quickest time Friday in a crash-hit first free practice for the Japanese Grand Prix as Mercedes and Red Bull also showed impressive early pace. The German, who trails Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton by 34 points with five races left this season, steered his Ferrari to a fastest lap of one minute, 29.166 seconds in light drizzle at Suzuka. Hamilton clocked the next quickest time, 0.2 seconds behind […]
This video by Eagle News Service correspondent Ces Rodil shows the extent of destruction wrought in parts of Barangay Muzon, San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan after a water tank there burst around 3 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 6, leaving three dead and now over 40 injured. The steel sheets seen in the first part of the video are what was left of the tank that was operated by the San Jose del Monte Water District. […]
by Marianne Barriaux Agence France-Presse BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Asuncion Garcia sits on a bench in Barcelona anxiously reading a newspaper. She points to a graphic of the tumbling share price of CaixaBank, the biggest bank in Catalonia, a region which is threatening to split from Spain. “I have savings in CaixaBank, the little that I have saved up,” says the 68-year-old, originally from Leon in northwestern Spain but resident in Catalonia for over 50 years. She is […]
(Eagle News) — Authorities on Friday seized around P5 million worth of shabu from the house of Maasim, Sarangani Mayor Aniceto Lopez Jr. Chief Supt. Aaron Aquino, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency director, said they also found what appeared to be drug paraphernalia such as vials and a “green book,” during the 2 a.m. raid in Lopez’s house in Barangay Lumasal. The book specified drug transactions, among others. “Parang may maliit siyang shabu lab doon. Hindi […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The Madrid stock market rebounded Thursday as the Spanish government moved to block a move by Catalonia to declare independence, while Wall Street stocks surged once again to fresh records ahead of key US jobs data. The Spanish capital’s benchmark IBEX 35 shares index jumped 2.5 percent, largely offsetting the previous day’s 3.0-percent slump. Trade was more muted elsewhere in Europe, with Frankfurt dipping, while Paris and London posted […]
by Kerry Sheridan Agence France Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Traces of pesticides that act as nerve agents on bees have been found in 75 percent of honey worldwide, raising concern about the survival of these crucial crop pollinators, researchers said Thursday. Human health is not likely at risk from the concentrations detected in a global sampling of 198 types of honey, which were below what the European Union authorizes for human consumption, said […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The popular governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, Friday unveiled her policy platform to unseat Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, pledging to scrap nuclear power by 2030 and freeze a planned tax hike. Koike, who has shaken up the sleepy world of Japanese politics with her new Party of Hope, aims to distinguish herself from Abe with her vow to phase out nuclear power in Japan, still haunted by the 2011 Fukushima meltdown. […]
