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by Jim Slater AUGUSTA, United States (AFP) — Four-time major winner Rory McIlroy and first-time Masters starter Jon Rahm, two of Europe’s top-rated golfers, play together for the first two rounds at Augusta National in pairings announced Tuesday. Northern Ireland’s McIlroy, trying to win a green jacket to complete a career grand slam, and Spaniard Rahm, fresh off a runner-up finish at the World Golf Championships Match Play in Austin, Texas, will join Japan’s Hideto […]
by Richard Ingham PARIS, France (AFP) — In a world bitterly divided into pro- and anti-Marmite factions, lovers of the tangy British spread have found support from an unexpected quarter: brain science. Experiments found that volunteers who ate a daily spoonful of the dark-brown yeast extract seemed to have higher levels of a vital neuron chemical associated with a healthy brain. The reason could lie in Marmite’s high levels of vitamin B12, the investigators say. […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday again lashed out at Inquirer and ABSCBN, saying they were corrupt media organizations that were “a bunch of” trash. “Kaya sinasabi ko dyan, sa Inquirer, wag kayo magbasa dyan. Basura yan….Just like ABSCBN. They’re all a bunch of (trash),” Duterte said, using a more forceful expletive to describe the media organizations during the inauguration of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority’s crisis center in Guadalupe, Makati. His statement drew […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) — Paris’s Eiffel Tower went black an hour earlier than usual in memory of the 14 victims of the St Petersburg attack on Tuesday (April 4). The lights went out at the monument just before midnight (2200GMT), echoing a similar tribute to the victims of the London stabbings last month. Previously the Eiffel Tower had been lit up in the colors of the French, German, Belgian and rainbow flags as a […]
by Kerry Sheridan MIAMI, United States (AFP) — As we age, our brain shrinks, but a select group of elders known as “super-agers” lose less brain volume than regular seniors, which may help them stay sharp, researchers said Tuesday. The findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association show that super-agers, 80 and older, have a significantly thicker brain cortex than people who are aging normally. The cortex is the largest part of the […]
by Gina Doggett / Adam Plowright PARIS, FRANCE (AFP) — French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron attacked far-right leader Marine Le Pen over her economic policy and plans to scrap the euro on Tuesday in an unprecedented debate between all 11 contenders ahead of this month’s election. The discussion was at times chaotic and dominated by the anti-capitalist and virulently anti-European Union smaller candidates who made their first major appearance ahead of the first round of the two-stage […]
Reuters –National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists gathered on Tuesday (April 4) to help usher in the final chapter of the spacecraft Cassini before it begins its “grand finale” on April 26 when it will descend to Saturn. The spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn since 2004, will make a series of dives through the 1,500-mile-wide (2,400-kilometer) gap between Saturn and its rings before crashing into the the solar system’s second largest planet. It will be the […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Microscopic molecular vehicles piloted by chemists and physicists will line up in the world’s first nano-car race in France this month — but don’t expect to see anything with the naked eye. Teams from France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, the United States and a joint Austrian-American group have qualified, but only four will get to compete on April 28-29, organisers of the race said Tuesday. Sponsored by France’s National Center for Scientific […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Global stock markets moved tentatively higher on Tuesday, with a narrower United States trade deficit boosting Wall Street modestly ahead of a key US-China summit later this week, dealers said. European markets sloughed off earlier weakness caused by the Saint Petersburg metro attack Monday, which left 14 dead, dozens wounded and had initially sent investors rushing for haven investments like gold and the yen. US stocks also finished higher […]
by Omar Haj Kadour KHAN SHEIKHUN, Syria (AFP) — A suspected chemical attack in rebel-held northwestern Syria killed dozens of civilians including children and left many more sick and gasping on Tuesday, causing international outrage. The attack on the town of Khan Sheikhun killed at least 58 civilians and saw dozens suffer respiratory problems and symptoms including vomiting, fainting and foaming at the mouth, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. Syria’s opposition […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Nuclear-armed North Korea on Wednesday fired a suspected missile into the Sea of Japan, South Korea’s defense ministry said. “North Korea fired an unidentified projectile into the Sea of Japan this morning from (the eastern port of) Sinpo,” the ministry said in a statement. If confirmed to be a missile, it would be the latest such launch by Pyongyang and will fuel international concerns about the isolated regime’s military ambitions. It […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The White House on Tuesday confirmed a “reprehensible” and “intolerable” chemical attack had taken place in Syria and pinned the blame squarely on Bashar al-Assad’s regime. White House spokesperson Sean Spicer said President Donald Trump had been briefed extensively on the attack, and suggested it was in the “best interest” of the Syrians for Assad not to lead the country. “Today’s chemical attack in Syria against innocent people, including women and […]
