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by Laurence COUSTAL Mariëtte Le Roux PARIS, France (AFP) — First postulated more than 230 years ago, black holes have been extensively researched, frequently depicted, even featured in sci-fi films. We’ve all seen the artists’ impressions and read of their ravenous star-gobbling feasts. But here’s the thing… science is still not 100 percent sure what they look like, how they behave or even that they exist. Telescopes have never seen a black hole, and the […]
by Benjamin CARLSON YULIN, China (AFP) — International groups and celebrities, backed by millions of foreign petitioners, have rallied against an annual dog meat festival in the Chinese city of Yulin: but the protests may have backfired, residents say, spurring more people to eat man’s best friend. “My store’s dog-meat sales are much higher than before, last year was up more than 50 percent,” the owner of Yulin Number One Crackling Dog Meat Shop told […]
North Korea held a meeting on Wednesday (June 15) in Pyongyang to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding International Taekwondo Federation (ITF). Video provided to Reuters by North Korea’s state news agency KCNA, which cannot be independently verified, showed ITF members were seen watching demonstration of taekwondo and attending a meeting. ITF’s president Ri Yong Son, vice president Leong Wai Meng, honorary President Chang Ung and Taekwondo instructors and coaches attended at the events, […]
by Jim SLATER CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — Golden State forward Draymond Green could only watch as his teammates missed a chance to capture the NBA Finals, but he’s back from a suspension and more motivated than ever. “I owe it to my teammates to come back and give all I have, all I can do to better the situation,” Green said Wednesday. “To come back and be a piece of that great team is […]
The forgetful blue fish who won hearts in Pixar’s blockbuster animation “Finding Nemo” is going on another journey, this time to find her own origin story. “Finding Dory,” out in U.S. theaters on Friday (June 17), picks up a year after the events of 2003’s “Finding Nemo,” and sees Dory, a chatty blue tang fish with short-term memory loss, living in the peaceful ocean habitat alongside Nemo the clownfish and his father Marlin. Dory, voiced […]
SHANGHAI, China (AFP) — The Magic Kingdom comes to the Middle Kingdom this week when Disney opens its first theme park in mainland China, betting the growing middle class will spend big on leisure despite a slowing economy. The $5.5 billion resort, which opens Thursday, features the world’s biggest Disney castle, its blue-topped spires rising above land once occupied by farms and small factories on the outskirts of commercial hub Shanghai. Disney is seeking to […]
by Daniel WOOLLS ORLANDO, United States (AFP) — President Barack Obama will come face to face with the heartbreaking aftermath of America’s deadliest mass shooting when he visits Orlando Thursday to comfort grieving families and thank emergency medical crews. Obama, traveling with Vice President Joe Biden, will offer his condolences to families of 49 people killed in Sunday’s shooting at a gay nightclub in the central Florida city. Another 53 people were wounded. The White […]
by Jean-Louis SANTINI WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A team of international scientists said Wednesday that they had detected gravitational waves — ripples in space and time, which Albert Einstein predicted a century ago — for the second time. Einstein predicted the existence of the waves in his theory of relativity a century ago, and scientists have been able to detect them with an instrument known as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO. The […]
CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — Pieces of the cabin from the missing EgyptAir plane which crashed into the Mediterranean last month have been found, Egyptian investigators said Wednesday. A French vessel taking part in the search discovered pieces of fuselage at “several sites”, the Egyptian board of inquiry said in a statement. The Airbus A320 which had been en route from Paris to Cairo disappeared on May 19, with the loss of all 66 people on […]
The main locations of wreckage from the EgyptAir jet that crashed in the eastern Mediterranean last month have been identified by a deep ocean search vessel, the Egyptian-led investigation committee said Wednesday (June 15). The John Lethbridge, a search boat contracted by the Egyptian government, is working against the clock to locate the “black boxes” that investigators say will help explain why Flight MS804 crashed on May 19, killing all 66 people on board. Signals […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] on Wednesday (June 16) offered a $50,000 reward for help in apprehending a serial killer suspected of 12 slayings and 45 rapes in California, in a 40-year-old cold case. The unidentified man, who would now be between ages 60 and 75 years old, carried out his attacks between 1976 and 1986 throughout California and is considered one of the state’s most prolific serial killers, according to the FBI. Officials […]
E3 is all about making a lot of exciting announcements but Japanese company Nintendo, which is one of the oldest video gaming companies, decided to focus on just one. The company dedicated a large area nicknamed the ‘Nintendo Treehouse: Live’ solely to “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’. Reggie Fils-Amie is the president and chief operating officer (COO) of Nintendo of America, who oversaw the company’s presence at E3. “So the Legend of […]
