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PARIS – If you go by its website, Mars Kebab is the only fast-food restaurant in Paris that delivers sandwiches to the planet Mars. In the real world, Mars Kebab doesn’t exist, but that doesn’t keep it from having an excellent reputation on the web. Its promotional video has been viewed 105,000 times on YouTube, […]
THE ECONOMIC TIMES (India), AFP Worldcrunch BALASORE – India today test-fired its nuclear-capable strategic missile Agni-IV with a strike range of about 4000 kilometers (2,480 miles), reports The Economic Times. Flash: India test-fires its long range strategic missile Agni-IV from a test range off Odisha coast. — The Indian Express (@IndianExpress) September 19, 2012 The […]
KYODO NEWS, YOMIURI SHIMBUN, JIJI PRESS (Japan), BLOOMBERG Worldcrunch TOKYO – The Japanese government will abolish nuclear power in the 2030s under a new national energy policy. In the wake of last year’s Fukushima disaster, the government was forced to create a new national energy strategy, as the current policy, which calls for increased reliance […]
EL PAIS (Spain), ITWIRE, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD (Australia), THE GUARDIAN (UK), M.I.C. GADGET (HONG KONG), LIBERATION (France), MASHABLE (U.S.) Worldcrunch Apple has lost its magic, writes El Pais on Thursday. The Spanish daily asks what happened to the sparkle, where are the surprises with the release of the latest iPhone model? The much anticipated presentation […]
THE GUARDIAN (UK), LE FIGARO (France), WALL ST. JOURNAL (U.S.) Worldcrunch The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has risen to the top spot of the annual QS University World Rankings. Last year’s top two universities, Cambridge and Harvard, both lost out to the science and technology university, being bumped down to second and third place […]
LE MONDE (France), THENEXTWEB (USA) Worldcrunch A group called AntiSec, linked to international hacker movement Anonymous, claims that it has broken into an FBI computer to obtain the User IDs of 12 million Apple iPad and iPhone owners, which include private user data. Apple has declared that it has nothing to do with any collection […]
Since June, it is possible to witness the extent of deforestation, in quasi-real time, with just a few clicks. This is thanks to Terra-i, the first satellite deforestation detection and surveillance tool in Latin America. Presented at the Rio +20 conference, Terra-i is based on calculation algorithms bio-inspired and developed at the Vaud School of […]
For months, free smartphone instant messaging service WhatsApp has been topping the download charts. It is a favorite application for both iPhone and Android users. To the annoyance of cell phone providers, WhatsApp has become a kind of quasi replacement for the old fee-based SMS. According to WhatsApp developers, their servers handle over 10 billion […]
Women are just sex objects! Making a classic male sexist comment like that has long been taboo in Western societies. Yet two studies, one Belgian, the other American, actually go a long way in proving that women really are perceived that way. A team working with psychologist Philippe Bernard at the Université Libre in Brussels […]
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s largest mining company Vale has developed, in partnership with the University of São Paulo (USP), a method to identify bacteria and fungi capable of “eating” copper. What exactly does that mean and why does it matter? Now with this process, waste generated by copper processing — one of the steps […]
HAMBURG – Jan Heusinger’s day was always the same: wake up, shower, have breakfast – and then spend the rest of his hours playing computer games. Four years ago, when he was 14, he’d bought World of Warcraft, an online role-playing game. By 2011, he’d stopped attending school to spend his days as an Orc […]
She remembers her panic attacks at age six, whenever she lost sight of her mother at the supermarket. Later, to avoid getting lost on her way to high school, she was constantly accompanied. Andrea* is now 47-years-old and lives with her father in Vancouver, Canada. To go to work, she follows an itinerary that is […]
PALO ALTO – Daphne Koller has a grudge against school. As a child, Israeli-born Koller wanted to solve third degree equations and learn more about dancing, Ancient Greece and poetry. But like any other pupil, she had to follow the curriculum and adapt to the system. Her thirst for learning faced the limits of mainstream […]
Worldcrunch PARIS – Neil Armstrong has died at the age of 82. The American astronaut was not only the pride of the U.S. space program, he was the first earthling to touch the planet’s only moon. As such, the whole world — or at least its major press outlets — reacted largely in unison to […]
Los Angeles 12:53 PM: a steak topped with pieces of pineapple, three girls showing off their necklines, a black convertible sport car and a black mug shot in low-angle. São Paulo, 4:53 PM: a manicure seen close-up, a SpongeBob cup, a diamond tattooed on a thigh and three friends drinking champagne. Tokyo, 4:53 AM: a […]
ANALYSIS – The announcement by Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño at a press conference that Ecuador would grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum met with cries of approval and applause from assembled journalists. As always, whenever the government of Ecuador calls an official press conference, mostly only journalists close to the government are invited. The […]
JAKARTA GLOBE, ANTARA NEWS (Indonesia), AAP (Australia) Worldcrunch JAKARTA – A new Islamic social networking site will be launched in Indonesia in November, and will offer “better protection” for young Muslims from “harmful content” reports the Jakarta Globe. According to the Indonesian newspaper, the Beta version of the site is currently being tested by 1,000 […]
MOSCOW – They say that the most expensive lunch enjoyed by anyone in the world was when the head of Greenlight Capital, David Einhorn, spent ‘only’ $250,100 for the right to dine with Warren Buffet, who he had always admired. Nikolai Taishikhin, who lives in a small town on Russia’ border with Mongolia, didn’t quite […]
The athletic potential of a nation relies on several cultural, social, biological, genetic and environmental factors. These are hard to dissociate and their role only partly explain the current Jamaican hegemony. First let me remind you that dignity, tolerance and respect are the best values and must serve here as guidelines. Exposing the correlations between […]
NEW ZEALAND HERALD, TV ONE, RADIO NZ NEWS (New Zealand), THE AUSTRALIAN (Australia), ASSOCIATED PRESS (USA) AUCKLAND – A mass of small volcanic rocks nearly the size of Belgium has been discovered floating off the coast of New Zealand, reports the New Zealand Herald. The stretch of golf-ball-size pumice rocks was first spotted this week […]
BERLIN – Normally in Germany, there’s a waiting list procedure for organ transplants. The Deutsche Stiftung Organtransplantation (German Foundation for Organ Transplantation) coordinates the information about available organs from donors, and these organs are then allocated by the Netherlands-based Eurotransplant to seven central European member countries. In Germany, transplants take place at 50 transplant centers […]
NEW ZEALAND HERALD, 3 NEWS (New Zealand), BBC NEWS (UK), WALL STREET JOURNAL (USA) Worldcrunch WELLINGTON – Mount Tongariro erupted late Monday for the first time in nearly a century, reports the New Zealand Herald. Roads were closed, internal flights were disrupted and nearby residents were advised to stay indoors and disconnect water tanks, reports […]
THE COURIER MAIL, PERTH NOW, BRISBANE TIMES (Australia) Qantas has confirmed it has stood down a female captain from duties after she was suspected of drinking before a flight from Sydney to Brisbane last week, reports the Courier Mail. According to the Brisbane Times, the incident occurred as the Qantas aircraft was about to depart […]
ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS, NASA (USA) Worldcrunch PASADENA – The NASA Curiosity robotic exploration vehicle successfully landed on Mars early on Monday morning at 5:30 a.m. GMT, a historic event that prompted relief and excitement within the scientific community. The Curiosity rover will spend the next two years looking for traces of life on the red […]
REUTERS, RIA NOVOSTI, ROSCOSMOS (Russian Federation) Worldcrunch MOSCOW – Russia’s Proton rocket failed to bring two satellites into orbit after the launch late on Monday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said. Although the launch itself was a success (see video below), the rocket — carrying two multi-million […]
Now that scientists have uncovered the elusive Higgs boson particle, it’s time for them to move on to another piece of the puzzle: the mysterious substance that fills one quarter of the universe – dark matter.
CCTV (China), SIN CHEW DAILY (Malaysia), CHINA TIMES (Taiwan) Worldcrunch BEIJING – A Chinese television reporter looking into accusations that private hospitals were scamming patients with false (and costly) diagnoses applied an unusual undercover trick: he submitted tea as his urine sample. And as it turns out, the CCTV reporter is suffering from quite a […]
MASHABLE (USA), BBC NEWS, DAILY MAIL (UK) Worldcrunch The number of fake accounts on Facebook is roughly the size of Egypt’s population and larger than most of the world’s countries, reports Mashable: 83.09 million. The astonishing figure makes up 8.7% of all Facebook’s 995 million active viewers, says the Daily Mail. According to the London […]
DIE WELT (Germany) Worldcrunch HAMBURG – Penguins may look as if they’re wearing tuxedos, but they feel more comfortable in a sweater – when, that is, the sweater can protect them from the disastrous effects of oil slicks. Since February, German woman Angelika Regenstein has been knitting wooly jumpers for penguins and has developed a […]
THE NEW VISION (Uganda), CHANNELS TV (Nigeria), BBC (UK) Worldcrunch An outbreak of the Ebola virus has emerged in rural western Uganda. 19 cases of the deadly virus were reported at Kibaale Hospital on Tuesday morning, Uganda’s daily The New Vision reported. Fourteen people have died from the virus in the past three weeks, one […]
ITESPRESSO, LE POINT (France) Worldcrunch A column published on the New York Times’ website had the web abuzz on Sunday, reports French website ITespresso. It was revealed later in the day, after many people including journalists and college professors had retweeted the column, that the whole thing was a hoax. On Sunday, Bill Keller, former […]
A new study, co-signed by more than 20 international scientists, says the irreversible damage we are doing to the Earth’s ecosystems could lead to a brutal biological collapse – and the end of the world as we know it.
Although 80 percent of the population would like to see the end of nuclear power in Japan, electrical companies are gradually reopening their plants.
Satnav, infotainment systems equipped with internet access, web browsing, voice-controlled emailing and tweeting: car manufacturers are continuously finding new ways to divert drivers from the task at hand – driving.
Maybe you didn’t know that the cutting-edge jumbo jets we fly around the world are often filled with recycled used parts.
German authorities, like their counterparts elsewhere, have proven unable to protect certain businesses and individuals from cyber crimes. Now, more and more are taking digital justice into their own hands.
CAIXIN (China), EPOCH TIMES (USA) Worldcrunch BEIJING – Internet freedom in China has taken another blow this week. But by the very nature of the medium, every blow to digital access necessarily prompts a blowback. Caixin media reports that the latest attempt to clamp down was the joint announcement of an official “Notice as to […]
Swiss researchers have discovered that the more grey matter in your brain, the more generous you were likely to be, as individuals use the mental power to “overcome the natural selfishness of man.”
Is this the next David & Goliath battle against a pharmaceutical giant? A German man born with severe birth defects blames it on Duogynon, a drug that can still be bought in pharmacies. Thousands of other potential victims will be watching the Ber
LE MONDE (France), TORONTO STAR, RABBLE (Canada) Worldcrunch According to Canadian expert in copyright, Michael Geist, the European Commission is planning to implement the recently rejected provisions of ACTA with a clever little workaround: by applying the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). The Canadian publication Rabble reports that Canada and the European Union […]