June 2019

AlunaGeorge singer details sexual assault by industry figure

Image copyright Robin Marchant Image caption Francis called the music industry “an unmonitored, unregulated cesspit of bad behaviour” Aluna Francis has spoken for the first time about being sexually assaulted by someone in the music industry. She told BBC podcast, The Next Episode, the man forced his hands into her underwear, undressed and tried to […]

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Rising Temperatures Ravage the Himalayas, Rapidly Shrinking Its Glaciers

Climate change is “eating” the glaciers of the Himalayas, posing a grave threat to hundreds of millions of people who live downstream, a study based on 40 years of satellite data has shown. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, concluded that the glaciers have lost a foot and a half of ice

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Cassius’ Philippe Zdar dies in accidental fall

Image copyright Getty Images Philippe Cerboneschi (also known as “Zdar”), one half of of French dance duo Cassius, accidentally died in Paris on Wednesday, his agent has said. “He made an accidental fall, through the window of a high floor of a Parisian building,” said Sebastien Farran, without giving further details. Cerboneschi formed Cassius with

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APNewsBreak: Texas says Rapid DNA supplier jeopardizes cases

With a name that sounds like futuristic fiction, Rapid DNA machines roughly the size of an office printer have helped solve rape cases in Kentucky, identified California wildfire victims and verified family connections of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Now a state board in Texas has asked a growing government provider of the DNA equipment

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U.S. Navy Says Mine Fragments Point to Iran in Tanker Attack

Fragments recovered from one of two tankers crippled by explosions in the Gulf of Oman last week bear a “striking resemblance” to limpet mines that Iran has previously displayed, United States Navy officials told reporters on Wednesday in the United Arab Emirates. A Navy commander also said during the briefing that fingerprints and other information

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Can Europe Wean Itself From Fossil Fuels? Its Leaders Are About to Decide

Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. The countries of Europe, which together represent the world’s third-largest industrial emitter, are set to decide on Thursday whether they can leap to a future largely free of fossil fuels within the next 30 years. Leaders from all 28 countries

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