That World's News

Visual Studio for Mac is now available to all

The Day one keynote from Microsoft’s Build 2017 conference is currently live and some much-awaited announcements have already started pouring. Developers rejoice, Visual Studio is finally out of preview and is officially available for download on Mac devices. The coding tool was first released in beta preview back in November of last year.

The IDE (Integrated Development Environment) has been made available on Mac about a couple later than its release on Windows earlier this year. This falls in the line with the company’s announcement for the release date, which had been set towards the end of April — to match with the conference. This release is aimed at making Microsoft’s developer tools easily accessible to all, without the restriction of any platform.

Visual Studio for Mac brings the developer productivity you love to the Mac. The experience has been meticulously crafted to optimize the developer workflow for the Mac.

This is the first time Microsoft’s flagship coding tool has made its way across and into Apple’s territory. The support for Visual Studio 2017 on MacOS has been made possible by leveraging and optimizing its cross-platform developer service Xamarin, which it acquired last year. This now allows developers to build apps on the platform without having to worry about switching workstations — between one that’s Windows or MacOS.

Talking about the release, Microsoft in a statement earlier stated,

Sporting a native user interface, Visual Studio for Mac integrates all of the tools you need to create, debug, test, and publish mobile and server applications without compromise, including state of the art APIs and UI designers for Android and iOS.

Much like the usual functionality of the IDE, the Mac version also brings along collaboration tools — for efficient code management via access to Git repositories, Xamarin’s advanced debugging and profiling tools, and build apps for any platform — MacOS, Android, iOS and Windows. And as announced on stage, all Azure cloud upgrades will also be made available to Visual Studio 2017 users across all platforms.

If you’re a Mac user and had already been running the preview build of Visual Studio 2017 then you will soon be able to upgrade your IDE to the general release candidate. And if not, then head over here to download the IDE right away — where Microsoft is offering a developer access to free, extended 60-day trial of Xamarin University. It includes live online classes on how to get coding with Visual Studio for Mac.

Common Painkillers a "heart attack risk"

A new study suggests there could be a link between taking high doses of common anti-inflammatory painkillers, such as ibuprofen and naproxen, and heart attacks.

The paper, published in The British Medical Journal, builds on a previous body of work that had linked these drugs to heart problems.

The research suggests the risk could be greatest in the first 30 days of use.

Scientists however say the findings are not clear cut. They claim that factors besides the pills could be involved.

In the study an international team of scientists analysed data from 446,763 people to try to understand when heart problems might arise.

They focused on people prescribed non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (such as ibuprofen, celecoxib and naproxen) by doctors rather than those who bought the painkillers over the counter.

After studying the data from Canada, Finland and the UK, researchers suggest that taking these painkillers to treat pain and inflammation could increase the risk of heart attacks even in the first week of use.

The risk was seen to be especially in the first month when people were taking high doses (for example more than 1200mg of ibuprofen a day) .Kevin McConway, emeritus professor of statistics at The Open University, said the paper revealed a possible relationships between Nsaid painkillers and heart attacks, but that more reasons could be involved.

Despite the large number of patients involved, some aspects do still remain pretty unclear.

It remains possible that the painkillers aren't actually the cause of the extra heart attacks.

An example given by the professor is that if someone was prescribed a high dose of a painkiller because of severe pain, and then had a heart attack the following week, it would be "pretty hard" to tell whether the heart attack had been caused by the painkiller or by the source of the pain that led to the purchase of these drugs.

It could even have been due to something entirely unrelated according to him.

For most people who have no heart conditions these findings may be of minimal importance, but for those at higher risk, perhaps they should consider carefully with their doctor if a high dose of painkillers would be appropriate for them under their individual circumstances.

South Korea's shy new President Moon hits the spotlight

Moon Jae-in, the candidate of the Democratic Party of Korea, takes a rest with his wife Kim Jung-sook at a mountain behind his private house in Seoul, South Korea.

South Korean human rights lawyer Moon Jae-in never felt comfortable being at the Blue House when he was a top aide to the president. He quit in 2004, a year into the job, and went on a long hike in the Himalayas.

Although he would return to the presidential office a month later, the liberal idealist, who once dreamed of opening a pro-bono law practice in a Korea reunified with the North, says he has always been uneasy in the limelight.

Now he has the eyes of 51 million South Koreans on him after exit polls projected that he won a Tuesday election to succeed the ousted Park Geun-hye as president.

Moon favors dialogue with North Korea to ease rising tension over its accelerating nuclear and missile programs. He also wants to reform powerful family-run conglomerates, such as Samsung and Hyundai, and boost fiscal spending to create jobs.

Recalling his life at the Blue House in 2003-2008, he said in his 2011 book "Destiny": "I always felt uncomfortable. I felt that the job was not suitable for me, as if I was wearing clothes that did not fit. I always thought 'I will go back to my place, a lawyer'."

A close confidant and a top aide to former liberal President Roh Moo-hyun, Moon said it was his old friend's apparent suicide in 2009 amid a bribery investigation into his family after his term in office ended, that drew him into electoral politics, and eventually a run for the highest office.

Moon was born on Jan. 24, 1953, during the Korean War, on Geoje island off the southern tip of the peninsula. His parents had fled from the North during the war, sailing for three days on the deck of a U.S. ship packed with refugees.

“I was thinking I wanted to finish my life there in Hungnam doing pro-bono service," he said in his book published in January, referring to his parents' hometown on North Korea's east coast.

"When peaceful reunification comes, the first thing I want to do is to take my 90-year-old mother and go to her hometown."

'NERDY STYLE'

As a law student in the 1970s, he was jailed twice during pro-democracy protests against the dictatorship of Park Chung-hee - father of Park Geun-hye - and his successor, Chun Doo-hwan.

He was released from jail after passing a state bar exam.

As a conscript in South Korea's special forces, Moon was part of mission that responded after North Korean troops murdered an American soldier with an axe in the demilitarized zone in 1976.

Moon joined Roh's law practice in Busan city in 1982, defending democracy and labor activists during the rule of authoritarian military presidents.

"Moon had a distinctively nerdy style, reviewing papers after papers quietly as he prepared for court cases," Seol Dong-il, who worked with Moon and Roh at the law firm, told Reuters.

"When workers sought advice from him, Moon used to sit down for hours to listen to them."

Moon cut short his trek in the Himalayas in 2004 when he read news in Nepal that parliament had passed an impeachment motion against Roh for allegedly violating election campaign laws.

He returned to join a team of lawyers who successfully argued Roh's case at the Constitutional Court, which overturned the motion.

GLASS OF SOJU

Moon helped Roh open the inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Park in 2004 and helped him prepare for a rare summit with then North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in 2007.

North Korea's official media have not mentioned Moon by name but said it was time to deal the conservatives a crushing election defeat so the two Koreas could put a period of confrontation behind them.

“We should end the history of North-South confrontation that has been continued by the puppet conservative group, and we as the same race should gather our strength to open a new era of independent reunification," the North's official Rodong Sinmun newspaper said on Monday.

On the campaign trail during 2004 parliamentary elections, a "very shy" Moon cut a "ridiculously awkward" figure, recalled former politician Choi Nak-jeong.

Moon himself entered politics in 2012, winning a parliamentary seat in Busan, Roh's old political base. Later that year, he ran for president, losing to Park by a slim margin.

Moon faulted Park Geun-hye for being walled off from the public, and has pledged to turn the Blue House into a "resting space for the people". He says he will work instead out of a 19-storey government building in central Seoul.

"I will be a president that can share a glass of soju with the public after work," he told reporters in April, referring to South Korea's vodka-like liquor.

Moon, a Catholic, is married with a son and a daughter.

EpiPens should work at least a while past expiration dates

EpiPen auto-injection epinephrine pens manufactured by Mylan NV pharmaceutical company for use by severe allergy sufferers are seen in Washington, U.S.

It’s worth a shot to use an expired EpiPen, if that’s all you have, a new study suggests.

SOURCE: Annals of Internal Medicine, online May 8, 2017.

For more than four years past their stamped expiration dates, the handheld injectors retained high-enough concentrations of epinephrine to in all likelihood prevent potentially fatal allergic reactions, the study found.

The manufacturer advises patients to replace the life-saving EpiPen devices annually. Worried that surging EpiPen prices make yearly replacement unaffordable for many families, pharmacist F. Lee Cantrell analyzed 40 expired EpiPens and EpiPen Juniors.

Cantrell, who directs the California Poison Control System in San Diego, found that the auto-injectors did lose potency over time. Even 50 months past expiration, however, the EpiPens retained 84 percent of epinephrine concentrations - enough to prevent anaphylactic shock, he said in a phone interview.

“In every pen we tested there was enough to give what would be considered a therapeutic dose,” said Cantrell, lead author of a letter published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

“If my kid’s having a life-threatening reaction, and I had no alternative, absolutely I would use it without hesitation,” he said. “I don’t think there’s a physician in the world who would rebut that.”

Dr. Kao-Ping Chua, a pediatrician and professor at the University of Chicago, agreed, though he stressed his belief that it is crucial to replace expired EpiPens with in-date ones.

At the same time, he joined Cantrell in calling on regulators and Mylan, the EpiPen manufacturer, to re-evaluate the product’s life span.

“I think the whole process of expiration dating in the United States needs to be revisited and potentially revised,” Cantrell said. “The results could be enormous cost savings to consumers.”

Mylan has filed an application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a new EpiPen formulation, which would extend the product’s shelf life, Julie Knell, Mylan’s senior director for global product communications, said in an email. She said she could not reveal anything more about the confidential application.

In September, Mylan CEO Heather Bresch told the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that the drug-maker hopes to offer an EpiPen with a 24-month shelf life within a year.

Mylan came under fire beginning last year for raising the price of a pair of EpiPens to more than $600 from $100 in 2008.

EpiPens currently expire 18 months after the date of manufacture. But a number of pharmacists have told Cantrell that they do not receive the devices until six months after they were manufactured, putting the injectors into patients’ hands with less than one year left until they need to be replaced.

In September, Mylan announced it had agreed to a $465 million settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over how the drug was classified for government buyers.

Patients’ out-of-pocket spending for EpiPens climbed 535 percent from 2007 to 2014, another recent study found. The number of annual EpiPen prescriptions nearly tripled during the same period.

The expiration dates stamped on EpiPens reflect “the final day, based on quality control tests, that a product has been determined to be safe and effective when stored under the conditions stated in the package insert,” Knell said. “Given the life-threatening nature of anaphylaxis, patients are encouraged to refill their EpiPen Auto-Injector upon expiration, approximately every 12 to 18 months.”

People with severe allergies to things like peanuts, shellfish, bees or penicillin might be prescribed EpiPens to keep on hand for emergencies. Untreated anaphylactic shock can be fatal because blood pressure can drop suddenly and airways can narrow, making breathing difficult.

For parents with high-deductible insurance or high copayments, the choice of whether to buy a $600 pack of EpiPens for an allergic child or food can be challenging and distressing, said Cantrell and Chua, who was not involved in the new study.

“All of this comes back to the price,” Chua said in a phone interview. “Why is Mylan putting us as patients into a position where we have to decide between doing the best thing for our children versus paying $600, which is money that can’t go towards rent?”

“I don’t think anyone should be relying on an expired EpiPen if they have a choice,” he said. But, he added: “If all you have is an expired EpiPen, and you need it, then use it. It’s better than nothing.”

SOURCE: Annals of Internal Medicine, online May 8, 2017.

Toshiba ups the ante in chip unit sale with attack on Western Digital

The logo of Toshiba is seen as a shareholder arrives at Toshiba's extraordinary shareholders meeting in Chiba.

Toshiba Corp (6502.T) has told Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) not to interfere in the sale of its prized chip unit, rejecting claims it has breached a joint venture contract and threatening legal action.

The clash between Toshiba and Western Digital - both its business partner and one of the bidders for the chip unit - risks delaying or even quashing an auction that the Japanese conglomerate is depending on to plug a $9 billion hole in its accounts.

Although the two companies jointly operate Toshiba's main semiconductor plant, Western Digital is not seen as a favored bidder for the world's second biggest NAND chip producer, having put in a much lower offer than other suitors, sources with knowledge of the matter, have said.

The U.S. firm has argued the Japanese company is violating their contract by transferring their joint venture's rights to the newly formed unit and has asked for exclusive negotiating rights. Chief Executive Steve Milligan is currently visiting Japan to press its case.

But in a May 3 letter sent by Toshiba's lawyers, the TVs-to-nuclear conglomerate disputed Western Digital' s argument and said it would pursue all available remedies if it saw continued interference in the sale process.

Western Digital's "campaign constitutes intentional interference with Toshiba's prospective economic advantage and current contracts. It is improper, and it must stop," the letter, which was seen by Reuters on Tuesday, said.

In a separate letter, also dated May 3, the general manager of Toshiba's legal affairs accused Western Digital of failing to sign some joint venture agreements.

If Western Digital refuses to sign by May 15, the chip unit would protect its intellectual property rights by suspending Western Digital employees' access to all of the unit's facilities, networks and databases, the letter said.

A Western Digital spokeswoman in Japan declined to make immediate comment.

For some analysts, Western Digital has the upper hand.

"From a commonsense standpoint, it's hard to buy Toshiba's argument that it doesn't need approval from its JV partner because it's almost a 50-50 joint venture," said Masahiko Ishino, an analyst at Tokai Tokyo Research Center.

SEEKING SUITABLE SUITORS

Toshiba believes that a consortium of U.S. private equity firm KKR & Co LP (KKR.N) and Japanese government-backed investors would be the most feasible solution, a source familiar with the matter said this week.

Such a sale could eventually allow the chip unit - which Toshiba values at at least 2 trillion yen ($17.6 billion)- to aim for an IPO and keep the technology in Japan, the source said.

KKR and state-backed Japan Innovation Network Corp are expected to submit a joint offer in the second round of bidding.

Other suitors are Taiwan-based Foxconn (2317.TW), U.S. chipmaker Broadcom Ltd (AVGO.O), which has partnered with private equity firm Silver Lake Partners LP, as well as South Korea's SK Hynix Inc (000660.KS).

But Western Digital has vehemently said it is opposed to a deal with Broadcom. Other suitors could also be blocked by the Japanese government which has vowed to prevent any deal that could allow the transfer of sensitive technologies and represent a risk to national security.

The source also said that Toshiba plans to report full-year results this month without an endorsement from its auditor - its second such earnings report - as disagreements over its books are unlikely to resolved.

The move puts the troubled Japanese conglomerate's bourse listing in further jeopardy, after it submitted twice-delayed third-quarter results without approval from PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata (PwC) last month.

Toshiba has been on the Tokyo stock exchange's supervision list since mid-March as it has failed to clear up concerns about its internal controls after a 2015 accounting scandal.

PwC has been questioning the numbers at nuclear unit Westinghouse - the root cause of Toshiba's current crisis - and is looking not only recent results, but also probing the books for the U.S. unit for the year through March 2016, sources have said.

($1 = 113.6300 yen)

Former Trump security aide was Russia blackmail risk

Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates testifies about potential Russian interference in the presidential election before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., U.S.

Former Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates said on Monday she warned the White House in January that then-national security adviser Michael Flynn had been compromised and could have been vulnerable to blackmail by Russia.

Yates testified at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing that focused primarily on Flynn, and did not shed much light on other aspects of investigations of allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election and whether there was collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign and Moscow.

Yates repeatedly declined to discuss details of the investigation in a public forum. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who also testified, said he stood by past assertions that he had not seen evidence of such collusion but also declined to comment on classified matters.

Yates briefly led the U.S. Justice Department until Trump fired her on Jan. 30 for declining to defend his travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries. She told White House counsel Don McGahn on Jan. 26, less than a week into Trump's presidency, that Flynn had not been telling the truth about his contacts with Russia's ambassador to Washington.

Making her first public statements about the issue, Yates said she feared Moscow could try to blackmail Flynn because it also knew he had not been truthful about conversations he had with Ambassador Sergei Kislyak about U.S. sanctions on Russia.

Flynn, a retired general once seen as a potential Trump vice president, has emerged as a central figure in the Russian probes. Russia has repeatedly denied any meddling in the election and the Trump administration denies allegations of collusion with Russia.

Yates told the hearing she had been concerned that "the national security adviser essentially could be blackmailed by the Russians."

"Logic would tell you that you don't want the national security adviser to be in a position where the Russians have leverage over him," she said.

Trump, who continued to praise Flynn, waited 18 days after Yates' warning before Flynn's forced resignation for failing to disclose the content of his talks with Kislyak and then misleading Vice President Mike Pence about the conversations.

Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates testifies about potential Russian interference in the presidential election before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., U.S.

Several Democratic senators questioned Trump's delay. Yates said that in her meetings, McGahn "demonstrated that he understood this was serious. .. If nothing was done, certainly that would be concerning."

During that section of the hearing, Clapper described as accurate a report in the Guardian newspaper that British intelligence officials became aware in late 2015 about suspicious interactions between Trump advisers and Russian agents, and that the information was passed on to U.S. intelligence agencies.

"Yes, it is (accurate), and it's also quite sensitive," Clapper said.

Yates was a holdover from the administration of President Barack Obama. Obama had warned Trump, then president-elect, not to give the post of national security adviser in his administration to Flynn just after the Republican's surprise victory in the Nov. 8 election, a former Obama aide said.

The warning, first reported by NBC News, came up during a discussion of White House personnel.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters Obama had communicated concerns about Flynn. It "shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, given that General Flynn had worked for President Obama, was an outspoken critic of President Obama's shortcomings," Spicer said.

Obama pushed Flynn out in 2014 from his job as director of the military's Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA.

CYBER ATTACKS

Congressional committees began investigating after U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered hacking of Democratic political groups to try to sway the election toward Trump.

The main investigations are being conducted by congressional Intelligence Committees, although Democrats have clamored for a special prosecutor or independent committee. They argue that congressional committees are too partisan to conduct credible probes.

After Monday's hearing, Trump took to Twitter to bash the media and deny any collusion.

"Director Clapper reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows- there is 'no evidence' of collusion w/ Russia and Trump," he said.

And in another tweet, the president seemed to denounce the hearings. "The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax, when will this taxpayer funded charade end?" he asked.

FBI Director James Comey testified in the House on March 20 that the agency was investigating potential links between Trump associates and Moscow's attempts to tilt the election.

Trump had also used Twitter before the hearing to insinuate that Yates had leaked information on Flynn to the media. Yates and Clapper both swore under oath that they had never leaked classified information.

Questioning on Monday often broke along party lines.

Some Republicans veered away from Russia to focus on issues such as whether the Obama administration had improperly revealed the names of Trump associates contained in surveillance records.

Senator John Cornyn, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, was one of a handful who grilled Yates about her objections to Trump’s travel ban.

Trump fired Yates after she defied the White House on the travel ban, a policy that Trump said would help protect Americans from Islamist militants.

Trump review of Wall Street rules to be done in stages: sources

U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order rolling back regulations from the 2010 Dodd-Frank law on Wall Street reform at the White House in Washington, U.S.

The U.S. government's review of a landmark 2010 financial reform law will not be complete by early June as originally targeted, and officials will now report findings piece-by-piece, with priority given to banking regulations, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday.

President Donald Trump has pledged to do a "big number" on the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law, which raised banks' capital requirements, restricted their ability to make speculative bets with customers' money and created consumer protections in the wake of the financial crisis.

In February, Trump ordered Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to review the law and report back within 120 days, saying his administration expected to be cutting large parts of it.

But the Treasury Department is still filling vacancies after the transition from the Obama administration and there are not enough officials to get the full review done by early June, three sources said.

A Treasury spokesperson dismissed the idea the report that would be broken up because the department is short-handed, saying the reach of the project could require several separate reports, as permitted under the executive order.

"Treasury has an entire team dedicated to reviewing the financial regulatory rules and will begin reporting our findings to the president in June," the department spokesperson said.

"Given the volume and scope of the issues we are reviewing that involve potential changes to the financial regulatory system, we are carefully considering the best options to begin rolling them out in the most effective and responsible manner," the spokesperson said.

The Treasury Department will first report back on what banking rules could be changed, including capital requirements, restrictions on leverage and speculative trading.

Examinations of capital markets, clearing houses and derivatives as well as the insurance and asset management industries and financial innovation and banking technology will come later, the sources said.

It could be several months until these other stages of the financial reform review are completed, some of the sources said.

The piecemeal approach could create challenges for some sectors if parts of the report are significantly delayed. The report has been highly anticipated, as it marks the new administration's most detailed foray into outlining what it wants to do with financial rules.

Trump previously has spoken only in broad terms about easing regulation surrounding lending.

Any efforts to rework existing regulations or craft new legislation will be a lengthy and contentious process, something that banking lobbyists have said will make any delay to the administration's initial findings costly for businesses eager for regulatory relief.

Former BlackRock Inc executive Craig Phillips is leading the administration's plan for financial deregulation. Alongside other Treasury officials, he is soliciting feedback from banking industry groups and executives for how banking policy should be shaped.

The change in the timing of the Treasury report comes after Trump ordered a separate review of some key planks of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

In April, Trump signed a pair of executive orders directing a review of two additional regulatory powers - orderly liquidation authority, which allows regulators to step in and wind down a failing financial institution, and systemic designation, in which certain large firms may be deemed critical to the overall health of the financial system, meriting stricter oversight.

The findings from those reviews are not expected until October.

Appeals court set to hear arguments on Trump's revised travel ban

A member of the Al Murisi family, Yemeni nationals who were denied entry into the U.S. last week because of the recent travel ban, shows the cancelled visa in their passport from their failed entry to reporters as they successfully arrive to be reunited with..

President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban on people entering the United States from six countries faces its latest legal test on Monday before a federal appeals court in Virginia.

The Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear an hour of oral arguments in the Trump administration's appeal of a March 16 ruling by Maryland-based federal judge Theodore Chuang.

His decision blocked part of a March 6 order that restricted entry for 90 days from Libya, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

The March order was Trump's second effort to craft travel restrictions. The first, issued on Jan. 27, led to chaos and protests at airports before being blocked by courts. The second order was intended to overcome the legal problems posed by the original ban, but was also blocked by judges before it could go into effect on March 16.

Another federal judge in Hawaii blocked the entry restrictions and part of the order that suspended entry of refugee applicants for 120 days. An appeal in that case will be considered by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on May 15.

The challengers in the Maryland case include six people, some of whom are U.S. citizens, who say the ban would prevent family members from entering the United States.

The lawsuit said that the order violates federal immigration law and a section of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment that prohibits government discrimination on the basis of religion.

The administration said in court papers that the claims are "speculative and not ripe" with none of them being able to show a "concrete, imminent injury" traceable to the order.

Government lawyers said the court should not base its findings on comments made by Trump during the 2016 election campaign about his intention to impose a so-called Muslim ban because those statements were made before he was sworn in as president on Jan. 20.

Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union, representing the challengers, said in court papers that Trump’s comments before the election cannot be ignored.

"President Trump publicly committed himself to an indefensible goal: banning Muslims from coming to the United States," the ACLU lawyers wrote.

Whatever the court rules, the case is likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court, which would make the final decision.

Macron has bigger fish to fry than Brexit

A British Union flag and an European Union flag are seen flying outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels

Negotiating Britain’s exit from the EU is bound to guzzle Emmanuel Macron’s time and energy once he takes over as President of France. But knitting the euro zone closer together will be the task that consumes his political capital. Punishing or pleasing the UK will be an outcome, not an objective.

The independent centrist’s pro-European stance is welcome for Germany. Still, the relationship between the two founding EU members needs work. Some of Macron’s ambitions, such as creating a euro zone budget and finance minister, may be less than palatable to Europe’s biggest economy. Macron said during a visit to Berlin in March that France must show it can reform itself and respect Europe’s fiscal rules as a way of regaining trust.

The more effort Macron spends on strengthening Europe, the less there may be to deal with Britain. A key adviser to the incoming president said on Monday that no one had an interest in severing ties with the UK. That is not the same as taking an active role in ensuring future ties benefit both sides. Macron is more likely to deploy his credit by creating a Europe that works for France than using it to deliberately make Britain’s life easier or harder.

There is one thing Theresa May, his counterpart in Britain, has cause to worry about. Macron, as a former banker, may have a sense of what it takes to attract financial institutions. If French labour laws are reformed or red tape and corporate taxes cut enough to make Paris more appealing as a capitalist Mecca, London could have a problem. On the other hand, a more dynamic French economy is good news for the British one too. Macron will help shape Brexit but may not spend much time worrying about how.

Emmanuel Macron labelled 'a gay psychopath who hates France' in Russian media

Emmanuel Macron becomes the youngest French President in the history of the republic

Russian media has described the new President of France, Emmanuel Macron, as a gay psychopath who hates his country.

An article in Komsomolskaya Pravda, a Russian tabloid newspaper, refers to a picture of a topless Mr Macron as he poses for a magazine with the title “coming out”.

The piece then later goes on to call Mr Macron a psychopath and suggest that he does not love France and instead only loves himself.

In reference to the picture, the article reads: “For gays, this expression means 'out of the shadows', to recognise you’re gay too”.

The article also cites a psychiatrist, Adriano Sagatori, who claimed to have studied the biography of the French President.

He described Mr Macron as a1 psychopath who he said would not fight for the French people.

“Like all psychopaths, he believes in his higher purpose. Macron does not love France and will not fight for the French people.

“Macron loves only himself and he will fight to defend their fragile identity," KP claimed in its article.

The piece also goes on to say that the word psychopath is not an insult and adds that the French deserve Mr Macron.

“They, [the French], have to go through globalist hell. They do not deserve democracy, paid for the lives of millions of Soviet soldiers,” it says.

This is not the first time Russian media has chosen to attack Mr Macron and question his sexuality.

Sputnik, a Russian government-controlled news agency, previously claimed Mr Macron was “secretly gay and living a ‘double life' while backed by a “very wealthy gay lobby.”

There have also been accusations, that cite intelligence sources, that suggest Russia targeted Mr Macron in an online campaign. Disobedient Media, which was founded in California by the right-wing journalist William Craddick, attributed the claims to “leaked documents” when it first reported them.

Nicolas Vanderbiest, a commentator for France Culture, tweeted: “So the fake news story on Macron’s account in the Bahamas, we can say without being misleading, that it was by the Russians.”

En Marche, Mr Macron's party's, digital chief Mounir Mahjoubi, also claimed it had been targeted by Russia-linked hackers.

Code within a cache of up to 9GB of data and documents were posted on an anonymous filesharing website and was partly written in Russian after there was a leak of emails from Mr Macron’s campaign team.

Analysts believe it may have been orchestrated by the same group responsible for the Democratic National Committee leak.

In the French election Mr Macron comprehensively beat Marine Le Pen of the hard-right Front National.

He successfully secured 65 per cent of valid votes cast compared with only 35 per cent for his opponent.

At the age of 39, Mr Macron is now the youngest President in the Republic’s history.

EPA dismisses climate change scientists 'to replace them with industry reps'

'The administrator believes we should have people on this board who understand the impact of regulations on the regulated community'

The Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed at least five members of a major scientific review board, the latest signal of what critics call a campaign by the Trump administration to shrink the agency’s regulatory reach by reducing the role of academic research.

A spokesman for the EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, said he would consider replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate, as part of the wide net it plans to cast. “The administrator believes we should have people on this board who understand the impact of regulations on the regulated community,” said the spokesman, JP Freire.

The dismissals on Friday came about six weeks after the House passed a bill aimed at changing the composition of another EPA scientific review board to include more representation from the corporate world.

President Donald Trump has directed Pruitt to radically remake the EPA, pushing for deep cuts in its budget — including a 40 per cent reduction for its main scientific branch — and instructing him to roll back major Obama-era regulations on climate change and clean water protection. In recent weeks, the agency has removed some scientific data on climate change from its websites, and Pruitt has publicly questioned the established science of human-caused climate change.

In his first outings as EPA administrator, Pruitt has made a point of visiting coal mines and pledging that his agency will seek to restore that industry, even though many members of both of the EPA’s scientific advisory boards have historically recommended stringent constraints on coal pollution to combat climate change.

Freire said the agency wanted “to take as inclusive an approach to regulation as possible.”

“We want to expand the pool of applicants,” for the scientific board, he said, “to as broad a range as possible, to include universities that aren’t typically represented and issues that aren’t typically represented.”

Science advocates denounced the move as part of a broader push by the EPA to downgrade science and elevate business interests.
“This is completely part of a multifaceted effort to get science out of the way of a deregulation agenda,” said Ken Kimmell, the president of the Union of Concerned Scientists. “What seems to be premature removals of members of this Board of Science Counselors when the board has come out in favor of the EPA strengthening its climate science, plus the severe cuts to research and development — you have to see all these things as interconnected.”

The scientists dismissed from the 18-member Board of Scientific Counselors received emails from an agency official informing them that their three-year terms had expired and would not be renewed. That was contrary, the scientists said, to what they had been told by officials at the agency in January, just before Trump’s inauguration.

“Most of us on the council are academic people,” said Ponisseril Somasundaran, a chemist at Columbia University who focuses on managing hazardous waste. “I think they want to bring in business and industry people.”

Courtney Flint, a professor of natural resource sociology at Utah State University who has served on the board since 2014, said she was surprised by the dismissal.

“I believe this is political,” said Flint, whose research focuses on how communities respond to major disruptions in the environment, such as exposure to toxic pollution, forest fires and climate change. “It’s unexpected. It’s a red flag.”

Pruitt arrives at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (Getty)

Another of the dismissed scientists made his grievances public. “Today, I was Trumped,” Robert Richardson, an environmental economist at Michigan State University, wrote on Twitter. “I have had the pleasure of serving on the EPA Board of Scientific Counselors, and my appointment was terminated today.”

The board is charged with reviewing and evaluating the research conducted by the agency’s scientists. Those studies are used by government regulators to draft rules and restrictions on everything from hazardous waste dumped in water to the emissions of carbon dioxide that contribute to climate change.

Members of the board say they have reviewed the EPA’s scientific research on the public health impact of leaking underground fuel tanks, the toxicity of the chemicals used to clean up oil spills, and the effects of the spread of bark beetles caused by a warming climate.

A larger, corresponding panel, the 47-member Science Advisory Board, advises the agency on what areas it should conduct research in and evaluates the scientific integrity of some of its regulations.

Both boards, which until now have been composed almost entirely of academic research scientists, have long been targets of political attacks. Congressional Republicans and industry groups have sought to either change their composition or weaken their influence on the environmental regulatory process.

Belgium just banned kosher and halal slaughter in its biggest territory

Both Jewish kosher and Islamic halal rituals require the butcher to swiftly slaughter the animal by slitting its throat and draining its blood - Getty Images

European Jewish Congress condemns decision as 'the greatest assault on Jewish religious rights in Belgium since the Nazi occupation of the country in World War II'

Belgium's Wallooon region has voted to ban kosher and halal meats by outlawing the slaughter of unstunned animals.

The environment committee of southern Belgium's Walloon Parliament voted unanimously for the ban, which will take effect on 1 September, 2019.

Both Jewish kosher and Islamic halal rituals require the butcher to swiftly slaughter the animal by slitting its throat and draining its blood, a process condemned by animal rights campaigners, who argue it is more humane to stun animals before killing them.

Similar legislation has been proposed by the parliament in the northern Flemish region.

The European Jewish Congress has strongly condemned the decision, calling it "scandalous".

“This decision, in the heart of Western Europe and the centre of the European Union, sends a terrible message to Jewish communities throughout our continent that Jews are unwanted," EJC president Moshe Kantor said.

"It attacks the very core of our culture and religious practice and our status as equal citizens with equal rights in a democratic society. It gives succour to antisemites and to those intolerant of other communities and faiths."

He added: “We call on legislators to step back from the brink of the greatest assault on Jewish religious rights in Belgium since the Nazi occupation of the country in World War II."

A ban on the slaughter of animals without stunning will come into effect in January 2019 in the Flemish region of Belgium, the De Morgen daily newspaper reports.

Belgium's Muslim community said its religious council has previously expressed its opposition to stunned slaughter and there had been no change in its stance since then.

"Muslims are worried about whether they can eat halal food ... in conformity with their religious rites and beliefs," the Belgian Muslim Executive said.

Countries including Denmark, Switzerland and New Zealand already prohibit unstunned slaughter.

France's new president Emmanuel Macron never held elected office

Emmanuel Macron, winner of France's presidential election, says he will fight "the divisions" in the country after a campaign that laid bare the "anger, anxiety and doubts" of many voters.

The former investment banker and economy minister easily beat off a challenge from anti-immigration nationalist Marine Le Pen.

Emmanuel Macron becomes France's youngest president, after the 39-year-old former investment banker and economy minister defeated anti-immigration nationalist Marine Le Pen in Sunday's presidential runoff.

Macron's precocious achievement erases a record held since 1848 by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte — Napoleon’s nephew. He won the French presidency at age 40.

Macron has never held elected office.

France's 25th president is a business-friendly centrist who emerged from relative obscurity only a year ago, when he launched an independent political movement called En Marche! that promised to break with decades of French political tradition and rule neither from the left nor right.

He quit incumbent President François Hollande's Socialist government to run for office as an independent after Hollande decided not to seek a second term.

Macron's victory represents a forceful repudiation of a European backlash against Muslim immigration and unity across the continent, both threatened by Le Pen, who favored letting France leave the 28-nation European Union.

He is a charismatic and confident speaker who is married to a former high school teacher who is 20 years older than he is.

"The task ahead will be difficult but I will always tell you the truth. I will protect you against threats," Macron said in a victory speech to supporters outside the Louvre museum in Paris. "I want to unite our people and our country. I will serve you with humility and force in the name of liberté, égalité, fraternité."

Macron has promised to invest in public health and infrastructure, cut corporate tax rates and modernize workplace rules in a country that cherishes its time off. The "Macron Law" is a bill he introduced as economy minister — an appointed position — that allowed more stores to open on Sundays.

During his time working for Hollande, Macron attempted to shake off negative perceptions of France as a place to do business.

"In France, we have always (been) afraid and upset by the positive destruction of past jobs," Macron told USA TODAY in 2015 ahead of a trip to the United States to promote his country as a destination for technology startups. "Really, creation and innovation are part of the French DNA."

"The surge of support for Emmanuel Macron shows that liberal, pro-EU centrists may yet have a future in European politics. This would be good for the EU," said Charles Grant, director of the Center for European Reform, a think tank.

In a last-minute endorsement, former U.S. president Barack Obama publicly announced he favors Macron, saying in a video that he was "not planning to get involved in many elections now that I don’t have to run for office but the French election is very important to the future of France and the values that we care so much about."

Obama said he supported Macron because he appealed to "people’s hopes and not their fears."

In his speech to supporters Sunday, Macron promised to unify the country "with love."

But Macron remains untested on security in a country that has seen a series of terrorist attacks in recent years. And he may struggle to implement his ideas unless his party wins many seats in the June parliamentary elections.

"With a new party, he doesn't have a party machine, he doesn't have any party funding yet, and he has a mountain to climb in selecting 577 candidates to challenge sitting parliamentarians in the National Assembly," said Francoise Boucek, a French-born political expert at Queen Mary University of London.

Macron is also not technically France's youngest-ever ruler. King Louis XIV was just 4 years old when he started to rule France in 1643.

Sanders defends Trump's praise of Australian healthcare system

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders speaks at a Our Revolution rally in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., March 31, 2017.

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders said on Saturday that President Donald Trump was right to call Australia's universal healthcare system better than the U.S. system.Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination last year, also said the Senate should use the Australian system as a model while crafting an alternative to Republican healthcare legislation that Trump endorses.

"President Trump is right. The Australian healthcare system provides healthcare to all of its people at a fraction of the cost than we do," Sanders commented on Twitter.

The tweet was accompanied by a short video that set out the virtues of Australia's universal healthcare system, saying it guarantees better service to all Australians at about half the cost of U.S. healthcare. The video also noted that Australians can expect to live longer than Americans, on average.

Sanders' tweet came two days after Trump told Australian Prime Minister Brian Trumbull in New York: "You have better healthcare than we do."

The president's comment raised eyebrows, coming just after the U.S. House of Representatives had approved a Trump-backed bill that would overturn much of former President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law and move the U.S. system further away from universal coverage.

The White House later said Trump was simply being nice to an ally and does not think the United States should adopt Australia's healthcare approach.

The healthcare legislation that Trump endorses would pare back insurance protections for the sick, and, according to nonpartisan congressional researchers, would lead to 24 million more Americans being without health coverage by 2026.

But the bill's approval in the House on Thursday sent the legislation to the Senate, where it has little support.

"We will take this pathetic healthcare bill, throw it in the garbage can and do something that will work for ordinary Americans instead," Sanders said in a second Saturday tweet.

A Vermont independent, Sanders has become more influential in the Senate since 2016, when he took his long-shot presidential bid and turned it into a political movement against inequality.

Child born with three legs going home after surgery in Australia

A Bangladeshi child born with a third leg attached to her pelvis is returning home after a successful surgery in Australia.

Choity Khatun, aged three, was born with caudal twinning, meaning that part of a twin had developed in her pelvis.

Australian surgeons spent months figuring out how to remove the additional limb and reconstruct her pelvic area.

The charity Children First Foundation helped bring Choity from her Bangladeshi village into Australia.

Head of surgery at Monash Children's Hospital in the state of Victoria, Dr Chris Kimber, said Choity's case was very rare and the surgery had been "daunting".

The operation is sort of determined by the individual and you have to spend a lot of time trying to analyse what's there and then plan a procedure that takes that into account

He told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

The Australian team held considerable discussions with doctors in Bangladesh, who had already performed some surgery.

The team had to decide whether further surgery was even possible or beneficial before she was brought to Australia last year.
Doctors in Bangladesh had removed part of the leg "but she was still left with a large mass sitting there in her pelvis between her two normal legs", Dr Kimber said.

Because there's part of a twin in there, she had two rectums, two vaginas, potentially two anuses - double bits that were growing into a very abnormal area.

After a long planning process, the team commenced the surgery in November.

They removed what was left of the leg and carried out reconstruction work to ensure that little Choity was continent.

Dr Kimber said the child, who is partially blind, was now walking and running around, and had put on weight.

He said she might need further corrective surgery during her teenage years but would be able to return home to Bangladesh with her mother "without medication or surgical aids".

Her mother, Shima Khatun, told Australian media on Thursday that she was looking forward to going home to her family and watch her daughter play.

Everything is good now… she can play like other babies… she is the same [as them]

France bans skinny models

France has passed a new law banning extremely thing models from the catwalk.

From now on models must provide a doctor's certificate indicating their overall physical health, with special attention given to their body mass index (BMI) - a measure of weight in relation to height.

The health ministry says the aim is to fight eating disorders and unrealistic ideals of beauty.

Photos that are digitally altered will also have to be labelled from 1 October.

Pictures where models' appearances have been manipulated will need to be marked photographie retouchée (English: retouched photograph).

A previous version of the bill included a minimum BMI for models, prompting protests from French modelling agencies.

But the final version, backed by the National Assembly, allows doctors to decide whether a model is too thin by taking into account their weight, age, and body shape.

Employers breaking the law could face fines of up to 75,000 euros and up to six months in jail.

Exposing young people to normative and unrealistic images of bodies leads to a sense of self-depreciation and poor self-esteem that can impact health-related behaviour

Said France's Minister of Social Affairs and Health, Marisol Touraine, in a statement on Friday.

France is not the first country to legislate on underweight models - Italy, Spain and Israel have all taken similar steps previously.

Anorexia affects between 30,000 to 40,000 people in France, 90% of whom are women.

PM Theresa May boosted by Conservative gains ahead of key parliamentary vote

Brithis prime minister theresa may has called for a snap legislative to be held next month

British Prime Minister Theresa May has called for a snap legislative election to be held next month.

British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives made sweeping gains Friday in local elections, handing her a big boost going into next month's Brexit-dominated parliamentary vote.

Final results showed the ruling centre-right party gaining ground across the country, with the main opposition Labour party taking a pounding and Brexit cheerleaders UKIP all but wiped out.

Despite the thumping victory, May said there was no room for complacency ahead of the June 8 general election and the negotiations that follow on Britain's withdrawal from the European Union.

"It's encouraging that we've won support across the whole of the UK but I will not take anything for granted," she said, "because there is too much at stake".

"This is not about who wins and who loses in the local elections: it is about continuing to fight for the best Brexit deal.

"Despite the evident will of the British people, we have bureaucrats in Europe who are questioning our resolve to get the right deal."

On the eve of the vote, May lashed out at Brussels over the Brexit talks, accusing officials of hardening their position to affect the outcome of next month's election.

Eric Kaufmann, a politics professor at the University of London, said her tough stance seemed to be paying dividends with a realignment towards her party.

"The Conservatives have managed to pull in people who voted Leave (in last year's EU membership referendum) while retaining Remainers," he told AFP.

After votes were counted in all 88 local authorities being contested, the Conservatives had made a net gain of 558 seats to 1,900.

Labour lost 320 to end up with 1,151 -- prompting leader Jeremy Corbyn to acknowledge that winning next month's general election would be a "challenge on a historic scale".

Brexit party UKIP flattened

The smaller, centrist Liberal Democrats, who had been hoping to soak up anti-Brexit votes with their pro-EU stance, failed to make their hoped-for gains, losing 37 seats to end up with 441.

And it was a disastrous day for the anti-EU, anti-immigration UK Independence Party, which lost all 114 seats it was defending, and won only one new one.

UKIP's vote was "bleeding off to the Conservatives", Kaufmann said -- an analysis shared by party leader Paul Nuttall.

He said it had fallen "victim to its own success".

The result spells bad news for Nuttall's hopes to secure a seat in parliament next month.

But he said: "If the price of Britain leaving the EU is a Tory advance after taking up this patriotic cause, then it is a price UKIP is prepared to pay."

The Scottish National Party, which is seeking another referendum on seceding from the UK on the back of Brexit, won 31 seats to end up with 431.

The party's success in Glasgow forced Labour out of power in the city for the first time in almost 40 years.

Across Scotland, the Conservatives had the biggest gains, up 164 seats to 276 -- pointing to a revival for the party which has only one MP north of the border.

As expected, Labour won mayoral races in Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle, but they were beaten in the West Midlands race, centred on Birmingham.

There, the Conservatives' Andy Street, formerly the director of upmarket department store chain John Lewis, claimed a narrow win.

Labour's historic challenge

Corbyn said he was "disappointed" that Labour had lost "too many" councillors, but said the party was "closing the gap on the Conservatives".

"We have five weeks to win the general election so we can fundamentally transform Britain," he said.

"We know this is no small task -- it is a challenge on an historic scale. But we, the whole Labour movement and the British people, can't afford not to seize our moment."

Labour has been languishing more than 20 points behind the Conservatives in national opinion polls, and has been damaged by deep divisions over Corbyn's left-wing leadership and its approach to Brexit.

Elsewhere on Thursday, Dave Rowntree, the drummer from pop group Blur, was elected to Norfolk County Council in eastern England, representing Labour.

One seat in Northumberland, northeast England, had to be decided by drawing straws, following a tie.

Polls open overseas in final round of French presidential election

Voting in france presidential election 2017

French overseas territories and French citizens living abroad begin voting Saturday in the final round of the French presidential election, facing a choice between centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.

France’s official campaigning period ended Friday night at midnight Paris time, signaling the start of a French media blackout on election coverage. French law bans reporting on either candidate until polls close at 8pm Sunday.

Voting starts in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon off the coast of Canada at noon Paris time and one hour later in French Guiana, in South America. The 1.3 million French citizens living abroad also begin voting Saturday. Voting in metropolitan France begins Sunday at 8am.

Officials have made several changes to voting regulations to adjust to the state of emergency in force in France since attacks in Paris that killed 130 people in November 2015. Polls will remain open until 7pm in France Sunday — one hour later than during previous presidential elections — and until 8pm in some large cities. Security has been reinforced following an April 20 attack on Paris’s Champs-Élysées boulevard that killed one police officer.

French mayors have faced a challenge finding enough people to count votes Sunday. Vote counters usually come from France’s two major parties, the Socialists and Les Républicains. But with neither party having made it to the final round, some mayors have been forced to hire city officials for the job.

Scientists cured HIV in living animals

For the first time scientists have been able to eliminate HIV from the issue of living animals.

The virus from the tissue of a group of mice (which had been transplanted with human cells that were infected with HIV) was completely eliminated by a team of researchers at Lewis Katz School of Medicine, part of Temple University.

The next stage would be to repeat the study in primates

Said co-senior study investigator Kamel Khalili.

He has also indicated that the eventual goal will be clinical trials on human patients.The researchers claim this is a world first, saying that to their knowledge, this study is the first to demonstrate the effective excision of HIV-1 proviral DNA from the host genome in pre-clinical animal models [using this method].
Dr Wenhui Hu, of Temple University, said the new study built on earlier research but was “more comprehensive”.

We confirmed the data from our previous work and have improved the efficiency of our gene-editing strategy.

We also show that the strategy is effective in two additional mouse models, one representing acute infection in mouse cells and the other representing chronic, or latent, infection in human cells.

The virus is known for killing the cells it infects, leaving the host open to various new infections, that while harmless to an average healthy individual, could prove deadly to an HIV infected patient.

Zuckerberg thinks Facebook was ‘late’ to competing with Snapchat, is now ‘ahead’

Mark Zuckerberg believes Facebook has leapfrogged Snapchat in the race to provide visual communication thanks to the launch of Facebook’s augmented reality Camera Effects platform.

On today’s strong earnings call after Facebook beat estimates in Q1 2017, Zuckerberg said (emphasis mine):

I think we were a little bit late to the trend initially around making cameras the center of how sharing works. But I do think at this point we’re pretty much ahead in terms of the technology that we’re building, and making an open platform I think is a big step forward. A lot of people are using these products across our family of apps. And I would expect us to continue leading the way forward on this from this point on.

Meanwhile, when asked about monetizing augmented reality, Zuckerberg described how he imagines that one day you’ll be able to point the Facebook app’s camera at an object, the app will recognize what it is and you could then see a Buy button pop up. For now, though, Facebook isn’t allowing any unauthorized advertising, logos, branding or commerce experiences on its AR platform.

Facebook’s AR Studio tools allows outside developers to build augmented reality experiences for Facebook’s platform

Zuckerberg’s comments today mesh with what he told TechCrunch in an interview ahead of Facebook’s F8 conference last month. In response to criticism about copying Snapchat, Zuckerberg said, “I guess I’m not that worried about that . . . The first chapter that made sense was to release products that people were familiar with . . . but the unique thing that we’re going to do is we’re not just going to build basic cameras, we’re going to build the first mainstream augmented reality platform.”

This platform means Facebook will enlist the help of outside developers to build AR content for users, rather than trying to build them all alone. This contrasts with Snapchat’s anti-developer attitude that could force it to try to build the breadth of AR by itself. The platform could let Facebook offer thousands of different AR selfie filters, make-believe objects and interactive experiences while Snapchat currently only shows around 20.

Snapchat’s pioneering approach to visual communication and its curated set of AR selfie filters gave it a big lead over Facebook. But with its massive headcount, steady profits and history with developers, Facebook has closed the gap. Now as the battle rages on to fill the vast physical world with augmented reality, Facebook’s heft and outside help could give it the advantage.

That World's News

Labels

USA Politics

Breaking News

Visual Studio for Mac is now available to all

Common Painkillers a "heart attack risk"

South Korea's shy new President Moon hits the spotlight

EpiPens should work at least a while past expiration dates

Toshiba ups the ante in chip unit sale with attack on Western Digital

Former Trump security aide was Russia blackmail risk

Trump review of Wall Street rules to be done in stages: sources

Appeals court set to hear arguments on Trump's revised travel ban

Macron has bigger fish to fry than Brexit

Emmanuel Macron labelled 'a gay psychopath who hates France' in Russian media

EPA dismisses climate change scientists 'to replace them with industry reps'

Belgium just banned kosher and halal slaughter in its biggest territory

France's new president Emmanuel Macron never held elected office

Sanders defends Trump's praise of Australian healthcare system

Child born with three legs going home after surgery in Australia

France bans skinny models

PM Theresa May boosted by Conservative gains ahead of key parliamentary vote

Polls open overseas in final round of French presidential election

Scientists cured HIV in living animals

Zuckerberg thinks Facebook was ‘late’ to competing with Snapchat, is now ‘ahead’

That World's News

That World's News

Contact Form

Labels