July2016

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $150 million dollar loan for a comprehensive project to restore degraded ecosystems and improve water resource management in the flood-prone and polluted Qihe River Basin, which...

News Hour: Over 100 internally displaced persons (IDPs), community members from the East of Ukraine, and representatives of state authorities, the international community and civil society gathered on Thursday, 30 June, in Kyiv, to discuss needs...

News Hour: BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye are joining forces to make self-driving vehicles and future mobility concepts become a reality. The three leaders from the automotive, technology and computer vision and machine learning industries are...

News Hour: Panasonic Corporation announced that, it has started to provide HD-PLC IP core license with “Multi-hop” extension. Panasonic has already been providing an IP license for the HD-PLC high-speed power line communication. The new Multi-hop extension...

News Hour: NASA has awarded almost $10 million in grants to informal education organizations in seven states to help inspire the next generation of scientists and explorers. The organizations include two botanical gardens, five museums, one...

News Hour: France’s most famous contemporary poet, Yves Bonnefoy, died on Friday at the age of 93, local media reported. The author of more than 100 books translated into 30 languages was highly decorated in his native...

News Hour: Israeli air strikes hit four sites in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, causing damage but no injuries, a Hamas official said, after Palestinian militants fired a rocket that struck a building in southern Israel,...

News Hour: Sierra Leone’s deputy high commissioner has been snatched in Nigeria, government sources said on Friday, the first kidnapping of a diplomat from the west African country in more than half a century, reports BSS....

News Hour: Heavy rain unleashed a landslide on Friday that killed one person and left 20 others missing in China, state media said. The landslide hit early morning and buried 29 people in the village of Pianpo,...

News Hour: Tesla said on Thursday a driver was killed while using its “autopilot” self-driving mechanism on its Model S electric car, leading to a US federal safety investigation, reports BSS. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...