UNITED KINGDOM
Asparagine spreads cancer
Breast cancer patients could be encouraged to cut asparagus and other foods from their diets to reduce the risk of the disease spreading, scientists say. Researchers are investigating whether a change in diet could help patients with breast tumors after studies in mice showed that asparagine, a compound first identified in asparagus, but present in many other foods, drives the spread of the disease to other organs. When scientists reduced asparagine in animals with breast cancer, they found that the number of secondary tumors in other tissues fell dramatically. The spread of malignant cells is the main cause of death among patients who are diagnosed with breast cancer.
CHINA
Eight killed in cave-in
Eight people died and three were missing in Foshan after a water leak inside a subway station construction site caused a major road to cave in, authorities said yesterday. The sudden leak flooded the underground site and led to a road’s collapse on Wednesday night, the city government said in a statement. “A total of nine construction workers were rescued, and ... rescue and rehabilitation work is still underway,” the statement said. The collapsed area is as large as two basketball courts, the China Daily reported.
MEXICO
Tiger cub found in mail
Inspectors have found tigers in all sorts of situations — on leashes, in yards and wandering the streets, but the office for environmental protection announced a new twist on Wednesday: Someone tried to express-mail a tiger cub. The cub was sedated and packed into a plastic container. Nobody realized it was there until a sniffer dog looking for contraband detected it. The cub was mailed in the western state of Jalisco to an address in the central state of Queretaro. It was dehydrated, but otherwise well, and was handed over to an animal management center.
UNITED STATES
‘Starman’ to overshoot Mars
Elon Musk’s Tesla sports car and its dummy test pilot “Starman” were on a new course hurtling toward an asteroid belt on Wednesday after overshooting their planned trajectory. Just hours after Tuesday’s spectacular launch from Florida of the Falcon Heavy, the world’s most powerful rocket, the billionaire founder of SpaceX said Starman had been a little heavy on the gas and would travel well beyond the intended target of Mars. Originally, the Tesla Roadster had been intended to reach a heliocentric orbit roughly the same distance from the sun as Mars and orbit for 1 billion years. On its new trajectory, it is to take a months-long cruise through deep space before taking its chances in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
UNITED STATES
Dominatrix cop fired
A New Jersey sheriff’s officer has lost her job because she previously appeared in bondage films as a dominatrix. Hudson County Sheriff Frank Schillari told the Jersey Journal a hearing officer made the decision to fire Kristen Hyman on Wednesday and that he agreed with the decision. The department suspended her six days before her academy graduation last year, saying she failed to disclose that she appeared in the movies and sometimes saw clients privately for money. Hyman told investigators she never appeared naked and did not perform sex acts in the videos. A judge rescinded the suspension and Hyman was sworn in on June 8. She then went on paid administrative leave pending the hearing.
Republican US lawmakers on Friday criticized US President Joe Biden’s administration after sanctioned Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei unveiled a laptop this week powered by an Intel artificial intelligence (AI) chip. The US placed Huawei on a trade restriction list in 2019 for contravening Iran sanctions, part of a broader effort to hobble Beijing’s technological advances. Placement on the list means the company’s suppliers have to seek a special, difficult-to-obtain license before shipping to it. One such license, issued by then-US president Donald Trump’s administration, has allowed Intel to ship central processors to Huawei for use in laptops since 2020. China hardliners
Conjoined twins Lori and George Schappell, who pursued separate careers, interests and relationships during lives that defied medical expectations, died this month in Pennsylvania, funeral home officials said. They were 62. The twins, listed by Guinness World Records as the oldest living conjoined twins, died on April 7 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, obituaries posted by Leibensperger Funeral Homes of Hamburg said. The cause of death was not detailed. “When we were born, the doctors didn’t think we’d make 30, but we proved them wrong,” Lori said in an interview when they turned 50, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The
RAMPAGE: A Palestinian man was left dead after dozens of Israeli settlers searching for a missing 14-year-old boy stormed a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank US President Joe Biden on Friday said he expected Iran to attack Israel “sooner, rather than later” and warned Tehran not to proceed. Asked by reporters about his message to Iran, Biden simply said: “Don’t,” underscoring Washington’s commitment to defend Israel. “We are devoted to the defense of Israel. We will support Israel. We will help defend Israel and Iran will not succeed,” he said. Biden said he would not divulge secure information, but said his expectation was that an attack could come “sooner, rather than later.” Israel braced on Friday for an attack by Iran or its proxies as warnings grew of
A prominent Christian leader has allegedly been stabbed at the altar during a Mass yesterday in southwest Sydney. Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was saying Mass at Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley just after 7pm when a man approached him at the altar and allegedly stabbed toward his head multiple times. A live stream of the Mass shows the congregation swarm forward toward Emmanuel before it was cut off. The church leader gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic, amassing a large online following, Officers attached to Fairfield City police area command attended a location on Welcome Street, Wakeley following reports a number