The future of mass transportation could make its debut in the 250-mile journey between Helsinki and Stockholm using Hyperloop, developers of the transonic transport system say. What would normally entail a 3½-hour plane ride could be accomplished on Hyperloop in less than 30 minutes.The 760mph vacuum tube transportation—first envisioned by U.S....
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Rick Nelson, 61 from Ontario, Canada, relied on his boxing skills for helping him fight off a 320-lb. (145kg) black bear while walking his dog recently, BBCNews reported.Nelson was minding his own business when a bear cub poked its head out of a shrub. Moments later, the report said, the cub’s mother charged out of the bushes and attacked Nelson ...The mother bear, reportedly walked away with a bloody nose....
A "life-size replica" of Noah's Ark will open Thursday in Williamstown, Kentucky, according to WXIX. Read more trending stories. The seven story tall attraction, called the Ark Encounter, is 510-feet long -- the length of one-and-a-half football fields ... The news outlet reported that the $91 million project was sponsored by donors ... ....
The search continues for a possible vice president for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker has withdrawn his name from the short list, but continues to give his full support to the New York real estate mogul, CBSNews reported Wednesday. "There are people far more suited for being a candidate for vice president and I think I'm far more suited for other types of things.” Tennessee Sen....
London. Belgian Neanderthals were eating each other some 40,000 years ago, new research shows. The grisly discovery was made in a cave where scientists found bones bearing marks left by intentional butchering. Not only were they cannibals, but the Neanderthals appear to have fashioned tools out of the bones of their own kind ... Advertisement ... PA ... ....
SPO) (Frankfurt. 5SO) (the “Company”), the Company that has developed the SponsorsCloudTM platform that allows brands to build authentic and engaged communities around their products and services, announces that it has entered into a consulting agreement with equitycom GMBH of Frankfurt, Germany providing for, among other things, regulated investor ......
“Dear start-ups ...The message is nonetheless a sign of the wind’s direction ... While Frankfurt, Paris, and Dublin are obvious frontrunners, no one city is a clear shoe-in to take over London’s role ... The Netherlands has a more restrained salary policy for banks and insurers than other countries and companies will take that into consideration.” Frankfurt ... Frankfurt’s fitness as a banking hub still can’t mask an inconvenient truth ... ....
Four thousand British executives have received a love letter from Paris...In London's financial district, a truck was spotted carrying a billboard with the words "Dear startups, keep calm and move to Berlin". French and German politicians have sparred over whether Frankfurt or Paris should take over London's euro-clearing business ... ....
Tokyo, July 7, 2016 (AFP) -. Tokyo shares fluctuated in early trade on Thursday as investors fretted over fresh uncertainty in Europe following Britain's vote to leave the EU. Tokyo's volatile start came despite gains on Wednesday on Wall Street, but followed a weak lead from equity markets in Europe, where London, Paris and Frankfurt all fell more than one percent ... dhl/kgo/jah. TOYOTA MOTOR. INPEX. JX HOLDINGS ... RELATED. From around the web....
Eintracht Frankfurt attacker Marco Fabian is back in Germany and eager for the new 2016/17 season to get underway ... 'I'm grateful to everyone who's here supporting me,' Fabian continued in an interview with the official Frankfurt website ... Frankfurt beat Nürnberg to stay up. Frankfurt will head to Flachau in Austria later this month for a ......
Under the current plan, the exchanges will keep separate operating headquarters in London and Frankfurt, and the holding company would be based in the UK capital. While LSE investors approved the deal at Monday's meeting, one shareholder in attendance asked executives for assurances that the headquarters would not be moved to Frankfurt....