China has begun operating the world's largest radio telescope to help search for extraterrestrial life ... Construction took five years and cost $180 million ... ....
n">Eight people, including a three-year-old girl, were hurt in a shooting that Baltimore police called an act of “retaliatory violence” on Saturday night, authorities said ... ....
Donald Trump stuck to the teleprompter and delivered a measured political attack against Hillary Clinton just hours after threatening to invite Gennifer Flowers, who had an affair with Clinton’s husband when he was president, to attend Monday night’s first of three presidential debates ...The New York Times reported Flowers said in a text message to the newspaper she would attend ... Bush attended ... To contact the reporter on this story. ... ....
There have been both peaceful demonstrations and violent protests every day since Tuesday's shooting of 43-year-old KeithLamontScott. the black man fatally shot by a Charlotte police officer. The officer is also black. Chief among protesters' demands has been the public release of dashcam and body camera video of the shooting. From the start, police have said Scott refused officers' demands to drop a gun ... ---. BODYCAMERA ... --- ... --- ... ....
German writer Norman Ohler’s astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the second world war. @msrachelcooke. The German writer Norman Ohler lives on the top floor of a 19th-century apartment building on the south bank of the river Spree in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Visiting him there is a vertiginous experience ... Not so very long ago, however, it was the GDR’s egg storage facility ... Twitter ... ....
France suffered its first fatal TGV accident in three decades on Saturday, when at least 10 people were killed and dozens injured as one of the high-speed trains derailed during a test run. Here is a list of France's worst railway disasters in the past 30 years. - August 8, 2015... - April 21, 2015 ... Six people are killed and 23 injured when a passenger train collides with a freight train in Zoufftgen, in northeastern France....