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Angela Merkel clashed with her Social Democrat rival, Martin Schulz, in a lively television debate on Sunday evening widely seen as the last opportunity for the chancellor’s opponent to claw back support before a crucial election in three weeks’ time.
With latest polls showing Merkel’s CDU and her partners in Bavaria’s CSU ahead of Schulz’s SPD by 15 to 17 points, but with half of voters said to be undecided, the primetime face-off was seen as Schulz’s best chance to influence the outcome. Read more HERE
Angela Merkel clashed with her Social Democrat rival, Martin Schulz, in a lively television debate on Sunday evening widely seen as the last opportunity for the chancellor’s opponent to claw back support before a crucial election in three weeks’ time.
With latest polls showing Merkel’s CDU and her partners in Bavaria’s CSU ahead of Schulz’s SPD by 15 to 17 points, but with half of voters said to be undecided, the primetime face-off was seen as Schulz’s best chance to influence the outcome. Read more HERE
At least 16 people are dead and more than a dozen others trapped after monsoon downpours that have brought death and destruction to south Asia caused a building to collapse in Mumbai.
The four-storey residential building gave way on Thursday morning in the densely populated area of Bhendi Bazaar, after roads were turned into rivers in India’s financial capital, which has been struggling to cope with some of the heaviest rainfall in more than 15 years. Read more HERE
Hurricane Harvey has resulted in Houston’s petrochemical industry leaking thousands of tons of pollutants, with communities living near plants damaged by the storm exposed to soaring levels of toxic fumes and potential water contamination.
Refineries and chemical plants have reported more than 2,700 tons, or 5.4m pounds, of extra air pollution due to direct damage from the hurricane as well as the preventive shutting down of facilities, which causes a spike in released toxins. Read more HERE.
The world’s most powerful X-ray laser has begun operating at a facility where scientists will attempt to recreate the conditions deep inside the sun and produce film-like sequences of viruses and cells.
The machine, called the European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL), acts as a high-speed camera that can capture images of individual atoms in a few millionths of a billionth of a second. Unlike a conventional camera, though, everything imaged by the X-ray laser is obliterated. Read more HERE.