The first private mission to the International Space Station has taken off
Three businessmen and a former NASA astronaut took off on Friday, April 8, aboard a SpaceX rocket for the first entirely private mission to the International Space Station, where they will stay for just over a week.
To protect humanity, NASA will divert the trajectory of an asteroid as a test
It is a scenario worthy of Hollywood, and yet very real. NASA is preparing to launch a new mission on Tuesday night: by launching a spacecraft at 24,000 km/h against an asteroid, it hopes to modify its trajectory and thus help humanity protect itself from a potential collision in the future.
Crew Dragon capsule and astronauts reach the ISS
The four astronauts who left Cape Canaveral on Wednesday with a SpaceX rocket arrived safely at the ISS, the International Space Station, on Thursday, around 00:30. This is what the American space agency NASA said on Thursday night, about twenty hours after the departure of the quartet.
Shooting in Copenhagen: several dead, a 22-year-old Dane arrested
A shooting killed and injured several people Sunday in a shopping mall in Copenhagen, according to police, who arrested a suspect, a 22-year-old Dane. The young man, armed according to witnesses with a large rifle, was arrested shortly after the arrival of the police on the outskirts of the Fields shopping mall, located between the city center and the airport of the Danish capital.
Rare discovery in Canada of a mummified baby woolly mammoth: it would have died more than... 30,000 years ago
Workers in the Klondike gold fields in Canada's far north have made a rare discovery: the mummified remains of a nearly complete baby woolly mammoth.
Breaking News
Texas School Shooting - Uvalde Police Chief Resigns from City Council
More than a month after the shooting that killed 21 people at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, the school district's police chief has resigned as a city councilman, U.S. media reported Saturday.
Texas: at least 46 migrants found dead in a mass grave truck, no water was found in the vehicle
The number of people found dead Monday in a truck in Texas has risen to at least 46, according to a new toll released at a news conference by the San Antonio fire chief. We have so far taken in about 46 bodies, said Hood, who said 16 injured people - 12 adults and four children - had been taken in and were conscious as they were transported to medical services.
United States: Joe Biden signs legislation to limit gun violence
The bill, supported by members of both the Democratic and Republican parties, passed Congress on Friday to applause. While this legislation does not include everything I want, it does include measures that I have long called for that will save lives. Joe Biden signed the legislation to implement gun control in the United States on Saturday, June 25. This legislation, the most important on the subject in nearly 30 years.
Presidential election: Macron or Le Pen? Overseas France is already voting
The polling stations open Sunday morningin mainland France. The first results will be published on Sunday evening from 8 pm. Emmanuel Macron or Marine Le Pen? The first voters from overseas and abroad are voting this Saturday, time difference obliges, for a presidential election with crucial issues. Before the opening of polling stations Sunday morning in metropolitan France for this second round very expected.
Presidential 2022: a great debate that turns short between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen
Everything was in place: the dramatic tension had been skilfully maintained for several days and this Wednesday evening, the actors were ready. This return match between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen for the French presidency, five years after a first televised duel, was to be decisive.
Indebted by her campaign, Valérie Pécresse calls the French for an emergency aid: here is the amount collected by the ex-candidate LR!
Indebted, Valérie Pécresse had appealed to the generosity of the French to pay back her campaign. Valérie Pécresse, former candidate LR, had appealed to the French to complete the financing of its campaign, at the end of which it had failed to collect 5% of the votes in the first round.
Celebrity
Man arrested after breaking into Ariana Grande's house on her birthday: he had stalked her in the past
Aharon Brown has a history of stalking Ariana Grande. As TMZ reports, the man was arrested last September at the singer's Los Angeles home after showing up with a large hunting knife and allegedly yelling at her security detail, I'm going to kill you, and her too. He was arrested for making criminal threats and a judge issued a restraining order barring him from going near Ariana Grande.
New Delhi drowned under a thick toxic fog after the festival of Diwali
New Delhi was on Friday enveloped in a thick toxic fog the day after Diwali, Hindu festival of lights, celebrated with multitudes of oil lamps and candles that burned all night with a lot of firecrackers, although banned for sale.
Health
Sleep: here's how much sleep you should get on the weekend to stay healthy
Ah, the weekend! You look forward to it so you can sleep late but beware, this habit could be detrimental to the proper functioning of your body. Indeed, trying to get some sleep by sleeping in on Saturday and Sunday is not a good idea. In addition, it will not make you feel any better than before because it will only make you feel better in the moment.
Cause of Alzheimer's disease progression in the brain discovered
Clusters of toxic proteins, thought to be responsible for the cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease, reach different areas of the brain and accumulate there over decades, according to a new study published Friday.
France
Drama in a nursery in Lyon: a baby of 11 months dies, the nursery nurse, exceeded by the crying of the child, admits having poisoned him
It is a real tragedy which occurred within a private nursery in Lyon. The employee of this last one killed a baby of 11 months, by making him ingest a toxic product.
Emmanuel Macron calls for finding a majority following the debacle of the legislative elections: We must build compromises
French President Emmanuel Macron rejected on Wednesday the idea of a government of national unity that he believes not justified to date to get out of the crisis resulting from Sunday'sparliamentary elections, while calling to find a clearer and stronger majority to act.
Macron receives political parties in the face of announced blockades
Two days after the legislative elections that have sounded the presidential majority, Emmanuel Macron resumes the initiative by inviting the political leaders of the oppositions.
Legislative elections in France: defeated faces at Macron, celebration at Mélenchon and Le Pen
President Emmanuel Macron suffered a major disavowal Sunday in the second round of France's legislative elections, losing his absolute majority in the National Assembly which will complicate his ability to govern in an election marked by strong pushes from the far right and the left. Here are the final results.
World
CARS
Toyota Yaris named European Car of the Year
The fourth-generation Toyota Yaris was named European Car of the Year on Monday, succeeding the Peugeot 208, in a ceremony broadcast online.
