2016-06-06

Sci-Tech

Everest for the armchair explorer in 360°

Mount Everest's Southern climbing route up to the "Roof of the World" has been documented in project 360° videography and photography.

06/06/2016

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Creating 3D models with your mobile phone

In this edition of Futuris, we look at whether our smartphones can help to create sophisticated 3D models.

06/06/2016

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Takeaway: 3D in your pocket

This sophisticated 3D model can partially be made with your smartphone.

06/06/2016

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Kerry attends "naadam" competition in Mongolia

During a visit to Mongolia, US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday tried his hand at archery, sampled curdled cheese and watched…

06/06/2016

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Severe flooding plagues Sydney as major storms hit

Torrential rain and high winds battered Australia’s east coast on Sunday, leaving up to 26,000 homes without power while flooding forced hundreds of people into evacuation…

06/06/2016

USA

Clinton wins Puerto Rico, sets sights on California

Hillary Clinton is squaring up for the last big contest in the race for the democratic presidential nomination.

06/06/2016

France

French flood damage could cost insurers up to two billion euros

The cost of France's worst flooding in decades could reach an estimated two billion euros with French insurance companies having to pay out many hundreds of millions.

06/06/2016

Cinema

'Tale of Tales' fairy stories from a bygone age meet modernity

'Tale of Tales' is the first English language film by Italian directer "Matteo Garrone":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo_Garrone.

06/06/2016

Cult

Architecture celebrated at the Venice Biennale

'Reporting From The Front' is the title of the Venice Biennale.

06/06/2016

World News

Millions of Muslims mark the beginning of Ramadan

Millions of Muslims around the world are beginning to mark the holy month of Ramadan with the sighting of the new moon.

06/06/2016

Belgium

Belgium: Three dead, nine injured in train crash

A passenger train slammed into a freight train at high speed travelling on the same track at Hermalle-sous-Huy

06/06/2016

World News

Peruvian presidential election too close to call

The candidate of the centre-right appears to have the slimmest of leads in Peru’s presidential election.

06/06/2016

Italy

Renzi on course to lose Rome in Italian local elections

Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s governing Democratic Party looks to have avoided embarrassment in local elections in Italy, although the anti-establishment Five-Star party’s Virginia Raggi is ahead in

06/06/2016

Belgium

Train crash in Belgium kills three, injures 40

Three people have been killed and 40 injured after a passenger train piled into the back of a freight wagon in Saint-George-Sur-Meuse in…

06/06/2016

Romania

Romanian left poised for comeback after polls predict local election rout

Exit polls from local elections in Romania suggest that barely a year after quitting government under a corruption cloud the Social Democrats have roared back nationwide, and will…

06/06/2016