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The creation of membranes is of enormous importance in biology, but also in many chemical applications developed by humans. These membranes are shaped spontaneously when soap-like molecules in water join together. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology now have a clear picture of the entire process. Membrane formation turns out to start with nano-droplets in the water with a higher concentration of soap-like molecules. If you can control those nanodroplets, you can control shape, thickness and size of the membranes. Читать дальше...

Pakistan on Tuesday urged the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to dismiss India's plea in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case, as it accused New Delhi of using the top UN court for "political theatre". Jadhav, a retired Indian Navy officer, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of "espionage and terrorism" after a closed trial in April 2017. His sentencing evoked a sharp reaction in India. India moved the ICJ in May the same year for the "egregious violation" of the provisions... Читать дальше...

A five-year-old school girl was on Tuesday run over by a speeding bus in front of her mother in the Dum Dum area of North 24 Pargana district in West Bengal, police said.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Swedish court has convicted a man who fought against the Islamic State group in Iraq of war crimes for posting macabre pictures and videos on Facebook. The Orebro District Court on Tuesday sentenced 38-year-old Kurda Bahaalddin H Saeed H Saeed to 15 months in jail. The court says the Iraqi national had posted photos and films taken in February-March 2015 in northern Iraq of himself "with bodies which in some cases have been truncated." It said Tuesday they "were intended to seriously violate personal integrity. Читать дальше...

A Jewish cemetery was vandalized with swastikas less than a day before the planned march against anti-Semitism took place in France.

An international team of scientists led by a researcher from Trinity College Dublin and University of Helsinki announced a major discovery on the very nature of solar storms in the journal Nature Astronomy.

Aggressiveness among animals may increase the longer individuals live together in stable groups. This is the finding of a recent study carried out by researchers from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB). The study, published in the journal Animal Behaviour used the Amazon molly, a naturally clonal fish species that produces genetically identical individuals to isolate the effects of familiarity on behaviour. The study provides new insight into how groups function... Читать дальше...

Renzi, who headed the Italian government from February 2014 to December 2016, said his family was being "smeared" because of his political activities.

Takoma Park, MD - The Washington Adventist University women's basketball team defeated Christendom College Monday night by a final score of 76-40. With the win, the Shock etched a place in the history books with the best overall record in program history and the first 20 win season in program history. 

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Venezuelan Health Minister Carlos Alvarado announced Thursday the arrival of 933 tons of medicines and medical supplies from China, Cuba, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and some direct purchases’ from the Ministry.

In Central Asia’s Forbidding Highlands, a Quiet Newcomer: Chinese Troops

In Central Asia’s Forbidding Highlands, a Quiet Newcomer: Chinese Troops by Gerry Shih – Washington Post

The Reds are in action against Bayern in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 encounter

Global News weather specialist Mike Sobel shares the morning weather forecast for Edmonton and surrounding areas.

Estonia’s financial watchdog says the local branch of Danske Bank must close after the financial group admitted that massive sums of money from Russia and former Soviet states had been laundered through the subsidiary. Read more here.

FALL RIVER, Mass. (CNN) — A Massachusetts man found a creative way to put the kibosh on a potential scammer. Aaron Saber posted a video online of his reaction to a scammer’s call from Feb. 3. A friend filmed while Saber flabbergasted the caller with urgent requests for a certain food order. “I ordered a five-gallon tub of gefilte fish last week,” he says to the caller, who repeatedly tries to ask for Saber. Gefilte fish is a traditional Yiddish […]

Can England win the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup? “Absolutely”., is what Sir Alastair Cook replied

The didactic and unerringly brilliant designer has died aged 85

Baku / 02.19.19 / Turan: PFPA activist Rovshan Guliyev was arrested administratively for 30 days, Turan was told in the PFPA with reference to the relatives of the arrested person. It is not yet known what Guliyev is accused of. -06D--* * *2019 February 19 (Tuesday) 14:44:23Another member of PFPA detainedBaku / 02.19.19 / Turan: A member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PPFA) Rovshan Guliyev has been detained, announced the head of the ...

"There's no way the U.S. can crush us....we're more advanced".

Police have confirmed they are investigating a murder after a body was discovered in a rural area north of Dunedin on Monday evening. Meanwhile, a sighting has emerged of a woman possibly linked to a ...

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The special counsel has begun to draw sharper lines between Russia, WikiLeaks, Roger Stone and the Trump campaign.

Cuban Minister of Culture Alpidio Alonso voiced his country’s firm support for Syria in the face of the terrorist war waged against it and for finding a political solution to the crisis based on respect for its sovereignty and non-interference in its internal affairs.

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Discovery likely to rekindle debate over how builders moved stones 175 miles from Wales to Salisbury Plain