Topic: POLICE REPORT - on July 11, 2016 at 3:29:00 PM CEST
Woman captured silently confronting heavily-armed Baton Rouge police in powerful photographs is a 28-year-old mom and nurse who spent 24 hours in jail for her 'crime'
It is the photo seen around the world: A young woman in a flowing dress standing with her arms crossed facing down a line of heavily armed police while two armored officers rush forward to put her in handcuffs. Now Dailymail.com can exclusively reveal the woman to be Ieshia Evans, 28, a mother and licensed practical nurse from New York, who was attending her first protest when she was arrested. Natasha Haynes said Evans, a lifelong friend, traveled to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, following the shooting of Alton Sterling because she 'wanted a better future for her five-year-old son'.
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 11, 2016 at 2:25:00 PM CEST
Andrea Leadsom quits Conservative leadership race
Andrea Leadsom has pulled out of the contest to become the next Conservative Party leader and UK PM - with Theresa May now set to succeed David Cameron. Mrs Leadsom said she did not believe she had sufficient support to lead a "strong and stable government". She also said a nine-week leadership campaign at such a "critical time" for the UK would be "highly undesirable".
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 11, 2016 at 1:21:00 PM CEST
Britische Tories: May-Konkurrentin Leadsom gibt offenbar auf
Im Wettbewerb um die Nachfolge des britischen Premierministers David Cameron gibt die Bewerberin Andrea Leadsom einem BBC-Journalisten zufolge auf.
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 11, 2016 at 1:19:00 PM CEST
Andrea Leadsom’s Campaign to Lead Britain Might Foster Fear of Islam, Leak Suggests
The race to be the next leader of Britain’s ruling Conservative Party, and hence prime minister of the United Kingdom, was whittled down to two candidates on Thursday: Theresa May, the home secretary, and Andrea Leadsom, deputy energy minister. As the two lawmakers with the most support from their colleagues, they will now spend the next two months trying to win the votes of the party’s members, a small and deeply unrepresentative portion of the British electorate thought to number less than 150,000. (By comparison, more than 33.5 million people voted in last month’s referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union.)
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 11, 2016 at 1:17:00 PM CEST
BND-Spionage unter Freunden: Dutzende Regierungsstellen im Visier
Kanzlerin Merkel hatte 2013 gesagt: "Ausspähen unter Freunden – das geht gar nicht." Dann wurde klar: Das geht doch. Kontrolleure des Bundestags haben nun ein Fazit gezogen und das birgt gehörig Sprengstoff. In der BND-Affäre um Spionage unter Freunden sind neue Details über den Umfang der bis Oktober 2013 laufenden Aktionen bekannt geworden. Nach einer der dpa vorliegenden Bewertung des Bundestagsgremiums zur Kontrolle der Geheimdienste (PKGr) wurde "eine niedrige zweistellige Zahl von Teilnehmern" abgehört, die Regierungen von EU- oder Nato-Ländern zuzuordnen sind. Darunter sind Staats- oder Regierungschefs und Minister, deren Umfeld – also der Amtssitz, der Stab oder das Büro – sowie militärische Einrichtungen. Es gehe um "mehrere Dutzend" solcher Fälle, erfuhr die dpa.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 11, 2016 at 1:16:00 PM CEST
Do You Own Your Own Fingerprints?
An obscure law could lead to broader limits on biometrics. These days, many of us regularly feed pieces of ourselves into machines for convenience and security. Our fingerprints unlock our smartphones, and companies are experimenting with more novel biometric markers—voice, heartbeat, grip—as ID for banking and other transactions. But there are almost no laws in place to control how companies use such information. Nor is it clear what rights people have to protect scans of their retinas or the contours of their face from cataloging by the private sector.
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Topic: EU - on July 11, 2016 at 1:12:00 PM CEST
The Italian job - Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis
INVESTORS around the world are extraordinarily nervous. Yields on ten-year Treasuries fell to their lowest-ever level this week; buyers of 50-year Swiss government bonds are prepared to accept a negative yield. Some of the disquiet stems from Britain’s decision to hurl itself into the unknown. The pound, which hit a 31-year low against the dollar on July 6th, has yet to find a floor; several British commercial-property funds have suspended redemptions as the value of their assets tumbles. But the Brexit vote does not explain all the current unease. Another, potentially more dangerous, financial menace looms on the other side of the Channel—as Italy’s wobbly lenders teeter on the brink of a banking crisis.
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Topic: EU - on July 11, 2016 at 1:10:00 PM CEST
EU Banks Need $166 Billion, Deutsche Bank Economist Tells Welt
Europe urgently needs a 150 billion-euro ($166 billion) bailout fund to recapitalize its beleaguered banks, particularly those in Italy, Deutsche Bank AG’s chief economist said in an interview with Welt am Sonntag. "Europe is extremely sick and must start dealing with its problems extremely quickly, or else there may be an accident," Deutsche Bank’s David Folkerts-Landau said, according to the newspaper. "I’m no doomsday prophet, I am a realist."
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Topic: SCIENCE - on July 11, 2016 at 1:09:00 PM CEST
A Telescope the Size of Earth Just Captured a Supermassive Black Hole Eating a Star
Astronomers just got their most precise look to-date at a supermassive black hole gobbling up a star. The research could help us figure out what exactly happens when stars get eaten by black holes — and why those black holes sometimes shoot out jets of particles at nearly the speed of light.
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