GoEuro plugs its data into Chinese travel booking platform, Qunar
By Natasha Lomas From TechCrunch Berlin-based GoEuro, the well-funded European travel planner platform, is looking to the Far East for business growth, announcing today that it’s inked a distribution partnership with Chinese travel booking platform, Qunar. Its hope: to capture some of…
Spain: Police busted 5.5 metric tons of cocaine — the latest shipment from a growing South American drug hotspot
By Christopher Woody From business Insider Spanish authorities say they worked with Ecuadorean police to stop a freighter off the South American country’s coast carrying more than 5.5 metric tons of cocaine headed to Spain. Spanish national police also said another boat, a…
London attack: World leaders show solidarity
From BBC British-born attacker ‘known to MI5’ Leaders of countries affected by recent terror attacks have voiced solidarity with the UK after the deadly attack near the Houses of Parliament. A lone attacker was shot dead after he used a…
Vertical forests
These ‘vertical forests’ could transform a Brussels wasteland into luxury apartments By Leanna Garfield From business Insider A proposal to redevelop Tour and Taxis in Brussels, Belgium.Vincent Callebaut Architecture Tours and Taxis, a former industrial site in Brussels, sat abandoned…
Scary abandoned places
Scary Places That Will Give You The Creeps From Lifestyle & Design 1. IM Cooling Tower, Belgium Image credits: brokenview These are parts of a cooling tower in an old power station in Monceau, Belgium. The trumpet-like structure in the…
Merkel rules out migrant policy reversal after attacks
From BBC Recent attacks in Germany involving asylum-seekers would not change its willingness to take in refugees, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. She said the attackers “wanted to undermine our sense of community, our openness and our willingness to help…
Proton therapy arrives at Miami Cancer Institute
A 220-ton “Cyclotron” is the cornerstone of the only proton therapy center in South Florida to offer pencil-beam scanning MIAMI – JUNE 14, 2016 – Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health South Florida has welcomed the future of cancer care with…
Brussels dispatch: an airport lockdown, an empty restaurant, a Jihadism Conference
From Corporate Counsel It’s been a strange day here in New York. Reading about the attacks in Brussels, and seeing some of the early photographs, inevitably brought back memories of September 11, 2001. Some of us also thought about our…
UPDATED: Brussels attacks: Brothers named as suspects – At least 31 dead at Zaventem and Maelbeek/Cayman’s premier’s statement- flags lowered
UPDATE From BBC Brussels attacks: Two brothers behind Belgium bombings Image copyright AFP Image caption Khalid el-Bakraoui, the metro suicide bomber, and brother Brahim Belgium under attack Two of the suicide bombers who carried out attacks in Brussels on Tuesday…
Officials have finally caught a cyclist using a hidden motor in competition
By Business Insider Australia and Daniel McMahon From Business InsiderCycling authorities have finally caught a unicorn. A Belgian cyclist is facing the end of her short career after she was caught riding a motorised bicycle in the world cyclocross championship in…