MILAN, June 12 (Reuters) – Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul and former Italian prime minister who transformed the nation’s politics with polarizing policies and often alarmed his allies with his brazen remarks, died on Monday aged 86. Berlusconi, Italy’s longest-serving premier who counted Russian President Vladimir Putin as a[Read More…]

OTTAWA, June 12 (Reuters) – Smoke shrouded Western Canada on Monday as wildfires flared again in the main oil-producing province of Alberta, while firefighters in Quebec doused some of the worst early season blazes, allowing thousands of evacuees to return home. Canada is enduring its most destructive start to wildfire[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden postponed a meeting with the head of NATO and skipped his other public events on Monday to undergo his second root canal procedure in as many days, the White House said. “The president is doing just fine and he will be[Read More…]

DUBAI, June 6 (Reuters) – Iran presented what officials described as its first domestically made hypersonic ballistic missile on Tuesday, the official IRNA news agency reported, an announcement likely to heighten Western concerns about Tehran’s missile capabilities. Iranian state media published pictures of the missile named Fattah at a ceremony[Read More…]

Scientists at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University developed a high efficiency solar cell that could be used on buildings and house windows to generate energy. The researchers set a new record of efficiency for Organic Solar Cells (OSC), with an efficiency of 19.31%. Organic Solar Cells use organic electronics to[Read More…]