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California asks insurers to spare wildfire victims ‘the list’
New York Times, Published on 07/02/2025
» LOS ANGELES — California’s top insurance regulator urged insurance carriers Thursday to pay policyholders the full amount of the belongings in their coverage without requiring them to itemise every object lost — an undertaking that has burdened thousands of residents whose homes were destroyed by wildfires last month.
German big wave surfer turns to science to tame the breakers
AFP, Published on 12/11/2023
» MUNICH (GERMANY) - Sebastian Steudtner already holds the world record for the largest wave ever surfed, but as the giant wave season begins, the German is looking to science and technology to chase a new high.
Burnt-out car transport ship limps into Dutch port
AFP, Published on 03/08/2023
» EEMSHAVEN (NETHERLANDS) - A burnt-out freighter carrying thousands of cars was towed into a Dutch port on Thursday, as an environmental disaster was averted more than a week after the ship caught fire off the coast.
Le Mans - 100 years of man and machine, and midnight oil
AFP, Published on 24/05/2023
» PARIS - The Le Mans 24 Hours celebrates its centenary on Friday - the mythic race's history marked by triumph and tragedy, and a hefty sprinkling of Hollywood stardust.
Climate activists put the heat on shareholder meetings
AFP, Published on 17/05/2023
» PARIS - Climate activists are using shareholder meetings to turn up the heat on corporations about their carbon footprints, from flooding them with questions to more colourful tactics like singing or throwing cake at executives.
Paul Newman's Rolexes celebrating his racing career up for auction
AFP, Published on 29/03/2023
» NEW YORK - Two Rolexes that carried "sentimental" value for actor Paul Newman will be auctioned as part of a broad collection of the late icon's personal effects, with the timepieces each expected to earn up to $1 million.
Sweden's teens drive Porsches and BMWs, no licence needed
AFP, Published on 20/03/2023
» HUDDINGE, Sweden: Too young for a driver's licence at 15, Evelina Christiansen is already cruising in a sleek BMW in Sweden, where teens can drive any car modified to roll no faster than a golf cart.
China sentences Canadian star Kris Wu to 13 yrs for rape
AFP, Published on 25/11/2022
» BEIJING: Chinese-Canadian ex-pop star Kris Wu has been jailed for 13 years after being found guilty of rape, a Chinese court said Friday.
Gazprom says Ukraine diverting Moldova gas supplies, threatens cuts
AFP, Published on 22/11/2022
» MOSCOW - Russian energy giant Gazprom said Tuesday that Ukraine was diverting natural gas supplies transiting to Moldova and threatened to curtail deliveries through a key pipeline to Europe in response.
'I was counting dead trees': Scientists join climate crisis fight
AFP, Published on 28/10/2022
» MUNICH (GERMANY) - Laure-Anne Gateaux did not train as a tropical ecologist only to end up sitting on a busy shopping street in her lab coat with one hand glued to the ground.