(Reuters) – Shares in German pharmaceutical company Bayer AG (BAYGn.DE) fell 3% on Friday after it said there were “bumps” in sealing its $ 11 billion settlement of U.S. lawsuits over its Roundup weed killer after a U.S. judge doubted the progress of the agreement. FILE PHOTO: Bayer AG logo …
Read More »Mammal-like Triassic creatures defeated polar winters by sleeping
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The branches of a well-built plant-eating mammal that inhabited Antarctica 250 million years ago provide the oldest known evidence that animals deployed in winter-like states to survive lean periods such as polar winters. The interpretation of an artist shows the mammalian relative Lystrosaurus during the Triassic period …
Read More »US, China trade jibes as military tensions worsen
(Reuters) – US and China trade jibes as military tensions grow between the world’s two largest economies, with the US Secretary of Defense promising not to “give an inch” in the Pacific and China saying Washington risked the lives of soldiers. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper listens …
Read More »Trump must file tax return, does not deserve immunity, says Manhattan’s top prosecutor
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Manhattan top prosecutor told a U.S. court on Thursday that he should be able to get President Donald Trump’s tax return, saying Trump could not immunize himself from a criminal probe into his business practices by pursuing an appeal that ” has no chance of …
Read More »University of Cambridge strives for autumn trials of coronavirus vaccine to UK funding
FILE PHOTO: An almost empty street is seen outside Cambridge University, as the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease continues, Cambridge, UK, 1 April 2020. REUTERS / Andrew Couldridge LONDON (Reuters) – The University of Cambridge is set to begin clinical trials in the autumn of its possible coronavirus vaccine after …
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