05.18
Bitch about Headline News on Health, Environment, Internet, Politics and other Issues
BBC News reports here: Thousands of heart attacks and strokes could be prevented if the cholesterol-lowering drugs, statins, were more widely prescribed, research suggests.
BBC News reports here: A retinal implant – or bionic eye – which is powered by light has been invented by scientists at Stanford University in California.
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Spiegel Online reports here: After two years of austerity, growth is suddenly back in fashion in Europe, following calls by the incoming French president, François Hollande, for measures to boost the economy. But the EU’s planned “growth pact” is likely to be too small to help the crisis-hit countries of southern Europe.
BBC News reports here: The leader of Greece’s left-wing Syriza bloc says he will try to form a coalition based on tearing up the terms of the EU/IMF bailout deal.
Merkel Wants Mass Boycott of Euro 2012 in Ukraine, Spiegel Online reports here: Germany is intensifying its diplomatic pressure on Ukraine over its treatment of the imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko. SPIEGEL has learned that Chancellor Angela Merkel has been campaigning for a mass boycott of the European Football Championship in Ukraine by leaders across Europe if Kiev does not release Tymoshenko.