Novartis plans the first human tests next year of a “smart” contact lens it is developing with Google designed to help restore the eye’s natural autofocus. “This project is progressing well,” Novartis Chief Executive Joe Jimenez told Swiss newspaper Le Temps in an interview. “I had said it would take about five years to see a product on the market,” Jimenez told the paper.
A California produce company is recalling cucumbers imported from Mexico amid concerns they could be the source of a salmonella outbreak that has killed one person and infected at least 285 people in 27 U.S. states, authorities said. One person in California died after becoming infected with a strain of Salmonella Poona, and 53 people have been hospitalized since July 3, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said
Last year’s 1000 Guineas victor Miss France had to settle for second on her belated seasonal return at Longchamp.
Leighton Aspell was taken to hospital for further checks following a nasty fall at Fontwell on Sunday.
Gloucestershire booked a spot in the Royal London One-Day Cup final at Lord’s with an eight-wicket win over Yorkshire in the semi-final at Headignley.
Toormore went a couple of places better than last year as he won the Group Two International Topkapi Trophy at Veliefendi racecourse in Turkey.
Kilkenny delivered a superb second-half performance to defeat Galway and lift the All-Ireland hurling title after 1-22 to 1-18 victory.
Germany will set another export record this year despite recent worries of an economic slowdown in China, the head of the German trade association said in an interview published on Sunday. Economists have expressed concern that China’s woes might become a burden for Germany’s export-centric economy, Europe’s largest, which has the greatest exposure to China of all 28 EU member states. China is the Germany’s fourth biggest export market, accounting
Ashley Hamilton is making music again! In an exclusive preview from Sunday’s new episode of Stewarts & Hamiltons, the musician returns to the studio to finish his record….
A controversial sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor on display in the gardens of France’s Palace of Versailles, and which has become known as the “queen’s vagina”, was vandalised Sunday for the second time. Officially known as “Dirty Corner,” the giant steel funnel that Kapoor himself has described as “very sexual” was covered in anti-Semitic graffiti in white paint, said Versailles president Catherine Pegard. The 60-metre (200-foot) long, 10-metre (33-foot) high
