Research: Honeybee venom kills off breast cancer cells
The venom from honeybees is effective in killing off breast cancer cells in even the most difficult to treat cases, according to new research from the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and the university of Western Australia. Dr Ciara Duffy took the venom of honeybees (Apis mellifera) from around Perth in Western Australia, considered […]
Tuesday, 08, September 2020
Online retailer Bol.com will no longer sell alcohol
Bol.com, the Dutch online retailer, will no longer sell alcohol, explaining that it is too difficult to check whether a customer is of age. The company, originally named Books Online, is now a subsidiary of Ahold-Delhaize, which owns Albert Heijn and Delhaize supermarkets. Bol started selling alcohol online barely two years ago. The announcement came […]
Tuesday, 08, September 2020
Wanted: New CEO to lead beer giant AB InBev
Leuven-based AB InBev, the world’s largest brewer, has begun a search for a replacement for CEO Carlos Brito, the Financial Times reports. Brito has been with InBev since 2005, and steered the company, best known worldwide for its Stella Artois brand, to world leadership. That came about by acquisitions, first of Anheuser-Busch, makers of Budweiser, […]
Tuesday, 08, September 2020
Brussels minister Smet wants cameras on fire engines to catch attackers
Pascal Smet, secretary of state in the Brussels regional government responsible for fire protection, has said he wants cameras to be fitted to fire engines to help catch those who use violence against fire-fighting personnel. The claim comes after an attack at the weekend in the Marolles district of Brussels, when youths pelted fire engines […]
Monday, 07, September 2020
UK: New Brexit deadline could bring a no-deal closer
The British government is planning to announce a new deadline of 15 October for an agreement in talks with the EU over the terms of Brexit, the Financial Times reports. In the absence of an agreement, the UK would essentially leave the EU at the end of the year without any trade agreement at all. […]
Monday, 07, September 2020
History: People of Brussels suffered three centuries of chronic diarrhoea
The people of the city of Brussels put up with three centuries of chronic digestive complaints including dysentery, according to research carried out in latrines in use from the 14th to 17th centuries. The research, by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) in Brussels together with Cambridge University, looked at evidence of parasites […]
Monday, 07, September 2020
