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Solar plane lands in New York City

A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said.  The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website.  Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...

Facebook apologised after refusing to run an advert featuring plus-sized model

The social network told it had made a mistake and has currently approved the image.  Australian feminist group Cherchez La Femme had expressed fury once Facebook rejected their advert for associate event designed to market body positivism. Originally the social network told them the advert "depicts a body... in an undesirable manner".  While the event page was not taken down, the advert to promote it absolutely was not approved.  "Ads like these are not allowed since they create viewers feel dangerous regarding themselves," read the original response from Facebook's Ads Team, which the organisers shared as screenshots on their page.  It also recommended that associate various image of somebody "running or riding a bike" would be a lot of acceptable. "Our team processes millions of advertising images weekly, so we have a tendency to often create mistakes," said a interpreter.  "To be clear, the image complies with our adver...