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...
Portuguese drug maker Bial and French laboratory Biotrial are at fault "on many counts" for a unsuccessful drug trial that left one person dead and 5 others hospitalized in Gregorian calendar month, French Health Minister Marisol Touraine said on Monday. All trials of the drug, designed to treat mood and anxiety problems as well as coordination disorders coupled to medicine issues, have since been suspended. The victims were given the experimental drug made by Bial throughout a section one trial at a non-public facility in Rennes, Brittany, run by France's Biotrial. "A final investigation report confirms that the conditions under that the check was approved did not breach existing legislation," Touraine told journalists. "Inspectors consider, however, that Bial and Biotrial are accountable on many counts; relating to the dose prescribed and the time taken to alert authorities," she said. An initial inquiry in Gregorian calendar month had...