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...
While the UK, Greece, Spain and Portugal pay the least, on average, for the drugs they use, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland pay the most. The authors said more transparency was needed because some countries risked overpaying for drugs. The pharmaceutical industry said the UK was getting a fair deal on medicines. Prices of cancer drugs have risen steeply in recent years, placing major stress on many healthcare systems, including the NHS. The report said drugs had accounted for nearly a third of the EU's 51 billion euro (£37bn) cancer healthcare spending in 2009. And the researchers then compared the 2013 price of 31 cancer drugs in 18 high-income countries, including the UK, Australia, New Zealand, France, Greece, Switzerland, Sweden and Portugal. Prices in Greece were the lowest for 14 out of the 24 cancer drugs available there. The price of drugs in the UK was also low. Prices of drugs in Switzerland, Germany and Sweden were frequently...