Medical
Bottas beats Vettel to take pole position for Austrian GP
Despite a 9th place finish and two world championship points in the last race for Fernando Alonso - which for him must now feel like a victory - Honda is planning on improving fortunes by implementing upgrades to improve performance and reliability. [Full Article...]
Sikkim standoff: After denial, Congress now says Rahul Gandhi met Chinese envoy
Congress social media head Ramya said the issue was not if Gandhi met the Chinese envoy or now and questioned why the Prime Minister did not flag the border issue with Chinese President Xi Jinping when the two leaders met last week at the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany. [Full Article...]
Vatican outlaws gluten-free bread during Holy Communion
Both bread and wine made from genetically-modified organisms, however, are perfectly acceptable. The new rules are needed because the bread is now sold in supermarkets and on the internet, the cardinal said. Another cereal is tolerated only in very small proportions, while the addition of other products such as fruit, sugar or honey, is "a serious abuse". [Full Article...]
World Health Organization warns gonorrhea may become "impossible to treat"
The WHO Global Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme ( WHO GASP), monitors trends in drug-resistant gonorrhoea. "GONORRHOEA FAST fast becoming "untreatable", World Health Organization experts warn", reports Sky News. The development of new antibiotics is not very attractive for commercial pharmaceutical companies. Treatment involves an antibiotic injection and a single dose of ant... [Full Article...]
Arsenal submit improved €45m bid for Thomas Lemar
Monaco, meanwhile, are predictably braced for a summer of sales after their Ligue 1 title glory. Portugal global Bernardo Silva has already left for Manchester City and he could be followed by Kylian Mbappe, Tiemoue Bakayoko and Lemar. [Full Article...]
Doklam: China warns India of serious consequences if it doesn't withdraw troops
India should withdraw all of its troops that have crossed the delimited boundary back to its own side, a move that is essentially different from the previous standoffs between the border troops of the two countries in undefined areas. "India said its troops trespassed on Chinese territory on behalf of Bhutan, which it said has a dispute with China over the Donglang (Doklam in Bhutanese) region", h... [Full Article...]
Tour de France: Richie Porte, the pre-race favourite, suffers heavy crash
He had been 25 seconds off Froome's yellow jersey but now finds himself a further one minute 19 seconds back, and through no fault of his own. "The institutes get the cream of the crop, but there are a lot of guys like myself who don't fit into that mould and need to [go down] a different pathway. [Full Article...]
Cross-party group to co-ordinate parliamentary fight against hard Brexit
The Prime Minister will say "Though the result of last month's general election was not what I wanted, those defining beliefs remain". She will say Britain faces a period of "great national change" in the wake of last year's Brexit vote. [Full Article...]