title

264/2017 • 11, NOVEMBER 2017 WEEKEND ISSUE

DAILY NEWS IN ENGLISH

Harmless radioactive cloud spread over Europe A cloud of radioactive pollution over Europe in recent weeks was likely from a nuclear facility in Russia or Kazakhstan. The French nuclear safety institute IRSN said the leak took place in the last week of September. The IRSN - the technical arm of French nuclear regulator ASN – said on Thursday that in recent weeks it and several other nuclear safety institutes in Europe had measured high levels of ruthenium 106, a radioactive nuclide that is the product of splitting atoms in a nuclear reactor and does not occur naturally.

Germany recovers from deadly Storm Herwart The second major storm to hit Germany in a month has flooded city streets and caused havoc for transport. Four people were killed when the brutal winds brought down trees in Poland and the Czech Republic. Germany was still reeling from the aftermath ofStorm Herwarton Tuesday after days of train standstills, flooding and traffic chaos that destroyed historic buildings and caused Berlin to declare a state of emergency. In the Czech Republic and Poland, Herwart claimed the lives of four people who were struck by falling trees. On the North Sea island of Langeoog, a freight ship remained stranded on the beach after flood waters receded. The town has called in top salvage experts, who remained stumped two days after the worst of the storm.

Over the weekend, the storm wrecked havoc on the nationʼs transport system. The trains in much of northern Germany, including Hannover and Hamburg, came to a complete stop – forcing rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) to send thousands of passengers in cramped taxis, sometimes for hours, to destinations as far away as Berlin.

Macron urges calm as Saudi Arabia calls citizens out of Lebanon Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait urged their citizens to leave Lebanon

Franceʼs Emmanuel Macron on a trip to Riyadh has called for deescalation of tensions with Tehran as crises in Yemen and Lebanon boil over.

German police detain Syrian for ʼpreparingʼ explosives attack A 19-year-old Syrian has been detained on suspicion of planning to carry out a terror attack in Germany. The man was ready to carry out the attack using highly explosive materials, according to prosecutors.

A Syrian man suspected of planning a terror attack was detained in the northern German city of Schwerin, the Federal Prosecutorʼs Office said on Tuesday in a statement. The suspect, identified as 19-year-old Yamen A., was taken into police custody. Prosecutors said in a statement that the teen is "strongly suspected of having planned an Islamist-motivated attack" that involved "highly explosive" materials.

Authorities added that Yamen A. had already "concretely prepared" the attack. In July this year, the suspect made the decision to detonate an explosive device in Germany "in order to kill and injure as many people as possible," the statement read. Yamen A. then began to procure components to make an explosive device, including chemicals. It was not initially clear whether the suspect had selected a location to carry out the attack, prosecutors said. They added that there are no signs that Yamen A. was connected toany terrorist organizations. German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the suspectʼs arrest prevented a "serious terror attack in Germany."

Sports Lewis Hamilton avoided tax on private jet Paradise Papers reveal the F1 world champion’s advisers set up an offshore scheme through which he received €3.75 million in questionable VAT refunds. British tax authorities are set to launch an investigation.

Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton avoided paying tax on his €19m private jet, according to documents released as part of theParadise Papers. The 32-year old was given a €3.75m VAT refund when importing the Bombadier Challenger 605 to the Isle of Man in 2013. According to reports, accountancy firm EY and Appleby helped Hamilton and dozens of

other wealthy clients to set-up phony leasing businesses through which they rented their own jets. The scheme is being investigated by HM Revenue and Customs. "As a global sportsman who pays tax in a large number of countries, Lewis relies upon a team of professional advisers who manage his affairs.” The statement read. "Those advisers have assured Lewis that everything is above board and the matter is now in the hands of his lawyers."Hamilton’s representatives have denied any wrongdoing, claiming that a tax consultancy reviewed the structure and found it to be lawful.

Louis C.K., Steven Seagal latest stars to face sexual assault allegations Comedian Louis C.K. and actor Steven Seagal have joined Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey among the Hollywood figures accused of sexual misconduct.

Doubts now hang over the release of Louis C.K.ʼs latest film. News Louis C.K., Steven Seagal latest stars to face sexual assault allegations Comedian Louis C.K. and actor Steven Seagal have joined Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey among the Hollywood figures accused of sexual misconduct. Doubts now hang over the release of Louis C.K.ʼs latest film.

Chinaʼs C919 passenger jet completes first long-haul flight Chinaʼs home-made C919 passenger jet has touched down safely after its first long-distance test flight.

It brought the Asian nation one step closer to competing directly with aircraft giants Boeing and Airbus.

Chinaʼs self-developed C919 passenger plane successfully carried out its first long-distance test flight on Friday.

The country viewed the success as a milestone moving the jet into an airworthiness certification phase.

weather today BUDAPEST

5 / 16 °C Precipitation: 0 mm

264/2017 • 11, November 2017 Weekend issue

White rhino killed by suspected

Germany coach Joachim Löw to experiment against England

poachers at French zoo

The Germany head coach admitted he has some idea of what his squad will look like but expects some tough choices.

The break-in at the Thoiry wildlife park near Paris is suspected as poaching. Rhino horns fetch thousands on the black market.

Zookeepers at the Thoiry zoo and wildlife park made the grisly discovery on Tuesday after an overnight attack.

"Staff left the rhino enclosure on Monday. When they returned on Tuesday, an animal had been killed and its two horns had been sawn off," a police spokeswoman told news agency AFP. The 4-year-old white male rhinoceros named Vince had been shot three times in the head. His main horn was stolen, the policewoman said. The second horn was partially cut, leading the zoo to believe the poacher or poachers may have been disturbed or suffered equipment failure. The zoo said the intruders broke through a gate and forced through two doors to reach the animal, without disturbing the five staff members who live on site. The wildlife park is also equipped with security cameras.

Player power boosted by new FIFA contract rules A new "wide-ranging" agreement between FIFA and FIFPro aimed at protecting the rights of professional players was announced on Monday. Sports Player power boosted by new FIFA contract rules A new "wide-ranging" agreement between FIFA and FIFPro aimed at protecting the rights of professional players was announced on Monday. World football governing body FIFA and players union FIFPro have reached an agreement on a "wideranging six-year cooperation" aimed at improving the rights of professional players. New rules will ease dispute resolution between clubs and players in the instances of wages not being paid or players being banned from training with team-mates.

Speaking at a press conference in Berlin on Thursday, Germany coach Joachim Löw said he wanted to get a good look at some of his players in his sideʼs final two international matches of the year, the first of which is a friendly against England at Wembley Stadium on Friday. "We want to play well and a result is an important issue," Löw said. "But I want to experiment a bit. We still have a few games to prepare until the World Cup." Löw hasrecalled Mario Götze and Ilkay Gündogan, who were in Germanyʼs World

Cup squad and have not played for the national team in a year, as well as Sami Khedira and Mesut Özil for Fridayʼs friendly against England, and the one against France next week. He also called in defender Marcel Halstenberg into his side and said he would give the Leipzig left back his first start against England. "I am planning with him from the start. I took Marcel Halstenberg with us for that reason. He has been playing very well at Leipzig. He is good in the air, a strong physical player," Löw said.

When cold viruses take over the office! tʼs a familiar sight, co-workers with noses running and tissues piled high on their desks. But theyʼre just drawing it out for themselves and exposing others to the risk of infection.

Ideally, the thing to do with a cold is to stay home a few days and get plenty of rest. But nowadays, many sufferers bring their runny noses and coughs into work with them to prove they really are sick. Then, when the bug makes the rounds, everyone else does the same. Not only are they exposing their co-workers to infection but causing the company even bigger headaches when more and more employees call in sick. And the risk of infection is higher than many people think. Germs collect on door handles,

keyboards, telephones and everything else people touch with their hands. Itʼs hard to say exactly how long germs can live outside the body. The best strategy is to wash your hands persistently and regularly with soap and water for at least 25 seconds each time.

And when somebody sneezes? They spray germs much farther than the two meters previously thought, so it wonʼt help much to duck and cover. Thatʼs the finding from research conducted

by John Bush and his fellow scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They used high-speed cameras to show how a sneeze unleashes a fine shower of particles throughout the area. But entirely invisible is the spreading gas-like cloud of viruses carried in microscopic droplets.

Martin Day Wine Festival in Hotel Gellért Tamás Széll - the most well known gastro hero in Hungary, who proved to the world that Hungarian chefs are also artists of the “Culinarium” – will introduce the mysteries of fine dining at the Martin Day Wine Festival of Danubius Hotel, accompanied by the golden trio of the chefs from Gerbeaud, Gundel and Gellért, with plenty of wine and foaming beer, posing a drinking challenge to everyone. All that between November 9 and12.

H-1056 Budapest, Só u. 6.

Telephone: +36 1 577 0700 Fax: +36 1 577 0710 bhzinfo@zeinahotels.com www.boutiquehotelbudapest.com

Published by: Mega Media Kft. 1075 Budapest, Madách I. út 13-14. +36 1 398 0344 www.hotelujsag.hu

Mourning geckos donʼt need males Some animal species can do very well without male partners. Mourning geckos are just one of many examples. Their reproduction method — known as parthenogenesis — is our natural phenomenon of the week.

More or less once every two to four weeks over her five-year lifespan, the female mourning gecko goes through the same ritual: The reptile begins the search for a well-protected place to hide one or two of her eggs. Fifty to 75 days later, new geckos hatch from these eggs. Not very spectacular, right? But the nocturnal climbers look exactly like their mother. And if they lay egg, once they reach maturity after eight months, their offspring will look exactly like them. Thatʼs because mourning geckos clone themselves — and all of them are female.

No males are required to reproduce.

That reptiles do not need males is not totally unusual in nature and various other species do the same. Some crabs, snails, and plants as well as komodo dragons and single-celled organisms — all of them come into the world alive and well without a male.

The process behind this is called parthenogenesis which means something like "virgin birth."

German job agency seeks minimum wage worker to trawl child porn photos from home A Bavarian job ad sounded enticing until potential employees were told what it actually involved. Investigators have questioned the practise of unskilled, minimum wage workers sifting child porn collections from home. A German business that posted job ads seeking workers to sift through troves of child pornography images came under scrutiny this week for its questionable handling of child abuse images. A data analysis business in the Bavarian city of Augsburg offered potential employees the chance to work from home in exchange for €450 ($525) a month, as part of a so-calledtax-free Minijob. The job advertisement called for a "forensic image analyzer," according to local news outlets. Applicants needed their own computer and some computer experience. They would be given four to five days of training after which they could work from home.