News Headlines - 12 July 2017
▽Drinking more coffee can lead to a longer life, new studies say - CNN.com
One study surveyed more than 520,000 people in 10 European countries, making it the largest study to date on coffee and mortality, and found that drinking more coffee could significantly lower a person's risk of mortality.
The second study was more novel, as it focused on nonwhite populations. After surveying over 185,000 African-Americans, Native Americans, Hawaiians, Japanese-Americans, Latinos and whites, the researchers found that coffee increases longevity across various races.
▽North Korea supplies high-voltage electricity to border fence - UPI.com
North Korea has installed high-voltage electric fencing at its border with China, posing even more challenges for people seeking to leave the country or smuggle goods in from the outside world.
▽Ex-Solidarity leader Wałęsa returns home from hospital - National
Former Polish president and ex-Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa on Wednesday returned home from hospital after undergoing checks.
▽Iceberg twice size of Luxembourg breaks off Antarctic ice shelf | The Guardian
A giant iceberg twice the size of Luxembourg has broken off an ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula and is now adrift in the Weddell Sea... The Larsen C ice shelf is more than 12% smaller in area than before the iceberg broke off – or “calved” – an event that researchers say has changed the landscape of the Antarctic peninsula and left the Larsen C ice shelf at its lowest extent ever recorded.
Six members of a single family — four adults and two young boys — and four other swimmers had been swept away by powerful and deceptive rip currents churning below the water’s surface... On shore, the human chain began forming, first with just five volunteers, then 15, then dozens more as the rescue mission grew more desperate... She and her husband started with the children, passing Noah and Stephen back along the human chain, which passed them all the way to the beach.
