News Headlines - 11 July 2019
▽BMW shifts engine production to Germany from UK ahead of Brexit | Financial Times
BMW shifts engine production to Germany from UK ahead of Brexit. BMW has redirected engine production to Germany from the UK ahead of Britain's departure from the EU, one of the company's most senior executives said.
▽Russian Nuclear Sub Wreck's Radiation 100K Higher Than Normal, Scientists Say - The Moscow Times
Norwegian scientists have discovered radiation levels 100,000 times higher than normal near a Soviet-era nuclear submarine that sank 30 years ago in the Arctic, Norway’s TV2 broadcaster reported Tuesday.
The Komsomolets sank in a section of the Barents Sea considered to be one of the world's largest fishing areas in 1989, killing 42 of its 69 crew. Concerns about contamination from its nuclear reactor have not yet given way to an actual environmental crisis, and readings taken as recently as 2008 have shown no indication of a radiation leak.
▽Autonomous Lexus LS Will Begin Testing On Public Roads In Belgium | Carscoops
After successfully completing similar tests in the United States and Japan, Toyota has now taken to Europe with an autonomous vehicle. This Lexus LS, fitted with all the necessary gear to drive on its own, will be put to use in Brussels’ (Belgium) city center.
Equipped with LIDAR, radars, cameras and high-precision positioning system, the autonomous LS will complete a fixed loop for the next 13 months.
Human presence is a must though, so a driver will sit behind the wheel, ready to take control at any time. The driver will be accompanied by an operator, who will supervise the system.
▽Hayabusa-2: Japanese spacecraft makes final touchdown on asteroid - BBC News
A Japanese spacecraft has touched down on a faraway asteroid, where it will collect space rock that may hold clues to how the Solar System evolved.
The successful contact with the Ryugu asteroid was met with relief and cheering in the control room at Japan's space agency, JAXA.
It is the second touchdown for the robotic Hayabusa-2 craft, which grabbed rocks from the asteroid in February.
▽Johnny Kitagawa: Japanese boy band mogul dies at 87 - BBC News
His artists also went on to star in television programmes and his talent agency eventually grew to become the most powerful in Japan, with a virtual monopoly on the lucrative boy-band market... In 1999, Japanese magazine the Shukan Bunshun published a series of articles accusing him of sexually abusing several boys at his agency.
Kitagawa denied all the charges and launched a libel suit against the magazine which he won, though that judgement was later partially overturned. He was never charged with any crime.
