Qatar win gold, silver and bronze medals
Qatar team have won three gold, silver and bronze medals at the judo championship in Beirut. Abdulaziz al-Maraghi won the gold medal in heavyweight, while Amna Abdulrahman won silver medal and the bronze was won by Ahmed al-Yafei. The Qatar Judo, Taekwondo and Karate Federation, headed by Khalid Hamad al-Attiyah, has developed a strategy to expand the players base in order to be present at all regional and continental forums, with national teams in different age groups. Meanwhile, Qatar’s Abdulaziz Balghaith yesterday won a gold medal in the 1m freestyle escalator, on the first day of the 9th Asian Championship in Tashkent.
ASIA | Unrest
More than 1,000 killed in Myanmar: UN
More than 1,000 people may already have been killed in Myanmar, mostly minority Rohingya Muslims – more than twice the government’s total – a senior United Nations representative said yesterday, urging Aung San Suu Kyi to speak out. In the last two weeks alone 270,000 mostly Rohingya civilians have fled to Bangladesh, overwhelming refugee camps that were already bursting at the seams, the UN said. Others have died trying to flee the fighting in Rakhine state, where witnesses say entire villages have been burned in a military-led crackdown. The genocide of Rohingya Muslims has outraged countries around the world.
AMERICA | Invention
Pen that identifies cancer in 10 seconds
Scientists have developed a pen-like device that accurately identifies cancerous tissue during surgery in 10 seconds that improve treatments and reduce the chances of cancer recurrence. The MasSpec Pen, developed by researchers from University of Texas, Austin in the US, is a handheld instrument that gives surgeons precise diagnostic information about what tissue to cut or preserve during surgery. The current methods for diagnosing cancers and determining the boundary between cancer and normal tissue during surgery, is slow and sometimes inaccurate. Each sample takes 30 minutes or more to prepare and interpret by a pathologist, which increases the risk of infection in patients.
