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Every year, around 2.3 million new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed worldwide. The disease “caused an estimated 670,000 deaths globally in 2022,” according to the World Health Organization (WHO). “Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in women — despite mammography screening,” said Christiane Kuhl, the director of the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at RWTH Aachen University Hospital. “The explanation is that mammography still fails to detect many cases of breast cancer, or is not detecting them early enough,” she said, explaining that fast-growing aggressive tumors in particular were often not picked up and…

Japan has recorded a protest with China on Sunday after Chinese fighter jets directed fire-control radar at Japanese fighter jets near Japan’s Okinawa islands. Japan’s Defense Minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, denounced the Chinese military’s moves as “dangerous”. “These radar illuminations went beyond what is necessary for the safe flight of aircraft,” he said. “The occurrence of such an incident is extremely regrettable,” the minister added. “We have lodged a strong protest with the Chinese side and demanded strict preventive measures.” A radar lock is considered as one of the most threatening acts by a military aircraft as it signals a potential attack,…

Finland, ranked the world’s happiest nation for eight years and traditionally one of the European Union’s most fiscally disciplined countries, has just received a wake-up call from Brussels. The European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm, last week ordered Helsinki to devise a credible plan to resolve the country’s budget deficit, which has crossed the EU’s limit of 3% of gross domestic product (GDP). The Commission said Finland’s deficit was projected to reach 4.5% of GDP in 2025, while the country’s debt burden was set to hit 90% of GDP next year, up by nearly half since 2019. The Nordic nation, whose annual economy is worth €300 billion ($349…

The 2026 World Cup draw for the tournament in the United States,  Canada and Mexico was an event very much in danger of losing sight of its true purpose. Across the 120-minute spectacle, US President Donald Trump won a FIFA Peace Prize, German supermodel Heidi Klum and co-host Kevin Hart navigated a number of awkward exchanges and FIFA President Gianni Infantino called FIFA “the official happiness provider for humanity.” Just shy of 90 minutes into the event, the actual business of the day began. With North American sports stars Tom Brady, Wayne Gretzky, Shaquille O’Neal and Aaron Judge completing the draw, the football dreams of nations across the world became…

Pakistan and Afghanistan exchanged heavy fire along their border late on Friday, officials from both sides said. The flare-up comes days after peace talks ended without a breakthrough. No casualties have been immediately confirmed. Key points Both sides exchanged fire late Friday Each accuses the other of launching unprovoked attacks No casualties were immediately reported The exchange came after talks in Saudi Arabia failed to produce progress October clashes were among the deadliest since the Taliban takeover What do we know about the border clashes? Afghan Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said Pakistani forces attacked positions in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province on…

As part of the UNESCO-listed Museum Island, the Pergamon Museum is one of Berlin’s “must-see” attractions. But seeing it isn’t so easy: It has been completely closed for renovation since October 2023, and many parts will remain closed for 14 to 20 years — until 2037 to 2043. However, some of the museum’s main highlights will be greeting visitors a decade before the rest of the building’s refurbishment is completed. The north wing of the museum and the impressive Pergamon Altar hall, housing the famed Ancient Greek temple entrance for which the museum is named, are due to reopen in early 2027. The hall has been inaccessible…

For Gerald Wissel, founder and CEO of Hamburg, Germany-based aviation consulting firm Airborne Consulting, a recently announced ticket tax cut for airlines operating in Germany “won’t reach passengers” because it is “purely symbolic.” “The state is giving up revenue, but passengers will not see any of the tax reduction,” Wissel predicted in an interview with DW. Although airlines would save around €15 ($17.5) per ticket — potentially up to €50 in certain fare classes — dynamic pricing systems mean those savings are unlikely to show up on customers’ bills, he said. Wissel argues a lack of aircraft, not fees, is driving airlines’…

The 14 clubs in the Women’s Bundesliga have announced a plan to go it alone in establishing a league association similar to the German Football League (DFL), which operates the men’s Bundesliga.  The new association is to be known as the “Frauen-Bundesliga FBL e.V.,” and is to be formally established in a meeting at Frankfurt’s Waldstadion next Wednesday, December 10. The stated purpose of the new organization is to take the league’s marketing and professionalization to a new level. The announcement came as something of a bombshell, not so much because of its timing, a day after Germany was chosen…

The United States military said it killed four men in a strike on a suspected drug-trafficking boat in international waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, part of a campaign that has killed at least 87 people. “Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was carrying illicit narcotics and transiting along a known narco-trafficking route in the eastern Pacific,” the US Southern Command said in a statement. In a video posted by the US military, a small boat moving across the water is struck by a large explosion. The camera then zooms out to show the vessel engulfed in flames and…

On November 25, 1960, three sisters — Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal — were found dead at the bottom of a ravine near La Cumbre, a mountainous stretch of road in the Dominican Republic. The jeep they were traveling in had plunged 150 meters (about 500 feet) into a mangled heap. It looked like an accident — except their bodies, and that of their driver, bore signs of beating and strangulation. The Dominican Republic was then under the rule of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, a dictator whose over 30-year regime was marked by censorship, surveillance and brutal repression. Dissidents were often…