News in Brief (2024-02-10)

FE Team | Published: February 09, 2024 21:51:20

World's biggest flying lab comes to Asia on air pollution mission
CLARK (Philippines), Feb 09: NASA has kicked off a series of marathon flights in Asia with the world's biggest flying laboratory, in an ambitious mission to improve the models that help to forecast and fight air pollution. Millions of deaths each year are linked to air pollution, and improving the ability to identify its sources and behaviour can lead to more accurate warning systems for the public. Starting this week in the Philippines, the US agency's DC-8 is flying for up to eight hours at a time-sometimes just 15 metres (50 feet) from the ground-to swoop up air particles for study. — AFP
UK's cancer-hit King Charles 'doing extremely well': Camilla
LONDON, Feb 09: Queen Camilla, wife of Britain's King Charles III, said Thursday that her husband who has been diagnosed with cancer is "doing extremely well" under the circumstances. King Charles has been "very touched by all the letters and the messages the public have been sending from everywhere", she said during a trip in southern England. "Well he's doing extremely well under the circumstances," Camilla said, adding that all the kind messages the king had received were "very cheering". — AFP
Togo legislative elections set for April
LOME, Feb 09: Togo will hold legislative and regional elections on April 13, the government announced Thursday night on state television. President Faure Gnassingbe had vowed more than a year ago to hold polls within 12 months. The last legislative elections, in 2018, were boycotted by the opposition, which denounced "irregularities" during the ballot. — Reuters