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Robot kills man at Volkswagen plant in Germany –
A robot has killed a man at a Volkswagen car factory in Germany. The 22-year-old worker died from injuries he sustained when he was trapped by a robotic arm and crushed against a metal plate. The man, who has not been named, was part of a team that was setting up the automated machinery at the factory in Kassel, north of Frankfurt, according to Volkswagen. The robot in question is a mechanical arm that moves car parts into place, said Heiko Hillwig, a spokesman for the company. [Daily Telegraph]

Wimbledon 2015: Rafael Nadal dumped out of tournament by inspired Dustin Brown –
Wimbledon has a new cult hero. Dustin Brown, in a blur of flying dreadlocks and pure inspiration, on Thursday night produced one of the most thrilling upsets ever witnessed on these lawns by defeating the great Rafael Nadal in four breathlessly brilliant sets. With a combination of Sampras-esque serving and improvised groundstrokes that would not have looked out of place on the local park courts, the Jamaican-born German, who enraptured Centre Court by his Rastafarian cool, found an abundance of raw adrenalin to close out his astonishing 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 triumph. [Daily Telegraph] See Top Twitter Trends
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Selfies to replace passwords in Mastercard online payments trial –
Mastercard is testing new app that could allow customers to make purchases online by taking a selfie rather than entering a password. Currently, Mastercard customers use a system called SecureCode to verify their identity while shopping online. This requires them to enter a password at the point of sale. Participants in Mastercard’s trial will be prompted to snap a photograph of their face using the Mastercard app on their smartphone at the online checkout point, rather than entering a password. This app then converts the photo into 1s and 0s using facial recognition technology, and transmits it over the internet to MasterCard, which compares it with a stored code representing the cardholder’s face. If the two codes match up, then the purchase will be approved. [Daily Telegraph]

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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Sinai insurgency: July 2015 Sinai attacks
  • Egypt vows to continue an offensive on the Sinai Peninsula until ISIL militants have been removed. A hundred people have been killed in fighting in the past two days. (BBC)
  • Egyptian Air Force air strikes in the Sinai Peninsula kill at least 23 ISIS-linked militants a day after the deadliest clashes in the region in years.(Reuters)
• Boko Haram
  • Boko Haram gunmen kill scores of people in attacks on the Nigerian towns of Kukawa and Musarram in recent days. (Agencies via WA Today)
• Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • Airstrikes on Sanaa kill eight, according to Houthi officials. (AP)
• An attack on a convoy in northern Mali kills six UN Peacekeepers. (AP)

Business and economy

• Deepwater Horizon oil spill
  • London-based BP agrees, pending court approval, to pay $US18.7 billion to compensate the United States government and the five Gulf Coast states–Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas–for damages stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The settlement includes a civil penalty of $US5.5 billion under the Clean Water Act. (Fortune) (AP via Washington Post)
• According to a statement from Ukraine‘s nuclear energy authority, Yadernoye Toplivo, a private U.S. nuclear energy company, ConverDyn, could begin helping Ukraine in the production of enriched uranium (specifically, jointly building the uranium hexafluoride production facilities), which at lower or moderate levels is used for peaceful nuclear fuel purposes in civilian nuclear reactors. This comes a day after Russia shut off natural gassupplies to the country after the two failed to reach agreement; Poland and Slovakia can provide their needs until the winter months. (MSN)

Disasters and accidents

• Sinking of the Kim Nirvana
  • The Kim Nirvana ferry capsizes off the Philippines en route from the city of Ormoc to Camotes island with 173 people onboard. So far at least 33 people are confirmed dead while at least 50 people have been rescued. (AFP via ABC Online), (BBC)

Law and crime

• The Washington Navy Yard, in the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C., was locked down after a 7:29 a.m. report of gunfire in the building that was the site of the 2013 Washington Navy Yard shooting, which killed 12 and injured three. The police declared “all clear” around 10:00 a.m. after a thorough search found no signs of a shooter or any weapons. Earlier this week, U.S. Homeland Security had issued a warning about possibleJuly 4th Holiday incidents. (MSN) (CNN) (Washington Post)

Politics and elections

• United States presidential election, 2016
  • Former Senator Jim Webb announces that he will seek the Democratic Party nomination. (Fox News)

Health and medicine

• Health officials announced that a 21-year-old woman from Bishop, California had died June 20th at Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno,Nevada from cardiac arrest caused by the rare brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri. Originally diagnosed as meningitis, primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) cases are rare but generally fatal. (Reno Gazette-Journal) (Inquisitr.com)
• The American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Stroke Association publish guidelines saying that, as emergency treatment for stroke, the use of stent retrievers (blood clot removal devices), when given at specialized centers, after the use of human tissue plasminogen activator(tPA) to treat some types of ischemic strokes involving blockages in the main arteries that supply the human brain (cerebral arteries), can significantly improve prognosis (mortality and morbidity rates and the chances of avoiding handicap or disability and regaining full or better function). (AHA)
• The U.S.’s National Institute of Medicine (IOM), a branch of the U.S. National Academies, releases a report calling for wider and improved training in basic life support (BLS): rapid and correct cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), for the unconscious with no breathing and no pulse, followed as soon as possible, if available and a shockable rhythm is present, crucial defibrillation by an increasingly common automated external defibrillator (AED). They advocate for a major public education effort, making it a high school graduation requirement, and for more training among seniors. (Huffington Post), (IOM)

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