A donor kidney has been delivered to surgeons at a US hospital via drone, in the first flight of its kind. Many see huge potential for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) delivering medical products, with some drones already doing so in Africa. The US flight required a specially-designed drone which was able to maintain and monitor the organ.It is hoped that ...

Photo: Owners of stores at the building inspect the damage of their destroyed multi-story building in Gaza City, Saturday, May 4, 2019. Palestinian militants on Saturday fired over 200 rockets into Israel, drawing dozens of retaliatory airstrikes on targets across the Gaza Strip in a round of intense fighting that broke a monthlong lull between the bitter enemies. Three Palestinians, ...

Photo: This Saturday, May 4, 2019, photo provided on Sunday, May 5, 2019, by the North Korean government shows a test of weapon systems, in North Korea. South Korea, May 5 : North Korean state media on Sunday showed leader Kim Jong Un observing live-fire drills of long-range multiple rocket launchers and what appeared to be a new short-range ballistic ...

Photo: An opponent to Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro holds a sign reading in Spanish “Next exit, Miraflores”, in reference to the Miraflores presidential palace, during a march in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, May 4, 2019. Venezuela, May 5 : Seven Venezuelan military officers have been killed when their helicopter crashed while heading to a state where President Nicolas Maduro appeared alongside ...

Photo: Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May speaks at the Welsh Conservative party conference at Llangollen Pavilion, Llangollen, Wales, Friday May 3, 2019. London, May 4 : Britain’s dominant political parties took a hammering in local elections as Brexit-weary voters expressed frustration over the country’s stalled departure from the European Union, according to updated results Friday. Almost three years after U.K. ...

Photo: Medics and protestors move a serious wounded girl, who was shot in her head by Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel, into the treatment room of Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Friday, May 3, 2019. Gaza City, May 4 : Four Palestinians, including two Hamas militants, were killed in an Israeli airstrike and ...

Photo: Authorities work at the scene of a plane in the water in Jacksonville, Fla., Friday, May 3, 2019. May 4 : A charter plane carrying 143 people and traveling from Cuba to north Florida ended up in a river at the end of a runway Friday night, though no critical injuries or deaths were reported, officials said. A Boeing ...

Photo: Japan’s new Emperor Naruhito, left, waves with Empress Masako, right, to well-wishers from the balcony during his first public appearance with his imperial families at Imperial Palace Saturday, May 4, 2019, in Tokyo. Tokyo, May 4 : Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has greeted the public for the first time since his succession, expressing hope for Japan to keep pursuing peace. ...

Photo: The logo for social media giant Facebook, appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York’s Times Square. San Francisco, May 4 : The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook plans a cryptocurrency-based payment system that it could launch for billions of users worldwide. The system would use a digital coin similar to bitcoin, but different in that ...

Isis bride Shamima Begum. File photo London, May 3 : Isis bride Shamima Begum could be hanged for terrorism offences if she comes to Bangladesh, reports British daily The Independent quoting Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen. Nineteen-year-old Shamima who left the UK to join Isis in Syria in 2015 was stripped of her British citizenship by the home secretary, ...