A top secret military lab set up in Canada developed biological weapons for the Allies during World War II, according to a new documentary film aired late Tuesday by Radio-Canada.
In 1943 on Grosse-Ile, a small island in the Saint Lawrence seaway, Canadian scientists produced vast quantities of anthrax to be used in the fabrication of biological bombs.
The so-called Project N was one of three great secrets of the war, equal in scope to the Allies’ cracking of German signal codes and the development of an atomic bomb, filmmakers Vincent Frigon and Yves Bernard opined.
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British climber dies after scaling Mount Everest
Beijing : A British climber died hours after summiting Mount Everest as he was unable to descend and fellow climbers couldn’t bring him down, a Chinese official and his climbing team said on Thursday.
Peter Kinloch reached the top of the world’s highest mountain on the afternoon of May 25 but died early the next morning, according to SummitClimb, the British-based company he was climbing with.
“It is with our deepest regrets that we report the passing of Peter Kinloch, who was a bright spark in our team, and he is missed very much,” the company’s statement said.
It did not give details of Kinloch’s death.
—AP
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Infant born after 20-day labour in UK
New York : A British teenager gave birth to a healthy baby boy — after enduring 20 days of labour, possibly the longest ever.
Amy Buck was three and one-half months away from her due date when she began what’s believed to be the slowest labour ever. She gave birth to Daniel Barwell almost five months prematurely after suffering stomach pains and contractions for almost three weeks. Buck’s son, who was given only a 15 per cent chance of survival by doctors, weighed just 1 pound and 3 ounces at birth. —ANI