London: Researchers at the University of Sheffield in the UK have been awarded a whopping 2.1 million euros to help develop a technology to monitor how well people walk, a vital sign of health and wellbeing. The project, which also includes researchers from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, involves developing a system that uses small sensors worn on the body so that people's walk can be easily monitored and assessed by doctors and health professionals. PTI
Iranian who removed headscarf gets 1-year jail
Tehran: The lawyer for an Iranian woman who removed her obligatory Islamic headscarf in a public protest says she has been sentenced to a year in prison but pardoned by the supreme leader. Vida Movahed, 32, was dubbed the "Girl of Enghelab Street" and briefly arrested in 2017 after she took off her headscarf and held it in the air. Authorities detained 29 women on similar charges the following year. AP
Bomb from WW-II era defused; hundreds evacuated
Germany: Some 600 people were evacuated from their houses in the old city of Frankfurt so that specialists could deffuse a World War-II era bomb, which was recently discovered in the Main River. A news agency reported the bomb was defused — as planned — underwater on Sunday. The Police said, "The bomb is no longer a danger." Firefighters had discovered the American 250-kg bomb during diving training in the river on Tuesday. AP
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