Pope Francis visits regions of Iraq once held by Islamic State. Chuck Yeager: First pilot to fly supersonic dies aged 97. Coronavirus: 98-year-old doctor working through the lockdown. News BBC News Navigation Sections Media player Media playback is unsupported on your device Coronavirus: 98-year-old doctor working through the lockdown Video Coronavirus: 98-year-old doctor working through the lockdown Dr Christian Chenay continues to work in a high-risk environment, despite the danger of Covid-19 for someone of his age.
France’s oldest doctor is still making weekly trips to a retirement home to provide support, and says his decision to keep working is partly down to France’s shortage of local family doctors. (Photo: Dr Christian Chenay in Paris. Video produced by Daniel South and Lisa Louis. Watch more personal stories during the coronavirus outbreak: Your Coronavirus Stories 29 Apr 2020. Jack Welch: Legendary GE boss dies at 84. Image copyright Getty Images Jack Welch, the charismatic boss who transformed General Electric (GE) into America's most valuable company, has died aged 84.
Mr Welch, who ran the US conglomerate from 1981 until 2001, was once named "manager of the century" for his successes. Nicknamed "Neutron Jack" for his cost-cutting, he became a best selling author and confidante of US presidents. Under him, GE's market value grew from $12bn to $410bn (£321bn). On hearing the news, President Donald Trump Tweeted that Mr Welch was a "business legend" and a "friend and supporter". Image Copyright @realDonaldTrump @realDonaldTrump. The boss who put everyone on 70K. Image copyright Gravity In 2015, the boss of a card payments company in Seattle introduced a $70,000 minimum salary for all of his 120 staff - and personally took a pay cut of $1m.
Five years later he's still on the minimum salary, and says the gamble has paid off. Dan Price was hiking with his friend Valerie in the Cascade mountains that loom majestically over Seattle, when he had an uncomfortable revelation. As they walked, she told him that her life was in chaos, that her landlord had put her monthly rent up by $200 and she was struggling to pay her bills. It made Price angry. Mikhail Gorbachev tells the BBC: World in ‘colossal danger’ See Bono Talk U2’s ‘Bullet the Blue Sky’ Origins. Throughout U2‘s career, they’ve been human rights activists, both through music and deed.
Chirac: Political chameleon who charmed France. Image copyright Getty Images Anyone who lived in France around the turn of the century will remember the special persona, a kind of avuncular clan elder, adopted by Jacques Chirac for his presidential broadcasts.
With an air of almost pained sincerity, he would furrow his brow at the latest negative turn of events. Then in rich, reassuring tones came the unvarying intro: "Mes chers compatriotes…" (My dear compatriots). How many people fell for his Gallic charm, one will never know. Plenty of French men and women regarded Jacques Chirac as one of the biggest political charlatans of all time. No, for his critics the president was something else, but worse.
But even if we accept the version of Jacques Chirac as a kind of empty-headed hypnotherapist, sleep-walking his country into second-tier status, we still need to explain how he got away with it. The Dalai Lama on Trump, women and going home. Media playback is unsupported on your device He is, without a doubt, one of the best-known people on the planet.
In an age where celebrity is worshipped, the Dalai Lama is a faith leader who has become a spiritual superstar. As he approaches his 84th birthday, the monk who has handed out millions of handshakes and crafted as many inspirational quotes, is candid and at times shocking. I met him at his residence high in the mountains, in the town of McLeod-Ganj near Dharamshala in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. For a man so revered - seen as superhuman by many - he was refreshingly down to Earth. And yet this is a man who has met world leaders and shared stages with pop stars and actors. Selah Schneiter: Ten-year-old girl scales El Capitan. In Harvard Speech, Merkel Rebukes Trump’s Worldview in All but Name. How computing's first 'killer app' changed everything. Image copyright Getty Images In 1978, a Harvard Business School student named Dan Bricklin was sitting in a classroom, watching his accounting lecturer filling in rows and columns on the blackboard.
Every time the lecturer changed a figure, he had to work down and across the grid on the board, erasing and rewriting other numbers to make everything add up, just as accounting clerks all over the world did every day in the pages of their ledgers. It's boring and repetitive work. A two-page spread across the open fold of the ledger is called a "spreadsheet". The output of several paper spreadsheets provides the input for larger, master spreadsheets. Changing any of the data in that chain might mean hours of work with a pencil, rubber, and a calculator. Like many business school students, Mr Bricklin had had a real job before going to Harvard - he'd worked as a programmer at Wang and DEC, two big players in 1970s computing.
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