At Spain’s Institute of Science and Concrete Technology, engineers are trying to find ways to keep buildings and bridges from falling down. The lab is getting attention after the deadly earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria in February.
Concrete doesn’t get a lot of love in the modern world. You don’t hear people admiring the beauty of concrete building work, or small children wanting to grow up to be cement salespeople. Probably the only time that concrete gets a mention in popular culture is as a form of footware for unlucky gangsters. That’s wrong.
A woman was sentenced by elders to a public gang rape in her village in the West Bengal area to punish her for an affair. India’s Supreme Court is investigating. A signal room in London’s Underground gets flooded, with quick-drying cement. And an artist is painting and placing cut-outs of immigrant workers around LA. All that and more, in today’s Global Scan.
Marc Hindry heads up a French asbestos victims group, Andeva. He tells anchor, Marco Werman, that he has mixed feelings about the sentencing in Italy of two executives guilty of causing the deaths of more than 2,000 asbestos victims through negligence.