Oscar-winning filmmaker and artist Sir Steve McQueen will be among a host of high-achievers to be recognised with royal honours at Windsor Castle on Tuesday. The 12 Years A Slave director will receive a knighthood for services to art and film. For the biographical drama, which starred Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup, an American free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery, Sir Steve won the Oscar for best picture in 2014, the first black filmmaker to do so. The 52-year-old is also

BEIJING( REUTERS)-Health regulators in five countries are examining a prenatal test that collects the DNA of women and foetuses for research, while some doctors that promoted it and clinics that sell it say they were unaware the company that produces it also conducts research with the Chinese military. The test, made by Shenzhen-based BGI Group and marketed under the brand name NIFTY, is sold in at least 52 countries.... The European Data Protection Supervisor said it was monitoring the situati