NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – Every person, every mouse, every dog, has one unmistakable sign of ageing: hair loss. But why does that happen? Rui Yi, a professor of pathology at Northwestern University, set out to answer the question. A generally accepted hypothesis about stem cells says they replenish tissues and organs, including hair, but they […]
TORONTO (REUTERS) – Canadian police reopened a major road bridge between Canada and the United States after largely shutting it down for hours on Monday (Oct 4) to search for possible explosives in a vehicle, resulting in long delays for truckers at the busiest international crossing in North America. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The Czech prime minister, the king of Jordan and the chairman of India’s biggest conglomerate were among global figures denying wrongdoing on Monday (Oct 4) after the leak of what major news outlets called a secret trove of documents about offshore finance. India said it would investigate cases linked to the data […]
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video A memorial honoring the late George Floyd in New York City was defaced by a vandal on a skateboard who threw paint all over the statue, surveillance video shows. The unidentified man can be seen skating up the south plaza […]
The hundreds of women’s marches staged across the country over the weekend had a clear rallying cry: Don’t let America go the way of Texas. One Long Beach demonstrator held a sign that read, “Coronavirus has more reproductive rights in Texas than women do!” A near-total ban on abortions enacted last month in Texas appears […]
An emergency clean-up effort is under way in Huntington Beach, California, after a massive oil spill described by the city’s mayor as an “environmental catastrophe”. More than 572,000 litres – 3,000 barrels – of heavy crude spilled into the Pacific Ocean between Huntington Beach Pier and Newport Beach, a distance of more than five miles. […]
SEATTLE (NYTIMES) – In the middle of the night, Uyen Nguyen trudged through a grassy marshland with her mother and three siblings until they reached the edge of the ocean, where a small, dilapidated fishing boat was beached on the sand. It set off with 31 people packed on it. It was 1985, a decade […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – A massive leak of financial documents was published by several major news organisations on Sunday (Oct 3) that allegedly tie world leaders to secret stores of wealth, including King Abdullah of Jordan, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The dump of more than 11.9 million records, […]
Thousands of people marched on the US Supreme Court to demand continued access to abortions, after conservative politicians and judges moved against it. Demonstrators descended on the streets surrounding the court in Washington, chanting ‘my body, my choice’. It was one of hundreds of protests over the issue nationwide, with women expressing sadness that they […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – Newer variants of the coronavirus such as alpha and delta are highly contagious, infecting far more people than the original virus. Two new studies offer a possible explanation: The virus is evolving to spread more efficiently through air. The realisation that the coronavirus is airborne indoors transformed efforts to contain the […]