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We need to start taking vaping seriously as a way to save lives
It’s an unprecedented turnaround. E-cigarettes, once painted as a new and sinister health risk, are now being promoted as a public health lifeline – in the UK, at least. Yet if we want to make the most of their potential, healthcare staff need to put aside their preconceptions and embrace them more...
UK is going backwards on climate change action, advisers warn
The UK is going backwards on preparing for the impacts of global warming and is failing to deliver adequate action to meet old climate targets, let alone its new ‘net zero’ one, government advisers have warned.
In one of a pair of damning progress reports on government, the Committee on...
The scientific nutrition facts you really need to inform your diet
ONE morning a few months ago, I saw a headline that made my heart sink. It claimed that eggs can give you heart attacks.
It wasn’t that I was about to eat eggs for breakfast. It was because, as a medical journalist, I knew friends and family would soon ask me what to make of this claim....
Trump attacks Mueller, calls him 'a true never Trumper'
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ELIZABETH THOMAS
andKATHERINE FAULDERS
May 30, 2019, 10:54 AM ET
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WATCHChicago community activists want probe into possible...
How The U.S. Ranks Against Other Countries When It Comes To Protecting Kids
Children in the United States are better off now than they were 20 years ago, finds a new report from the nonprofit Save the Children that considers factors that “rob” children of their childhood.
Yet compared to many other developed nations, the U.S. still has a long way to go.
“The U.S....
On the Global Day of Parents, UNICEF is urging support for parents to give children ‘the best start in life’
According to UNICEF, the month of June is a time to focuse on raising awareness of the impact that protection, nutrition and stimulation have on brains in the earliest years of life.
It also supports parents in pressing governments and...
How anger over taxes and conscription is widening split among Israel’s Jews
It’s Thursday night at the Mahane Yehuda market in west Jerusalem, where the music is thumping and the drinks are flowing. When a bottle breaks, the crowds erupt with a chorus of “mazel tov”, or good luck.
But as some ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in traditional black suits, side locks, and thick...
New investigative documentary called ‘Borderless’ exposes migrant crisis in Europe including Ireland
Canadian journalist Lauren Southern has released another investigative documentary into the migrant crisis facing Europe called ‘Borderless’ on YouTube but there are fears it will soon be censored.
This new documentary follows another that exposed the desperate plight faced by white farmers in...
Bernie Sanders blasts Trump as 'racist' at forum on immigration
PASADENA, Calif. -- Immigration policy hasn't yet become the most talked-about issue among the Democratic presidential field, but four candidates came here Friday to blast President Donald Trump's record on the issue and present their own plans.
California's early March primary...
Millions of bats have died because of a fungal disease. These vaccines may help them.
Oral vaccines could give wild bats a better chance at surviving white-nose syndrome, the fungal disease that has ravaged bat colonies in North America. In lab tests conducted on captured little brown bats, vaccination led to fewer infected bats developing lesions and more of the bats...
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Edo Governor, Adams Oshiomhole set to re- marry Ethiopian model
19.05.2015 23:18
News by "Lahan Smith" from Lagos Nigeria Africa>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Since Edo State Governor, Adams
Oshiomhole, lost his first wife to
the cold hands of cancer in
December 2010, he has been living
life as it comes. The governor in 2013, while
celebrating his fifth year in...
Another wizard caught in the grips of the Madina police Accra, #Ghana #Africa
16.05.2015 15:53
NEWS UPDATE by "THE WORLD FACE. NEWS REPORTER"... "IBRAHIM SAMBO" from Ghana Africa : >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>Another Witch/wizard caught in the grips of the Madina police Accra,Ghana. A person...
How Will Green Party's Medicine Go Down?
07.03.2015 21:20
The Green Party has held its biggest ever
conference as the party tries to build
momentum ahead of the General Election.
With membership quadrupling in the last
year, 1,300 delegates packed out
Liverpool's conference centre.
It comes after a widely mocked radio
interview with leader Natalie...
The death of writing – if James Joyce were alive today he’d be working for Google
07.03.2015 21:03
If, five years ago, you’d asked me to name
the most important French mid-20th
century writer, I’d have mentally dipped a
hand into a hat in which names of
contenders such as Camus, Genet, Duras
and Robbe-Grillet had been tossed, and
pulled one out at random. Not any more.
Right now I’d answer...
A Nazi in the family
07.03.2015 21:00
My German grandmother lived in Berlin
during the war and saw through all but
one of the Nazis. Minna Niemann poured
scorn on the man she called Herr Hitler
and lambasted his odious deputies: “That
Goebbels is a gangster!” she would declare
indignantly. Within four walls, the woman
who was adored...
Women in low- and middle-income countries are 21% less likely to have a mobile phone than men,
07.03.2015 13:10
Women in low- and middle-
income countries are 21
percent less likely to have a
mobile phone than men,
according to a new report on
gender equality by the
United Nations, while overall
only 36 percent of women
(and 41 percent of men) have
access to the Internet.
The U.N. Women report, to
be...
CIA director John Brennan has ordered one of the largest reorganisations of the spy agency in its history.
07.03.2015 12:35
In a memo to staff, the director said that the
changes were driven by a wider range of
threats and the impact of technological
advancements.
The reforms aim to impose greater
accountability on managers and to improve
cyber capabilities.
The biggest change is the breakdown of the
division between...
Vietnam: Officials try to trace 'mystery amphibian'
06.03.2015 16:37
Officials in Vietnam are on the hunt for a
mystery amphibian which was apparently
captured and then sold in the north of the
country, it's reported.
Photos of the metre-long animal were posted
on Facebook by a man who says he pulled it
from a pond near his home in the Vinh Phuc
region, Thanh Nien...
Cancer is a major problem for women in Africa: Zuma said
05.03.2015 15:31
"The women in Africa suffer in many cases
from... the fear and stigma associated with
cancer," he said in a speech prepared for
delivery at the launch of the "Warriors Walk
for Cancer" initiative by his wife Tobeka
Madiba Zuma's foundation.
Zuma said women with cancer often suffered
discrimination...
"A good education can lift you...into a life you never could have imagined"
05.03.2015 15:25
President Obama and the First Lady have
teamed up with the Peace Corps to expand
access to education for adolescent girls
around the world through the Let Girls Learn
initiative.
“A good education can lift you from the
most humble circumstances into a life you
never could have imagined.”
— First...
