Brooklyn, NY – Immigration attorney Alena Shautsova successfully secured a rare and extraordinary gubernatorial pardon for her client as part of Governor Kathy Hochul’s recent clemency initiative, in which only 19 individuals statewide received pardons. The pardon grants critical relief from the immigration consequences of a past criminal conviction and represents one of the most […]
Dublin, Ireland – NAV Fund Services (Ireland) Ltd. now offers fund administration solutions for Undertakings for the Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS), expanding its services for regulated investment funds domiciled in Ireland and the European Union. “Ireland remains one of Europe’s leading UCITS domiciles, supported by a strong regulatory framework and...
Maziv, the parent company of Vumatel, welcomes the decision by ICASA to approve the licence transfer application of Herotel. This follows the approval of Vumatel’s (Vuma) acquisition of Herotel by the Competition Tribunal in December last year. The ICASA approval marks a definitive step forward in strengthening South Africa’s fibre ecosystem and accelerating the collective […]
A new generation of South African innovators is building technology solutions that address the country’s most pressing social and economic challenges. The top finalists in the Huawei Developer Competition Code4Mzansi have developed solutions rooted in the realities people move through every day, children buying food from spaza shops, households stretching social grants, young people locked […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa has, in terms of section 91(2) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, has removed Minister of Social Development, Sisisi Tolashe, from her position. Section 91(2) of the Constitution empowers the President to appoint and dismiss members of the Cabinet at his/ her discretion. In a brief statement issued […]
Gurhan Kiziloz, whose gaming operations generated substantial transaction volumes between 2021 and 2024, has been cut off from $213 million in cryptocurrency holdings following enforcement action by Brazilian tax authorities. The asset freeze marks an escalation in regulatory scrutiny of gaming operators who processed payments through cryptocurrency channels. Tether, responding to Brazilian...
A $213 million cryptocurrency freeze has been imposed on assets connected to Gurhan Kiziloz, following Brazilian government allegations of unpaid gambling taxes and unregistered digital token offerings. The freeze, executed by Tether, affects holdings spread across multiple digital wallets. The assets relate to gaming operations Kiziloz ran between 2021 and 2024, a period during which […]
You may think you know when someone’s trying to deceive you, but there’s a clever trick very few people are aware of – one that has eluded AI and Traitors contestants alike
Can you tell if someone is lying?
Close your eyes. You’re already twice as good as you were before.
Madeleine Finlay sits down with co-host and science editor Ian Sample to discuss three eyecatching stories from the week, including an update on hantavirus. Also on the agenda is the Pentagon’s release of a tranche of never before seen documents relating to UFOs, and a study looking at the link between taking part in cultural activities and slower biological ageing
Two mothers fought British bureaucracy to obtain lifesaving cannabis medicines for their children. But most patients are having to go private – at huge cost
In the summer of 2012, Britain was in a festive mood. It was the year of the queen’s diamond jubilee and the London Olympics, and the country was celebrating. But for former hairdresser Hannah Deacon and her young family in Warwickshire,...
Molar found in Siberia features deep hole that appears to show earliest known evidence of dental treatment
Neanderthals used stone drills to treat cavities almost 60,000 years ago in what is the earliest known evidence of dental treatment.
The single molar, which was unearthed in a cave in southern Siberia, features a deep hole that appears to have been created using a sharp, thin stone tool...
Fervo Energy, which uses drilling techniques from the oil and gas industry to produce power from the earth’s heat, raised $1.9 billion in an initial public offering.
My husband Peer Bork, who has died unexpectedly aged 62, was a bioinformatician with a remarkable ability to identify new directions in science and carry out world-class research to push them forward.
During his career, he progressed from the statistical analysis of the sequences of individual protein molecules, via the analysis of the human genome, to the bioinformatics analysis of whole...
Dozens of long-shot bets on Polymarket, from the war with Iran to the cryptocurrency market, have defied the odds, according to a New York Times examination.
Researchers say rise not inevitable and it is important to unpick what is behind differences in obesity trends
A continuing rise in obesity around the world is not inevitable, research suggests, with rates in some countries levelling off or potentially in decline.
Researchers say focusing on what has been described as a global epidemic of obesity hides large variations in trends across...
A new book by linguistics professor Valerie Fridland, who was raised in Memphis by parents with French accents, explores the power behind the way we speak
Valerie Fridland writes in her new book, Why We Talk Funny: the Real Story Behind Our Accents, that humans instinctively use accents to categorize those around us. “We learn to recognize other people as being like us through the way that...