From Tehran to the Southern Ocean, a war-driven fuel crunch has exposed South Africa’s sub-Antarctic lifeline to the far-reaching effects of the Middle East conflict.
NPR’s Elissa Nadworny talks to Mehrzad Boroujerdi of the Missouri University of Science and Technology about the status of the Trump Administration’s negotiations to end the war on Iran.
NPR’s Elissa Nadworny talks to Guy Goma who thought he was being interviewed for an IT job at the BBC but instead found himself live on air. His interview 20 years ago became a viral sensation.
Security was tight in Moscow as Putin and several foreign leaders attended the parade, even as a U.S.-brokered three-day ceasefire eased concerns about possible Ukrainian attempts to disrupt the festivities.
Liverpool boss Arne Slot says his side have to “keep fighting” to secure qualification for next season’s Champions League, as his side play out a 1-1 draw with Chelsea at Anfield in the Premier League.
Barcelona host Real Madrid in the second Clasico of the season, bidding to clinch a second consecutive La Liga title. They face a team in crisis, in a rivalry where there is no mercy.
At the city’s Great Exhibition of 1904, 57 Somali men, women and children cooked, weaved and danced for visitors
It was, the posters said, a rare chance to see a “little known but interesting people”: a live display of 57 Somali men, women and children who cooked, weaved and danced for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of Edwardians who flocked to Yorkshire to see them.
Harassment reported by 35% of students at ‘high tariff’ institutions compared with 17% at those with lowest entry grades
Students at England’s leading universities were more than twice as likely to experience sexual harassment than those at “lower tariff” institutions, according to analysis.
Data from a national survey of undergraduates shows that 35% of students at “high tariff”...
America’s school districts “spent billions on technology during the pandemic,” reports the Washington Post.”But now some states are limiting in-school screen time because of concerns about its impact on children.”Nationwide [U.S.] schools invested at least $15 billion and possibly as much as $35 billion from federal pandemic relief funds on laptops, learning software and other technology...
A four-foot humanoid robot named Gabi has become a monk at a Buddhist temple in Seoul, participating in a modified initiation ceremony where it pledged to respect life, obey humans, act peacefully toward other robots and objects. “Robots are destined to collaborate with humans in every field in the future,” Hong Min-suk, a manager at the Jogye Order, the largest sect of Buddhism in South Korea,...
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But it has been hard to attract interest in medical interventions for viruses that have not been considered a top public health priority, scientists say.
Dr. Makary has been a supporter of the Make American Healthy Again Movement but made some enemies in the administration over vaping, the abortion pill and rejections of new drugs.