As COVID-19 ravages US, shootings, killings are also up
Mon, 2020-12-28 21:50 DETROIT: When Andre Avery drives his commercial truck through Detroit, he keeps his pistol close. Avery, 57, grew up in the...
In a divided nation, Americans asks: What’s holding our country together?
Author: Mon, 2020-12-28 22:11 Elections are meant to resolve arguments. This one inflamed them. Weeks after the votes have been counted and the winners...
Crossing Channel post-Brexit: big changes in store
Author: Mon, 2020-12-28 22:18 LILLE, France: Despite London and Brussels reaching a trade deal to limit the fallout of Brexit the flow of people...
Nashville bomber to neighbor: World ‘never going to forget me’
Author: Mon, 2020-12-28 22:26 NASHVILLE, Tennessee: The man authorities believe was responsible for setting off a Christmas Day bomb that injured three people and...
Belo Monte Dam: Electricity or Life in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 28 (IPS) – “We are no longer familiar with the Xingú River,” whose waters govern “our way of life, our...
Bats are superheroes of the night. Their superpowers could help us protect them.
Conservationists are using bats’ echolocation abilities to help track these mammals, as many of them succumb to white nose syndrome.
10 science records broken in 2020
From the longest bird flight to the oldest identical twins, 2020 was filled with record-breaking science.
The strangest medical cases of 2020
From a man with green urine to a teenager with a sewing pin in his heart, a number of intriguing medical cases caught our...
Indonesia bans international visitors for 2 weeks over new virus strain
Author: Mon, 2020-12-28 12:48 JAKARTA: International visitors will be barred from entering Indonesia for a two-week period in a bid to stem the spread...
Pfizer to complete supply of COVID-19 vaccines to EU by September
Author: Reuters ID: 1609158413640137400 Mon, 2020-12-28 12:07 BRUSSELS: The distribution of an initial 200 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
What has Perseverance found in two years on Mars? 
This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
Greta Thunberg’s new book urges the world to take climate action now