UN health agency launches bid to stop a new global pandemic
“Arboviruses” might not be something most of us are familiar with, but for almost four billion people, they’re a deadly threat – which is...
Zimbabwe Elections Rekindle Voter Apathy Concerns
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Mar 31 (IPS) – Activity in the streets of Zimbabwe’s second city is testimony to a thriving informal sector where thousands of...
Turning Agro-industrial Waste into Energy in Argentina
ZÃ?RATE, Argentina, Mar 31 (IPS) – Three giant concrete cylinders with inflated membrane roofs are a strange sight in the industrial park of Zárate,...
Here are the Top 10 times scientific imagination failed
Science, some would say, is an enterprise that should concern itself solely with cold, hard facts. Flights of imagination should be the province of...
North America’s oldest skull surgery dates to at least 3,000 years ago
A man with a hole in his forehead, who was interred in what’s now northwest Alabama between around 3,000 and 5,000 years ago, represents...
World can end ‘downward humanitarian spiral’ of Afghanistan
As the world focuses its attention on the war in Ukraine, the UN reminded the international community on Thursday to remember Afghanistan as it...
GENEVA, Mar 31 (IPS) – Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights In an address to the 49th session of the Human Rights...
Work ‘in concert’ to help bring Yemen closer to a peaceful future
The peace process in Yemen has been “stalled for too long,” the top UN envoy for the country told a summit meeting on Wednesday...
The World Entrepreneurs Investment Forum (WEIF 2022) closed in Dubai on Wednesday with participants adopting the ‘UAE Declaration’, which calls for greater collaboration, integration...
Ukraine war: Russia used cluster weapons at least 24 times, says UN’s Bachelet
Credible reports indicate that Russian armed forces have used cluster munitions in populated areas of Ukraine, at least two dozen times since they invaded...
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