The world must not forget the roughly one million Rohingya from Myanmar “forced to run for their lives from the military’s genocidal attack against...
Serge Brammertz, Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals – the judicial body that assumed the remaining work of the two UN war crimes...
Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier ice shelf could collapse within five years
The demise of a West Antarctic glacier poses the world’s biggest threat to raise sea levels before 2100 — and an ice shelf that’s...
A new World Health Organization (WHO) report shows that close to seven million deaths could be prevented by 2030, if low and lower-middle income countries...
CPJs Annual Report and Census on jailed journalists reveal distressing intolerance of independent journalism
New York, Dec 13 (IPS) – Governments are determined to control information and are prepared to imprison journalists to achieve this mission, the Committee...
Rising Suicides Shine Spotlight on Malawis Mental Health Burden
Lilongwe, Malawi, Dec 13 (IPS) – When a former deputy speaker of Parliament shot himself dead within the National Assembly buildings in Lilongwe in...
The only known pulsar duo sheds new light on general relativity and more
The only known duo of pulsars has just revealed a one-of-a-kind heap of cosmic insights. For over 16 years, scientists have been observing the...
The cosmic ‘Cow’ may have produced a new neutron star or black hole
A cosmic flare-up called the Cow seems to have left behind a black hole or neutron star. When the flash was spotted in June...
2021 research reinforced that mating across groups drove human evolution
Evidence that cross-continental Stone Age networking events powered human evolution ramped up in 2021. A long-standing argument that Homo sapiens originated in East Africa...
When the Glass House by the East River Exploded in Laughter.
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 13 (IPS) – Created in 1945 following the devastation caused by World War II, the United Nations was mandated with the...
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