The decision by the Taliban leadership to support the resumption of house-to-house polio vaccination across Afghanistan has been welcomed by the World Health Organization...
Football legend Didier Drogba on Monday was named the World Health Organization’s (WHO) new Goodwill Ambassador for Sport and Health. Read the full story, “Football star Didier Drogba signs with WHO,...
Hamburgers and Climate Change
PORTLAND, USA, Oct 18 (IPS) – Probably no country is more closely associated with the hamburger than the United States. It’s fair to say...
What Fate for Three Billion of Humans Who Are Born Equals?
MADRID, Oct 18 (IPS) – While more than a third of all purchased food is wasted in rich, mostly Western States, and a similar...
We Will Never Give Up the Slavery Reparations Fight, say Caribbean Rastafarians
DOMINICA, Oct 18 (IPS) – The Rastafarian organizations in the Caribbean are determined that the issue of slavery reparations will emerge from the eclipse...
COVID-19 testing in schools works. So why aren’t more doing it?
In August 2020, the school superintendent in Omaha, Neb., approached a microbiology lab at the local university’s medical center. School districts across the country...
An atomic clock measured how general relativity warps time across a millimeter
A millimeter might not seem like much. But even a distance that small can alter the flow of time. According to Einstein’s theory of...
TRONDHEIM, Norway / DENVER, USA, Oct 18 (IPS) – As we honored women and girls last week, on the annual International Day of Rural...
The process of drafting a new constitution for Syria will begin this week, the UN Special Envoy for the country, Geir Pedersen, said on...
Food Heroes: Cameroon’s shrimp entrepreneur
Anastasie Obama, a Cameroonian woman who set up her own smoked shrimp business, has been recognized by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Agency (FAO) as...
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