European Union agrees on $2 trillion package — but fudges deal on rule of law
The leaders of the European Union’s 27 member states have reached a final agreement on the $2 trillion package designed to rebuild the bloc’s...
SCIENTIFIC NEWS
Gold coin stash from time of Henry VIII found in English garden
A family pulling weeds in the garden discovered a hoard of gold coins featuring various British monarchs dating back to the 1400s.
Lebanon’s prime minister charged over deadly Beirut blast
A Lebanese judge has charged caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three ex-ministers with criminal neglect over the huge explosion at Beirut’s port that...
A highly contagious face cancer may not wipe out Tasmanian devils after all
Tasmanian devils were supposed to be extinct by now. With a deadly, highly contagious face cancer tearing through devil populations, forecasts over the past...
Honda plant shutdown is a warning of the chaos Brexit could cause
Honda has been forced to halt production at a major plant in England because parts deliveries have been delayed — an ominous sign ahead...
Human-made stuff now outweighs every living thing on Earth
All of the Amazon’s splendid greenery. Every fish in the Pacific. Every microbe underfoot. Every elephant on the plains, every flower, fungus, and fruit-fly...
Your skin should be toxic to ticks. Here’s why it’s not.
A toxin from an ancient bacteria helps ticks survive and transmit Lyme disease to the humans they feed on, a new study finds.
How some ticks protect themselves from deadly bacteria on human skin
Ticks may have reason to be as wary of us as we are of them. Bacteria that are potentially deadly to the bloodsuckers live...
If Your Civic Space is Closed, your Human Rights Dissolve
PARIS, Dec 10 (IPS) – On Human Rights Day, civil society calls for the protection of civic space as a fundamental freedom, as more...
Can Agricultural Apps Bring Indonesia’s Farmers Back to the Fields?
JAKARTA, Dec 10 (IPS) – When his friends prodded him to use an agricultural app in July, rice farmer Mustafa reluctantly downloaded RiTx Bertani...
‘Connect the dots’ between street protests and global turmoil, urges Guterres 
DR Congo: Ebola responders under pressure as outbreak expands 
A nanoparticle revealed the tiny impact of a single gas atom 
Was van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ a flight of fancy or a real sky?