Female dolphins have a clitoris much like humans’
Dolphins have active sex lives, with frequent dalliances not just for reproduction. One reason may be that the prominent female dolphin clitoris provides sexual...
The UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, will continue in her role for another five years, the UN chief formally announced on Monday, praising her...
AUSTRALIA, Jan 10 (IPS) – For the first time since 1990, China has (re)opened an embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, less than a month after...
Although everyone has been deeply affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact on young people has been “especially heartbreaking”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said...
Agencies suspend Tigray aid as ‘scores’ are killed due to airstrikes
Recent airstrikes on camps for internally displaced persons and refugees in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, have reportedly killed scores of civilians, including children, and left many more injured. Read...
How Place of Birth Shapes Chances of Going to University
Jan 10 (IPS) – Many newly independent African countries in the 1960s inherited regional and ethnic inequalities in formal educational attainment. These new states...
Clean Water, Decent Toilets, Hygiene Challenge for Southern African Community
Blantyre, Malawi, Jan 10 (IPS) – The toilets in the maternity wing of Namatapa Health Centre in the populous Bangwe Township in Blantyre, Malawi’s...
Oxygen-rich exoplanets may be geologically active
Humble oxygen is more than just a building block of life. The element could also help scientists sneak a peek into the innards of...
Here’s what goldfish driving ‘cars’ tell us about navigation
It might seem like a fish needs a car like — well, like a fish needs a bicycle. But a new experiment suggests that...
WASHINGTON DC, Jan 10 (IPS) – There is no other place in the world like Costa Rica’s Cocos Island National Park. The waters surrounding...
Türkiye’s changes to child detention ‘raise serious human rights concerns’ 
Ukraine: Civilian casualties hit highest level since March 2022 
World News in Brief: Afghanistan education, Myanmar flooding, Syria recovery, homecare workers in New York 
Ebola tracing improves in DR Congo – but the virus is still winning the race