A UN court on Tuesday upheld the life sentence imposed on former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladić for his role in the Balkan...
Step up HIV fight, to end AIDS ‘epidemic of inequalities’ by 2030
Although the world has made “great strides” since the first case of AIDS was reported, four decades ago, the UN General Assembly President said...
Education Cannot Wait Investments Transform Childrens Lives in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Jun 8 2021 (IPS) – Ten-year-old Sabah Abdi from Ali Isse, a small rural village on the Somaliland-Ethiopian border, scored well in her...
Auroras form when electrons from space ride waves in Earth’s magnetic field
By re-creating the conditions for an aurora in the lab, researchers have confirmed how these bright, shimmery curtains of light form. The northern lights...
Confirmation that Europe has just had its chilliest Spring in years is cold comfort for the planet, amid rising greenhouse gas levels which will...
Ending the “war on nature” must be part of global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday in his...
50 years ago, NASA relaxed quarantine rules for returning moon missions
Lunar quarantine dropped — Science News, May 8, 1971 Spacecraft and men from Earth can contaminate space … with Earth-related material or organisms. But there...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 08 (IPS) – With the pandemic setting back past, modest and uneven progress, huge disparities in containing COVID-19 and...
VIENNA/LONDON, Jun 08 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on women and girls, and the fallout has shown how deeply...
PARIS, Jun 08 (IPS) – Increasingly, youth are rising up to declare that they’ve had enough of the cyclical exploitation of the environment that...
Light is hard to block from every direction. This physicist found a way 
Egypt: Fact-checking site’s entire newsroom jailed as assault on press freedom widens 
Nearly 64,000 flee Nigeria for Niger where a humanitarian crisis is deepening 
Ebola: IOM urges wider surveillance beyond formal routes in DR Congo