Singapore makes biggest cannabis seizure in 14 years
SINGAPORE: Singapore's anti-narcotics agency has made its biggest seizure of cannabis in 14 years after conducting a series of raids this week in the...
The golden ear-a of audio
PARIS - Audio stimulates our brains more powerfully than video, and slots neatly into our new patterns of voracious cultural consumption -- making this...
Australia fires spewed as much smoke into stratosphere as volcano: study
WASHINGTON - The bushfires that ravaged Australia between 2019 and 2020 were so huge that they spewed as much smoke into the stratosphere as...
Old bikes, wooden stools: Gabon Paralympic athletes ‘make do’
OWENDO (GABON) - With a personal record of 100 metres in 11.76 seconds, Gabon's Davy Moukagni has every reason to dream of mounting the...
US moves toward banning more Chinese telecoms carriers: FCC
NEW YORK - Regulators have begun legal proceedings that could strip three Chinese state-owned telecommunications companies of their right to operate in the United...
Asian community angry, stunned after Atlanta spa killings
ATLANTA - Sadness, anger and fear were coursing on Wednesday through Stephanie Cho, a day after a gunman's attack on spas in the Atlanta...
Johnson’s Global Britain blueprint hit by China human rights row
Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted the UK must be ready to increase trade with China, in the face of criticism that his government is...
In Spain, a victory for euthanasia campaigners
A POBRA DO CARAMIñAL, Spain: In 1998 Ramona Maneiro helped her friend Ramon Sampedro, paralysed from the neck down following an accident, to die,...
China to issue visas to foreigners who have taken Chinese jab
BEIJING: China is poised to ease border restrictions to allow some foreigners -- including from the US, India and Pakistan -- back in, provided...
Jabs in isolation: How a remote Portuguese island dodged Covid
AZORES (PORTUGAL) - Battered by North Atlantic weather and sometimes starved of vital supplies, the tiny Portuguese island of Corvo has a crucial advantage...
