Coronavirus fails to deter India’s huge Ganges pilgrimage
HARIDWAR, India: Hindu pilgrims descended on the banks of the Ganges river on Thursday, shrugging off Covid-19 risks for the start of the Kumbh...
High cost to wildlife from shark nets protecting S.Africa beaches
UMKOMAAS (SOUTH AFRICA) - "They're basically curtains of death," said shark diver Walter Bernardis as he reached over the side of his zodiac inflatable...
US carries out first federal execution of woman in decades
WASHINGTON: An American woman who murdered a pregnant dog breeder in order to steal her baby was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday,...
Amid Nile dam tensions, Egypt recalls Aswan 50 years on
ASWAN (EGYPT) - Half a century since Egypt's ground-breaking Aswan dam was inaugurated with much fanfare, harnessing the Nile for hydropower and irrigation, the...
Niger museum is eclectic national ‘mirror’
NIAMEY - There can be few museums in the world to rival the National Museum of Niger.It has displays covering art, history, dinosaurs, nuclear...
Argentine judge ordered unproven treatment for Covid fatality
BUENOS AIRES: An Argentinian judge compelled a private clinic to administer chlorine dioxide, used as a powerful disinfectant, to a coronavirus patient who died...
From macaques to crabs, wildlife faces threat from face masks
KUALA LUMPUR: Masks that helped save lives during the coronavirus pandemic are proving a deadly hazard for wildlife, with birds and marine creatures ensnared...
Herd immunity unlikely this year, say experts
SYDNEY: The roll-out of coronavirus vaccines in many countries will not provide herd immunity from the global pandemic this year, several health experts said...
Witness remembers ‘model’ Nuremberg trials, 75 years on
SAUVETERRE-DE-BéARN (FRANCE) - He looked Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess in the eyes and saw them plead "not guilty", without so much as blinking.And...
Digital health in spotlight as pandemic shifts tech show focus
WASHINGTON - Digital health care is in the spotlight at the tech industry's big event this week amid a pandemic that has highlighted the...
