At least 18 people, including United Nations staff, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a UN school-turned-shelter in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza on Wednesday, according to the Gaza Civil Defense and hospital officials. At least 44 others were injured, they said. UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian humanitarian relief, said on X that six of its employees ...
A runaway penguin has been found safe in Japan nearly two weeks after she first went missing, having paddled 45 kilometers (28 miles) during a typhoon in a survival story her keeper called “miraculous.” Pen’s first time swimming in the ocean was at the beach from which she escaped.Gekidan Penters While taking a dip in the ocean to avoid heatstroke, ...
Nearly 200 people have died in Vietnam in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi and more than 125 are missing as flash floods and landslides take their toll, state media reported Thursday. Vietnam’s VNExpress newspaper reported that 197 people have died and 128 are still missing, while more than 800 have been injured. The death toll spiked earlier in the week ...
Critics denounce their government as a dictatorship. But these people say they’ve never felt so free
For decades, life choices were bleak for many in El Salvador: Leave or die. Dubbed the “murder capital of the world,” there was an average of a homicide an hour in early 2016, in this country of just 6 million people — two million fewer than call New York City home. Gang warfare drove an exodus of Salvadorans, mostly north ...
The crew of a privately-funded space mission will today attempt the first spacewalk by non-professional astronauts. The commander of the Polaris Dawn expedition – and one of his crewmates – will leave the relative safety of the SpaceX Dragon capsule more than 400 miles above the Earth and spend several minutes in the vacuum of space. A spacewalk is considered ...
New AI technology can detect early signs of more than 1,000 diseases, long before there are any symptoms, according to new research. The computer algorithm, called MILTON, analyses patient test results commonly collected by GPs to detect patterns in the data – and predict with high confidence a disease diagnosis many years later. Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, which developed the artificial ...
There are a number of reasons that conducting political polling is tricky. The one with which people are most familiar is that it’s not easy to contact respondents. (It is not the case, though, that pollsters rely on landline telephones to do so.) A more important consideration is that the results depend on the pollsters having a good sense of ...
It’s been one of the less remarked-upon moments from Tuesday’s jam-packed debate between former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. But one of the most subtly remarkable exchanges came when the topic turned to the war in Ukraine. Trump was twice asked to say whether he wanted Ukraine to win the war, and he punted both times — ...
The father of an 11-year-old boy who died last year delivered an emotional speech ahead of the presidential debate Tuesday, rebuking Donald Trump, JD Vance and others for mischaracterizing the circumstances around his son’s death. “Using Aiden as a political tool is, to say the least, reprehensible for any political purpose,” Nathan Clark said Tuesday evening, with his wife at ...
Delaware State Sen. Sarah McBride won the Democratic primary for the state’s at-large U.S. House seat Tuesday night, clearing the path for her to make history as the first openly transgender person in Congress. McBride defeated Wilmington businessman Earl Cooper and financier Elias Weir in the Democratic primary with just under 80 percent of votes, according to the state’s Department ...