Category: General Interest

European Union authorities want internet companies including Google, Facebook and Twitter to file monthly reports on their progress eradicating “fake news” campaigns from their platforms ahead of elections in 2019. The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary…

Denmark’s right-leaning coalition government announced that the island of Lindholm will house about 100 migrants, mostly asylum seekers who cannot be deported. Since 1926, Lindholm island has housed stables, a laboratory for the study of contagious animal diseases and a crematorium for dead pigs and cows…

Global Nutrition Report 2018 revealed that the global burden of malnutrition is unacceptably high and now affects every country in the world. India faces a major malnutrition crisis as it holds almost a third of world’s burden for stunting. The Global Nutrition Report acts as a report card on the world’s nutrition, globally, regionally…

Togolese innovators are turning the world’s junk into robots, mostly from discarded electronic waste. Health hazards remain the primary concern for local innovators who lack the facilities to properly treat the toxic e-waste. Electronic waste or e-waste describes discarded electrical or electronic devices. Used electronics which …

The US Food and Drug Administration approved Vitrakvi, an advanced cancer treatment drug shown to significantly reduce tumours in 81 per cent of patients with 24 different types of cancers while causing only mild side effects. Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth…

The British parliament has reportedly seized documents that are alleged to contain important information about Facebook decisions on data and privacy controls that led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Cambridge Analytica is a private company founded in 2013. It uses data mining (processes that…

The US-made spacecraft has survived what NASA called “seven minutes of terror” and landed safely on a flat Martian desert, to begin the first scientific investigation of the planet’s interior. InSight is a robotic lander designed to study the interior of the planet Mars. The mission launched on 5 May 2018 and is expected…

Just weeks after Novartis floated the idea that $4-5 million was fair value for its new gene therapy against spinal muscular atrophy, a deadly neuromuscular disease, a major pushback has come from the benefits manager which helps US employers manage workers prescription cost..

Almost 34 years after anti-Sikh riots shook Delhi, a city court, in a “rarest-of-rare” judgment on Tuesday, sentenced a 55-year-old man to death and sent another to prison for life after having held them guilty of killing two Sikh youths and other heinous crimes during the 1984 violence. In the early 1980s, India experienced…

The chairman of Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi Motors, Carlos Ghosn, has been detained by Japanese authorities after a two-month long investigation that revealed “significant acts of misconduct.” Carlos Ghosn is a Lebanese–Brazilian–French businessman, has served as the chairman and CEO of Renault…