Twenty-two year old Egan Bernal was set to make history Sunday, as the first Colombian to win the Tour de France—and the youngest cyclist to place first in more than a century. The 2019 edition of the Tour de France was marked by high drama, including sharp weather swings and …
your ad hereUN to Double Food Rations for Ebola-Affected People in DR Congo
The U.N. World Food Program says it plans to double food rations to assist 440,000 people affected by the Ebola virus and their contacts over the next six months to respond to escalating needs in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The dramatic scale-up of food assistance is aimed at providing essential …
your ad hereUS Expands Women’s Basketball Training, Will Pay Players
LAS VEGAS — Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi want their USA Basketball legacy to be more than just winning medals. The four-time Olympic gold medalists came up with an idea for a training plan for USA Basketball leading up to next year’s Tokyo Olympics that would help the Americans …
your ad hereResidents Disabled by Islamic State Are Mosul’s Most Vulnerable
Life is a constant struggle for hundreds of residents in Mosul, Iraq, who were impaired during the Iraqi war to remove the Islamic State (IS) from the city. Kawa Omar reports for VOA. …
your ad hereFlora Cash – A Swedish Pop Group Making a Splash
The Swedish indie pop duo, Flora Cash, is new in the pop/rock world but has been gaining popularity with a hit song on the charts and a newly-released record. It also has been gaining a following, especially among Albanian-American fans because one of its members, Shresa Lleshaj, is of Albanian …
your ad hereChanging Young Lives Through Dance Camp
Like other summer camps in America, AileyCamp helps its participants learn valuable leadership skills. But it has something that others probably don’t: rhythm. That’s because the camp was created by world-renowned dancer, choreographer and director Alvin Ailey. As Faith Lapidus reports, the program is now in its 31st summer. …
your ad hereFew Countries Implementing Life-Saving Anti-Tobacco Measures
The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging nations to implement a series of cost-effective, anti-tobacco measures it says will help their populations quit smoking. A new WHO report found that progress in combating the tobacco epidemic and in reducing demand is being made, but not enough.A survey found 36 countries …
your ad hereToo Many in Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Are Dying at Home
Two-month-old Lahya Kathembo became an orphan in a day. Her mother succumbed to Ebola on a Saturday morning. By sunset her father was dead, too. They had been sick for more than a week before health workers finally persuaded them to seek treatment, neighbors said. They believed their illness …
your ad hereWHO: Vaccination Vital in Slowing Spread of Ebola in DRC
The World Health Organization reports an experimental vaccine is saving lives and slowing the spread of the Ebola virus in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. But as the first anniversary of the Ebola epidemic nears, the WHO warns many challenges remain before the deadly disease is fully contained. More than 2,600 …
your ad hereConsistency Key to Fighting Malaria With Insecticide-Treated Bed Nets
Malaria kills more than 400,000 people every year, but malaria prevention expert Dr. Paul Krezanoski says insecticide-treated bed nets can help reduce that number.Estimates from 2000 to 2015 show the mortality rate from malaria dropping by about half, Krezanoski said, adding that “about 60% of that improvement might be due …
your ad hereSweden Resists Trump’s Pressure to Free American Rapper A$AP Rocky
An extraordinary diplomatic dispute between the United States and Sweden has escalated with President Donald Trump alleging unfair treatment for a jailed American rap musician.Sweden is rejecting demands from Trump that it free Rakim Mayers, known as A$AP Rocky, who along with two other men, has been formally charged with …
your ad hereSwedish Court Documents Give Details on Rapper A$AP Rocky Case
Swedish authorities have released court documents in the assault case in which American rapper A$AP Rocky and two other men are charged, with prosecutors saying that the victim was punched and kicked while on the ground and attacked with a bottle.Rakim Mayers, the 30-year-old rapper’s real name, and two other …
your ad hereTaiwanese ‘Graffiti Village’ Eases Elderly Loneliness
Nestled in the mist-covered foothills of Taiwan’s central mountain range, Ruan Chiao village is virtually devoid of young people, but artist Wu Tsun-hsien is coaxing the Instagram generation back by transforming local homes into a canvas of color.Dipping his brush into a tin of beige emulsion, he carefully applies new …
your ad hereJohn Fogerty Pulls Out of Troubled Woodstock 50 Festival
John Fogerty has pulled out of Woodstock 50 just weeks before the troubled anniversary event is supposed to take place.A representative for the singer tells The Associated Press that Fogerty, who performed at the original 1969 festival with Creedence Clearwater Revival, will now only perform at a smaller anniversary event …
your ad hereGirls Report More Harassment Amid Rise in US Cyberbullying
Rachel Whalen remembers feeling gutted in high school when a former friend would mock her online postings, threaten to unfollow or unfriend her on social media and post inside jokes about her to others online.The cyberbullying was so distressing that Whalen said she contemplated suicide. Once she got help, she …
your ad hereGiant Dinosaur Bone Found in Southwestern France
The thigh bone of a giant dinosaur was found this week by French paleontologists at an excavation site in southwestern France where remains of some of the largest animals that ever lived on land have been dug up since 2010.The two-meter long femur at the Angeac-Charente site is thought to …
your ad hereReport: Many US Cities Cannot Measure Climate Emissions Progress
American cities including Atlanta, Miami and New Orleans that set goals to slash planet-warming greenhouse emissions are lacking the data to measure their progress, scientists said in a new report.Some 40% of U.S. cities that committed to cutting emissions are unable to assess their programs because costly tallies of their …
your ad hereClimate Change May Have Contributed to Rise of Deadly Fungus, Study Says
The first fungal disease linked to rising global temperatures may have emerged, suggests a study published in the scientific journal mBio. Though only 715 people in the United States have contracted the new fungal infection so far, scientists say it may be an indication of what’s to come. Three unrelated …
your ad hereDrake Signs Creative Partnership With SiriusXM and Pandora
Drake has two new partners: SiriusXM and Pandora.The two companies which merged earlier this year announced Thursday that they have signed a new creative partnership with the superstar rapper. The new deal includes “a dedicated station, curated music, and collaborations with creative talent.” The roll-out will start later this …
your ad hereCongo Student With Ebola Still Finds a Way to Take Exams
Claude Mabowa Sasi had lost his mother, a brother and a sister to Ebola. Instead of fearing death when he, too, was diagnosed with the disease, the young man had a different worry: How would he complete his college entrance exams?It had been his mother’s greatest hope that Mabowa would …
your ad hereFrance to Launch ‘Fearsome’ Surveillance Satellites to Bolster Space Defenses
France plans to launch mini surveillance satellites to enhance the protection and defense of French satellites from 2023, its defence minister said on Thursday, signalling an intensification in the race to militarize space.Defense Minister Florence Parly said France was not being sucked into an arms race and that the creation …
your ad hereFirst CRISPR Study Inside the Body to Start in US
Patients are about to be enrolled in the first study to test a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR inside the body to try to cure an inherited form of blindness.People with the disease have healthy eyes but lack a gene that converts light into signals to the brain that enable …
your ad hereHBO Chief: Sorry, Fans, no ‘Game of Thrones’ Do-over
The clamor from “Game of Thrones” fans for a do-over of the drama’s final season has been in vain.HBO programming chief Casey Bloys said Wednesday there was no serious consideration to remaking the story that some viewers and critics called disappointing.There are few downsides to having a hugely popular show …
your ad hereUS Rapper ASAP Rocky To Face Assault Trial in Sweden
ASAP Rocky will be tried for an alleged assault next week over a June street brawl, a Swedish court said Thursday, in a decision likely to infuriate fans already indignant over his three weeks in custody.”Today I have pressed charges against the three suspects for assault, because in my judgement …
your ad hereAI Machine Learning Builds ‘Atlas’ of 140 Breast Cancer Tumors
Scientists at IBM’s Zurich-based research lab and the University of Zurich have used machine learning to analyze millions of cells from breast cancer tissue of 140 tumors, creating what they describe as an ‘atlas’ of these tumors. Faith Lapidus reports. …
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