With Zimbabwe’s health sector and economy both struggling, some parents of children with disabilities have turned to Healing with Horses Therapeutic Centre. The charity, supported by donations, provides horse rides and activities to children with cerebral palsy, a neuromuscular disorder, and other physical and mental challenges. Columbus Mavhunga reports from …
your ad hereMobile Phone Warnings Set to Aid Climate-vulnerable Somali Nomads
In central Somalia’s Beledweyne district, families still reeling from food shortages and livestock deaths after another year of poor rains were surprised by a new disaster last month: brutal floods that completely submerged homes after the Shabelle River burst its banks.Across the district, 230,000 people were driven from their homes, …
your ad hereAcross Mister Rogers’ Actual Neighborhoods, his Faith Echoes
His TV neighborhood, was, of course, a realm of make believe — a child’s-eye view of community summoned into being by an oddly understanding adult, cobbled together from a patchwork of stage sets, model houses and pure, unsullied love.Visiting it each day, with Mister Rogers as guide, you’d learn certain …
your ad hereSculptor Crafting First Women’s Statue for Famed Central Park in New York
A sculptor known for trying to redress history through her art is creating the first statue of real-life women for New York’s Central Park, where the only females so honored until now have been fictional characters.Meredith Bergmann’s vision for the sculpture, chosen from 91 submissions, features three women’s rights pioneers …
your ad hereGore Kicking Off 24 Hours of Climate Talks Around the World
Former Vice President Al Gore said that even though President Donald Trump wants to back out of the Paris Climate Agreement, the U.S. cannot legally pull out until the day after next year’s presidential election.“If there’s a new president — pardon me for a minute,” Gore said to laughs and …
your ad hereTrump Says He Asked Apple’s Cook to Look Into Helping Build 5G in US
U.S. President Donald Trump said in a tweet on Thursday morning he had asked Apple CEO Tim Cook to look into helping develop telecommunications infrastructure for speedy 5G wireless networks.During my visit yesterday to Austin, Texas, for the startup of the new Mac Pro, & the discussion of a new …
your ad hereSusan Choi, Sarah M Broom Win National Book Awards
Susan Choi’s novel “Trust Exercise,” in which a high school romance is spun out into a web of memories and perspectives, has won the National Book Award for fiction.Sarah M. Broom’s family memoir “The Yellow House” won in nonfiction and Martin W. Sandler’s “1919 The Year That Changed America” for …
your ad hereBaking Cities Advance ‘Slowly’ in Race Against Rising Heat Threat
With urban populations surging around the world, cities will struggle to keep residents safe from fast-growing heat risks turbo-charged by climate change, scientists and public health experts warned this week.Heat is already the leading cause of deaths from extreme weather in countries including the United States. The problem is particularly …
your ad hereTrump Considering Whether Apple Should be Exempt From China Tariffs
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday after touring a plant that assembles Apple Inc computers that he was considering whether to exempt the U.S. company from tariffs on imports from China.”We’re looking at that,” Trump said in answer to a reporter’s question about the tariffs, after touring a plant in …
your ad hereEU Ambassadors Take Up Shovels to Make Point About Climate Change
Around the world, national leaders and diplomats have expressed their hopes that the United States will reverse its decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement on fighting climate change. In Washington, some others have chosen to act in small ways rather than wait. Ambassadors and aides from all …
your ad hereMum Knows Best: Homemade Soup May Fight Malaria
Some soups may be good for more than just the soul.A new study suggests that certain homemade broths — made from chicken, beef or even just vegetables — might have properties that can help fight malaria.Researcher Jake Baum of Imperial College London asked children from diverse cultural backgrounds at state-funded …
your ad hereNew Acts Rule Grammys as Lizzo, Lil Nas, Eilish Lead in Nominations
The Grammys are screaming “Cuz I Love You” to Lizzo: The breakthrough singer-rapper scored a whopping eight nominations, including bids for the top four awards, making her the show’s top-nominated act.Lizzo picked up nominations for album of the year with her major-label debut, “Cuz I Love You”; song and record …
your ad hereSpain Has Permits to Build Giant Telescope Blocked in Hawaii
The director of a Spanish research center says a giant telescope, costing $1.4 billion, is one step nearer to being built on the Canary Islands in the event an international consortium gives up its plans to build it in Hawaii. Canary Islands Astrophysics Institute Director Rafael Rebolo has …
your ad hereAustralia Searches for African Swine Fever Vaccine
Australian scientists say it could be another five years before a vaccine is developed to protect pigs from African swine fever. It is estimated that a quarter of the world’s pig population has died this year, following the deadly outbreak of the virus in China. African swine fever, or ASF, has …
your ad hereTom Hanks Didn’t Want to Be Mr. Rogers … Then He Met Marielle
Tom Hanks has never played a superhero. But when the actor recently donned a very simple cardigan sweater, and the slacks to go with it, he felt like one.“I felt like Batman. It felt like I was wearing the cape and the cowl of the Dark Knight detective,” Hanks says. …
your ad hereLady Antebellum Get Honest, Vulnerable on New Record ‘Ocean’
Country vocal group Lady Antebellum know how to move people to tears with their songs and their newest record feels as vulnerable and honest as a therapy session.The trio of Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott and Dave Haywood are known for their heartfelt harmonies and emotional resonance on songs like the …
your ad hereEight-Year-Old Yemeni Singer Enchants Arab World
It is a dangerous time to be a child in Yemen. Besides facing war, widespread malnutrition and abject poverty, more than 25 percent of children are not in school.But 8-year-old singer Amr Muqbel, known as “The Water Seller,” is different.He attends school in the morning. In the afternoons he used …
your ad hereTokyo Finishes Building Olympic Stadium for 2020
Construction work has been completed at Tokyo’s National Stadium, set to be the centerpiece of next year’s Olympic Games, the site’s owners said on Tuesday.The Japan Sports Council said the final work had been completed on Thursday with just the final quality and safety checks remaining before the stadium opens …
your ad hereBei Bei, Washington’s Eligible Bachelor Panda, Heads to China
After a month of preparations and goodbyes, Bei Bei, the Washington National Zoo’s most eligible giant panda bachelor, was on his way to China on Tuesday, where scientists hope he will help increase the population of his species.The departure of 4-year-old Bei Bei to his parents’ homeland had been pre-arranged …
your ad hereNigerian Authorities Launch Campaign Against Open Defecation
Baba Awolu reports for work at 5 a.m. each day at a local toilet and washroom facility he owns in the Jahi district of Abuja. The facility, known in the native Hausa language as “Gidan Wanka,” was built to serve poor people without access to bathrooms.Awolu says he has to …
your ad hereClimate Change Puts North Africa in a Hot Spot
BIR SALAH, TUNISIA — Samira Sghaier and a group of friends prune moringa trees under a searing sun, dropping fistfuls of leafy branches into plastic tubs. Prickly acacias edge the plot of land, protecting bone-dry soil from further erosion.Sghaier’s father once grew olive and fruit trees — varieties that mostly …
your ad hereUS Military Aims to Telepathically Control Drones in Four Years
DARPA, the main research and development arm of the U.S. Department of Defense, is funding researchers to develop wearable devices that would have military applications such as using the mind to control unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs, commonly known as drones. Instead of using brain implants to achieve this, DARPA …
your ad hereGoogle’s Do-Good Arm Tries to Make Up For Everything Else
Google’s head of philanthropy says the company is having “a lot of conversations” internally amid worries about the tech giant’s bottomless appetite for consumer data and how it uses its algorithms. Vice President Jacqueline Fuller wouldn’t comment on specific data privacy controversies dogging Google lately, but says she …
your ad hereUS Asks Federal Judge to Toss Out Nevada Plutonium Lawsuit
The federal government wants a judge to reject Nevada’s request for a court order to remove weapons-grade plutonium from a site north of Las Vegas, arguing that officials have already promised that no more will be shipped to the state. In documents filed Friday in U.S. District Court …
your ad hereArctic in Hot Water: Sea Ice Minimal in Chukchi, Bering Seas
The U.S. research vessel Sikuliaq can break through ice as thick as 2.5 feet (0.76 meters). In the Chukchi Sea northwest of Alaska this month, which should be brimming with floes, its limits likely won’t be tested.University of Washington researchers left Nome on Nov. 7 on the 261-foot (79.5-meter) ship, …
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