We have long known that the accumulation of plastic in the world’s landfills and oceans represents a growing environmental risk. More recently, we have come to understand that plastic poses an urgent even deadly threat to public health, too. And yet, global efforts to address the plastic crisis remain consistently focused on the wrong end of the life cycle: waste management.
Explorers are set to deliver the first live video broadcast from deep below an ocean’s surface. Early this week, a submersible is expected to dive to 300 meters off the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean and send images to a satellite transmitter on the mother ship.
A text-generating bot nicknamed Tobi produced nearly 40,000 news stories about the results of the November 2018 elections in Switzerland for the media giant Tamedia in just five minutes.
On the domed roof of a historical market in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, architect Bassel al-Daher moves between workers painstakingly working to erase the scars of war.
First it was subprime mortgages, then European debt. Now, it’s money laundering. In Denmark, where the latest crisis first grabbed the public’s attention thanks to Danske Bank A/S, the government has some worrying observations on what went wrong and what the scandal might mean for European ambitions to build a single market for financial services.
In Havana, there’s a shop selling a camera for more than $25,000 - roughly 850 times the average monthly wage in Cuba. The eye-popping sum earned predictable scorn on social media, but it begins to make sense when seen through the lens of the island’s fledgling bid to tap into the luxury tourism market.
Five minutes late, Darrell Todd Maurina sweeps into a meeting room and plugs in his laptop computer. He places a Wi-Fi hotspot on the table and turns on a digital recorder.
A man says "virtually irreplaceable" items were lost in the blaze at his mother's home in Rhyl.
International humanitarian law is a set of rules which aim to limit the effects of armed conflict. It protects persons
Flight ET302 plunged to the ground minutes after leaving Addis Ababa en route to Nairobi, Kenya, killing all 157 people on board. The 737 Max 8 hadn’t had any apparent mechanical issues on an earlier flight from Johannesburg, he said. The latest crash raises fresh concerns about the safety of the 737 Max, less than two years after the popular narrow-body entered commercial service.
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Serena Williams retires from her third-round match at Indian Wells while trailing Spain's Garbine Muguruza 6-3 1-0.
A Daesh militant detained in Syria urged Italy to let him come home to start a new life, saying he had abandoned the self-styled caliphate after growing disillusioned with its rulers. Mounsef al-Mkhayar, a 22-year-old of Moroccan descent who grew up in Italy, spoke to Reuters Saturday in his first interview since surrendering to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) two months ago.
A Sudanese emergency court Sunday sentenced an opposition leader to a week in jail as police detained several people intent on marching on Parliament to protest a state of emergency.
President Bashar Assad said Sunday Syria was suffering an economic siege as his regime faces a raft of sanctions over the eight-year civil war. The war on Syria has taken on a new form that is basically siege and economic war, he said, according to a statement released by the presidency.
Three-time champions Safa took a massive step toward survival Sunday, squeezing by Tripoli 1-0 to climb up to seventh place in the Lebanese Premier League standings.
Beirut Club unleashed a furious fourth-quarter flurry to dispatch Champville 90-79, snapping the leaders’ eight-game winning streak in the Lebanese Basketball League Sunday. Champville, who led 67-66 at the end of the third quarter, capitulated in the final period, scoring a paltry 12 points while allowing 24.
Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka, both ranked No. 1 in the world, cruised to straight-set victories at the BNP Paribas Open Saturday night. Djokovic beat Bjorn Fratangelo 7-6 (5), 6-2 in pursuit of a record sixth title in the desert.
The Gophers men's basketball team opens the Big Ten tournament at 6 p.m. Thursday against Penn State in Chicago.
The US is “urging” and “cajoling” countries around the globe –especially India– to stop buying Venezuelan oil, as Washington continues choking the country financially, hoping this will “motivate” people to topple President Maduro.
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The Premier League threw up plenty of the usual talking points and drama over the weekend. Here, AMITAI WINEHOUSE assesses 10 things we learned from the fifth weekend of the season...
A mother-of-three from Melbourne has left the internet in hysterics after posting a photo of the extensive notes she leaves for the babysitter - versus the very simple one left by her husband.
Psephologist Bhawesh Jha on Sunday opined that air strike carried out by the Indian Air Force in Pakistan and the interim budget presented by the central government will benefit the BJP in upcoming Lok Sabha polls.Jha told ANI, "Incidents like budget, air strike will work in the favour of the BJP. People used to say nine phases are too hectic so this time they have made it seven. People will vote for their choice."Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday announced the dates for the 17th Lok Sabha elections... Читать дальше...