One hundred women. That's how many members of a breast cancer support group have died while a committee of MPs has been considering petitions calling for Pharmac to fund drugs that could prolong sufferers' ...
Members of Egypt's parliament on Tuesday approved changes to the constitution that will allow President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to stay in power until 2030, state media reported. The changes to extend presidential terms are part of amendments initially introduced in February by a parliamentary bloc supportive of Sisi and updated this week after several rounds of debates. "The president's current term shall expire at the end of six years from the date of his election as president in 2018," reported the... Читать дальше...
Kiwis haven't been shy about asking their doctors and pharmacists about medicinal cannabis, a new survey shows. A snapshot of almost 1100 medical professionals revealed two-thirds of GPs - and 77 per ...
Mindy Kaling, Michael B. Jordan, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Danny DeVito are among those who have been added to the speaker lineup of the 2019 Produced By Conference.
Читать дальше...Preschoolers with disabilities or development problems are waiting more than 100 days to get extra help - despite the Government's commitment to cut wait times for support a year ago. And the waiting ...
Comic-book stories of a boy reporter and his dog (later accompanied by a foulmouthed sea captain) featuring rocketships and submarines, booby-traps and buried treasure, gangsters and abominable snowmen, smugglers and super-weapons, all told with bright colors, clear lines, and practically no girls in sight: no wonder The Adventures of Tintin at first looks tailor-made for rambunctious youngsters. […]
FOR MOST OF HIS LIFE, artist Chris Rush kept a safe distance from the events he chronicles in his new memoir, The Light Years. Forty years out of adolescence, he realized his neglected memories had the makings of a book. The reader witnesses as Rush revisits his former life, remembering and recounting his history in […]
Читать дальше...COMMENT: This isn't really a column about my dead cat, though superficially it might appear that way. I'm using him as a mere prop; an allegory, to make a larger point. I'm not so soft as to elevate ...
The shooting occurred Monday night on Pomeroy Road SE.
COMMENT: Since taking on the role of the National Party spokeswoman for drug reform I have discovered from the sometimes very personal messages that everyone's experience with drugs is different. There ...
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Senior BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan Tuesday accused Congress president Rahul Gandhi of "lying" to people about fulfilment of his promise to waive loans of farmers which he had made ahead of the last year's assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh. Taking potshots at Gandhi, the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister said Gandhi should be presented with the "world's biggest liar" award. Addressing a poll rally in Halol town in Panchmahal district, Chouhan said, "Ahead of the Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh... Читать дальше...
Parents, when was the moment you realised you had raised a monster? 1. My 6-year-old daughter told me to "shave that thing off" — my goatee. A couple of days later I did, and asked her, "do you like ...
OFFICIALS FROM THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT have arrived in Helsinki to participate in a seminar at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, entitled ‘EU-Turkey Relations in Geopolitical Context’, scheduled to take place tomorrow afternoon.
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Cambodian unions have written to global clothing firms Gap, Puma, Nike, Adidas, Uniqlo, Levi Strauss and VF Corp urging them to sign up to the ACT (Action, Collaboration, Transformation) living wage initiative and collectively link their international purchasing practices to the development of national industry-wide collective agreements.
CHICAGO --- Guiding their teams to unbeaten weeks, University of St. Francis' Kayla Garcia and Olivet Nazarene University's Emily Carstens (SR/Peotone, Ill.) have been named the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Softball Player and Pitcher of the Week for the seven-day period ending April 14, the league office announced on Wednesday.
Seneca Foods, the US packaged fruit-and-veg supplier, has snapped up another candied-fruit business in its domestic market.
On 16 April 2019, Colombia notified the WTO’s Committee on Safeguards that it initiated on 9 April 2019 a safeguard investigation on certain sheets of cardboard and polyethylene.
Customers can look forward to a more seamless payment experience on the Singapore Airlines website and app SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 17 April 2019 – Singapore Airlines has partnered with Adyen, the payments platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies, to ensure a frictionless payments experience for customers when they book online or in-app. […]
Tesla has announced it has developed a unique battery recycling system at its Nevada gigafactory that can maximize the recovery of critical battery minerals including lithium and cobalt, the company said in its 2018 Impact Report. According to the report, “Through this system, the recovery of critical minerals such as lithium and cobalt will be maximized along with the recovery of all metals used in the battery cell, such as copper, aluminum and steel. All of these materials will be recovered in... Читать дальше...
Energy consumption in the United States reached an all-time high last year, data from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory showed. According to the laboratory, the United States consumed 101.2 quadrillion British thermal units of energy, or quads, last year, up on the previous record of 101 quads, reached in 2007. Yet the 2018 figure also represents the highest annual increase since 2010, at 3.6 percent. The figures reflect a similar surge in energy demand globally. In its latest Global Energy & CO2 Report... Читать дальше...
The University Campus, previously inorganically organized, starts to acquire a Cloister organoization, with perimetral buildings and a large central green space that shelters University life.