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What are all these microplastics doing to our brains?
AFP, Published on 01/08/2025
» PARIS - Tiny shards of plastic called microplastics have been detected accumulating in human brains, but there is not yet enough evidence to say whether this is doing us harm, experts have said.
PAP on course for Singapore election win
Published on 03/05/2025
» SINGAPORE - Samples from official vote counting in Singapore’s election on Saturday night showed the People’s Action Party (PAP) was on course to win its 14th successive poll and extend its six-decade rule.
Pope has two episodes of 'acute respiratory failure': Vatican
AFP, Published on 04/03/2025
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis suffered two new breathing attacks on Monday, requiring two separate bronchoscopies, the Vatican said, as the 88-year-old pontiff struggles to recover from pneumonia.
Hong Kong finds 13 potentially deadly infections linked to fish
Published on 17/09/2024
» HONG KONG: Thirteen more patients suffering from a potentially deadly bacterial infection have tested positive for a strain linked to contact with raw freshwater fish, bringing the total to 40 cases in a month, with health authorities warning the number may rise further.
Life of pain for toxic syrup survivors
Published on 23/12/2023
» JAKARTA - Devouring books from a young age, Sheena Almaera Maryam had been excited about her first day of kindergarten near Jakarta.
Greenland's Inuit falling through thin ice of climate change
AFP, Published on 04/12/2023
» ITTOQQORTOORMIIT (DENMARK) - The thunder of icebergs crashing into the turquoise sea of eastern Greenland is the sound of one of the planet's most important ecosystems teetering on the edge of collapse.
Greenland's Inuit falling through thin ice of climate change
AFP, Published on 04/10/2023
» ITTOQQORTOORMIIT (DENMARK) - The thunder of icebergs crashing into the turquoise sea of eastern Greenland is the sound of one of the planet's most important ecosystems teetering on the edge of collapse.
Plastic showers in the forecast
Published on 25/05/2023
» PARIS: Diplomats from 175 countries gathering in Paris for talks on a global plastics treaty starting on Monday may want to pack an umbrella, but not just because there is a chance of rain.
DNA study of famed US sled dog shows what made him so tough
AFP, Published on 28/04/2023
» WASHINGTON - New York's Central Park has a statue dedicated to him, and there's even been a movie about him: a sled dog named Balto. Now he is the focus of a DNA study, 90 years after he died, to see what made the pooch so famously tough.
Old US batteries making Mexicans sick
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 09/04/2023
» After returning home from his job at a car battery recycling plant in northern Mexico one evening in 2019, Azael Mateo Gonzalez Ramirez said he felt dizzy, his bones ached and his throat was raspy. Then came stomach pain, he said, followed by bouts of diarrhoea.