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Modern medicine in ancient Rome
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/07/2023
» Doctors are generally held in high regard today, but Romans of the first century were sceptical, even scornful, of medical practitioners, many of whom ministered to ailments they did not understand. Poets especially ridiculed surgeons for being greedy, for taking sexual advantage of patients and, above all, for incompetence.
US Supreme Court bans use of race in university admissions
AFP, Published on 29/06/2023
» WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Thursday banned the use of race and ethnicity in university admissions, dealing a major blow to a decades-old practice that boosted educational opportunities for African-Americans and other minorities.
Dodgy for-profit schools take root
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 25/06/2023
» College recruiters walked immigrant neighbourhoods, knocking on doors or stopping people in shopping malls, selling the merits of a business-school education and adding a surprising offer: Get paid to enrol.
Abaya controversy tests French schools' secular limits
AFP, Published on 21/06/2023
» PARIS - A reported increase in Muslim girls wearing the abaya dress at French schools has triggered a debate about their violation of the country's sacrosanct commitment to secularism in education.
Ugandans bury more victims of horrific school massacre
AFP, Published on 19/06/2023
» KAMPALA: Grief-stricken Ugandans were on Monday burying more victims of last week's horrific school attack in the remote west of the country blamed on a notorious militia based in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
Anxious wait for news after 41 dead in Uganda school attack
AFP, Published on 18/06/2023
» MPONDWE, Uganda: Distraught families gathered at a mortuary in western Uganda on Sunday for any news of their loved ones after a militant attack left dozens of students dead and others missing.
Romania brings Andrew Tate down to earth
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 18/06/2023
» Andrew Tate, a pugilistic online influencer and self-crowned "king of toxic masculinity", never made any secret of why he had chosen Romania as his home and business base.
At least 37 slain as jihadists attack Ugandan school
AFP, Published on 17/06/2023
» KAMPALA: Militants linked to the Islamic State group hacked and burned 37 students to death in western Uganda in the country’s worst such attack in over a decade, army and police officials said on Saturday.
Vigil held for UK knife and van attack victims
AFP, Published on 16/06/2023
» LONDON - Thousands of people on Thursday paid tribute to the victims of a knife and vehicle rampage that left three dead in Nottingham, central England.
Myanmar's young pro-democracy activists fill up prisons
Published on 14/06/2023
» MAE SOT: Police in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, came for Min Thwe Thit before dawn on Feb 1, 2021. He did not know why they had come — or what was unfolding in the Southeast Asian nation.