PARIS: Emissions of methane – a planet-warming gas several times more potent than carbon dioxide – have risen by nine per cent in a decade driven by mankind’s insatiable hunger for energy and food, a major international study concluded Wednesday (Jul 15). Methane (CH4) has a warming potential 28 times […]
Month: July 2020
SYDNEY: New Zealand must prepare for new coronavirus outbreaks as the pandemic spreads globally but will not drop its elimination strategy if community transmission was discovered, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday (Jul 15). Ardern said the epidemic was now “exploding” outside New Zealand and countries that had been […]
LA PAZ: Thousands of demonstrators defied quarantine restrictions and marched on the Bolivian capital La Paz on Tuesday (Jul 14) to protest against the government of interim President Jeanine Anez. “The people are expressing their needs, they are expressing their voice in protest,” said Juan Carlos Huarachi, leader of the […]
Manchester City’s legal victory at the Court of Arbitration for Sports on Monday may be its most important one yet, says John Duerden. SINGAPORE: Monday (Jul 13) may have seen the most significant football result of the season but while Union of European Football Associations’ (UEFA) Financial Fair Play (FFP) […]
WASHINGTON: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said on Tuesday (Jul 14) that if all Americans wore a mask, the rising cases of COVID-19 could be under control within four to eight weeks. Redfield was speaking in an online interview with the Journal of the […]
WASHINGTON: US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the 87-year-old anchor of its liberal faction, has been hospitalised for a suspected infection, the court said on Tuesday (Jul 14). Ginsburg was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore early Tuesday after first going to her regular Washington hospital with fever […]
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Tuesday (Jul 14) downplayed police violence against black people, saying that “more white people” are killed by police officers. During an interview with CBS News, the Republican president was asked why black people were still dying at the hands of law enforcement. “And so are […]
PARIS: Earth will be home to 8.8 billion people in 2100, two billion fewer than current United Nation projections, according to a major study published Wednesday (Jul 15) that foresees new global power alignments shaped by declining fertility rates and greying populations. By century’s end, 183 of 195 countries – […]
OSLO: Police in Sarpsborg in southern Norway arrested a man after three women were stabbed in several locations in the town late Tuesday (Jul 14), with one of the victims dying from critical injuries. Armed police were deployed to the town about 70 km south of Norway’s capital Oslo and […]
WASHINGTON: US biotech firm Moderna said on Tuesday (Jul 14) it would enter the final stage of human trials for its COVID-19 vaccine on Jul 27, after promising early results were published in an influential journal. Moderna was the first to start human testing of a vaccine for the novel […]