Smoking cigarettes and exposure to secondhand smoke are well known threats to health. Particles contained in cigarette smoke that settle on surfaces, known as thirdhand smoke, also pose a significant health danger. Although the number of smokers in the United States has reached an all-time low, researchers say a residual ... Read More »
Teenagers treated at the hospital for violent, drug- or alcohol-related, or self-inflicted injuries have a higher long-term risk of death, according to a study in England. Researchers at University College London said the three types of injuries have similar risk factors — nearly three-quarters of girls and one-third of boys ... Read More »
Samsung’s operating profits were up 10.4 per cent in the first quarter from a year earlier on strong sales of the Galaxy S7, the latest iteration of its flagship smartphone line, the company said Thursday. Operating profit was around 6.6 trillion won for the quarter, while sales reached 49.0 trillion ... Read More »
Los Angeles (dpa) – The brave new world of visual effects opens a door for cinema audiences into otherwise inaccessible worlds: Mars, space, and the farthest corners of the imagination. In Disney’s new film version of The Jungle Book, the voyage is across the boundaries of nature, to a wilderness ... Read More »
If you’re the kind of person who really likes chatting with the mail carrier, Dispatch won’t be your favorite startup. That’s because the four-person South San Francisco company is working on technology that could replace postal workers, Instacart couriers, UPS and FedEx drivers, or anyone else who gets paid to ... Read More »
Kariyappa, a farmer from Turakanadoni village in Raichur taluk, has filed a private complaint with the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Raichur, against 15 Bt cotton seed companies, with regard to crop loss caused by pink-bollworm pest this year. The accused companies are Nuziveedu Seeds Private Limited, Kaveri Seeds Private Limited, Shriram ... Read More »
The National Assembly of Vietnam on Thursday elected and swore in Nguyen Xuan Phuc to serve as prime minister for the next five years. The 61-year old politician, who had served as Deputy Prime Minister since 2011, won 90 per cent of the vote in the National Assembly. The process ... Read More »
Egyptian and Italian prosecutors and police are to start a two-day round of talks in Rome on Thursday to speed up the investigation in the case of Giulio Regeni, an Italian university researcher brutally killed in Cairo two months ago. The Egyptian delegation landed in the Italian capital late Wednesday and ... Read More »
An alleged neo-Nazi terrorist on trial in Munich had links to an undercover agent working for the German secret service, sources told dpa on Thursday. Beate Zschaepe, 41, worked in a store in the eastern German town of Zwickau that was run by the agent during Zschaepe’s time as an ... Read More »
A Dutch popular vote against strengthening ties between the European Union and Ukraine was an “attack on the unity of Europe,” Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Thursday. “The true goal of the organizers of this referendum is not the association agreement between Ukraine and the EU. … This is an ... Read More »
The daughter-in-law of Bahujan Samaj Party Rajya Sabha MP Narendra Kashyap was found dead with a bullet injury on her temple at their residence in Sanjay Nagar here on Wednesday. While Himanshi Kashyap’s (29) family claimed that she was murdered for dowry, her in-laws told the police that the bullet ... Read More »
A jittery Department of Pre-University Education, which is under tremendous pressure, is doing everything it can to conduct the re-examination of chemistry paper smoothly on April 12. In an unprecedented move, paper-setters, who completed setting the fresh set of chemistry paper on Tuesday, are being held at an undisclosed location, ... Read More »
