CHENNAI/ MANGALURU, AUGUST 2: J.K. Rowling’s new book and the last in the series, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, was released worldwide midnight on Jul 31 at precise embargoed times. This is the first time a Harry Potter book has ever been printed in India (or indeed Asia), in ... Read More »
The Latest on the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local): 4:35 p.m. The Williams sisters, Serena and Venus, will be the top seeds in women’s doubles at the Rio Olympics. In men’s doubles, three-time major winner Andy Murray and his brother Jamie are seeded second, behind the ... Read More »
The Turkish government on Tuesday escalated its wide-ranging crackdown against people it claims have ties to plotters of last week’s attempted coup, firing tens of thousands of public employees across the country. The dismissals touched every aspect of government life. Turkish media, in rapid-fire reports, said the Ministry of Education ... Read More »
Amazon announced Monday a new partnership with the British government to begin the development of a drone delivery system of parcels, the company said in a statement. Support for the development of drone delivery has come from Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority, allowing the online retailer to experiment with drone usage ... Read More »
Dollar Shave Club, the subscription online razor and toiletry service, has sold to Unilever for a reported $1 billion. Unilever, maker of Axe Body Spray and Dove Soap reportedly paid cash for the private, Los-angeles-based company. The terms of the deal were not disclosed in a press release, but Fortune ... Read More »
University tuition fees in England will rise to £9,250 per year from 2017 and the increase could apply to students who have already started courses. Universities minister Jo Johnson has published a statement setting out plans to link higher fees to better teaching. The fees will increase by inflation in ... Read More »
A positive attitude about aging can help seniors cope with stress, a small study suggests. “We found that people in the study who had more positive attitudes toward aging were more resilient in response to stress — meaning that there wasn’t a significant increase in negative emotions,” study author Jennifer ... Read More »
THURSDAY, July 28, 2016 — Adlyxin (lixisenatide) has been approved by the U.S.Food and Drug Administration to treat type 2 diabetes in adults, the agency said Thursday in a news release. As the FDA explained, Adlyxin is a “glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist” — a hormonal drug that helps control blood ... Read More »
Taking nature as his inspiration, the designer Oivind Slaatto has created a new and unusual light through a creative partnership with Louis Poulsen. “Patera was born of my fascination with the Fibonacci sequence. You can find the spiral pattern wherever you look in nature – in the seed formation in ... Read More »
Researchers in England have identified a large group of genes that may be significant for better testing and treatment of prostate cancer. Glycan sugar groups on the surface of prostate cancer cells were found to react to changes in testosterone levels that help the disease grow and spread, and may ... Read More »
Linehouse was commissioned to create a new brand architecture for BAOBAO, the first of many stores to line the streets of China and the US, selling the traditional Chinese street food baozi – steamed bread buns filled with meat, vegetable or sweet stuffing. Linehouse created a spatial narrative that married ... Read More »
FRIDAY, July 29, 2016 — More people are surviving cancer, but many are left with persistent pain after treatment. New guidelines from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) recommend that doctors routinely screen for such pain. The guidelines also advise doctors to consider the use of non-traditional treatments for ... Read More »
