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Moscow’s real estate costs rose at some of the highest rates in the world last year, the global real estate and investment firm CBRE Group said Thursday. The city of some 12.5 million people has seen its cost of living fall this year and it ranked outside the world’s 50 most expensive cities last year. Moscow’s 8.9 percent growth [...]

The increased over-the-counter supply of antibiotics in many countries including India, is worsening antibiotic resistance globally, finds a study highlighting an urgent need for better enforcement of laws. The study found that between 2000 and 2010, the consumption of antibiotics increased globally from 50 billion to 70 billion standard units. A majority of overall increase [...]

A small toy figure is seen on representations of the Bitcoin virtual currency. Photograph: Dado Ruvic/Reuters Over in New York, the US stock market has opened very slightly higher as traders return to work after the Christmas break. The Dow Jones industrial average rose by 16 points, or 0.07%, with the S&P 500 and the [...]

India has the world’s largest biometric enabled digital identity system which is a fascinating subject for research – the outcomes of which can serve as a good model for other countries to replicate. Keeping this in mind, the Indian School of Business (ISB) has announced the launch of a Digital Identity Research Initiative (DIRI) – [...]

An ambitious, emergency plan to help save the vaquita porpoise from extinction in the northern Gulf of California has been recommended by the International Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita (CIRVA). The plan involves relocating some of the remaining vaquitas to a temporary sanctuary, while crucial efforts aimed at eliminating illegal fishing and removing [...]

Japan plans to build the world’s fastest-known supercomputer in a bid to arm the country’s manufacturers with a platform for research that could help them develop and improve driverless cars, robotics and medical diagnostics. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will spend 19.5 billion yen ($173 million) on the previously unreported project, a budget [...]

Google’s DeepMind is an artificial intelligence technology designed to learn and think like humans but on a grand scale and in even better ways to solve problems facing human beings. Tech kingpin Google has been turning its artificial eyes toward healthcare in an attempt to help clinicians solve vexing health problems. Google has partnered with [...]

What do you do once you brought your birthday party’s manage of government to a dramatic quit? Youcome to be an global scold and blowhard, blaming the world’s issues on anyone else—who’ve nocapacity to remedy any of them. In reality, has-beens and as soon as-weres regularly are brought in as decorations for global gatherings,supposed to [...]

Since 2000, we have celebrated increases in the number of children enrolled in school worldwide. New research indicates that progress has stalled. Given this trend, I fear we will not achieve the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015. Why the slowdown? We know the reason for the change in prognosis: the world’s most [...]

MONDAY, March 28, 2016 — The percentage of the world’s population aged 65 and older is expected to double by 2050, a new report says. People who are 65 and older now make up 8.5 percent of people (617 million) worldwide. By 2050, they are expected to represent nearly 17 percent (1.6 billion), according to [...]