Month: May 2026

An outbreak of Ebola in DR Congo involves a rare strain and is in an area affected by conflict. ...

The bodies of all five Italian divers who died in the Maldives last week have now been found, officials tell the BBC. ...

The Duchy of Cornwall is to sell part of its 128,000 acre estate and re-invest in more housing. ...

As healthcare enters the age of artificial intelligence, data is becoming as strategically important as physical infrastructure. For Africa, this shift is profound. The continent holds some of the world’s most diverse and underrepresented health data — critical for building robust global health systems — yet much of the infrastructure ...

Canada’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player, making it nearly a decade since a US-born athlete has won the award in the US-dominated professional basketball league. Gilgeous-Alexander — whose Oklahoma City Thunder are vying to defend their NBA championship — won the award for a second year ...

Venezuela extradited a financial adviser of former President Nicolás Maduro to the US, a major escalation in Caracas’ purge of Maduro loyalists. Colombia-born Alex Saab is accused of overseeing efforts to pilfer and launder billions of dollars on behalf of Maduro, whom the US arrested in a January military operation, ...

A leading candidate to be Britain’s next prime minister called for the country to rejoin the EU. Wes Streeting, who resigned as health secretary last week to challenge Keir Starmer after disastrous election results this month, said Brexit had been a “catastrophic mistake.” The UK is facing systemic challenges; inflation ...

A UK government adviser said too many young people were being pushed toward university, part of a wider global backlash against the turn-of-the-millennium drive to expand college education. Britain set, and met, a target of 50% of school graduates attending university. But Alan Milburn said thousands are not finding work, ...

Lindsay C Gibson’s book Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents was an enormous unexpected hit in the pandemic. Now the psychologist is back with her advice for raising happy, healthy children Around the time of the pandemic, a self-help book with a somewhat unglamorous but functional title – Adult Children ...

Utah’s heavily Mormon population is largely opposed to all gambling, even on financial exchange platforms Utah is home to some of the strongest anti-gambling laws in the US, with vehement opposition dating back more than a century. But as prediction markets have surged – allowing users to bet on almost ...