After lengthy delays, an $8.2 billion revamp of a colonial-era rail line snaking from the Arabian Sea to the foothills of the Hindu Kush has become a test of Pakistan’s …
your ads here!Month: September 2018
2018 Paris Auto Show Celebrates 120th Anniversary
2018 marks the 120th year of the world-famous Paris Auto Show. Car manufacturers parade their products, which have dramatically changed through the years in response to, among other things, rising …
your ads here!Nobel Prizes Still Struggle With Wide Gender Disparity
Nobel Prizes are the most prestigious awards on the planet but the aura of this year’s announcements has been dulled by questions over why so few women have entered the …
your ads here!Croatian Vintner Ages Wines in Amphoras on Adriatic Sea Floor
Traditional two-handled ceramic jars known as amphoras were used extensively in ancient Greece to store and transport a variety of products, especially wine. These days they are more likely to …
your ads here!Some US Catholic Churches Close as Attendance Flags
The Catholic Church is closing parishes across the American Midwest and Northeast in response to years of flagging attendance. Changing demographics and an overall trend of secularism is partly to …
your ads here!Using Art to Unite a Divided Neighborhood
Sedgwick Street in Chicago is a thoroughfare divided by race and socio-economics. The area was settled by German, Irish and Sicilian immigrants. But in the 1950s and ’60s, when the …
your ads here!Artist With A Rare Vision Condition Sees The World Like Few Do
Some animals, like mantis shrimp and chameleons, can see more shades and colors than humans. But a few people also have this ability. They have a condition called tetrachromacy. Concetta …
your ads here!War Childhood Museum Documents the Most Innocent Victims of War
It may be the world’s only museum that looks at the lives of children who grew up during wars. Founded in 2017 in Sarajevo two decades after the end of …
your ads here!Tesla, Musk Settle Fraud Suit for $40M
Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk and the electric car company have agreed to pay a total of $40 million and make a series of concessions to settle a government …
your ads here!Canada FM Postpones UN Speech as Trade Talks Intensify
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland postponed her U.N. speech Saturday as free-trade talks between the U.S. and Canada intensified. Freeland had been scheduled to deliver Canada’s address to the …
your ads here!A Pakistani American Startup Fighting Media Censorship
According to the latest report by the Committee to Protect Journalists in Pakistan, fatal violence against journalists has declined, but fear and self-censorship have grown. In this era, five Pakistani …
your ads here!Genetic Engineering Spurs New Hope in Malaria Fight
Scientists have managed to wipe out a population of mosquitoes in a laboratory using a type of genetic engineering known as a gene drive. The intervention prevented the females from …
your ads here!Genetic Engineering of Mosquitoes Spurs New Hope in Malaria Fight
Scientists have managed to wipe out a population of mosquitoes in a laboratory using a type of genetic engineering known as a gene drive. The intervention prevented the females from …
your ads here!US Consumers Spend More; Inflation Flattens
U.S. consumer spending increased steadily in August, supporting expectations of solid economic growth in the third quarter, while a measure of underlying inflation remained at the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent …
your ads here!Google CEO to Testify Before US House on Bias Accusations
Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai has agreed to testify before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee later this year over Republican concerns that the company is biased against conservatives, a senior …
your ads here!Ousting Musk at Tesla Viewed as Difficult, Possibly Damaging
Tesla without Elon Musk at the wheel? To many of the electric car maker’s customers and investors, that would be unthinkable. But that’s what government securities regulators now want to …
your ads here!WHO Chief Urges Action on Deadly Non-Communicable Diseases
Seven in 10 people worldwide die from cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and chronic lung diseases, according to a study published in The Lancet earlier this month. These diseases not only …
your ads here!Rebel Attacks Rise in Ebola-Infected Areas in Eastern DRC
A rise in violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is displacing more people and hampering humanitarian efforts, including operations to stop the spread of Ebola, the United Nations …
your ads here!Facebook Tightens Security After Announcing Breach
The security breach Facebook announced Friday that affected 50 million users was a setback for the social media giant, which has been working for months to regain customers’ trust over …
your ads here!McCartney Pens Book for His Grandchildren
Paul McCartney has written a children’s book called Hey Grandude!, a name the 76-year-old former member of The Beatles says came from one of his grandchildren. “I’ve got eight grandchildren …
your ads here!Barbra Streisand to Trump in New Song: Don’t Lie To Me
When Barbra Streisand started writing lyrics for her new political song, “Don’t Lie to Me,” she initially aimed for “very subtle” references to President Donald Trump. But she couldn’t help …
your ads here!DC Fashion Week Features International Hybrid Designs
Fashion designer Ellen London uses textiles from all over the world in her designs, sometimes mixing them — combining a Thai fabric, for example — with one from the U.S. …
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