Pope Francis: I plead with everyone from the heart: Let’s help South Sudan; let’s not abandon its population
About a thousand lucky people were chosen to see the pope on Saturday – and a few even told him their stories – but the other 46,000 stayed back where they always are, yet another day in a forlorn displacement camp. While the pope, in a conference hall, talked about...
Man City at risk of being dropped from Premier League for alleged financial fair play breaches
Manchester City have been referred to an independent commission by the Premier League over alleged breaches of its financial rules. The alleged breaches span a period from the 2009-10 season to the 2017-18 campaign. Manchester City are alleged to have breached league rules requiring provision “in utmost good faith” of...
Powerful earthquake kills 1,500 people is Turkey and Syria, thousands more trapped in debris
An estimated 1,500 people have been killed and thousands injured when a huge earthquake struck central Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday, pulverising apartment blocks and heaping more destruction on Syrian cities already devastated by years of war. The magnitude 7.8 quake, which hit in the early darkness of a...
Why the hippie weed is gaining approval in medicine for squashing anxiety, spurring appetite and salving seizures
The 1960s was a big decade for cannabis: Images of flower power, the summer of love and Woodstock wouldn’t be complete without a joint hanging from someone’s mouth. Yet in the early 1960s, scientists knew surprisingly little about the plant. When Raphael Mechoulam, then a young chemist in his 30s...
America registers world’s highest incidence of drug resistant gonorrhoea with 700,000 new cases every year
To an unfamiliar eye, the press release from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in the US two weeks ago looked pretty routine. Its language was a little unnerving, maybe, but phrased carefully: Analysts had discovered a resident with a strain of gonorrhoea that showed “reduced response to multiple antibiotics,”...
Man City loss to Spurs exposes deep fissures in relationship between striker Haaland and manager Guardiola
Erling Haaland is reportedly ready to ‘divorce’ Manchester City as he has a ‘very distant’ relationship with Pep Guardiola, who has created a ‘bad atmosphere’. The prolific striker only joined Manchester City last summer. They activated his £51 million release clause to recruit him from Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund. Haaland...