The Secrets We Bury: Mother told her children their dad left them only for psychic to locate his body 55 years later buried under family house
George Carroll, a Korean War veteran, vanished from his Long Island home in 1963, leaving his four children searching for answers for decades. Carroll’s wife, Dorothy, always told her children that their father had walked out on the family.
Haiti mission impossible: ‘Those who say they’ve come to help don’t like us; they make things worse and exploit us as they’ve done from colonial times’
The United States, which refused to send security personnel when the MSS was deployed, has expressed no intention to change its position. According to some experts, this is also deterring others from pitching in.
Revealed: Children under age 12 who cellphones are at higher risk of obesity, hallucination, depression and poor sleep
The study authors conducted statistical analyses of data on more than 10,000 US 12-year-olds in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, described as the “largest long-term look at children’s brain development in the United States to date.”
Threat of cheetah extinction prods zoologist in Namibia to start sperm bank to protect the species
Conservationists mark World Cheetah Day on Thursday with less than 7,000 of them left in the wild, similar numbers to the critically endangered black rhino.
Scandal of ‘lab-grown meat’ rocks US food company after admission it uses ‘bioengineered food ingredients’
Cultivated meat uses techniques developed in the biopharma industry. Producers take cells from live animals or from a cell bank – which creates “immortalized” cells from cultured stem cells – and grow them in large steel tanks called cultivators or bioreactors.
Facebook’s secret hit: Crowded out of public spaces, Gen Zs are in turn knocking Boomers out of Facebook Dating site
According to a Pew survey from last year, 32 per cent of teen respondents said they use Facebook compared to 71 per cent in 2015, although Facebook Dating notes that daily conversations among its 18-to-29 demographic increased by 24 per cent in 2024.
After decades of wild denials, US Centres for Disease Control now admits vaccines actually cause autism
The CDC webpage has previously stated there is no link between vaccines and autism. It now says, “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.”
A walk in the night-2: How US ex-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew to Kenya, forced Kibaki to share power with Raila
Raila Odinga’s immense popularity and his wide regional alliances from across all the regions except central were driving the campaign for electoral justice and winning growing support and international diplomatic backing. But I finally realised that my friends were right, my media interviews, diplomatic briefings and ODM statements had an impact and created the high-level threats and real danger.
A walk in the night: Day Kenya’s Secret Service chief Michal Gichangi asked me tell Raila to accept 2013 election loss
“I did not believe I had played an important role in Kibaki being forced to share power with Raila, until Raila told me Cabinet Secretary Muthaura had given government appointments to all his officers including their nemesis Miguna. But Salim will never get one.”
How rare earth metal heats up and cools down tensions in corridors of US, China’s aerospace industry
Although a late-October meeting in South Korea between Chinese president Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump raised hopes for a détente, the Chinese export restrictions introduced last April remain substantially in place.