Jailed for not killing: How unknown genetic disorder landed mother 40 years in prison for murder of her 4 children
Around lunchtime on a warm March Day in 1999, Kathleen Folbigg went to check on her sleeping 18-month-old daughter and found her pale and unresponsive. Folbigg, alone in her house in Singleton, Australia, called an ambulance while she tried her best to resuscitate the child. “My baby’s not breathing,” she...
How Republicans aborted hopes of snatching Senate and House control from Democrats in US midterms
In the middle of an election night when Democrats were supposed to lose just about everything, CNN chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju stood at the edge of the House Republican Caucus “victory party” and reviewed the results as of midnight on the East Coast. The news ticker at the bottom...
We’re back to 20th century when people researched out of sheer curiosity, love or madness
In July this year, attended the Animal Behaviour Society conference in Costa Rica, which I found to be very LGBTQ-friendly. The organisation had planned to have its 2023 meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee. But I was one of the more than 50 per cent of society members who voted not to...
How gun violence, racism, healthcare and divisive politics are repelling foreign scientists in US universities
For the past five decades, the United States has been a top destination for international early-career researchers to do their training in a PhD or postdoctoral post. Since the 1960s, post-cold-war US diplomatic policies have aimed to attract foreign scholars, especially those in then-budding democracies. After a steady increase, numbers...
Arsenal win over Chelsea wasn’t a fluke, they’re genuine EPL contenders, pretenders no more
They keep on finding a way to win. They keep on staying top of the table. And now you have to say it – Mikel Arteta and his men are serious, the real deal. While the Gunners have beaten Spurs and Liverpool at home, they self-combusted on their previous proper...
This sick joke of Qatar World Cup born out of corruption and stadiums were built by modern-day slaves
Dear President and Secretary-General, The FIFA World Cup in Qatar is now just around the corner and excitement about the world’s premier football festival should be building globally as we count down the days to kick-off in Doha on Sunday, November 20. I would like to commend you both on...
Liverpool boss Klopp on Qatar World Cup fiasco: ‘It’s not like mythical Aladdin with his wonder lamp’
Jurgen Klopp has admitted he has little appetite to watch the World Cup after being left cold by the tournaments timing and the issues around it. Liverpool’s manager intends to take a holiday while the group stages are being contested in Qatar and will then spend the rest of the...
Liverpool faces real test of form in last 16 as Klopp’s stuttering side has high probability of drawing Bayern
Liverpool have almost a 40 per cent chance of drawing Bayern Munich in the Champions League last-16 – with one of the English clubs likely to get Inter Milan. A calculation of probabilities for each pairing in Monday’s draw shows that Jurgen Klopp’s side, who finished second in their group,...
Hungry Americans: If political history of poverty were to be recorded on Richter scale, it’d be of earth-shaking magnitude
By underestimating poverty from the start, we risk reading the 2021 Census report as a confirmation that it’s no longer a pressing issue and that the actions already taken by government are enough, rather than a baseline from which to build. In September, for example, although a report from the...
Poverty in the mind: US midterm elections pursuit of mirage packaged as economy and right to life
Yep, in a world in which inflation and oil prices reached disastrous levels this year, the latest polls seem to indicate that the Republicans may be taking advantage of that reality – or do I mean un-reality? – just as the midterm elections loom. Forget the fact that, as a...
