Canada to train troops from Caribbean nations in addition to $60 million for Haiti mission
The troops are due to stay in Jamaica for an initial period of a month and will train around 330 troops from Jamaica, Belize and the Bahamas.
American R&B icon Bruce Springsteen becomes first international songwriter to be made fellow of Britain’s Ivors Academy
Over the last half century, the Born to Run musician has sold more than 140 million records worldwide — from his 1973 debut Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ to his most recent studio album Only the Strong Survive in 2022, with a liberal dusting of top honours along the way, including 20 Grammys, an Oscar and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Pop star Shakira revisits how she turned pain into ‘tears of triumph and tears of self-recognition’ in new album
In reality, the last few years haven’t been kind to Shakira. In 2022, after 11 years and two children together, she separated from soccer player Gerard Piqué, leading to what she’s called the “dissolution of my family.” She faced charges of tax evasion in Spain; in November 2023, she received a suspended three-year sentence and paid a fine of €7.3 million ($8 million) in addition to previously unpaid taxes and interest.
Living off Ethiopia’s social safety net programme is ‘not like dying, but it’s not like living either’
Audited accounts from the finance ministry, which declined to comment for this story, show that the government’s contribution remained fairly constant at just over four billion birr ($70 million) a year between 2020-2021 and 2022-2023, a steep drop in real terms because of inflation. That money accounted for about 18 per cent of the total programme funding.
Study finds since 1979 climate change has made heatwaves last longer, spike hotter, hurt more people
From 1979 to 1983, global heatwaves would last eight days on average, but by 2016 to 2020 that was up to 12 days, the study said.
How doctors kill hundreds of cancer patients every year with chemotherapy overdoses
British and European Union drug authorities have recommended the testing since 2020. A small but growing number of US hospital systems, professional groups and health advocates, including the American Cancer Society, also endorse routine testing.
UN: 783 million people face chronic hunger yet the world wastes 19 per cent of its food
Researchers analysed country data on households, food service and retailers. They found that each person wastes about 79 kilogrammes (about 174 pounds) of food annually, equal to at least one billion meals wasted worldwide daily.
