Focus on non-communicable diseases in budget: Experts
Health activists want the government to direct its initiatives towards non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as much as the communicable ones in the upcoming budget.
Health activists want the government to direct its initiatives towards non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as much as the communicable ones in the upcoming budget.
The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks — known as the TAK — claimed responsibility for this week’s deadly bombing in Turkey’s capital, calling it “revenge” for Turkish military actions and warning tourists their lives could be next. The group, a splinter of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, described Wednesday’s attack that killed at least 28 people […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A prominent Polish-American academic whose scholarship has explored Polish violence against Jews during World War II says Poland's new right-wing leadership is taking "a step back to the dark ages of anti-Semitism" with a threat to strip him of a state honor and other measures. In recent years the 68-year-old sociologist and historian has stoked controversy in Poland with works that expose dark chapters in a wartime history that Poles are otherwise proud of thanks to a strong resistance by Poles to Nazi Germany. Читать дальше...
The largest known complete example of a Bronze Age wheel was discovered at a 3000-year-old settlement known as "Britain's Pompeii."
Sen. Bernie Sanders is either a dogged fighter for veterans’ benefits, a leftist blinded to a nationwide veterans’ care scandal by his faith in government, or a pragmatic compromiser who reached across the aisle when major legislation for vets was on the line.
The Supreme Court on Friday strongly disapproved of the violent behaviour of a section of lawyers who attacked JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, his supporters and journalists in Patiala House court but refused to treat it as a “one of its kind” incident to entertain the bail plea of the sedition accused.
Rare film footage of World War II, preserved in ideal condition, has been handed over to the National Film Archive of India.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar's writ petition seeking bail in a sedition case and said he must approach the Delhi high court for relief.
Daniel Uria
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Biologists at the National Park Service have begun tracking a three-legged bobcat and her one-eared kitten after the pair were discovered in California.
Business World Columnist Holman Jenkins Jr. on the cartel’s efforts to lift oil prices. Photo credit: iStock.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a man who carried one of his children out of a burning western New York apartment house and went back inside to rescue others was one of two people to die …
The presidential campaign is beginning to get weird.
ALMELO - De medewerkers van TSN Thuiszorg, dat sinds november in surseance verkeert, zullen ook in februari weer hun salaris krijgen. Dat kan omdat de gemeenten op tijd hun facturen hebben betaald, aldus bewindvoerder Jan van der Hel vrijdag.
NEW YORK - Stocks are inching lower Friday as the price of oil retreats, pulling energy companies down. Tech stocks are edging higher following a strong report from chipmaking equipment company Applied Materials, but retail stocks are sliding further after a disappointing report from department store operator Nordstrom.
Tech stocks are edging higher following a strong report from chipmaking equipment company Applied Materials, but retail stocks are sliding further after a disappointing report from department store operator Nordstrom. The Nasdaq composite picked up 11 points, or 0.3 percent, to 4,498 as tech stocks inched higher. Yahoo rose 69 cents, or 2.3 percent, to $30.11 after the Internet company said it has created a committee of independent directors and hired advisers as part of an effort to redefine itself. Читать дальше...
Delhi Police on Friday gave a four-page report to the Supreme Court on the violence perpetrated by a section of lawyers in Patiala House court and strongly refuted claims of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar that he was assaulted inside and outside the trial court.
A 38-year-old man with a long history of repeated shoulder dislocations and loss of bone from shoulder socket successfully underwent an advanced arthroscopic procedure - arthro-Laterjet - at a hospital here on Friday.
Bernie Sanders says his campaign is "here to win" in Saturday's Nevada caucuses but he also wants to drive a large voter turnout in the nation's third Democratic presidential contest. [...] Sanders' event drew several hundred people, a sign of his strategy to boost turnout throughout the state to offset Hillary Clinton's strength around Las Vegas. A 40-year-old Kansas man is behind a website that notes how long it has been since Hillary Clinton said she'd "look into" whether she can release transcripts of her paid speeches to big banks. Читать дальше...