China is converting vacant primary schools and kindergartens into elderly care facilities as falling birth rates and a shrinking youth population leave classrooms empty while demand for services for older people increases.
Long before stock markets and mutual funds, the wealthy of ancient Greece and Rome were already practicing sophisticated investment strategies that would look familiar to modern financiers. A new feature in Live
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Official data released on Monday confirmed that China’s population fell for the fourth consecutive year in 2025, underscoring a deepening demographic crisis that experts warn will accelerate in the coming decades. The
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Oxford University has been accused of putting women’s safety at risk by withholding information about persistent sexual harassment allegations against a senior professor, Times UK reports. The university’s central administration allegedly refused
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Humanoid robots are approaching a point where they could become commercially useful, according to Chinese and U.S. companies that have unveiled plans in recent months to produce them at scale. As reported
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In 2015, world leaders made a landmark commitment to end epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other communicable diseases by 2030, and to achieve universal health coverage and equitable access to medicines
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For more than a century and a half, the origins of birds have been dominated by a single, iconic fossil from Germany: Archaeopteryx. Long regarded as the first bird and a textbook
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As mpox continues to trigger localized outbreaks in Africa and sporadic cases elsewhere, scientists warn that the virus is evolving in ways that could set the stage for another global surge. A
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A groundbreaking study mapping immune cells in more than 400 Chinese adults has uncovered critical differences in immune function between populations, offering new insights for personalized medicine and drug development. Published in
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Dolce & Gabbana has made an unexpected choice for the face of its latest fragrance, The One: 67-year-old pop superstar Madonna, paired with 43-year-old Cuban actor Alberto Guerra. The campaign, directed by
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Nestlé has announced a recall of specific batches of its SMA infant formula and follow-on formula after identifying the potential presence of a toxin that could cause gastrointestinal illness, prompting warnings from
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Attaollah Poorabbasi, secretary of the Cognitive Sciences and Technologies Headquarters of Iran’s Vice Presidency for Science and Technology, told Tasnim News Agency that the initiative is supported in collaboration with the Royan
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Scientists have warned that global carbon emissions must be reduced by nearly 50% by 2030 to keep temperature increases within 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Current trends, however, show nations falling
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Dr Federica Amati, head nutritionist at Imperial College London and nutrition lead at Zoe, has released a detailed guide for navigating the increasingly crowded aisles of ultra-processed foods (UPFs), highlighting which products
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Criminal drug gangs have become a serious and growing threat to Europe’s internal security, exploiting a surge in South American cocaine, corrupting public officials, and deploying hired assassins as part of increasingly
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South-east Asia has become the “ground zero” for the global online scamming industry, according to the UN, costing victims billions of US dollars each year. Scam operations are run by Chinese crime
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