A Dutch court ruled that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates could face trial in the Netherlands, following a case filed by seven individuals claiming to have suffered injuries from COVID-19 vaccines. The case,
Abu Dhabi is aiming to turn one of its most unique and valuable resources—its citizens’ genetic information—into a highly profitable and transformative business. With the backing of Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan,
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by Our Correspondent in New Delhi Bill Gates, the billionaire philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft, is once again making headlines as he visits India to push his health and vaccination agenda. Known
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Burkina Faso’s President, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has reportedly declined an offer from Saudi Arabia to construct 200 mosques in the country, urging the kingdom to prioritize investments in critical infrastructure such as
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by Durga Edna Bonhomme’s A History of the World in Six Plagues is no passive chronology of pandemics—it is an excoriating treatise on the intersections of disease, colonialism, and the necropolitical calculus
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A groundbreaking study led by Dr. Raymond Chan from the Institute of Psychology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences reveals that individuals with high social anhedonia—a reduced ability to derive pleasure from
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Across China, families are grappling with the crippling financial burden of catastrophic health expenditures, a crisis that is not only devastating household finances but also stifling economic growth. The soaring cost of
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A groundbreaking study from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden has unveiled promising results suggesting that sulforaphane, a compound found in broccoli sprouts, could help lower blood sugar levels in individuals with
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David Webb, one of Hong Kong’s most prominent activist investors and a vocal critic of corporate malfeasance, has revealed that he has months left to live after battling metastatic prostate cancer for
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Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) remains a deeply ingrained cultural practice affecting an estimated 200 million women and girls worldwide, especially in at least 25 African countries, parts of the Middle
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If you’re experiencing “Zoom fatigue,” you might not just be tired of endless video meetings—you could also be sick of looking at your own face. A study published in PLOS One has
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