Sat 12 April 2025: A vast lake once covered part of Saudi Arabia’s Rub’ Al-Khali desert researchers have found, in a discovery that challenges conventional views of the Arabian Peninsula as eternally arid. The findings have been published in Communications Earth & Environment. They reveal that around 9,000 years ago, a 1,100km² lake — comparable in […]
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Fri 11 April 2025: Poor hearing increases a person’s risk of developing heart failure, according to a study. Researchers suggest the psychological distress caused by hearing impairment plays a “notable” role. For the study, experts in China analysed UK Biobank data from 164,431 people who had completed tests designed to determine hearing ability. Of the […]
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Fri 11 April 2025: Consumers are under a lot of financial strain. The World Economic Forum reports that the cost-of-living crisis is affecting people across the globe. With food and fuel prices rising, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to keep financially afloat. On top of that, salaries aren’t keeping up with inflation, making it more difficult to save and […]
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Fri 11 April 2025: India’s Hindutva government has taken a controversial step by passing amendments to the waqf (Islamic endowment) law, which appears to be a blatant attempt to seize control of waqf properties, including mosques and other religious sites. The new Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025, passed by both Houses of Parliament on 2 and […]
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Thu 10 April 2025: The sexual exploitation and abuse of children has become a multibillion-dollar global trade. The chilling reality of this profit-driven, highly lucrative industry is laid bare by new findings from myself and colleagues at the University of Edinburgh’s Childlight Global Child Safety Institute. Our new report shows child abuse isn’t just a crime restricted to […]
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German record music label Keinemusik Dj’s playing music during an outdoor party at Jabal Al-Fil, Al-Ula in Saudi Arabia, next to iconic Elephant Rock on 7 April 2025 [Keinemusik/X] Thu 10 April 2025: The Arab world must not and cannot remain silent any longer. It is, after all, this very silence that has allowed the […]
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Wed 09 April 2025: A wolf species that disappeared 12,500 years ago, the “dire wolf,” has been revived by a US-based biotech company, marking the world’s first “de-extinction” in a ground-breaking achievement. Colossal Biosciences, the Texas-based genetic engineering company behind the creation of the colossal woolly mouse, announced Monday that scientists used ancient DNA, cloning […]
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Wed 09 April 2025: New York once again claimed the throne as the planet’s richest urban hub, per the 2025 World’s Wealthiest Cities Report unveiled Tuesday by Henley & Partners alongside New World Wealth. With an impressive tally of 384,500 millionaires, 818 centi-millionaires, and 66 billionaires, the Big Apple continued to draw the world’s elite […]
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Tue 08 April 2025: In a country where animal welfare is often challenged by resource constraints, microchipping emerges as a small act with a big impact. Whether you live in the suburbs of Johannesburg or the rural outskirts of Limpopo, the benefits of microchipping your pet are significant — and increasingly essential. “It’s a cost-effective […]
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Tue 08 April 2025: WhatsApp, Meta’s messaging app, is developing an enhanced chat privacy tool to restrict message forwarding, set to roll out in an upcoming update. This new feature is designed to give users greater control over their conversations by disabling automatic media downloads to the device gallery and restricting the ability to export […]
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