The southern African mountain kingdom of Lesotho holds a snap election on Saturday, with experts predicting another fractious coalition government, unlikely to tackle its dire levels of HIV-AIDS and unemployment. The vote is the third general election since 2012 in the country known as Africa’s Switzerland where years of political in-fighting have stymied attempts to … Read more
Police declared a riot in the northwest US city of Portland after “anarchists” threw rocks, smoke bombs and soda cans at officers during a May Day rally, while thousands more marched in other major cities. At least three people were arrested. Several businesses in Portland’s downtown area were also vandalized by groups of people wearing … Read more
Thousands marched Monday on the streets of downtown Chicago, in a May Day protest against the policies of the Donald Trump administration. The marchers in the de facto capital of the US Midwest represented a wide variety of causes, including activists for immigrant rights and the environment, labor unions demanding a higher minimum wage, and … Read more
When deprived of oxygen, naked mole-rats have a unique ability to convert sugar to energy, a skill that might one day help treat victims of heart attack and stroke, researchers said Thursday. These cold-blooded mammals have long been a source of fascination for scientists because they can live 30 years, rarely get cancer and do … Read more
After 30 years of studying the brain as a guide to building faster computers, Kwabena Boahen may have given his fellow researchers a much-needed template for finishing the job. His story, as a Stanford professor and Ghanaian emigrant, exemplifies what America has to gain — or lose — by inhibiting immigration. You might not know … Read more
Girls start to see themselves as less innately talented than boys do when they are only six years old, a group of US researchers has said. They said the “disheartening” results suggested the problem could snowball to affect future careers. The study on 400 children, in the journal Science, initially found both five-year-old boys and … Read more
Currently, around six million people die annually as a result of tobacco use, with most living in developing countries, a joint report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the National Cancer Institute of the United States of America has said. The report made available to the Ghana News Agency on Wednesday by Tarik Jašarević, … Read more
About six million people die annually as a result of tobacco use, with most living in developing countries, a joint report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the National Cancer Institute of the United States of America has revealed. The report released Wednesday by WHO Communications Officer, Tarik Jašarević said policies to control tobacco … Read more
When Christopher Dempsey offered to donate half his liver to a complete stranger, he knew it would be a life-changing experience. What the former marine didn’t know was that he would be saving the life of the woman who would become his wife. But less than two years after Mr Dempsey called Heather Krueger to … Read more
When Christopher Dempsey offered to donate half his liver to a complete stranger, he knew it would be a life-changing experience. What the former marine didn’t know was that he would be saving the life of the woman who would become his wife. But less than two years after Mr Dempsey called Heather Krueger to … Read more
Human life spans may be limited to a maximum of about 115 years, claim US scientists. Their conclusions, published in the journal Nature, were made by analysing decades of data on human longevity. They said a rare few may live longer, but the odds were so poor you’d have to scour 10,000 planet Earths to … Read more
New York (AFP) – Amid myriad health troubles in 2016, Kevin Anderson found a new fan who was on hand to cheer the South African in a second-round victory at the US Open on Wednesday. “My doctor who did my dental surgery actually flew up to watch me play and gave me some support,” said … Read more
College students from West Africa may be subject to extra health checks when they arrive to study in the United States as administrators try to insulate their campuses from the worst Ebola outbreak in history. With the virus continuing to kill in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, the expected arrival of thousands of students … Read more