Category: Medicine
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Facebook, WhatsApp outage an annoyance for U.S., but a big deal in rest of the world The unprecedented outage came as Facebook is facing a growing barrage of issues, including damaging revelations from an ex-employee who accused the company of “choosing profit over public safety.” #Facebook #facebookdown #LatinAmerica #india Malaria vaccine a ‘breakthrough for science’, WHO chief says “This…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

‘Overwhelmed by old challenges’, Caribbean leaders say COVID-19 has forced a new battle for the survival of their nations Caribbean island nations are under assault from the coronavirus pandemic even as they try to protect their communities from rising seas and raging storms, regional leaders said Saturday at the UN, where they called for bold…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Climate-related changes to Earth’s ice and oceans are now ‘irreversible for centuries to millennia,’ a new report says That aggregated research paints a dismaying portrait of both our planet’s long-term future and the short-term impacts of climate change, including increasingly extreme weather. In burning fossil fuels, humans have pumped so much carbon dioxide into Earth’s atmosphere…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Meet the typical Chinese millennial, who makes $22,000 a year but has no student debt, grew up in an economic boom, and has learned how to outhustle everyone else Compared with the American millennial, the Chinese millennial might be better off financially. Insider’s Hillary Hoffower wrote that the average American millennial was delaying life goals because of…





