Police in Paris have arrested nine people and fined about 160 more since the beginning of the weekend for clandestinely meeting in closed restaurants despite COVID-19 restrictions. Protests against COVID-19 restrictions were meanwhile held in multiple European capitals on Saturday. Police in the French capital said on Sunday morning that they had arrested seven people […]
By Christa Lesté-Lasserre As people age and start to lose hearing or vision, they may be at higher risk for dementia SolStock/Getty Images Older adults who start losing both vision and hearing may be at an increased risk of developing dementia. Gihwan Byeon at Kangwon National University Hospital in the South Korea and his colleagues […]
A helicopter crash in the Alaskan wilderness killed five people, including one of Europe’s richest residents, after the chopper went down on Saturday during a backcountry heli-skiing trip. Among the victims was Petr Kellner, 56, who was the Czech Republic’s richest person and one of the 70 richest people in the world last year, according […]
By Joshua Rapp Learn Mummified scarlet macaw found in Pica, Chile Calogero Santoro, Universidad de Tarapacá, and José Capriles, Penn State An oasis in Chile’s Atacama desert may have once served as a hub for the trade of live parrots from across the Andes. An analysis of the remains of whole birds and feathers found […]
Issued on: 27/03/2021 – 11:40 More than 180 people including expatriate workers are trapped inside a hotel in a northern Mozambique town under siege by insurgents for three days, workers and security sources said Friday. Advertising Read more Several people were reportedly dead, according to witnesses and a rights group, after the attack in Palma […]
When it comes to people with learning disabilities and COVID-19, the statistics are damning. In the UK, people with learning disabilities are at least four times more likely to die from the disease than the general population, according to a government report from November 2020, a death rate that the researchers estimate could in reality […]
We often hear of the harms of social media on teens and young people, especially on their mental health and self-esteem. And while it’s true that there is evidence of links between the two, our latest research on young girls and young boys has revealed that social media isn’t always negative for young people. In […]
Globally, households are shrinking – more and more people are living alone. In 2016, almost two thirds of all households in the EU were composed of one or two people, with shrinking households also prevalent around the world. As countries move up the human development index, households are expected to continue to shrink. As households […]
By Chris Stokel-Walker Students buying lunch at a university cafeteria Peter D Noyce/Alamy Who you choose to eat with influences what you decide to eat, according to a study of 38 million food purchases at a university campus over eight years. Kristina Gligorić at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and her colleagues […]
Spanish police have released photographs and video footage of people trying to reach Europe from north Africa by hiding in containers of broken bottles and in sealed bags of toxic ash. Last Friday, officers from Spain’s Guardia Civil rescued 41 people who were trying to enter Europe via the port in the Spanish enclave of […]