“If Antarctica were music, it would be Mozart,” the Australian broadcaster Andrew Denton once wrote, after one of his many (at least seven) trips to the continent. “Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as … Read more
Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services, or MiHIN, has partnered with Beyond Lucid Technologies, a healthcare data exchange and analytics company, as well as the Reading Emergency Unit and South Central-based Hillsdale Hospital. The aim is to facilitate data exchange between REU and the hospital through MiHIN’s secure network. Not only will ambulatory medical professionals … Read more
DHAKA, Bangladesh: Bangladesh’s next leader Muhammad Yunus arrived home Thursday from an overseas trip and will take office later in the day, as he looks to restore calm and rebuild the country following an uprising that ended the 15-year, increasingly autocratic rule of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Yunus landed at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Diving: Men’s 3m Final: China’s Wang Zongyuan nails his second round dive and scores a towering 91.00 from the judges! He overtakes his team-mate Xie Siyi to go top of the standings, Siyi is now in bronze position with Mexico’s Osmar … Read more
Paris: Some of the world’s top athletes from the Olympics and Paralympics have shared their favorite warmup tracks, revealing what gets them pumped before a crucial game, meet or match. The results range from The O’Jays to the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Drake, spanning genres and eras — all of which can be found … Read more
An undated photo of Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. (Photo: PTI) 5 min read Last Updated : Aug 08 2024 | 4:23 PM IST The first task of Bangladesh’s interim government, which will be sworn in on Thursday, will be to restore law and order in the country, Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus, … Read more
AFP via Getty Images Russian defence minister Andrei Belousov attended a meeting with other security chiefs on Wednesday to discuss Ukraine’s incursion in Kursk Heavy fighting in Russia’s Kursk region has entered a third day, with efforts “ongoing” to expel Ukrainian forces from the country, Moscow’s defence ministry has said. Russia says at least 1,000 … Read more
There are strong indications that the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI, secretly helped create, and encourage, anti-government protests in Bangladesh, supporting efforts to remove Hasina from power. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned on Monday and left the country to ensure her safety. After her departure, social media in Pakistan was filled with celebrations over … Read more
Police officer arrested in connection with Puigdemont’s escape Sam Jones A spokesperson for the Catalan regional police force, the Mossos d’Esquadra, has confirmed that one of its officers has been arrested in connection with the investigation into Carles Puigdemont’s escape. Spanish media have reported that a car belonging to a Mossos d’Esquadra officer was used … Read more
Childish truculence is writ all over the Narendra Modi-led new minority government’s reaction that the water leaking in the grand lobby of the new Parliament building was a minor matter, a “so what, huh!” event. For the far bigger and more politically consequential matter of the Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe sub-categorisation by state governments, … Read more