The remains of a 12-year-old boy who had been missing for years were found in the attic of a residence in New York where a sex offender reportedly lived at a sober living group. Jaylen Griffin left his home on August 4, 2020, to go to the grocery store and was never seen alive again. On Sunday, three and a half years later, his grandmother heard the news she had been praying against for years. “I ask the Lord to give me strength. That’s how I process it,” Shirley Banks said to WGRZ-TV....
The hitmaker made the jaw-dropping admission when she spoke about her tricky long distance romance with Alex.
Visiting a new place usually comes with a long list of spots you want to see, making it hard to parse through them all. While some tourist attractions are all hype and very little payoff, Vancouver is home to some sites that are worth every bit of praise they get. Living in the city for a year meant weekends exploring some of the most talked about attractions, and while some took my breath away others fell flat. The best part is that most of my favourite places to go in the city are free, so you...
Geneva, Apr 24 (Prensa Latina) In the past 50 years global immunization has saved 154 million people, equivalent to six lives every minute, and most of them were babies, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported Wednesday. The post Global vaccination saved 154M lives in past 50 years – WHO first appeared on Prensa Latina.
Analysis of a 1,500 year old grave in northwestern Argentina, containing the skeletons of a person and a fox, suggest that the fox was a human companion. For CNN, Mindy Weisberger writes that humans domesticated foxes thousands of years ago. Archaeologists originally uncovered the near-complete D. — Read the rest
Underground tunnels created by lava flows provided humans with shelter for thousands of years beneath the hot desert landscape of Saudi Arabia
Sheffield artist Stephen Martin has partnered with Church Action on Poverty to depict the economic reality of nine Sheffielders living on the front line of poverty, including himself. Sign up for newsletters from The Star The Dreams and Realities exhibition is displaying nine portraits which symbolise the “dreams and ambitions” these individuals would pursue if they were not held back by economic struggles. Suffering from Long Covid, Mr Martin cannot afford to rewire his home so lives without...
Humane’s hyped up AI Pin is finally here and, unfortunately, it stinks. This week, Cherlynn and Devindra are joined by Michael Fisher (AKA MrMobile) and Wired Reviews Editor Julian Chokkattu to chat about the AI Pin and the many ways it fails. It’s often inaccurate, it takes crummy photos, and it gets way too hot. Not so great for something you’re supposed to wear all day! Is there any hope for AI-dependent gadgets? Also, Washington Post columnist Christopher Velazco joins to discuss Apple’s...
Martha Minow, a human rights law expert with a decadeslong career in international conflict resolution, advocacy for racial and religious minorities and expanding access for people with disabilities, will deliver NYU’s commencement address to 2024 graduates in May. Minow, who is the former dean of Harvard Law School and now holds the university’s highest professorship, This story Human rights scholar Martha Minow to speak at this year’s commencement appeared first on Washington Square News.
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Critics hail ‘half a century of momentum’ and vow to expand services to meet the growing threat from other diseases
In a quiet corner of the Qatari capital, between an Indian restaurant and a hair salon, lies a housing compound once meant to host World Cup visitors. Instead it's become a temporary home for about 1,500 Palestinian medical evacuees from Gaza — a micro-sized Gaza-on-the-gulf and a living catalog of the horrors inflicted on the human body by the tools of war. There's 17-year-old Yacoub abu Hijris, who was carrying a bag of flour to his parents when a sniper's bullet found him. He described trying...