PARIS: A new study highlighted Monday the potential benefits of popular diabetes drugs on a wide range of health issues including dementia and cardiovascular diseases, although experts warned against seeing them as miracle drugs.The study published in Nature Medicine is unique in its scope, marking a milestone in the study of new-generation weight-loss drugs such
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A dozen fact-checking organisations who operate in India said in an open letter this month that Meta’s fact-checking programme “helped people have a positive experience by reducing the spread of false and misleading information”. File | Photo Credit: AFP Indian fact-checking organisations that work with Meta Platforms, Inc. received a reprieve of a few months
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World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. File | Photo Credit: Reuters “We hope the United States will reconsider and we look forward to engaging in constructive dialogue to maintain the partnership between the U.S.A. and the WHO,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general, World Health Organization (WHO), said in a statement issued on Monday following
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Xi hails ‘historical opportunity’ for China-Sri Lanka ties in talks; Russia PM meets Vietnam president by AFP Staff Writers Beijing (AFP) Jan 15, 2025 Chinese leader Xi Jinping said relations between China and Sri Lanka faced a “historical opportunity” to foster ties, in talks with the island nation’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on
An adult human body consists of some 37 trillion cells. Not so long ago, these were thought to come in 220 different types. That number, the product of painstaking decades spent peering through microscopes at slides bearing tissue sections coloured by chemical stains, gave a sense of the division of cellular labour needed to keep
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A new study by researchers from four universities claims artificial intelligence (AI) models can predict career and educational success from a single image of a person’s face. The researchers from Ivy League schools and others used photos from LinkedIn and photo directories of several top US MBA programs to determine what is called the Big
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Guests including Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk, arrive before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Getting humans to Mars has long been an obsession for SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. On Monday, that project got a full
The price of bitcoin surged to over $109,000 early Monday, just hours ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, as a pumped up cryptocurrency industry bets he’ll take action soon after returning to the White House. Once a skeptic who said a few years ago that bitcoin “ seems like a scam,” Trump has embraced digital
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Regular exercise is proven to be beneficial for our overall well-being. It strengthens our muscles, improves cardiovascular health, helps to maintain a healthy body weight, and can be considered an effective stress buster. But what if there is more? What if the benefits of exercise go beyond general health? A recent study by engineers at
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Elon Musk gave what appeared to be Nazi salutes at a rally held at Capitol One Arena on Monday after the inauguration of Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. And whatever Musk’s intention with the salutes, Americans on social media are extremely uncomfortable as they debate what it could mean for the future of the country.
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