PARIS: The world consumed ten percent more alcohol per adult in 2017 than in 1990, due in large part to heavier and more widespread drinking in China and India, researchers said Wednesday. On current trends, global consumption per capita will rise another 17 percent over the next decade, they reported
BRUSSELS: An entrepreneur and his firm on Wednesday were fined more than 250,000 euros in Belgium for promoting prostitution through a “Sugar Daddy” dating website for rich men and young women. The Brussels court also gave Sigurd Vedal, a 57-year-old Norwegian investor and self-described “relationship expert”, a six-month suspended jail
TOKYO: A car ploughed into a group of kindergarten children in western Japan’s Shiga region on Wednesday, killing two toddlers and injuring others, police said. Police said the car veered onto the pavement after making “contact” with another larger vehicle that was turning at a junction in Otsu City. The
MIAMI: It was not a crocodile skin accessory, nor a symbol of the Lacoste brand, but rather a living, breathing alligator that a Florida woman produced from her trousers during a police stop. An officer in Charlotte County on Florida’s western coast pulled the unidentified woman over and confiscated 41
GRENOBLE: Fifteen sheep were signed up as the latest recruits at a primary school in the French Alps on Tuesday after parents feared falling pupil numbers would see some classes closed. The move came after the school in Crêts en Belledonne, a village at the foot of the Alps, was
From Amazon rainforests to the Arctic Circle, indigenous peoples are leveraging ancestral knowhow to protect habitats that have sustained them for hundreds and even thousands of years, according to a landmark UN assessment of biodiversity released Monday. But these “guardians of nature” are under siege, warns the first major UN
As far back as he can remember, Willard Church Jr. has gone out ice fishing well into the month of April, chopping holes that were easily four feet deep into the Kanektok River near his home. As far back as he can remember, Willard Church Jr. has gone out ice
The era of doctors prescribing patients powerful antibiotics while they wait for lab reports could soon be numbered, with a new device returning results within minutes instead of days. It was invented by a team at Penn State university and described in a paper published in the Proceedings of the
With a million species threatened with extinction due to mankind’s destruction of the planet, according to a landmark UN report released on Monday, there have been scant conservation successes in recent years. Some creatures once teetering on the edge of recovery, such as giant pandas and bluefin tuna, have fared
Canadian scientists on Monday listed three types of whale that swim its waters, including two of the world’s largest species, as threatened. Sei whales were classified as endangered while Fin and Sowerby’s Beaked whales were found to be “of special concern” by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife
