Category: Latest News

Oct 29
UN Warns Major Emissions Cuts Needed to Limit Warming Overshoot

The world can no longer keep global warming below 1.5C and must now focus on minimizing its overshoot, the United Nations said ahead of next month’s COP31 climate talks in Turkey. The US retreat from the fight is making it …

Oct 29
Show HN: I wrote a book to help developers to improve their writing

I've been writing online about software and entrepreneurship for the last decade. You may remember me as the guy who quit his job at Google to bootstrap my own business (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16483241) or the guy who spent $46k on a website red…

Oct 29
Air India to test all pilots for banned substances

It comes after one of its planes suddenly lost altitude last week, with a number of passengers injured.

Oct 29
UK threatens African state with blanket visa ban

Britain has ended fast-track visa access for Eritrean officials and threatened a blanket visa ban over alleged failure to cooperate in taking back nationals with no right to stay in the UK

Oct 29
109 migrants dead and 116 missing in boat wreck off Djibouti

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) are on the ground to provide emergency aid.

Oct 29
Archive: Coffee

Misha Glenny delves in to the In Our Time archive to select ten episodes for listeners to revisit. His second choice, first released in December 2019, is the history and social impact of coffee. From its origins in Ethiopia, coffea arabica spread through the …

Oct 29
60 Christians Murdered in Ethiopia Amid Years of Targeted Attacks

At least 60 Orthodox Christians were killed in two attacks in central Ethiopia’s Oromia region over the past week, according to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The post 60 Christians Murdered in Ethiopia Amid Years of Targeted Attacks appeared first o…

Oct 29
Predictors of preeclampsia with severe features: A multi–center analysis of maternal and health system factors in Thai tertiary hospitals

Background Preeclampsia (PE) with severe features threatens maternal and neonatal health. This study examined maternal and health–service factors associated with severe features and compared maternal and neonatal outcomes in Thailand. Methods This case–cont…

Oct 29
INSIDE SWEDEN: Meeting my first self-confessed ‘coolcationers’

In this week's Inside Sweden The Local's Nordic Editor Richard Orange reflects on a meeting with Italians fleeing the Mediterranean heat, before running through the week's stories.

Oct 29
The 23 Eastern Catholic Churches: Ancient traditions in communion with Rome

While the Catholic Church is often viewed from a Latin rite prism, it also includes 23 Eastern Churches that are in full communion as part of the one Catholic fold.