Health & Science

• Thursday, June 13th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  Driver's mistake overturns truck and helps escape some 133 million bees

  

  A driver error led to a truck overturning and its cargo of an estimated 133 million bees escaping in the US state of Montana, local media reported.

• Saturday, June 8th 2019 - 07:38 UTC

  NASA goes into space tourism: US$ 58m for a round trip and US$ 35.000 a night

  

  NASA said on Friday it will open up the International Space Station to business ventures including space tourism as it seeks to financially disengage from the orbiting research lab. Price tag? Tens of millions of dollars for a round trip ticket and US$35,000 a night.

• Friday, June 7th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  The first UN World Food Safety Day to be marked on Friday 7 June

  

  The first-ever celebration of the United Nations World Food Safety Day, to be marked globally on 7 June, aims to strengthen efforts to ensure that the food we eat is safe.
Every year, nearly one in ten people in the world (an estimated 600 million people) fall ill and 420,000 die after eating food contaminated by bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical substances.

• Thursday, June 6th 2019 - 09:02 UTC

  WHO: More than 1 million new curable sexually transmitted infections every day

  

  Every day, there are more than 1 million new cases of curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among people aged 15-49 years, according to data released by the World Health Organization. This amounts to more than 376 million new cases annually of four infections - chlamydia, gonorrhea, trichomoniasis, and syphilis.

• Tuesday, June 4th 2019 - 19:29 UTC

  Falklands challenged by the complexity of Brexit uncertainties, but will fight for a “fair deal” pledges Governor Phillips

  

  The challenging complexity and uncertain consequences of Brexit, progress in understandings with Argentina, including the second weekly air link to Sao Paulo, a sound economy with financial stability and the strong commitment of the Falkland Islands population with representative democracy, were outlined by Governor Nigel James Phillips, CBE in his annual address to the elected Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, May 31st 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  The centennial anniversary of the Sobral Eclipse, a feat of Brazilian and British astronomers

  

  May 29th marked the one hundred year anniversary of the Sobral Eclipse. Six minutes of darkness a century ago put Brazil and the UK at the heart of what was possibly one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 20th century.

• Friday, May 31st 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  World No Tobacco Day: the damage tobacco causes to lung health

  

  On World No Tobacco Day (31 May), the World Health Organization is highlighting the damage tobacco causes to lung health: over 40% of all tobacco-related deaths are from lung diseases like cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and tuberculosis. WHO is calling on countries and partners to increase action to protect people from exposure to tobacco.

• Friday, May 31st 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Brazil 's Attorney General sues Philips Morris and British American Tobacco

  

  Brazil is following the U.S. and Canada in taking on Big Tobacco, becoming the first country in Latin America to sue cigarette makers over the financial toll of smoking. Brazil’s attorney general’s office, known as the AGU, last week sued the two largest cigarette manufacturers in the country, Phillip Morris International and British American Tobacco, to cover the costs of treating patients with 26 tobacco-related diseases over the past five years.

• Thursday, May 30th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  The world's smallest baby ever to survive, 245 grams (a large apple) discharged from California hospital

  

  A California hospital on Wednesday disclosed the birth of the world's smallest baby ever to survive, weighing a mere 245g - the same as a large apple - when she was born.

• Wednesday, May 29th 2019 - 08:52 UTC

  Johnson & Johnson on trial in Oklahoma over the so called “opioid epidemic”

  

  Johnson & Johnson, one of the world's largest drug manufacturers, has gone on trial in a multi-billion dollar lawsuit by the US state of Oklahoma. Prosecutors accuse the firm of deceptively marketing painkillers and downplaying addiction risks, fuelling a so-called “opioid epidemic.”