Life
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US infant mortality spiked after right to abortion overturned: study
The findings highlight the consequences of restricting abortion access across much of the country, according to the authors of the paper in JAMA Pediatrics
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Ivory Coast sees creche boom as women boost workforce
Even if the number of establishments is still low in relation to the West African country's four million pre-schoolers, the provision has shot up recently
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Fungi finding: Mushroom hunters seek new species and recognition
Of the at least 2.5 million species of fungus thought to exist on Earth, scientists have described around 150,000—six percent
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'Manila's car counters help address 'world's worst traffic
The Manila city government employs just 34 manual car counters, who wear reflective yellow safety vests and are deployed to at least 16 major roads
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Dharma-Poonawalla deal could be negative for other movie producers, but positive for the industry: Analysts
Serum Institute CEO Adar Poonawalla's Serene Productions has picked up 50 percent stake in Karan Johar's Dharma Productions, for Rs1,000 crore. While this partnership could be detrimental to competitors such as Saregama and Zee, analysts say that is signals a new era of corporatisation for the volatile industry
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'Our time has come': Kiran Rao is hoping to make Oscars history with 'Laapataa Ladies'
The last entry to be nominated was the 2001 film "Lagaan". Kiran Rao was an assistant director in that epic
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UK's National Gallery bans liquids after activist art attacks
Over the last two years, various liquids have been thrown at iconic paintings in the gallery on Trafalgar Square, including Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" and John Constable's "The Hay Wain"
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Independent studio turns Disney's 'Tron' into video game
The original Oscar-nominated film "Tron", which came out in 1982, tells the story of Kevin Flynn, a programmer who gets trapped in a virtual world created by a computer and attempts to escape
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Ethical misconduct at work is not always reported: survey
The Institute of Business Ethics and the Compliance Institute surveyed over 12,000 employees from 16 countries on ethical matters in the workplace
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How worms and snails handle the pressure 2,500m below the Pacific surface
Scientists are now trying to understand how the tube worm larvae get around so quickly to colonise new areas around the vents created after each underwater eruption
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Restored 'Apollo Belvedere' marble back on show in the Vatican
Once considered to epitomise classical Western ideals of beauty, the 2.24-metre-high (seven-feet-tall) marble statue shows the Greek god of medicine and poetry in motion, his left arm having just let fly an arrow from his bow