News
-
An Indian state banned alcohol. The drinking moved to nearby Nepal
The border between India and Nepal, barring moments of political tension, has been an example of how an open policy helps frontier people enjoy wider economic choices. That openness has been particularly welcomed by local drinkers since Bihar banned alcohol in 2016
-
An entire town's Covid-19 money was sent to one man. He gambled it all away
A municipal official in Japan mistakenly wired the town of Abu's entire COVID-19 relief budget, nearly $360,000, to a single recipient on the list of low-income households eligible to receive the money. After promising to return the accidental payment, the man told police that he had lost the money in online casinos
-
Boeing gives launch of Starliner spacecraft for NASA another shot
The spacecraft was built for NASA to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station, a feat that Elon Musk's SpaceX has succeeded at in the last two years. However, Boeing's two previous attempts were marred by serious technical problems, costing the airline hundreds of millions of dollars
-
How the Times, US counted the unfathomable number of one million virus deaths
The number is based on death certificates and other official records. But given how many diagnoses were probably missed in the spring of 2020, when testing was in short supply, and a lack of official guidance about reporting these records, that is certainly an undercount
-
US launches $3.5 bn plan for CO2 capture, storage
The money will fund four major umbrella programs that include a variety of projects to capture CO2 from the air and factories and then store it, the Department of Energy said in a statement
-
Ukraine war casts a chill in Norwegian Arctic town
War may be far away but tensions from the Ukraine conflict are causing an unprecedented chill in a remote Arctic town where Russian and Ukrainian coalminers have worked side by side for decades
-
Snowmobiles in slush? Sports on thin ice in the warming Arctic
All aspects of sport and recreation on Svalbard feel the impact of a warming climate, from dogsledding to snowmobiling to skiing, fishing, hunting and glacier climbing. Snow melts two or three weeks earlier than it did 30 years ago
-
Most automakers fall short on climate goals: report
Japanese auto giants Toyota, Honda and Nissan are especially far off the mark, with non-polluting cars accounting for only 14, 18 and 22 percent, respectively, of their planned production in 2029
-
In Ukraine, gruesome injuries and not enough doctors to treat them
Many doctors had fled the fighting, and conditions at the hospital resembled a bygone era of warfare, with the surgeons who remained amputating limbs, instead of trying to repair them, to save grievously wounded soldiers
-
Women footballers to now get paid as much as men in the US
The US men's and women's national soccer teams will receive equal pay under new contracts that feature an unprecedented split of World Cup prize money, the US Soccer Federation announced Wednesday
-
Rare monkeypox outbreaks detected in North America, Europe
Canada was the latest country to report it was investigating more than a dozen suspected cases of monkeypox, after Spain and Portugal detected more than 40 possible and verified cases