Oklahoma Republican-led legislature passes nation’s strictest abortion ban
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Oklahoma’s Republican-led legislature passed the nation’s strictest abortion ban on Thursday. The bill, if signed into law, would allows citizens to sue anyone, anywhere who “aids or abets” a patient in terminating a ...
Reffell and North named in squad for Wales’s summer tour of South Africa
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The uncapped Leicester flanker Tommy Reffell has been named in the Wales squad for this summer’s South Africa tour for which George North has been recalled after 14 months out of Test match action because of a serious...
Hunger crisis grips Horn of Africa – but 80% of Britons unaware, poll shows
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The UK government has been urged to give the hunger crisis gripping the Horn of Africa “proper attention”, as new polling showed just two in 10 people in Britain are aware that the worst drought in 40 years is even ta...
United Nations wins at Lingfield as O’Brien’s Derby trial run goes on
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Aidan O’Brien’s remarkable run through the first week of trials for the Epsom Classics continued here on Saturday as United Nations, the 9-4 second-favourite, stayed on strongly up the home straight to beat Walk Of St...
Precolonial First Nations oyster fisheries sustained millennia of intense harvests, study shows
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Oyster fisheries in Australia and North America survived for up to 10,000 years prior to colonisation, sustaining First Nations communities even under intense harvest, according to new research. The study calls for In...
What might rising Covid cases in South Africa mean for the UK?
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Covid cases are rising in South Africa. But how serious is this and what might it mean for the UK? The country is seeing a wave of Covid infections linked to two new forms, or “sub-lineages”, of Omicron: BA.4 and BA.5...
South Africa may be entering fifth Covid wave earlier than expected
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South Africa may be entering a fifth Covid wave earlier than expected after a sustained rise in infections over the past 14 days that seems to be driven by the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron sub-variants, health officials and ...
World weatherwatch: floods in South Africa, landslides in India and snowstorms in US
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South Africa has been hit by unprecedented rain, the heaviest in 60 years, with at least 448 people killed in the city of Durban and the surrounding KwaZulu-Natal province. Nearly 4,000 homes and 500 schools have been...