As part of an effort to fight sexual assault against women in India, all mobile phones will be required to have panic buttons starting January 2017. The new rules released this week will apply to both local and internationally manufactured phones. "Feature phones" (a term used...
[caption id="attachment_10678" align="alignleft" width="300"] Dawson Julia poses at a medical marijuana business he manages in Unity, Maine last Friday. Julia and a growing number of health experts and law enforcement say now is the time to consider using medical marijuana to combat the opiate epidemic...
As some 600 disease experts from 43 nations convene in the French capital to pour over increasingly troubling data about Zika, it appears that there’s not much room for optimism anytime soon. The World Health Organization (WHO) warned yesterday of the potential for a “marked increase”...
[caption id="attachment_10594" align="alignright" width="300"] Britain's Queen Elizabeth II greets wellwishers during a 'walkabout' on her 90th birthday in Windsor, west of London today.[/caption] WINDSOR, United Kingdom (AFP) – Britain celebrated the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday with tributes to a popular monarch who...
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Last month marked the hottest March in modern history and the 11th consecutive month in which a monthly global temperature record was broken, US officials said Tuesday. Officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that the string of...