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It’s a modern tale with a rich and fragrant whiff of Jonah and the Whale, when a group of Yemeni fishermen made the catch of their lives this week in the Gulf of Aden. After a large, dead whale was spotted floating in the waters of the coast of Yemen, 37 fishermen helped drag it […]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/K44uVqqyfiE expand=1] Poland is a nation divided. On October, its constitutional tribunal ruled that terminating pregnancy due to fetal defects was unconstitutional, making abortion almost completely illegal in a country with strong influence of the Catholic Church and among Europe’s most restrictive laws on this and other social issues. The abortion ruling sparked massive […]
Can a clone have a birthday? Well, let’s just say that Dolly the sheep was delivered 22 years ago on July 5 — the world’s first cloned mammal to see the light of day. The result of a successful cloning experiment at The Roslin Institute in Scotland, the wooly work of science sparked public outcry back in 1996, eventually leading to an extension of the ban against embryo research in the United States. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/-uYYsNf61WA expand=1] Hello Dolly! — OneShot (© Roslin Institute) Fears of cloning linger: Earlier this year, Chinese researchers were busy trying to convince the public that […]
PARIS — A short time ago, in a place not so far away, Star Wars fans in France were treated to a special Darth Vader drama, with a courtroom plot. Ahead of the release of the franchise’s latest installment,The Last Jedi, a public trial was held in Paris for the father of all villains. The […]
Now on their third ‘Under the Pole’ expedition, French explorers Emmanuelle Périé-Bardout and Ghislain Bardout (and their two sons) just can’t get enough of the far north.
Unlike the ‘Righteous Among The Nations’ of the Nazi Holocaust, individual Turks who opposed the Armenian genocide are lost to history. Again, Turkey’s government is largely to blame.
Though peace is far secure between the Democratic Republic Of Congo and Rwanda, organized efforts to bring their youth together are multiplying.
After Donald Trump’s surprise victory last month, the first serious question — both in the U.S. and around the globe — was: Will he actually do all that stuff? The answer appears to be tilting toward a, Well, Hell Yes, that is as surprising to some as the election itself. The most blatant example so […]