North and South Korea have adopted different approaches to dealing with their falling birth rates and impending population decline. North Korea’s fertility rate, or number of children expected per woman’s lifetime, is 1.78 births per woman, according to projections by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). South Korea is at 0.72, the lowest in the … Read more
MADRID (AP) – Spanish authorities have arrested a 32-year-old man in connection with the deaths of two police officers in February when a speedboat suspected of belonging to drug smugglers crashed into their Guardia Civil patrol vessel of Spain said Thursday. U The incident occurred on February 9when the Civil Guard boat was on patrol … Read more
Martin Parr/Magnum Photos It has ruined a lot of sleep at night, and no doubt a lot of relationships too. Trying to sleep next to a snoring partner is exactly that: trying. Once the engines go away, there are few countermeasures other than a shove, earplugs and the patience of a saint. That’s the thing … Read more
As North Texas experienced triple-digit temperatures in mid-July and all of Augustkids on summer vacation are looking for a pool or splash pad to cool off. Now that the school year is in full swing, the importance of getting children outside is still a priority, but persistently high temperatures coupled with infrastructure woes make it … Read more
In the photo she posted on Facebook, Amber Nicole Thurman looks radiant. Kneeling in the surf, the 28-year-old clutches her six-year-old son as the waves break around them, both with matching smiles. It’s the kind of photo every mom can relate to. A year later, Thurman would die because of the state of Georgia’s law … Read more
Iranian hackers distributed hacked information about Donald Trump’s election campaign to people linked to the Biden campaign, according to the FBI and US intelligence agencies. US officials now believe that information taken from the Trump campaign was sent in unsolicited emails to people linked to the campaign in late June and early July – before … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday criticized Republican Donald Trump’s pledge to deport millions of people who are in the United States illegally, questioning whether he would rely on mass raids and detention camps to to do. Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, told the annual leadership conference of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus … Read more
Maternity services in England are so inadequate that cases of women receiving poor care and being harmed in childbirth are in danger of becoming “normalised”, the NHS regulator has said. A report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) based on inspections of 131 maternity units sets out a series of problems, adding to the sense … Read more
By Eliza Mcphee For Daily Mail Australia Published: 5:28 PM EDT, September 18, 2024 | Updated: 7:26 PM EDT, September 18, 2024 An allegedly stolen car crashed into a block of flats before bursting into flames, forcing more than 250 residents to evacuate in the middle of the night. The Toyota RAV4 plowed into the … Read more
A second wave of explosions from the device hit Lebanon on Wednesday, killing 20 people, injuring 450 others and igniting fires across the country a day after hundreds of pagers belonging to Hezbollah members detonated in an unprecedented attack on the militant group. The Lebanese Red Cross said it deployed 30 ambulances across southern Lebanon … Read more