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A UCLA study found that long-term exposure to a common pesticide was linked to more than 2.5 times the risk of Parkinson's disease. Scientists also uncovered how the chemical damages brain cells and identified a promising way to protect them.
Amy Poehler got earnest about her love for comedy while accepting an honor at the WSJ. Magazine Innovator Awards. “There’s no greater joy for me than laughing at people who I love — laughing with them and at them, both! And them laughing with me,” Poehler said on stage at the ceremony, which took place […]
With the US midterms approaching, we examine the power of the women's vote in an election that will shape the balance of power in Washington during Donald Trump’s final two years in office. Annette Young talks to Annie Karni, congressional correspondent for The New York Times and Kelly Dittmar, Director of Research at the Centre for American Women and Politics.
US intelligence officials believe a Chinese businesswoman was gathering information for Beijing on the US chip-making giant, The New York Times reports.
PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, October 29: Spanish papers discuss Wednesday's deadly train collision. The New York Times investigates whether a "safest seat" in the event of a train crash exists. Next, we look at a report about "the shocking rise of rib remodelling". We end with some photos from the Arctic and Antarctica.
The Trump Administration's Justice Department seeks to charge former FBI Chief James Comey with the alleged disclosure of sensitive information to 'The New York Times' in 2016, a decade after the events. The defence maintains that the charge is legally invalid because the Government did not, within the legal time limit, submit the type of charge required by federal law, and has requested a judge to dismiss the case.
Tiny snakes in Southeast Asia have mastered an extraordinary escape technique: rolling across the ground at speeds up to four times faster than ordinary slithering. Scientists discovered that dwarf reedsnakes accomplish this feat through precisely coordinated body movements that allow their bodies to rotate while their heads remain remarkably stable.
PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, October 22: The New York Times's sources report plans for fresh strikes on Iran after the US midterm elections. In other news, the French Senate publishes a 30-step proposal for how to "take back control", just days after protests gave way to riots. Also, how software engineers found and patched up bugs in the language that makes up 70 percent of the internet. Finally, the story of a man for whom what happened in Vegas did not stay there.
Oliver Farry is pleased to welcome Steven Erlanger, Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in Europe for The New York Times, based in Berlin. Europe's political centre is confronting a crisis that extends far beyond electoral volatility. From France and Germany to Italy and Spain, mounting economic frustration, generational inequality and declining confidence in established political leadership are reshaping the continent's democratic landscape. "The promises of more economic growth haven't come true," explains Erlanger, describing a continent marked by "a kind of general disgust" and "a sense of drif
Europe's increasingly pragmatic engagement with Afghanistan's Taliban rulers is exposing a fundamental contradiction between diplomatic non-recognition and political necessity. In an investigation for The New York Times, Pakistan and Afghanistan bureau chief Elian Peltier reveals how European governments are quietly expanding negotiations with the Taliban over migrant deportations, diplomatic representation and economic assistance. “Even though on paper European governments do not recognise the Taliban administration, in practice they meet much more frequently than most of us know,” Peltier ex
PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, October 13: "Act 5" of the French high school protest movement begins as teachers and farmers could join in too. In India, thousands of opposition supporters have marched to the Supreme Court demanding the resignation of the electoral board chief over fraud allegations. The Times of London publishes an investigation that shows FIFA boss Gianni Infantino received a second, undeclared salary. Finally, a cat in China goes viral with people flocking from around the world to meet her.
Gavin Newsom considers that death sentences are commuted to life imprisonment without parole, reports' The New York Times'
The attempt to attack was part of a conspiracy to destroy planes and kill Americans, according to 'The New York Times'.
A proposed qubit made with superfluid helium could cut quantum computing error rates by around 100 times by shielding quantum information from common forms of electromagnetic noise. If experiments confirm the predictions, the technology could eventually work alongside today’s superconducting qubits or serve as a new kind of quantum memory.
The Department of Justice seeks the recusal of the judges who spoke to The New York Times from any cases involving the Department of Homeland Security.
A 40-year-old man was shot to death in a park in Dublin, California. In the surrounding area, a couple of elderly people, both aged 77, remained, who turned out to be their mother-in-law and the perpetrators of the murder. They're both under arrest, no bail. The shooting took place a week before a divorce hearing between the man and Candice Jang, the daughter of the perpetrators, in the midst of a sour dispute over the custody of the couple's three children.
Jonathan McKinsey, head of engineering and user experience in the newspaper's games section, was in a stormy marriage and had been reported for child abuse and domestic violence
Jonathan McKinsey's in-laws, who are both 77 years old, face multiple charges including first-degree murder.
The accused, both 77, face multiple charges, including the first-degree murder.
The concept 'cayetano' was for a time target of jokes and famous socorro songs, but it has mutated to become the aesthetic vanguard of the youth right and attract the attention of the international press
