From London to Shanghai, world’s sinking cities face devastating floods
Threat to major population centres is increasing as planners fail to prepare for impacts of global warming, report says
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World markets rattled by US inflation concerns
Asian shares fall again as countries that borrowed heavily in dollars could be hit by further US interest rate rise
Two children from same family die after contracting E coli
Public Health England confirms cases of haemolytic uraemic syndrome
Denmark Proposes Building New Island Near Copenhagen
COPENHAGEN – Denmark plans to build a new island near Copenhagen’s harbor to create more space for the city’s growing population, the prime minister said on Friday.
Pakistani ice-cream seller unaware of £14m in his bank account
‘Penniless billionaire’ Abdul Qadir’s identity believed to have been used by money launderers
Bungling agents leave Putin exposed in the global spotlight
Botched missions in Salisbury and The Hague may prompt Russian leader to reassess his targeting of the west
Diplomats thrown out in Ukraine-Hungary passport
Ukraine and Hungary are expelling diplomats from each other’s nations in a row over Budapest issuing Hungarian passports to Ukrainian citizens.
Netflix viewing eats up world’s data
Video streaming service Netflix is the world’s most data-hungry application, consuming 15% of global net traffic, according to research from bandwidth management company Sandvine.
Wind Farms May Actually Warm the US, Controversial Study Finds
Climate change? Bad. Wind farms to fight climate change? Maybe…also bad?
That’s the weirdly veiled and instantly controversial conclusion of two new papers out on Thursday in Joule and Environmental Research Letters. The twin papers look at how wind power could create localized warming and how much energy wind farms produce.
Australia concerned over China’s ‘aggressive tactics’ in South China Sea
Defence minister says any intimidation in region is ‘potentially dangerous’ after ‘unsafe’ encounter with US destroyer
J&J jettisons several programs, ends seltorexant work in Alzheimer’s disease
Chinese insulin maker says its GLP-1 beat Ozempic at lowering blood sugar, body weight in phase 2
Ceribell CEO Jane Chao explains why now was the time for its upsized IPO
New cell therapy biotech emerges with $17M, thymus-targeting therapies
MeiraGTx’s gene therapy improves motor function and quality of life in phase 2 Parkinson’s trial
Panthera becomes first UK clinical trial organization to join Parexel Site Alliance Vaccine Network
Ocean Biomedical signs $32M pact with Polish biotech for preclinical YKL-40 inhibitors
VC firm Forbion hails €2B from new funds as largest haul yet, with 30 biotechs to benefit
GSK’s depemokimab reduces polyps in phase 3 trials, adding weight to upcoming filing
Abbott advances clinical studies in pulsed field ablation, collects mapping clearance from FDA