Month: July 2021

In recent weeks, computer-based criminals have stopped the operations of U.S. schools and hospitals, published secret files and caused fuel shortages. They also have threatened global food supply networks. The…

Top finance officials from the G7 industrialized nations agreed on Saturday to the idea of a worldwide minimum tax for international corporations. Observers say the agreement signals coming changes to…

Dozens of Romanian children had their eyes examined for the first time in a rural area of the southern Carpathian Mountains in Romania. Casa Buna, or good house, is a…

Huge numbers of mice are threatening crops in eastern Australia. In New South Wales state, officials have described the situation as a “plague” that has never been seen before. The…

An illegal building project is threatening one of North America’s greatest treasures: the ancient pyramids in central Mexico. The project may harm the remains of temples and about 24 other…

China has reported the world’s first known human infection with a rare form of bird flu. A 41-year-old man from Jiangsu, in eastern China, was confirmed to have H10N3, Chinese…

Goodbye B.1.1.7, B.1.351, and P.1. Hello Alpha, Beta and Gamma. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced May 31 that it has given new names to the several versions, or variants,…

June 1 marks the 100th anniversary of the destruction of “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa, Oklahoma. But that day — with hundreds of Blacks killed, and houses and businesses burned…

Researchers are worried about the fishing equipment they call “ghost nets,” floating around the Pacific Ocean. The nets threaten sea animals and pollute coastal areas. Often lost many years ago,…

Naomi Osaka received the support of tennis fans, leading athletes, her sponsors and her country, Japan, Tuesday, after her withdrawal from the French Open. The world’s number two female tennis…

China’s government has raised the child limit for couples from two to three as the country experiences lower birth rates. For many years, China enforced a one-child policy as a…

The Roman Catholic religious community in Belgium known as Grimbergen Abbey says it will start making beer again after more than 200 years. The clergy in Grimbergen have started a…

Samuel Anyaele is teaching young Nigerians computer skills using their smartphones. The goal is to give them the ability to find a job anywhere in the world Anyaele often tells…

For more than 50 years, Interstate 81 highway has cut through the Southside neighborhood of Syracuse, a city in northwestern New York State. Smoke from vehicles traveling on the elevated…

China is looking to the ocean to help reduce the cost of cooling data centers that use powerful computers and servers. The country also seeks to reduce the use of…