2022-02-17 Could More Africans Participate in Winter Olympics?
Shannon-Ogbnai Abeda finished 39th of 46 athletes who completed the giant slalom event on February 13. He is from Eritrea. There are over 1 billion people living in Africa, and…
2022-02-17 United Nations: Pollution Deadlier than COVID-19
FILE – Coal is loaded into a truck at an open-cast mine near Dhanbad, an eastern Indian city in Jharkhand state, Sept. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) A United Nations…
2022-02-17 Scientists Find First Evidence of Respiratory Sickness in Dinosaur
This handout illustration shows a sauropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Montana 150 million years ago during the Late Jurassic Period. (Handout via REUTERS) American researchers say they…
2022-02-17 Elton John Song Teaches about Future Time
In today’s report, we explore what an Elton John song can teach you about English grammar. Elton John’s famous 1972 song Rocket Man appeared in a surprising way during this…
2022-02-16 Threat of Solar Storms Seen with Recent Satellite Loss
FILE – The sun is seen releasing a solar flare on May 14, 2013. (Credit: NASA/SDO) SpaceX recently announced that a solar storm has disabled at least 40 of the…
2022-02-16 Scientists Get Creative to Continue Work during Pandemic
Dumas Galvez, a researcher of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, collects ants from a nest in Paraiso, Panama, April 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco) Some Latin American scientists had to…
2022-02-16 Landslides Kill at Least 78 People in Brazilian Mountain Town
An aerial view shows a neighborhood affected by landslides in Petropolis, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. Officials in Brazil said Wednesday that at least 78 people have died in landslides…
2022-02-16 Observers: Opinion of Prince Andrew Permanently Hurt by Sex Case
FILE – Britain’s Prince Andrew appears at the Royal Chapel at Windsor, following the death announcement of his father, Prince Philip, April 11, 2021, in England. Prince Andrew’s decision to…
2022-02-16 Mexican Migrant Shelter Aims to Raise Its Own Food
A migrant woman stands in a room at the San Matias shelter in Ciudad Juarez on February 9, 2022. Asylum seekers are forced to wait out their U.S. immigration cases…
2022-02-15 States Pass Limits on Teaching Race, Teachers ‘Caught up in a Culture War’
Katie Peters, an English teacher at Whitmer High School, poses in her classroom on Feb. 7, 2022, in Toledo, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Seewer) Conservative American states are introducing more bills…
2022-02-15 Djokovic Willing to Miss Grand Slams over Vaccine Requirement
Novak Djokovic prepares to take his seat on a plane to Belgrade, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, FILE) Tennis star Novak Djokovic said…
2022-02-15 Eastern Europe Prepares for Flood of Refugees to Come from Ukraine
An instructor trains members of Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces, volunteer military units of the Armed Forces, in a city park in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)…
2022-02-15 Small Boat Launched by American Students Reaches Norway
An image of the boat launched into the Atlantic Ocean by the New Hampshire students. It arrived in Norway over one year later. Students in the northeastern U.S. state of…