SC orders release of prime suspect in Daniel Pearl murderThe Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the Sindh government's appeal against the Sindh High Court's (SHC) decision to overturn the conviction of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh for the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
According to the short verdict, a three-judge SC bench headed by Ju....
AI used to predict early symptoms of schizophrenia in relatives of patientsResearchers have taken a step forward in developing an artificial intelligence tool to predict schizophrenia by analyzing brain scans. The tool was used to analyze functional magnetic resonance images of 57 healthy first-degree relatives (siblings or children) of schizophrenia patients. It accuratel....
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Malaria tricks the brain's defense systemMalaria is one of the most common causes of death in children in Africa. When the parasite builds up in the blood vessels of the brain, it develops into one of the most dangerous forms of the disease, cerebral malaria. Though it wasn't certain if the parasite was able to penetrate the brain tissue, ....
Cloris Leachman's Kids: Late 'Mary Tyler Moore Show' Star Was A Mother of FiveCloris Leachman has died at age 94. The famed actress passed away of natural causes on January 26, 2021, with her youngest child, Dinah, by her side.
While the Emmy-winning Leachman was best known for her TV roles on Mary Tyler Moore Show, the CBS Phyllis, a starring role in later seasons of the ....
These are the only 5 states where coronavirus cases aren't droppingThe month of January, as many health experts predicted, turned out to be the worst month of the entire pandemic.
After a huge surge earlier in the month, the coronavirus infection rate in the U.S. is finally starting to drop drastically. Over the last two weeks, the COVID infection rate fell ....
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HBO Max February 2021: Everything coming and going next monthHBO Max is adding a bunch of great shows and movies in February, including Aquaman, Dunkirk, Blade Runner 2049, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver season 8.
Two films are debuting on HBO Max in February: Judas and the Black Messiah and Tom & Jerry.
You can see all of the HBO Max ar....
New MIT brain research shows how AI could help us understand consciousnessA team of researchers from MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital recently published a study linking social awareness to individual neuronal activity. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time evidence for the 'theory of mind' has been identified at this scale. Measuring large groups of n....
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How Can Conservatives Fight Back Against Big Tech? For A Start, Just Be Sane Again.Right
wingers are demanding that their political leaders do something,
anything. There must be a response to Twitter's ban on Donald Trump, and to Amazon
Web Services' shutdown of Parler. Republicans, once so ardent
for free markets, want the
government to teach
private tech companies
a les....
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Larry King's Widow Shawn Reveals the Sentimental Item of Clothing the Family Wore to His FuneralLarry King‘s wife, Shawn King, is speaking out. The 61-year-old widow of the late TV superstar spoke to Entertainment Tonight about the death of her husband, revealing that she and her family had a private funeral service and wore something special in his honor. “We laid him to rest this....
18 years on, key accused admits to 'minor role' in Daniel Pearl's beheadingAfter 18 years of denial, the main accused, convicted and later acquitted, in the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl has told a court he played a "minor" role in the killing, the Pearl family lawyer said on Wednesday.
A letter handwritten by Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh in 2019, in whi....
Major discovery helps explain coral bleachingA scientist has made a major breakthrough in the understanding of coral bleaching -- a process that causes corals to lose their color and eventually leads to their death. The process is triggered by warmer ocean temperatures, and, according to the study, it begins much earlier than previously though....
PMQs: PM and Starmer’s opening exchangesBoris Johnson tells the Commons that he mourns “every death” that has occurred during the Covid-19 pandemic, after the UK passed 100,000 Covid deaths on Tuesday. Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn....
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Vanessa Bryant Pays Tribute To Kobe & Gianna On Anniversary Of Their DeathsVanessa Bryant took to Instagram on January 26 to mark one year since the tragic deaths of her husband Kobe and daughter Gianna. The basketball legend and his daughter passed away in a helicopter crash near their home in Calabasas, California. She shared three posts on the social media platform ove....
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Americans Are More Reluctant to Discuss End of LifeAmericans are reluctant to discuss death with their family members. Buzz60’s Keri Lumm shares the results of a new Freewill study conducted by OnePoll.....
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Pope marking Holocaust warns another extermination possibleROME (AP) — Pope Francis marked Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday by warning that warped ideologies can pave the way to another mass extermination.
Francis spoke off the cuff at the end of his weekly general audience, held in his private library because of coronavirus restrictions, to comm....
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Holocaust Memorial Day: Pianist tells of Auschwitz horrorA world-leading piano teacher tells ITV News of the "cloud of horror" she remembers from Auschwitz as she "escaped from death". Nelly Ben-Or, who narrowly avoided the Nazi-led concentration camp as it was full on the day she arrived, managed to hide out in an abandoned pig sty with her family. Repor....
Widower shares how Cooper helped him heal after wife's deathMatthew Mauser, whose wife Christina died in the helicopter crash that also killed Kobe and Gianna Bryant, tells CNN's Anderson Cooper how Cooper's heartfelt email following their interview after her death helped him cope. Anderson Cooper Full Circle airs Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 6p ET.....
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12,689 fresh COVID-19 cases take India's infection tally to 1,06,89,527New Delhi:IndiasCOVID-19tallymounted to 1,06,89,527 with 12,689 new cases in a day, while 1,03,59,305 people have recuperated from the infection so far pushing the national recovery rate to 96.91 per cent on Wednesday, according to the Union Health Ministrys data. With 137 more fatalities, the deat....
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Sasikala released from Bengaluru prison on WednesdayBengaluru: Late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaas close aide, V.K. Sasikala completed her four year prison term for corruption on Wednesday but having tested Covid positive on January 20, she may have to continue her treatment in a Bengaluru hospital. The Bengaluru Jail authorities state....
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Long Ryders Bassist Tom Stevens Dies at 64Tom Stevens, bassist for the Los Angeles rock band the Long Ryders, a key group in the so-called "Paisley Underground" scene of the 1980s, died on January 24, according to an announcement from the band. No cause of death was cited; he was 64. While the group, heavily influenced by Gram Parsons, the ....
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Wild elephant death in Vithura: One arrestedThiruvananthapuram: In connection with the death of a wild elephant in Vithura here, a man has been arrested. The man, identified as Kallar native Kochumonaka Rajesh,was taken into custody by Palode range forest officers. Soon after this, Rajeshwho is a heart patient, felt uneasiness and was shifted....
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Trump's radicalized followers must be forced to see who he really isDonald Trump is gone. Jan. 20 has come and gone. Joe Biden is our 46th president and Kamala Harris is our vice president. Celebration has been on display and our democracy is breathing easier.But our glow of hopefulness will inevitably be dampened by the penetrating darkness of the past four years. ....
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Protein anchors as a newly discovered key molecule in cancer spread and epilepsyCertain anchor proteins inhibit a key metabolic driver that plays an important role in cancer and developmental brain disorders. Scientists discovered this molecular mechanism, which could open up new opportunities for personalized therapies for cancer and neuronal diseases.....
UK passes 100,000 COVID deaths, with many more to comeThe death toll in Britain from the coronavirus pandemic passed 100,000 people on Tuesday as the government battled to speed up vaccination delivery and keep variants of the virus at bay.....
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Brands Tap This Startup for Greater Representation at the College Recruitment StageAs Black Lives Matter protests reached a fever pitch last year following the death of George Floyd, it wasn't long before the conversation turned to the lack of diversity, equity and inclusion in many workplaces. In response to that conversation, this fall brought the launch of Hive Diversity, a pla....
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Covid 19 coronavirus: Worldwide cases surge past 100 millionThe world has officially surpassed 100 million cases of Covid 19, according to new official figures from John Hopkins University.The global death toll has now surpassed 2.1 million.A quarter of the cases have been in the United.......
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How do you solve a problem like… the death of the third-party cookie?We ask readers of The Drum – from brands, agencies and everything in between – for their advice on real problems facing today's marketing practitioners. Today, we ask how marketers will navigate the demise of the third-party cookie.
With the third-party cookie on its way out, tech giants such a....
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Over 100,000 people have died with coronavirus in the UKMore than 100,000 people in the UK have died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus since the pandemic began, according to the Government's measure of the death toll. During a Downing Street briefing, Boris Johnson said it is "hard to compute the sorrow contained in that grim statistic".....
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Pamela Anderson Says 'I Am Free' In What She Claims Will Be Her Last Social Media PostPamela Anderson revealed she was now “free” after posting what she claimed would be her last social media statement across all platforms including Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
The blonde bombshell claimed in a post seen here that she never really was interested in social media.
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Wirelessly rechargeable soft brain implant controls brain cellsResearchers have invented a smartphone-controlled soft brain implant that can be recharged wirelessly from outside the body. It enables long-term neural circuit manipulation without the need for periodic disruptive surgeries to replace the battery of the implant. Scientists believe this technology c....
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Valve co-founder says brain-computer interfaces will let you 'edit' your feelingsThe head of video games giant Valve says future brain-computer interfaces could change how players feel. Gabe Newell believes BCIs will soon create superior experiences to what we can perceive through our eyes and ears alone. "But that's not where it gets weird," he told New Zealand's 1 News. "Wh....
Starmer: 100,000 Covid deaths is a 'national tragedy'Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said the Government's measure of the coronavirus death toll passing 100,000 is a "national tragedy". In a statement, Sir Keir said: "This is a national tragedy and a terrible reminder of all that we have lost as a country". More than 100,000 people in the UK have d....
