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In a chilling reminder of the Unnao case, an 18-year-old girl was allegedly raped and set ablaze at a village in Uttar Pradesh's Fatehpur district on Saturday.She is battling for life at a Kanpur hospital with 90% burns.

The toll may rise further as more than two dozen people are still hospitalised across New Zealand and Australia, most with severe burn injuries.

Porto's became a touchstone for generations of Cuban immigrants in Los Angeles.

Anti-CAA protest LIVE: Artists, cultural activists to demonstrate against act in Guwahati

Sweden U17 women's team coach Par Lagerstrom has hailed the efforts being put in by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) for the advancement of the women's game."The Indian federation is putting a lot of resources into girls' and women's football. They are trying to change the culture and give 500 million girls a potential chance to turn professionals," AIFF quoted Lagerstrom as saying."Football can change lives and if we can be a small part of that, I'm really happy," he added.On Friday, the... Читать дальше...

Benjamin Mayne, The Conversation
Humans have a natural lifespan of around 38 years, according to a new method we have developed for estimating the lifespans of different species by analysing their DNA.Extrapolating from genetic studies of species with known lifespans, we found that the extinct woolly mammoth probably lived around 60 years and bowhead whales can expect to enjoy more than two and a half centuries of life.

Alexandra Witze, Nature News
The marsquakes are coming fast and furious. From its landing site near the Martian equator, NASA's InSight mission is detecting about two quakes per day and the rate is going up.We have a lot, said Bruce Banerdt, a geophysicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and InSight's principal investigator. He reported the findings on 12 December at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California.

Kendra Redmond, P-Central
This time of year, people in many parts of the world are digging out boxes of holiday light, untying and untwisting the strands to create beautiful, sometimes tacky, glowing displays. Throughout the season, people will gather in front of the best displays, maneuvering around one another to get a better view of the twinkling shows.

The battle to replace Josh Hazlewood looms as a race in three between Peter Siddle, James Pattinson and Michael Neser.

Ethan Siegel, Forbes
In all of science fiction, perhaps the most iconic moment of destruction occurs in 1977's Star Wars: A New Hope, when the evil Galactic Empire unleashes a superweapon that destroys an entire planet Alderaan that bears many similarities to Earth. The spacecraft that delivers this crushing blow, the Death Star, reappears in subsequent Star Wars films, and looks poised to make an appearance in the upcoming Rise of Skywalker as well.

David Tuller, Stat
Few journals have been more admirable than The BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) and some of its sister publications under the BMJ brand in highlighting issues of direct significance to health care consumers. So it is baffling and troubling when BMJ editors fail to take appropriate action to address unacceptable lapses in high-profile research they have published.

Christie Wilcox, Science Mag
There's a running joke in academia about Reviewer 2. That's the reviewer that doesn't bother to read the manuscript a journal has sent out for evaluation for possible publication, offers condescending or outright offensive comments, andof courseurges the irrelevant citation of their own work.

Tina Hesman Saey, ScienceNews
Some cancers are addicted to having extra chromosomes, a study in mice suggests.Cells usually have just two copies of each chromosome one inherited from mom and one from dad. But about 90 percent of cancer cells have additional chromosomes, a condition called aneuploidy.

Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian
Pound for pound, the blue whale's reign is indisputable. At around 100 feet long and 100 tons in size, these marine giants are the largest creaturesdead or aliveknown to humankind.Whales evolved from terrestrial ancestors that were dog-sized and lived on land some 50 million years ago. Over time, their size has grown 10,000-fold.

Ryan Mandelbaum, Gizmodo
Dark matter could be responsible for the mysterious observation of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy, according to a new paper.Astrophysicists have known for a decade that the center of the Milky Way is sending too many gamma rays our way. Mysterious stuff called dark matter was once considered the prime candidate for this excess, but subsequent data analysis implicated something more mundane.

Owen Jarus, Live Science
Some 1,600 years ago, ancient Romans would have worshipped the god Mithras, possibly in an altered state of consciousness, within the "Mithraeum of Colored Marbles," said archaeologists who found the remains of this temple in Ostia, Italy.Artifacts and inscriptions found in the mithraeum suggest that the worshippers venerated both Mithras, a popular god in the Roman Empire, and other gods.

he governments of the United States, Singapore and Canada asked its citizens to avoid travelling to Assam and the northeast as violent protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill continued in the northeast.

Sue Burke, Slate
The U.N. Climate Change Conference in Madrid opened on Dec. 2 by calling the climate crisis a war against nature. But trees have always been at war, fighting for their survival. While plants may seem passive in the environment, they can sense their environments, make decisions, and respond to threatsup to a point.

Mardaani 2 day 2 box office collection: Rani Mukerji film showed tremendous growth on day 2 growing at an estimated 75-80% from day 1, picking up around Rs 6.50 crore nett.

Tom Chivers, Nature News
Three years ago, a team of psychologists challenged 180 students with a spatial puzzle. The students could ask for a hint if they got stuck. But before the test, the researchers introduced some subtle interventions to see whether these would have any effect.

By Dan Ambrose: Mikey Garcia has agreed to a one-fight deal with Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn and DAZN, according to @MikeCoppinger. Hearn is expected to make an announcement on the signing of the former four division world champion Garcia (39-1, 30 KOs) in the next day or two. Mikey likely out of the running […]

The land scandal involving Palang Pracharath MP for Ratchaburi Pareena Kraikupt leads the top five most interesting political issues in the news, followed by the possible dissolution of the Future Forward Party, according to an opinion survey by Suan Dusit Rajabhat University, or Suan Dusit Poll.

SURANNE Jones is preparing for her latest bodice-ripping TV role by growing all of her body hair for six months. The actress is returning for a second series of historical BBC drama Gentleman Jack, in which she plays 19th-century industrialist and lesbian trailblazer Anne Lister. In preparation for filming, which begins next year, Suranne, 41, […]

Gholam Mahaiuddin sighs softly as he thinks of his 14-year-old son, who was killed in the spring by a bomb dropped last century in the hills of Bamiyan province in central Afghanistan. "We knew the mountain was dangerous," said Mahaiuddin, who found his son's remains after he didn't come home one day. Forty years after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan -- and three decades since the conflict ended -- the war's legacy continues to claim lives across the country.

Felix Rohatyn, a former child refugee from Nazi-occupied France who became a pillar of Wall Street and a trusted government adviser who engineered the rescue of a beleaguered New York City from insolvency in the 1970s, has died. He was 91.