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PARIS, France (AFP) — It has been hailed as a revolutionary way to get people moving, using smartphones to pursue cartoon creatures through city parks and streets on foot, instead of taking the car or metro. But has Pokemon Go made people more active and healthy? A study Wednesday reported mixed success. In the first week of playing the game, people took 955 additional steps per day on average — equaling nearly half the World […]
by Sophie LAUBIE / Fiachra GIBBONS Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP ) – The waiting is almost over. Hundreds of thousands of fans will finally get to see the new Star Wars spin-off film Wednesday as it opens in cinemas across Europe. “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” has already notched up the highest first day pre-sales ever in the US after last year’s “The Force Awakens”. The story, about a maverick Rebel force who […]
by Fanuel JONGWE Agence France-Presse Lions living in the Zimbabwean reserve that was home to “Cecil the lion” are most threatened by human behavior, including trophy hunting, researchers said Monday. Cecil was shot by an American trophy hunter in 2015, sparking outrage after it emerged that the lion was not only a popular attraction for Hwange National Park visitors, but was also part of an Oxford University research project. Human activity including trophy hunting accounted for […]
by Delphine THOUVENOT Agence France-Presse GULF OF THAILAND, Thailand (AFP) — Piercing the water’s surface with its almond-shaped mouth, a giant Bryde’s whale opens wide for one, two, three seconds, gulping in anchovies as a boatload of awed tourist look on in the Gulf of Thailand. It’s a rare glimpse of marine life in its natural habitat, in a kingdom overrun with mass tourist attractions such as aquariums and dolphin shows. Once a dream for scuba […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Some cholesterol-lowering drugs, known as statins, appear to be linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease in certain people, suggested a study out Monday. However, not all patients benefited, and the report stopped short of establishing any cause and effect, so experts said rigorous clinical trials are needed to further explore the issue. The research in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Neurology was based on an […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Global warming is responsible for the melting of mountain glaciers around the world in the last century, scientists said Monday. Since glaciers respond slowly to climate change and are susceptible to yearly weather changes, there has been some debate in the scientific community about whether climate change was entirely to blame for their ice melt. For instance, the last report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded only […]
ARAVA DESERT, Israel (Reuters) — Deep in the heart of an Israeli desert, blue crayfish are helping scientists in the search for treatments of an array of human diseases. Yossi Ben, CEO of Israeli biotech company Amorphical, has been growing blue crayfish for more than a decade in freshwater pools in the Arava desert. Twelve years ago Ben noticed that his band of crustaceans were able to build a new shell at an amazing speed. Other […]
ALEPPO, Syria (AFP) — All children in Syria’s battered Aleppo are suffering from trauma after enduring some of the worst violence in their country’s war, the UN children’s agency said on Sunday. “All children in Aleppo are suffering. All are traumatised,” Radoslaw Rzehak, UNICEF’s field office head in Aleppo, told AFP inside the devastated city. “I have never seen in my life such a dramatic situation (as) what is happening to children in Aleppo,” said […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Sydney’s famous New Year’s Eve fireworks, which traditionally kick off the world’s major celebrations, are set to be streamed live on Facebook for the first time, officials said Monday. The visual extravaganza in Australia’s biggest city is already watched by more than a million people at Sydney Harbor and a further one billion via a television audience. Organizers hope the live stream will be viewed by more than 10 million Facebook […]
The fossilized remains of a whale from an estimated 1.8 million years ago were found in a small fishermen’s community in the Mexican state of Guerrero.
ROVANIEMI, Finland (Reuters) — Tourists just south of the Arctic Circle were treated to a stunning display as the Northern Lights lit up the night sky in Rovaniemi, Finland on Friday (December 9). Just after 2300 local time (2100 GMT) atmospheric conditions on the sun fueled another breathtaking display, turning the skies a swirling green and prompting tourists and locals alike to rush outside to watch. Local stargazers say that the Northern Lights appear due […]
LYON, France (AFP) — A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton sold for more than one million euros at auction in the eastern French city of Lyon late Saturday, the Aguttes auction house said. The Allosaurus, a ferocious carnivore named Kan whose species went extinct some 135 million years ago, fetched 1.1 million euros ($1.2 million), Aguttes said. Discovered in 2013 in the Jurassic Era Morrison Formation in the western United States, the specimen is more than 7.5 […]
