ABU DHABI // Exercise should be the first line of defence in the fight against depression after research published in the Middle East Journal of Positive Psychology hailed its benefits in releasing ‘feel good’ brain chemicals. Doctors advocate physical activity as the best remedy in many cases, but the simple solution is often overlooked in favour of medication that can be expensive and carry side effects. Restrictions […]
January 6, 2017 by: Adam Samson in New York US wage growth accelerated to the quickest pace since 2009 last month, underscoring rising inflationary pressure as President Barack Obama prepares to pass the torch to Donald Trump. Average hourly earnings climbed 0.4 per cent in December from the previous month, beating expectations for a 0.3 per cent pick-up, the Labor Department said in the final employment report […]
Never mind football’s alarmingly martial terminology. What Saban, who cut his coaching teeth on defense, noticed and passed along helped Alabama find solutions that led to 269 rushing yards — more than twice the average Washington had allowed in games this season. Continue reading the main story “It’s good for the offense,” Bobby Williams, a special assistant who has held several coaching jobs on Saban’s staffs, said […]
As the first battery cells roll off the production line at Tesla’s 1.9m sq ft Gigafactory in Nevada a scramble is under way to secure supply of the lithium that is their key ingredient. This week a small Australian mining company sold a lithium prospect in west Africa to a Chinese buyer for $78m — or more than 2,000 times the amount it paid for the deposit […]
This story is a collaboration between Kaiser Health News and the Center for Public Integrity. Six years ago, federal health officials were confident they could save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars annually by auditing private Medicare Advantage insurance plans that allegedly overcharged the government for medical services. An initial round of audits found that Medicare had potentially overpaid five of the health plans $128 million in […]
MOSCOW: Russia announced on Friday that it is withdrawing its aircraft carrier and some other Russian warships from the waters off Syria as the first step in a drawdown of its forces in the war-torn Mideast country.According to Russian General Staff chief Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the Admiral Kuznetsov carrier and accompanying ships are to be the first to leave.Gerasimov was quoted as saying by the state news […]
By Yashaswini Swamynathan U.S. stocks edged lower on Friday after data showed employment in December rose less than expected but a rebound in wages suggested sustained growth in the labor market. The public and private sectors together added 156,000 jobs last month, a U.S. Labor Department report showed, compared with 204,000 jobs added in November. Average hourly earnings increased 10 cents, or 0.4 percent, after slipping 0.1 […]
Scientists looking to understand human stomach diseases can now use an artificially grown tissue designed to recreate the normal processes of the organ such as producing acids and other digestive enzymes. In a study featured in the journal Nature, researchers from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center were able to grow human tissues in a laboratory using samples taken from the corpus/fundus region of the stomach. The […]
By Richard Balmforth | PARIS PARIS France’s far-right leader fired broadsides at the European Union and the euro currency on Friday, marking out Europe as a major plank in her programme as the battle lines took shape in the campaign for the presidential election in spring. Marine Le Pen, head of the anti-EU, anti-immigrant National Front (FN) and seen by pollsters as highly likely to make a […]
Intel Compute Card First there was the Compute Stick, Intel’s mini-computer that resembles a pack of gum. Now the chip giant is releasing a PC that’s even more diminutive than that device. The new Compute Card is even thinner than the Compute Stick, looking more like a slightly bigger, thicker credit card. It’s a mere 5mm thick, but still manages to house most of the essentials for […]
By Isabel Coles and Saif Hameed | NORTH OF MOSUL, Iraq/BAGHDAD NORTH OF MOSUL, Iraq/BAGHDAD Elite Iraqi troops bridged a river under the cover of darkness to seize a district of Mosul in an unprecedented night raid early on Friday, part of a new phase in the battle to capture the city from Islamic State after weeks of slowed momentum. Since last week, Iraqi forces have launched […]
By Pedro Fonseca | RIO DE JANEIRO RIO DE JANEIRO At last 33 inmates have been killed in a new prison riot in the Amazon region of Brazil, officials said on Friday, just five days after 56 inmates were slaughtered in the country’s worst prison massacre in more than two decades. Few details were available about the latest uprising early on Friday in Roraima state’s largest penitentiary, […]
WASHINGTON President-elect Donald Trump criticized news stories on Friday that reported U.S. taxpayers would pay for his planned border wall with Mexico, saying they were failing to report that U.S. funds used to start the project would be repaid later by Mexico. “The dishonest media does not report than any money spent on building the Great Wall (for sake of speed), will be paid back by Mexico […]
When Donald Trump comes to Washington on January 20, his YouTube supporters Diamond and Silk will be travelling to the capital with him. Then, they will turn round and go home. Over the course of the tycoon’s campaign, Diamond and Silk served as two of the president-elect’s biggest surrogates to the African-American community, talking him up on their hit video blogs, speaking alongside him at rallies and […]
06 January 2017 Roads and Transport Authority – Nashwan Atta’ee: The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has adopted 64 innovative ideas focused on improving customers’ happiness and increasing the ridership of Dubai Metro & Tram as part of long-term plans. Such plans are subject to reviewing, broadening and upgrading according to a timeline overseen by RTA’s Rail Agency. To this effect, RTA’s Rail Agency has recently held an innovation lab […]
Chinese internet company Baidu displays its new “Little Fish” voice-controlled home assistant unit which also features a touch screen Chinese internet colossus Baidu is out to make a splash with ‘Little Fish,’ a family robot that is a voice-controlled virtual valet akin to Amazon Echo or Google Home. Baidu showed off “Little Fish,” a translation of its Chinese name “Xiaoyu Zaijia,” on Thursday at the Consumer Electronics […]
PARIS Airbus (AIR.PA) reached a target for at least 50 deliveries of its A350 wide-body jetliner in 2016, two industry sources said on Friday. Widely watched deliveries of the newest European long-haul jet had been delayed by problems in supplies of cabin equipment, notably from France’s Zodiac Aerospace (ZODC.PA). Airbus declined to comment ahead of an annual news conference on orders and deliveries on Jan 11. It […]
Fast Radio Bursts, or FRBs, are short-lived but extraordinarily bright pulses of radio waves coming from mysterious sources outside the Milky Way. They were first discovered in 2007 but little is known about them particularly because they only last for a few seconds. Their fleeting action makes them difficult to catch and makes it harder for astronomers to pinpoint their exact source. Radio Signal From Aliens Researchers have […]
ANKARA An earthquake shook Iran’s southern Fars province on Friday, killing four Afghan laborers and prompting a search operation for other casualties in the thinly-populated mountainous area, Iranian state TV said. The shallow magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck at dawn, with its epicenter 53 km southwest (33 miles) of the city of Jahrom, the USGS said. Iranian media said the quake measured 5.1. “Four Afghans living and working […]
BAGHDAD Elite Iraqi troops advanced against Islamic State militants in eastern Mosul in their first night-time raid in the city, a spokesman said on Friday, in a U.S.-backed operation which officials say is gaining momentum. Counter-terrorism service (CTS) forces pushed across a tributary of the Tigris river shortly after midnight and drove back Islamic State fighters in the Muthanna district, CTS spokesman Sabah al-Numan said. “We used […]
SEJONG, South Korea China is suspected to be taking indirect action against South Korea’s decision last year to deploy a U.S. anti-missile system, South Korea’s finance minister said. China worries that the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) system’s powerful radar can penetrate its territory and it has objected to the deployment. South Korea and the United States say the missile system is aimed solely at […]
Xiaomi’s division in India claims to have topped $1 billion (roughly 6,800 crore rupees) in revenue in 2016, following an announcement in October that it sold more than 1 million smartphones in India in 18 days. In a Facebook post celebrating the revenue milestone, head of Xiaomi India Manu Kumar Jain wrote that the company thinks it’s the first to cross the $1 billion revenue mark in […]
What with the Golden Globes, the Oscars, the Baftas and the host of other award ceremonies jamming up their calendars, it’s a wonder that the stars of stage, screen and television ever have time to act. Plus, as British comedian Ricky Gervais liked to point out on each of the four occasions he presented the annual Golden Globes ceremony in Los Angeles, watching the impossibly wealthy and […]
Samsung Electronics has forecast its best quarterly profit in more than three years, projecting that operating profit for the last three months of 2016 surged 50 per cent as strong sales of chips and display panels offset the Galaxy Note 7 debacle. The world’s largest maker of memory chips as well as smartphones estimated its fourth-quarter operating profit at Won9.2tn ($7.8bn), the highest since the third quarter […]
