Heart disease is the leading cause of death among adults and infants in the U.S. with about 659,000 people dying from heart disease each year, every one in four deaths. Among the...

Acoustic waves are slower than electromagnetic waves of the same frequency but, even in the high-speed world of computing and communications, that’s not a bad thing.  Short acoustic waves are...

London: In Wimbledon Tennis, Novak Djokovic of Serbia registered a straight-set win over Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis in the second round. In a one-sided match, Djokovic beat Kokkinakis by 6-1,6-4,6-2 in...

Brussels: NATO member Turkey has agreed to support Sweden and Finland's membership of the alliance. It had initially opposed the Nordic countries' bids to join. In a statement, NATO said,...

New Delhi: Iran and the United States began indirect talks yesterday in Qatar aimed at finding a way to save Tehran's tattered nuclear deal with world powers. Iran's top Nuclear...

London: The first batch of 5300 vaccine doses against Monkeypox purchased by the European Commission's Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority was delivered to Spain yesterday, a Commission's spokesperson has...

Kathmandu: Nepal reports 62 new cases of COVID-19 with no fatalities in the past 24 hours. Of the total cases detected across the country today, 45 were confirmed in Kathmandu...

WASHINGTON —A new World Bank-UNESCO report released in time for the Transforming Education Pre-Summit taking place in Paris (June 28-30) shows that the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened existing gaps in...

WASHINGTON —The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved two complementary loans of $500 million each to support and enhance India’s health sector. Through this combined financing of $1...

WASHINGTON —The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved $165 million in additional financing to support India’s residential sector to adopt rooftop solar systems and make solar energy more...