World

Image copyright BBC Overview Screenshot Kaye Flitney is one of 75 people enrolled in the clinical trial. Preliminary results from a clinical trial suggest that a new treatment for Covid-19 dramatically reduces the number of patients needing intensive care, according to the UK company that developed it. Synairgen’s treatment, Southampton-based …

Botswana’s elephants are literally falling dead. Hundreds of elephant carcasses have been found scattered in a remote and narrow region in the north, and poaching is not to blame. The mystery has dragged on for months, and experts say the slow response to the deaths has shed light on deeper …

Students and pedestrians walk through the courtyard of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 10, 2020. (Reuters photo) It was a difficult decision for continental university graduate Zancy Duan to give up her coveted spot at a school in the U.S. Ivy League. It was a difficult decision for …

(Bloomberg) – Apple Inc. will soon invite a company from mainland China to the exclusive global iPhone assemblers club, marking the biggest change to a production model of a decade just as tensions between Washington and Beijing escalate. Luxshare Precision Industry Co. has reached an agreement to acquire the iPhone …

“Many of us are also parents of school-age children,” the letter says. “The tremendous pressure to return to in-person education in August is discouraged and dangerous given the uncontrolled spread of Covid-19 in our community.” The letter comes in response to an order issued by the governor last month that …