South Korea will drop its COVID-19 quarantine requirements and end testing recommendations for international arrivals starting June 1 SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea will drop its COVID-19 quarantine requirements and end testing recommendations for international arrivals starting next month after the World Health Organization declared the end of the […]
Daily Archives: May 10, 2023
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Writing a hand-crafted email to a distant friend might be fun, but many of our email messages are far less thrilling — consider emails for scheduling a pet sitter, contacting a physician for medical records or sending customer service requests. At Wednesday’s Google I/O event, CEO Sundar Pichai announced a […]
The price of ad-free Disney Plus is going up. The Walt Disney Company plans to set a higher price for the service later this year, CEO Bob Iger said during the media giant’s second quarter earnings call Wednesday. It’s unclear what the new price will be. In 2022, Disney Plus […]
Guidance for care services in Scotland suggests children as young as 12 who believe they’re transgender could be given puberty blockers. New advice issued by the country’s social care regulator says bodies responsible for looked after children can refer them to the Sandyford clinic, which has prescribed the medication that […]
Andy Murray exploded into a fit of rage with umpire Mohamed Lahyani after a contentious call at a critical point of his Italian Open match against Fabio Fognini. The former world No 1 came into the Italian Open this week off the back of winning his first ATP Tour title […]
Healthcare worker shortages could lead to excess deaths, a new study suggests. Academics, led by a team from the School of Public Health at Peking University in China, assessed mortality data between 1990 and 1999 and compared it to the ratio of healthcare workers for every 10,000 people in 172 […]
JPMorgan Chase claimed its former executive Jes Staley repeatedly “thwarted” its efforts to cut ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during Staley’s tenure at the bank, according to court documents filed this week. The Wall Street giant sued Staley in March, saying he should be held liable for any […]
Researchers have constructed a rough draft of a human pangenome, a collection of DNA that represents the genetic information from 47 individuals. The development — a landmark in genomics — magnifies and expands scientists’ view of the code that makes us both uniquely human and different from one another. The […]