G20 needs to aid in increasing available funds to WHO: Mansukh Mandaviya

Union health and family welfare minister Mansukh MandaviyaNEW DELHI: Union health and family welfare minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday said that G20 needs to aid in increasing available funds to World Health Organization (WHO) with a specific focus on equitable and affordable access. As per an official statement, the Union minister while addressing G20 Joint…Continue Reading

Man spins football on his finger for 21.66 seconds, sets Guinness record

Sandeep Singh Kaila of Abbotsford, British Columbia, set a Guinness World Record by spinning a football on his finger for 21.66 seconds. Photo courtesy of Guinness World Records Oct. 29 (UPI) — A British Columbia man claimed a Guinness World Records title when he spun a football on one finger for 21.66 seconds. Abbotsford man…Continue Reading

SpaceX’s Crew 3 launch to send astronauts to orbit for 6 months

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket awaits the Crew 3 astronaut launch planned early Sunday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo courtesy of SpaceX | License Photo ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 29 (UPI) — Astronauts headed to the International Space Station from Florida early Sunday aim to spend six months doing research that is expected to…Continue Reading

Study: Dogs interpret words, speech patterns the same way as human infants

A study suggests that dogs interpret speech patterns the same way humans do. Photo by jarmoluk/Pixabay Oct. 29 (UPI) — Dogs interpret words from speech using computations and brain regions similar to human infants, a study published Friday by Current Biology found. Based on measurements of electrical activity and changes in blood flow in the…Continue Reading

Longtime Atlanta news anchor Jovita Moore dies after battle with brain cancer

Jovita Moore, an award-winning news anchor at WSB-TV in Atlanta died Thursday, seven months after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer.Moore, who was 53, was with WSB-TV since 1998. Prior to joining the station, she worked at WMC-TV in Memphis and KFSM in Fayetteville, Arkansas and Fort Smith Arkansas. Moore received several Emmy Awards during her career at…Continue Reading

In Netflix’s ‘Colin in Black & White,’ Kaepernick finally gets to tells his side of the story

Five years and a few months after Colin Kaepernick first took a knee and changed the course of America’s discourse on race, he tells his story. In the Netflix series Colin in Black & White, out Friday, Kaepernick and co-creator Ava DuVernay meticulously present a recreation of the exiled quarterback’s formative high school years interspersed…Continue Reading

Micah Parsons making adjustments for Cowboys’ long haul: ‘Just felt like I’ve got to do more’

Micah Parsons didn’t look or sound like a man whose team had just completed a thrilling walk-off overtime win on the road in a hostile environment. The Cowboys had escaped Gillette Stadium with a 35-29 victory, but the rookie linebacker wasn’t particularly happy with his own contributions. “I’m upset with myself,” Parsons said that afternoon…Continue Reading