Medically reviewed by Akilah Reynolds, PhD and Sarah Garone  Between a global pandemic, social unrest, military conflicts overseas, and environmental catastrophes like wildfires and heatwaves, it’s safe to say the first 2 years of the 2020s have been pretty stressful. If you and your kids are feeling frazzled, isolated, anxious, or depressed, you aren’t alone.  As of March 2022, the World Health ...

By: Christy Cooney At least 35 people have been killed and dozens injured in an explosion at a petrol station in southern Russia. The blast occurred in the Dagestan regional capital, Makhachkala, on the coast of the Caspian Sea, at 21:40 local time (18:40 GMT) on Monday.  Pictures showed a large fire lighting up the night sky and a number ...

By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington A former Minneapolis police officer has been sentenced to 57 months (almost five years) in prison for his role in the death of George Floyd.  The officer, Tou Thao, was found guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter by a Minnesota judge in May.  Mr Thao testified that he acted as a “human traffic ...

By Favour Nunoo BBC News, Accra The exact location of what is thought to be the first English slave fort in Africa may have been found – the BBC has been hearing about the significance of the discovery in Ghana. The archaeologist is standing in the ruins of Fort Amsterdam, speaking above the wind and roar of the Atlantic Ocean ...

Love is love! Miss Argentina 2020 Mariana Varela and Miss Puerto Rico 2020 Fabiola Valentin announced their marriage on social media on Monday. The couple reportedly tied the knot on October 28. “After deciding to keep our relationship private, we opened the doors to it on a special day. 28/10/22,” the caption for the Instagram post reads, adding emojis of a ...

What is the Male Breast Cancer Study? Breast cancer in men is very rare, but around 370 men are diagnosed with the disease every year in the UK, and around 80 men die. The Male Breast Cancer Study was established to pinpoint the precise genetic, environmental and lifestyle causes of breast cancer in men, which will enable us to identify those who ...

Everyone desires and anticipates an opportunity to go on leave or vacation in order to get away from the stress associated with daily life.   The daily routine we observe can sometimes get exhausting and all we want to do is to get away into a place of solitude and rest in order to get refreshed for the next phase of ...

The country’s air force confirmed the 73-year-old flew to the Maldives with his wife and two security officials. They arrived in the capital, Male, at around 03:00 local time (22:00 GMT), BBC Sinhala understands. Mr Rajapaksa’s departure ends a family dynasty that has ruled Sri Lanka for decades. The president had been in hiding after crowds stormed his residence on ...

The Akatsi District Police has rescued a baby boy of about a month old, dumped in a bush at Agbaflome, a suburb of Akatsi. The infant, was rescued in the afternoon of October 27 2021 from a cassava farm at Agbaflome upon a timely distress call placed to the police by a community member. Police upon arrival found the baby ...

Source: BBC Deadly parasite Malaria is a parasite that invades and destroys our blood cells in order to reproduce, and it’s spread by the bite of blood-sucking mosquitoes. Drugs to kill the parasite, bed-nets to prevent bites and insecticides to kill the mosquito have all helped reduce malaria. But the greatest burden of the disease is felt in Africa, where ...