by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
A Dutch Church Has Held Services Continuously Since October to Prevent a Family's Deportation
Dutch law forbids police from entering church premises during a service
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Dutch law forbids police from entering church premises during a service
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Defying President Donald Trump, senators sent a strong signal Wednesday that they want to punish Saudi Arabia for its role in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
The prince may be subject to universal jurisdiction laws, according to Human Rights Watch
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Australia's unique platypus population is shrinking under pressure from agriculture and pollution, putting the egg-laying mammals' future in doubt, researchers said in a report published Thursday. "We have great concerns about the future survival of...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
A Peruvian oil executive warned Wednesday of "catastrophe" after indigenous residents cut a major pipeline in a region of the Amazon, triggering the spill of 8,000 barrels of oil. "We could face an environmental catastrophe," Beatriz Alva, a manager...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
HONOLULU (AP) — Research into the decline of humpback whale sightings in Hawaii points to a food chain disruption likely caused by warmer ocean temperatures in the whales' feeding grounds in Alaska, federal officials have said.
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Dr. Jennifer Doudna, co-inventor of the gene-editing tool that He allegedly used, told ABC News the scientific community is "struggling to understand" his claims. "I couldn't guarantee to you that he did what he claimed," she said.
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
“You hear that little beating sound?” says Kathleen Parkes, a spokesperson for Verily Life Sciences, a unit of Alphabet. When those 80,000 lab-bred Wolbachia-infected, male mosquitoes mate with their counterpart females in the wild, the result is st...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Amazon.com Inc's cloud unit on Wednesday announced a $399 autonomous toy car, aimed at helping web developers try out some of their own self-driving technology. Customers can train and tweak machine learning models in an online simulator and then te...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Moscow’s strategy in Ukraine and elsewhere is to push, in a slow creep fashion, to test the West
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
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by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Scientists in Britain have succeeded in creating mini human placenta organoids which they say will transform scientific understanding of reproductive disorders such as pre-eclampsia and miscarriage. The organoids - miniature functional cellular mode...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
High up in Lebanon's mountains, the lifeless grey trunks of dead cedar trees stand stark in the deep green forest, witnesses of the climate change that has ravaged them. At 1,800 metres altitude, in the natural reserve of Tannourine in the north of...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
It looks, at first, like a giant, flat, ink blot in the sea, but underneath this sinkhole – the largest in the world – is a cavern large enough to swallow two Boeing 747s with room to spare. Famed marine explorer Jacques Cousteau didn't discover...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Red Dead Redemption 2 is a blockbuster. With international sales of $725 million, the video game had the biggest opening weekend in history. It has received stellar reviews, with the New York Times calling it “true art.” The game, which t...