More evidence ties extreme hypertension in pregnancy to long-term problems
Women who develop preeclampsia, a form of dangerously high blood pressure during pregnancy, may face a wide variety of heart problems long after they give...
Record high UK temperature could have been reached-provisional data
A British record high temperature, 38.7 Celsius (101.6 Fahrenheit), may have been reached on Thursday, provisional data from the UK Met Office showed on Friday....
India’s summer crop planting lags as monsoon rains remain patchy
Indian farmers have planted summer-sown crops on 68.9 million hectares, down 6.3% year on year, agriculture ministry data showed on Friday, marginally narrowing the sowing...
Spain’s Sanchez seeks to avoid election, Podemos coalition offer off
Spain’s Socialists said on Friday that they would keep working with all parties to avoid a repeat election but were no longer prepared to offer...
Home-cooked dishes in a new homeland
Dawar Kitchen brings migrants together for a chance to integrate multiple communities, while at the same time offering women a way to make an income....
Turkish court rules academics’ rights violated in Kurdish letter case: Anadolu
Turkey’s highest court on Friday ruled the sentencing of nine academics for signing a letter in 2016 that called for an end to the conflict...
Toxic seaweed a menace to Caribbean tourists
Tourists to the Caribbean may not realize that a brown drifting seaweed that’s been piling up on beaches in recent years is dangerous, researchers say....
I only exchanged pleasantries with Guptas, South Africa’s Ramaphosa tells inquiry
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told an inquiry into state corruption that he had met and exchanged pleasantries in the past with members of the...
Police ordered to get fit as Indonesia fights obesity
An Indonesian province has put 50 overweight police officers on a crash program of aerobics, swimming and jogging, telling them they’d better shape up for...
Lebanon secures release of American citizen from Syria: Lebanese security official
A Lebanese security official said on Friday that Lebanon’s security chief Abbas Ibrahim had mediated with the Syrian government the release of a U.S. citizen...