5.8-magnitude earthquake rattles Mexico City A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck Oaxaca, Mexico, on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway as far away as Mexico City, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. Oaxaca is about 300 miles from Mexico City, where the tremors set off earthquake alarms, The Associated Press reported. More
Monthly Mexico Media Roundup: Economic Growth and Continued Drugwar Violence January, the first month of 2013 and the second month of Enrique Peña Nieto’s presidency, passed with a barrage of news about two topics: the health of the economy and drugwar violence. Both topics are themes with which Mexico’s previous president, Felipe Calderon, had become accustomed to talking about by the end of his term. More
Mexican towns without police forces start their own When the law leaves town, the town makes their own law. At least that's the theory in two towns in southwest Mexico where several hundred civilians have taken up arms and are arresting people suspected of crimes and imposing a curfew, leading authorities to promise security reinforcements in the area. More
Jenni Rivera linked to drug cartel, witness says On the one month anniversary of Jenni Rivera’s death, new details are emerging about the alleged involvement that “La Diva de la Banda” had with a drug cartel in Mexico. More
Discovery in Maya pyramid reveals dramatic dynasty collapse, archaeologists say Archaeologists have discovered Maya royal bones that were dramatically and deliberately burned to indicate the end of a political era. 04/18/2024 - 1:59 am | View Link
Ancient Maya Pyramid Held Royal Bones Burnt In 'Desecration' Ritual The burning ritual, which likely took place in the 9th century, may be rare archaeological evidence of political regime change. 04/17/2024 - 12:01 pm | View Link
The secret history of the Pyramids of Giza will astonish you Egyptologists occasionally cite an old Arab proverb: "man fears time, and time fears the pyramids". Surely among the best-known buildings in the whole of human history, the Pyramids of Giza are some ... 04/15/2024 - 11:43 pm | View Link
Oldest Aboriginal pottery discovered in Far North Queensland, say researchers Around a decade ago, researchers discovered the Lapita not only went east to Polynesia, but also south — around the coast of Papua New Guinea and towards the Torres Strait. "We have pottery ... 04/9/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
Is Indonesia’s Gunung Padang the oldest pyramid on earth? Reach Jakarta: Your journey to this pyramid starts from Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. Transfer to Bogor: From Jakarta, travel to Bogor, which is about 60 km drive from here.Bogor is easily ... 03/13/2024 - 9:04 am | View Link
This year, TIME launched its inaugural list of the World’s Top EdTech Companies of 2024, in partnership with Statista, a leading international provider of market and consumer data and rankings. The result of this quantitative study: 250 companies changing the field of educational technology. Here’s how the winners were selected.
Methodology
The research project “World’s Top EdTech Companies 2024” is a comprehensive analysis conducted to identify the top performing EdTech companies in the United States.
Five migrants including a child have died while attempting to cross the English channel, French authorities said on Tuesday. The news comes hours after the U. K. passed a controversial bill that would allow the government to deport some migrants who enter the country illegally to Rwanda.
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The deaths took place after an overcrowded boat carrying around 110 people set out to cross the busy shipping lane from France to England.
PEN America has canceled its prestigious 2024 awards ceremony after nearly half the writers nominated for a prize withdrew their work in protest of the organization’s stance on the war in Gaza.
The group, which is dedicated to free expression, announced on Monday the cancellation of the April 29 awards in New York City.
KUALA LUMPUR — Two Malaysian military helicopters collided and crashed during a training session on Tuesday, killing all 10 people on board, the navy said.
The helicopters were rehearsing at a naval base in northern Perak state for the navy’s 90th anniversary celebration next month when the accident occurred, the navy said in a brief statement.
“All victims were confirmed dead on site,” it said, adding that the remains have been sent to the hospital to be identified.
A video circulating on social media purported to be of the incident showed several helicopters flying low in a formation.
Fresh off his feud with a Brazilian Supreme Court judge, Elon Musk is taking his next fight to the very top of the government down under. The owner of X and self-proclaimed champion of free speech has refused to comply with an Australian order to remove videos of violence from his platform, a move that has solicited the ire of the Prime Minister.
Just days after a knifeman killed six at a mall earlier this month, Australia was rocked by another stabbing incident in the suburbs of Sydney when, on April 15, a bishop and a priest were stabbed during a live-streamed sermon.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — On a recent morning at a hospital in the heart of gang territory in Haiti’s capital, a woman began convulsing before her body went limp as a doctor and two nurses raced to save her.
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They stuck electrodes to her chest and flipped on an oxygen machine while keeping their eyes on a computer screen that reflected a dangerously low oxygen level of 84%.
No one knew what was wrong with her.
Even more worrisome, the Doctors Without Borders hospital in the Cite Soleil slum was running low on key medicine to treat convulsions.
“The medication she really needs, we barely have,” said Dr.