Baby white rhino enjoys spring sunshine in the U.K. A baby white rhino named Benja has been enjoying the spring sunshine at the Whipsnade Zoo. The six-week-old calf only started venturing outside its den in recent days with his mom Jaseera. 04/18/2024 - 4:18 am | View Link
Computer model suggests frozen cells could be used to save northern white rhino from extinction A team of geneticists and computer scientists from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Cornell University and the University of California, Santa Cruz, has created a computer model that shows it ... 04/17/2024 - 3:39 am | View Link
Thanks to a genetic breakthrough, a rare rhino species may be rescued from extinction New research from the San Diego Zoo using just 12 frozen cells suggests we can protect the northern white rhino ... 04/15/2024 - 10:30 pm | View Link
UK Bank Holiday dates and how many there are left in 2024 Every year, hard-working Brits get a handful of days off thanks to Bank Holidays. Typically, you get eight days if you live in England and Wales, nine if you live in Scotland and 10 if you live in ... 04/15/2024 - 12:22 am | View Link
The Frozen Skin Of Dead Rhinos Could Save The Northern White Rhino From Extinction While the northern white rhino ( Ceratotherium simum cottoni) females are infertile, it’s hoped a surrogate such as the closely related southern white rhino ( C. simum simum) could step in to carry ... 04/11/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
Decorated Chinese athlete He Jie had been stripped of his Beijing half-marathon win Friday after an investigation found that the three African runners who competed alongside him had “actively slowed down” to let him cross the finish line first during the race on Sunday, April 14.
He won the 21 km.
ISLAMABAD — An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying on Friday that it violates citizens’ right to speech and expression.
The ban on X has been in place since February, when the party of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan announced a nationwide protest against alleged election rigging ahead of the Feb.
BEIJING — San Francisco is the latest U. S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.”
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the panda loan in Beijing on Friday, alongside officials from China Wildlife Conservation Association, or CWCA. It will be San Francisco’s first time hosting the beloved animals long-term—the result of a yearlong advocacy campaign, Breed said.
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San Diego previously announced it was receiving two pandas back in February.
China is home to the only natural habitat for pandas and owns most of the black-and-white bears in the world.
Earlier this month, two Indian writers published an ode to their Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Written in lyric form and titled “Forever In Our Hearts,” it recounts his achievements while singing his praises in highly effusive language. “With courage and wisdom/you show citizens the way,” it gushes. “Oh Modi, oh Modi/their hopes never sway/A people’s beacon, in whom they see light/Oh Modi, oh Modi, guiding day and night.”
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Such reverence captures the essence of Modi’s popularity.
The U. S. blocked on Thursday a draft resolution that would have allowed the United Nations General Assembly to vote on allowing a Palestinian state to become a full member state of the U. N. The move has triggered backlash from other states and pro-Palestinian groups, as global divisions continue to sharpen over Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Apple Inc. said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order from the country’s internet regulator, which said the services pose risks to the country’s security.
The order comes on the heels of a cleanup program Chinese regulators initiated in 2023 that was expected to remove many defunct or unregistered apps from domestic iOS and Android stores.