Published:Thursday | September 25, 2025 | 8:27 AMBANG Bizarre
Leigh Murphy, 29, has to keep an eye on her six-year-old son Steven - who she has with her 28-year-old husband Steven - so that he does not munch on dangerous items around the family's three-bedroom, two-storey private rental house in...
Published:Thursday | September 25, 2025 | 8:18 AMBANG Bizarre
Prunes and All-Bran might once have been the butt of jokes about old age, but now they’re flying off the shelves - thanks to a Gen Z health craze called “fibremaxxing.” Younger Brits are embracing high-fibre foods in record...
Published:Thursday | September 25, 2025 | 8:14 AMBANG Bizarre
A team of Japanese researchers won an Ig Nobel Prize for spray-painting cows with zebra stripes to reduce fly bites. Led by Tomoki Kojima, the group taped Japanese beef cows before painting them with black-and-white stripes. The experiment showed...
Published:Thursday | September 25, 2025 | 8:05 AMBANG Bizarre
A study by the University of Bath found that German students who consumed a modest amount of alcohol performed better when speaking Dutch, compared to those who drank only water. Their pronunciation was smoother, and their confidence higher,...
Published:Thursday | September 25, 2025 | 7:50 AMBANG Bizarre
A study conducted by the University of Guanajuato in Mexico found that cardiac patients in intensive care who listened to 45 minutes of soft music daily experienced better health outcomes than those who did not. Over five days, the music group...
PORT HARCOURT :This summer, a male patient at Specialist Hospital Damaturu in Nigeria’s Yobe State physically assaulted a female healthcare worker following a dispute over the provision of medical attention. Sadly, this is a relatively...
REDMOND: My life’s mission has been to create safe, beneficial AI that will make the world a better place. But recently, I’ve been increasingly concerned about people starting to believe so strongly in AIs as conscious entities that...
SANTA BARBARA: US President Donald Trump’s recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska was the first encounter between the leaders of the world’s two largest nuclear powers since 2021. Now, if Trump truly wants to put...
BEIRUT/YAOUNDÉ :Why are low- and lower-middle-income countries’ (LLMICs) external borrowing costs so high? The issue has featured prominently in global debates this year. The Sevilla Commitment (the outcome of the Fourth International...
ROME :Is the agriculture sector fated to die out? Globally, the average age of farmers has been steadily creeping up, approaching 60 in developed countries. This leaves the sector, which supplies roughly one-quarter of jobs worldwide, in a bind:...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist's pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, may be worth so many more. Take a look at this week's past line-up of cartoons, as...
Dozens of young doctors who completed medical studies in China have returned home only to find themselves stalled by Jamaica’s accreditation system. At least 30 graduates remain in limbo, some told they cannot apply for internships until 2026...
Defence attorney Kymberli Whittaker has warned that Jamaica’s firearm law unfairly treats imitation guns the same as real firearms, carrying penalties of up to 15 years in prison. She argued that while replicas and toy guns can intimidate,...
Former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, now living with dementia, continues to show her love and recognition through her familiar hugs and kisses. Her husband, Errald Miller, shared that despite the challenges of her illness, these simple...
Relatives of 20-year-old Rashad Smith, who was killed in Thursday night’s drive-by shooting in Portsmouth, St Catherine, say he was an innocent victim caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Smith, described as hardworking and about to...
Despite forensic evidence showing no traces of blood on the sofa allegedly linked to Donnalee Donaldson’s disappearance, a former car wash worker insisted in court that what she saw was blood. Under cross-examination, she admitted she could...
Newly reinstated Cabinet minister Dr Andrew Wheatley declared that he has been vindicated of past controversies, urging Jamaicans to judge him on his performance rather than “propaganda.” Returning as minister without portfolio in the...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness used his swearing-in speech to call for unity, extending a hand to Opposition Leader-designate Mark Golding to collaborate on constitutional reform and Jamaica’s transition to a republic. Acknowledging the deep...
After six years of delays, the multimillion-dollar fraud case against former Education Minister Ruel Reid and his co-accused will proceed on October 6, despite prosecutors’ request for more time to locate witnesses. Trelawny Parish Judge...
Published:Thursday | September 18, 2025 | 5:26 AMBANG Bizarre
New research has claimed that people are more likely to pile on the pounds during warmer weather as they gorge on ice cream and consume fizzy drinks in an attempt to stay cool and hydrated. At temperatures between 12C and 30C, individuals consume 0...
Published:Thursday | September 18, 2025 | 5:21 AMBANG Bizarre
Scientists at Radboud University in the Netherlands asked 500 people at a music festival to be exposed to thousands of female mosquitoes. Everybody involved filled out a questionnaire about their hygiene, diet and behaviour at the festival before...
Published:Thursday | September 18, 2025 | 5:09 AMBANG Bizarre
Experts have discovered that spending just half an hour twice a week doing chores such as hoovering can help people lower their blood pressure and keep fit. Dr Nish Manek explained that "aiming for 30 minutes" of exercise through...
Published:Thursday | September 18, 2025 | 5:03 AMBANG Bizarre
Sparkling water has increased in popularity of late but dental experts fear that its acidic nature contributes to the erosion of pearly whites. The dentists say that acidic fizzy water (compared to the neutral pH of tap water) "etches"...
Published:Thursday | September 18, 2025 | 4:51 AMBANG Bizarre
Scientists have revealed that a simple course of eye drops can restore clear near vision. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide suffer from presbyopia – a condition where the eyes struggle to focus on objects and text up close. The...
BEIJING: While US President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs have been the subject of much discussion and analysis, their impact on developing economies has not received nearly as much attention as it deserves. In fact, Trump...