Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist who developed higher-yield rice varieties that helped feed people around the world, died Saturday at a hospital in the southern city of Changsha, the Xinhua News agency reported. He was 90. Yuan spent his life researching rice and was a household name in China, known by the nickname “Father of […]

When voters in Florida and Georgia states of the United States (US) want to vote by mail in next year’s races for governor, they will have to make sure they take one more step to ensure they receive a ballot: providing their identification. Just two states had ID requirements in 2020 for voters requesting a […]

A group of militants on Wednesday opened fire and killed 15 civilians during a baptism in Burkina Faso, reports on Thursday said. The attack took place overnight in a village in the north of the country, the regional governor said in a statement. Who exactly carried out the shooting and their motives were unclear. ALSO […]

Police in South Australia (SA) said that a 73-year-old body has been exhumed in an attempt to solve one of the country’s oldest cold cases. The remains of the Somerton Man were unearthed from a grave in Adelaide’s West Terrace Cemetery, marked `the unknown man’ on Wednesday morning. The Somerton Man was found slumped against […]

Police in Berlin has conducted a mass raid on suspected users and producers of child pornography in the city on Wednesday. The police said more than 40 apartments and other rooms in the German capital were searched from early Wednesday morning. The raids were in connection with the suspected use and distribution of child pornography. […]