For many people, celebrating New Year’s Day can include reflecting on a life well lived or the opportunity to start over. But for some, the holiday may have dark undertones, according to a large recent study. More than 700,000 suicide deaths were reported worldwide in 2019, accounting for about 1.3 percent of deaths that year,…
American billionaire Elon Musk endorsed the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in an opinion piece for the German newspaper Sonntag World newspaper published online on Saturday, prompting the comment’s editor to resign in protest. In the commentary, published in German by media group Axel Springer’s flagship newspaper, Musk expanded on his post on social media…
NEW DELHI: Manmohan Singh’s demise led to his Sikh identity being exaggerated, with the Congress, AAP and SAD conflating it in their demand for a memorial to the former prime minister, reports .“The government has insulted a global icon and first Prime Minister of the Sikh community, Dr Manmohan Singh, by cremating him at Nigambodh…
Victor Wembanyama took his match to a different venue on Saturday. The NBA star, who plays for the San Antonio Spurs and goes by the nickname Wemby, went to X in the early hours of Saturday to ask where the best place to play chess is in New York City. At 9:30 a.m., Wemby chose…
NEW HOPE, Pennsylvania – Dayle Haddon, a pioneering actress, activist and former “Sports Illustrated” model who fought age discrimination by returning to the industry as a widow, died in a Pennsylvania home from what authorities believe was carbon monoxide poisoning. Bucks County authorities found Haddon, 76, dead in a second-floor bedroom Friday morning after emergency…
More than 112,000 Syrians forcibly disappeared under the Baath regime remain missing, and evidence suggests many of them died in detention, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) reported. The extent of torture and extrajudicial executions in Syrian prisons has increasingly been revealed following the collapse of the 61-year-old Baath Party regime on December 8….
KOCHI/THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A CBI court in Kochi on Saturday convicted 14 people, including former CPM MLA KV Kunhiraman, for the 2019 double murder of Youth Congress members Kripesh, 19, and Sarath Lal KP, 23, in Periya town, Kasaragod district of Kerala.Ten of the total 24 accused were acquitted. The court will pronounce the sentences on January…
World chess champion Magnus Carlsen walked out of the World Rapid Chess Championship on Friday after refusing to change out of a pair of jeans, a direct violation of International Chess Federation rules. FIDE said Carlsen, a five-time world chess champion and seven-time world blitz chess champion, violated long-standing rules for the event. Carlsen, 34,…
If you think physical therapy is just about rehabilitation after surgery or an accident, think again. For the vast majority, seeing a physical therapist should be aimed at prevention, routine evaluation, and maintaining well-being. “We are the best-kept secret in health care,” Sharon Dunn, former president of the American Physical Therapy Association, told The Associated…
Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to the president of Azerbaijan on Saturday for a “tragic incident” in Russian airspace involving an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane that crashed after air defenses were used against drones. Ukrainians. Flight J2-8243 crashed on Wednesday in a fireball near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after diverting from southern Russia,…