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  Red Cross worker, 3 police dead in attack in southern Mexico

  November 19, 2018 20:30 IST

  A Red Cross paramedic and three policemen are dead after a gang of 20 gunmen opened fire on an aid distribution meeting in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero

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  London mayor scraps water cannons bought by Boris Johnson

  November 19, 2018 20:30 IST

  London Mayor Sadiq Khan says three used water cannon bought for police under his predecessor Boris Johnson have been sold for scrap, at a loss of more than 300,000 pounds ($385,000)

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  WHO: Malaria reductions stall after progress

  November 19, 2018 19:45 IST

  The World Health Organization says reductions in the number of people contracting malaria have stalled after several years of global declines

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  Sensual goddess fresco discovered in ancient Pompeii bedroom

  November 19, 2018 19:45 IST

  Archaeologists in ancient Pompeii have found a bedroom fresco depicting a sensual scene of a goddess and swan

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  South African minister notes worry about graft prosecutions

  November 19, 2018 19:45 IST

  Cabinet minister in South Africa cites concerns that efforts to prosecute people allegedly involved in corruption under former president Zuma are falling short

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  Gascoigne charged with sexually assaulting a woman on train

  November 19, 2018 19:30 IST

  Former England midfielder Paul Gascoigne has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman on board a train

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  Germany seeks to ease road transport of fuel amid low rivers

  November 19, 2018 19:30 IST

  Germany's transport ministry says it has asked local authorities not to enforce bans on Sunday driving for tankers as suppliers thwarted by low river levels try to transport fuel by road

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  Police: 2-year-old Texas girl dies, was beaten and burned

  November 19, 2018 19:30 IST

  Police in the Fort Worth area say a 2-year-old girl died after a caregiver hit her with a belt and burned her buttocks for discipline

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  Polish official: ruling party treated way Goebbels did Jews

  November 19, 2018 19:30 IST

  Polish official compares treatment of party members to way Goebbels treated Jews

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  Best-picture Oscars up for sale in rare auction

  November 19, 2018 19:00 IST

  Two Academy Awards for best picture are going up for sale in a rare auction of Oscars

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  US, UK clash with Russia at OPCW over new investigative team

  November 19, 2018 19:00 IST

  The U.S. and Western powers have clashed with Russia and others at the global chemical weapons watchdog over a new investigative team being set up to apportion blame for poison gas and nerve agent attacks

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  Saudi king's speech makes no mention of slain journalist

  November 19, 2018 18:45 IST

  Saudi Arabia's King Salman has given his first major speech since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents, expressing support for his son, the crown prince, and making no mention of the accusations that the prince ordered the killing

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  Pamela Anderson calls Australian PM's comments 'smutty'

  November 19, 2018 18:45 IST

  Pamela Anderson is criticizing Australia's prime minister for making "smutty, unnecessary comments about a woman voicing her political opinion."

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  Putin and Erdogan in Turkey to mark key phase in pipeline

  November 19, 2018 18:30 IST

  Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are in Istanbul to mark the completion of a key phase in a natural gas pipeline

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  UK's May confronts party rebels as EU prepares Brexit summit

  November 19, 2018 18:30 IST

  British Prime Minister Theresa May is aiming to win business support for her Brexit deal with the European Union, but remains on a collision course with a group of lawmakers who are seeking to unseat her

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  On World Toilet Day, attention centers on sanitation crisis

  November 19, 2018 18:15 IST

  Campaigners urge governments and businesses to invest more in sanitation in poor countries facing a dangerous shortage of toilets

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  Syrian government troops take southern district from IS

  November 19, 2018 18:15 IST

  Syrian troops, their allies capture southern district from Islamic State group after weeks of heavy fighting

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  UNESCO launches Holocaust education website

  November 19, 2018 18:00 IST

  The U.N. culture and education agency is teaming up with the World Jewish Congress to launch a website to counter Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism

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  Technology giants didn't deserve public trust in the first place

  November 19, 2018 18:00 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Zachary Loeb, University of Pennsylvania(THE CONVERSATION) Amazon may have been expecting lots of public attention when it announced where it would establish its new headquarters – but like many technology companies recently, it probably didn’t anticipate how negative the response would be. In Amazon’s chosen territories of New York and Virginia, local politicians balked at

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  3 ethical reasons for vaccinating your children

  November 19, 2018 18:00 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Joel Michael Reynolds, University of Massachusetts Lowell(THE CONVERSATION) Across the country, billboards are popping up suggesting that vaccines can kill children, when the science behind vaccination is crystal clear – vaccinations are extremely safe. Researchers who study the beliefs of anti-vaxxers have found many different reasons, not just religious or political, as to why

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  Accelerating health care innovation by connecting engineering and medicine

  November 19, 2018 18:00 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jeffrey W. Holmes, University of Virginia(THE CONVERSATION) Artificial heart valves, prosthetic hips, bedside monitors, MRI machines – these and so many other innovations that we now take for granted emerged at the interface of engineering and medicine. In an era of big data, personalized medicine and artificial intelligence, the importance of engineering, especially in medicine, is

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  A sharing economy for plants: Seed libraries are sprouting up

  November 19, 2018 18:00 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Michael Carolan, Colorado State University(THE CONVERSATION) Thanksgiving may be uniquely American, but its core spirit was exported from harvest festivals stretching back for millennia. Its essence is being grateful for what one has, while noting a duty to share one’s good fortune. In my new book, “The Food Sharing Revolution: How Start-Ups, Pop-Ups, and Co-Ops are Changing the Way

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  Domicology: A new way to fight blight before buildings are even constructed

  November 19, 2018 18:00 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Rex LaMore, Michigan State University; George H. Berghorn, Michigan State University, and M.G. Matt Syal, Michigan State University(THE CONVERSATION) Detroit has been demolishing about 200 vacanthouses per week since December 2014, with a goal to take down6,000 houses in one year. Much of the demolition work is concentrated in about 20 neighborhoods where the blight removal is

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  Flying with emotional support animals: The ups and downs of life in coach

  November 19, 2018 18:00 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Christine Calder, Mississippi State University(THE CONVERSATION) The Department of Transportation has been considering new guidelines for flying with emotional support animals since spring 2018, but it doesn’t look like those guidelines will be ready in time for the holiday travel season.No one knows whether the new guidelines could have helped recent Delta Air Lines passenger

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  Lies, damn lies and post-truth

  November 19, 2018 18:00 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Lee McIntyre, Boston University(THE CONVERSATION) Most politicians lie.Or do they? Even if we could find some isolated example of a politician who was scrupulously honest – former President Jimmy Carter, perhaps – the question is how to think about the rest of them. And if most politicians lie, then why are some Americans so hard on President Donald Trump? According to The

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  Why people become vegans: The history, sex and science of a meatless existence

  November 19, 2018 18:00 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Joshua T. Beck, University of Oregon(THE CONVERSATION) At the age of 14, a young Donald Watson watched as a terrified pig was slaughtered on his family farm. In the British boy’s eyes, the screaming pig was being murdered. Watson stopped eating meat and eventually gave up dairy as well. Later, as an adult in 1944, Watson realized that other people shared his interest in a plant-only

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  Why the Pilgrims were actually able to survive

  November 19, 2018 18:00 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences(THE CONVERSATION) Sometime in the autumn of 1621, a group of English Pilgrims who had crossed the Atlantic Ocean and created a colony called New Plymouth celebrated their first harvest.They hosted a group of about 90 Wampanoags, their Algonquian-speaking neighbors. Together, migrants

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  The equivalence test: A new way for scientists to tackle so-called negative results

  November 19, 2018 18:00 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Evangeline Rose, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Kevin E. Omland, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Thomas Mathew, University of Maryland, Baltimore County(THE CONVERSATION) A paleontologist returns to her lab from a summer dig and sets up a study comparing tooth length in two dinosaur species. She and her team work meticulously to avoid biasing their results.