Philippine mother-of-three Stella Sibonga is desperate to end a marriage she never wanted.. People wanting to end their marriage can ask a court for an annulment or a declaration that the nuptials were invalid from the start, but the government can appeal against those decisions.
Iraq's shrunken and conflict-scarred Christian community is launching a new television channel as part of efforts to save their dying language, spoken for more than 2,000 years.. Iraq's government launched the channel in April to help keep the language alive.
Canada is grappling with a ticking time bomb of violence, addiction and suicide linked to failing mental health services for its young people.. "It's a ticking time bomb," said Jacques Charland of the Quebec help line Ecoute Entraide.
Disgraced biotech star Elizabeth Holmes began serving her 11-year sentence for defrauding investors in a Texas prison on Tuesday.. Balwani was sentenced to nearly 13 years and is currently serving his time at a federal prison in California.
For decades there has been almost no improvement in the medical treatment of schizophrenia, one of the most serious and devastating of all mental illnesses, but recent advances have raised hopes of progress.. Interruptions to medication, often brought about by the psychosis the illness causes, are a common problem in treating schizophrenia.
As negotiations accelerate towards a new pandemic treaty, observers warn that efforts to ensure equal access to the medical products needed to battle future threats are being watered down.. But critics warn that revisions being made to the preliminary negotiating text are weakening the language -- notably in a key area aimed at preventing the rampant inequity seen in access to vaccines and other medical products during the Covid pandemic.
Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's biggest, will from now on vote against the nomination of all-male boards in Japanese companies, a senior fund official said Tuesday.. In March, the fund already voted against the nomination of the chairman of the board of electronics group Canon.
The baseball pitch is shared with grazing cows, but the rustic conditions are no distraction for Ugandan major league hopeful Dennis Kasumba. . "We want Kasumba to play in the highest league in the world, that's our hope," said coach Sempa.
At a smoky sports club in Papua New Guinea's rough-and-tumble capital, security guards check for weapons as players with smiles stained betel-nut red throw darts at the wall.. Torie hopes the upward trajectory of the game means Papua New Guinea's top players can one day hope to emulate their heroes across the world.
Elena Ruelas prepares a syringe of heroin, a drug that she has been using for 20 years.. - 'Too strong' - Ruelas, 50, suffered a near-fatal overdose a year ago, even though she had injected herself with no more than her usual dose of heroin, a highly addictive opioid made from the opium poppy.
