Physician Lin Yuh-ting has taken time out of her weekend to learn civilian defence tips she can relay to her two young children in case China invades self-ruled Taiwan.. I think it's partially because of the Ukrainian war," said Lin.
The US Supreme Court opened debate Tuesday on the rights of a Christian mail carrier who refuses to work on Sundays, in a case that could force employers to do more to accomodate religious beliefs in the workplace.. A 1964 federal law, amended in 1972, prohibits religious discrimination in the workplace and requires employers accomodate employees' beliefs as long as it does not "unduly burden" their business.
Infections with superbugs that are resistant to most drugs have presented a "huge challenge" in treating the devastating injuries of people wounded in the war in Ukraine, doctors in Germany said on Tuesday.. But the addition of severe, open wounds that are not quickly treated during the war had led to more infections, he said, with the combination presenting "a huge challenge" for doctors.
Gurkha veteran Hari Budha Magar grew up in the shadow of the Himalayas, but only after losing his legs did he resolve to make his childhood dream of scaling Everest a reality.. "After losing both of my legs, my aim became to see what I could do physically.
Neon signs once transformed Hong Kong's oldest neighbourhoods into a kaleidoscope of luminous colour after dark, but most have been removed with a few lucky ones now piled up in a ramshackle yard.. Citing safety concerns, city authorities have begun extinguishing the neon signs, which are widely seen as part of Hong Kong's heritage.
Blood had already been spilled during the armed standoff between US agents and the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, when lawyer Dick DeGuerin got a phone call.. - Wait or 'rush in' - As negotiations ground on, DeGuerin returned to the compound with another lawyer, Jack Zimmerman, who represented one of the other cult members.
Two years ago, Paul's teacher noticed that the 10-year-old boy could no longer see anything on the board at the front of the class.. "After a year, the results were quite positive because his eyesight seemed to have stabilised," Paul's mother Caroline Boudet told AFP. Previous research has suggested that myopia progresses 60 percent slower in children wearing the "Miyosmart" glasses compared to normal prescription glasses.
"In God's hands" read several of the tattoos inked during a free-of-charge session over the weekend -- organised by none other than Austria's leading group representing Catholic nuns and monks.. The Franciscan monk, who wears a baseball cap and likes to rap, also got inked with the words "Humanity is the greeting of religion". ew/jza/giv
At a barbed-wire museum where political prisoners were once held, visitors lauded Taiwan's modern-day democracy shaped by its own national identity on the island across from authoritarian China.. But locals on Taiwan's main island say they are their own people in a sovereign nation that has forged a unique identity defined by democratic ideals.
The overwhelming smell may be misleading, but the Egyptian town of Nabaruh, its streets lined with shops selling salty, fermented fish called feseekh, is far from the seaside.. Landlocked in the Nile Delta, "Nabaruh is the capital of feseekh," boasted 44-year-old Sherif al-Yamani, owner of one of the town's famed shops.
