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US election live: Harris takes stage with J Lo, vows to ‘restore reproductive freedom’
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US election live: Harris takes stage with J Lo, vows to ‘restore reproductive freedom’

Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump are rallying in Nevada and Arizona as the presidential campaign nears its end. In their final events today, Harris spoke in Las Vegas, Nevada at a rally featuring singer Jennifer Lopez, while Trump attended a town hall style event with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in Phoenix, Arizona. Harris vowed to represent all Americans and work with those who disagreed with her - a reference to Trump's calling of political opponents the "enemy from within." Lopez expressed shock at Trump's Puerto Rico comments, referencing her Puerto Rican heritage. The latest big name to endorse Harris is basketball legend LeBron James. In a post on social media, the NBA's all-time leading scorer said "the choice is clear". With just days left before polls clo...
Screening hospitalised patients can help prevent superbug outbreaks in hospitals
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Screening hospitalised patients can help prevent superbug outbreaks in hospitals

In a bid to curb the rising superbug outbreaks in hospitals, a new study on Thursday suggested broader screening of all patients, irrespective of their risk.   A team of researchers at the Mount Sinai Brooklyn Hospital in the US conducted a study to compare screen results and patient outcomes before and after adopting a broader screening method that includes all patients, and not just high-risk ones. The study focussed on screening protocols for Candida auris -- a dangerous and often drug-resistant fungal pathogen that spreads easily in hospital environments. It was first identified in 2009 and is now found around the world. The results, published in the American Journal of Infection Control, showed that expanding screening helped in the early detection of cases, enabling infection prev...
US election live: Basketball star LeBron James says ‘choice is clear’
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US election live: Basketball star LeBron James says ‘choice is clear’

Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump are rallying in Nevada and Arizona as the presidential campaign nears its end. In their final events today, Harris will be speaking in Las Vegas, Nevada at a rally featuring singer Jennifer Lopez, while Trump will attend a town hall style event with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in Phoenix, Arizona. The latest big name to endorse Harris is basketball legend LeBron James. In a post on social media, the NBA's all-time leading scorer said "the choice is clear". With just days left before polls close in the United States presidential election, the race is expected to come down to just seven states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. "They both think they're going to win, they both think it's t...
US election: Pro-Trump poll watchers primed for action in key state
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US election: Pro-Trump poll watchers primed for action in key state

By Tim Reid, Reuters Donald Trump will go up against Kamala Harris in the fight for the White House on 5 November. Photo: BILL PUGLIANO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP Thousands of observers may be deployed in Wisconsin on 5 November July action by pro-Trump activists was 'dry run' - officials Democrats also set to mobilise volunteers on election day Battleground state Wisconsin beefs up security at poll sites The moment election workers in the Milwaukee area started counting mail-in votes, activists backing Donald Trump's claim that his 2020 defeat was fraudulent began challenging every ballot. The observers raised a litany of complaints as poll staff read the absentee names and addresses aloud, as required in the state of Wisconsin, according to local elect...
‘Vampire’ returns from the dead: Scientists in Poland rebuild the face of 400-year-old woman | World News
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‘Vampire’ returns from the dead: Scientists in Poland rebuild the face of 400-year-old woman | World News

The face of a suspected 'vampire', who was buried with restraints to prevent her returning from the dead, has been reconstructed by scientists.Using DNA, 3D printing and modelling clay, the team of scientists recreated what they think the 400-year-old woman's face looked like. Zosia, as she was named by locals, was found in 2022 by a team of archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland.She was entombed in an unmarked cemetery in Pien, northern Poland - secured in place with an iron sickle across her neck and padlocked by the foot. Image: Zosia's skeleton had a sickle across her neck - believed to stop 'vampires' rising from the dead. Pic: Nicolaus Copernicus University/Reuters The sickle and padlock, as well...
Judge declines to block Elon Musk US$1 million voter giveaway
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Judge declines to block Elon Musk US$1 million voter giveaway

By Jack Queen, Reuters A judge's decision leaves Elon Musk free to continue the giveaway because the matter likely won't be resolved until after the election next week. Photo: ANGELA WEISS / AFP A Pennsylvania state judge said he would not immediately move forward with a lawsuit that seeks to stop Elon Musk's US$1 million voter giveaway ahead of the 5 November US presidential election. At a hearing in Pennsylvania, Judge Angelo Foglietta said he would place the lawsuit on hold while a federal court considers whether to take up the case. Musk's bid to move the case frees him to continue the giveaway, because the matter likely won't be resolved until after Tuesday's election. The billionaire entrepreneur, who is spending heavily to back Republican Donald Trump, had been ordered to atte...
Six Senses La Sagesse: wellness with a Caribbean twist
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Six Senses La Sagesse: wellness with a Caribbean twist

Gone are the days of political upheaval: Grenada today has turned a corner and is mercifully laid-back. It is a tropical paradise best known for three things: spice, winter sun, and folklore. Of all the spices that grow on the island (the greenest and most fertile of the Lesser Antilles), nutmeg is the queen, featuring on the country’s flag and used in everything from teas to liquors. All around the island, its scent fills the air along with those of cloves, cinnamon and bay leaf. These are medicinal herbs, too: good for the gut and playing a vital role in regulating the circadian rhythm. Though you wouldn’t know it if you came in August for Carnival (or Spicemas), where the heady, camphorous mixture of herbs, drums and rum errs more on the side of rakishness. Source link
Australian golfer Jeffrey Guan loses sight in one eye after freak playing accident | World News
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Australian golfer Jeffrey Guan loses sight in one eye after freak playing accident | World News

Australian golfer Jeffrey Guan has permanently lost sight in his left eye after a freak playing accident.The 20-year-old said he was hit in the face by a ball last month after taking his second shot on the third hole at a pro-am tournament last month. "As I turned toward the cart to put my club away, that was when I was struck. The instant ringing and pain rushed to my head, and I dropped down the ground," he said on Instagram.The two-time national junior champion said he was given fentanyl for the pain as he was rushed to hospital, before later being airlifted to another facility.Guan had only been a pro for a year and it happened just a week after he made his PGA Tour debut at a tournament in California. While Guan hasn't said where the ball that hit him came from, Golfing Monthly report...
Rapper Young Thug sentenced to time served in long-running trial
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Rapper Young Thug sentenced to time served in long-running trial

By Nick Valencia and Jason Morris, CNN Young Thug appears at a hearing on December 22, 2022, in Atlanta. Photo: Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/AP/File via CNN Newsource Young Thug was sentenced to time served as part of a sweeping case that originally included dozens of defendants. The rapper, whose given name is Jeffery Williams, will be released from custody and have to serve 15 years on probation as part of the non-negotiated plea agreement. In 2022, Williams was charged alongside more than two dozen others under Georgia's sprawling Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act - known as RICO. Prosecutors accused the rapper of leading a criminal street gang that committed murder and a slew of violent crimes in Atlanta dating back a decade. Williams has denied that...
Tens of thousands forced to flee Lebanon after Israeli airstrikes | World News
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Tens of thousands forced to flee Lebanon after Israeli airstrikes | World News

In eastern Lebanon right now, there is a frantic race to create shelter.Schools, universities and sports halls are being transformed into relief centres for those who've been forced from their homes. As night fell in the town of Qob Elias, 25 miles from Baalbek, we found a technical college being cleared out by a group of local volunteers.Desks, tables and chairs were removed; mattresses, medical kits and drinking water were carried in.We came across Iman and her family of five. They are among the tens of thousands who have fled the Baalbek region in the face of Israeli air strikes. The first evacuation order came on Wednesday, and it sparked panic among residents. No one knew how long they had before the missiles would fall, so all Imam and her family have are the clothes on their backs. ...