An estimated 600,000 American women have hysterectomies every year to treat a variety of non-cancerous conditions. Although the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends transvaginal rather than abdominal hysterectomy as the safest, least invasive and most cost-effective approach with the fastest recovery time, only 15–20 percent of uterus removals are done this way. Many […]

Just as President Joe Biden hasn’t abandoned all of his predecessor’s policies on oil and gas, recent actions show that he is also continuing former President Donald Trump’s skeptical stance when it comes to China. After extending some of Trump’s investment restrictions on Chinese companies, Biden also gave support to bipartisan legislation passed by the […]

Much of the world’s population went through a difficult transition due to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those who had to work in person — blue-collar jobs, office workers, and medical practitioners. “Adaption was extremely difficult for me, as I had been doing the same work for 40 years now,” said José Luis Morón Hernández, a […]

A photographer and drone pilot in Turkey used a Go Pro Hero 9 to produce a time-lapse video of the Milky Way over ruins in the 2,300-year-old former city of Blaundus in what is now Anatolia. One of the aims of Isa Turan in capturing these images was to draw attention to the impact of […]

A firetruck and its extendable ladder helped the Zurich Zoo tag 25 newly arrived storks — many of which were born in nests at dizzying heights. During the annual banding of the white stork offspring, the zoo used a little help from a local fire brigade and successfully tagged roughly two dozen chicks. The number […]

A painting that was almost destroyed by the artist has been sold for a record $180,000 at an auction in Austria, well beyond an initial estimate of $42,000. The work by Ukrainian-French painter Marie Bashkirtseff (1860-1884), which she once slashed with a knife, was sold at the Dorotheum auction house in Vienna. It was repaired […]

Two bear cubs, Mish and Lucy, abandoned in the Albanian mountains, are now in a custom-built enclosure in the UK. The Eurasian brown bear siblings were abandoned by their mother in 2019, possibly due to the destruction of their habitat, and faced certain death. After a successful fundraising campaign by the Wildwood Trust, the cubs […]

A spacesuit that was once worn by a German astronaut during his journey to the biggest space station in existence at the time is now being prepared for display at a German space exploration exhibition. German pilot and former German Aerospace Center astronaut Klaus-Dietrich Flade, 68, wore the spacesuit in 1992 when he visited Russia’s […]

U.S. President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. will deliver a speech at the Virtual Legislative Summit of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC), to be held this week, the organization reported on its website. Biden will be the keynote speaker for the virtual event on Tuesday, March 30, according to the USHCC schedule. The […]

Fresh off his induction into the Indiana Boxing Hall of Fame, the man known as the “KO King” sets his sights on boxing Hall of Famer “Sugar” Shane Mosley. Finishing his career with a record of 46-9-0, Randall Bailey recorded 39 of the most memorable knockouts in recent boxing history. Now Bailey is looking to […]

Standing at 6-foot-5 and weighing 290 pounds, Big Ali is an imposing figure. Even more imposing than his stature is his reputation in New Jersey. Coming up in the rough streets of Newark, he once used his reputation and imposing figure for all the wrong reasons. Those illegal activities landed him in prison for seven-and-a-half […]