Postcards: Get on your bike – Indian cities tap into pandemic cycling trend
ANURADHA NAGARAJ, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from India on an initiative to get more people on their bikes…
Two popes, same hospital, different styles of medical privacy
Rome, ItalyReuters When Pope John Paul II was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital on 12th July, 1992, he told the world himself a few hours earlier during his regular Sunday address in St Peter’s Square. “I would like to let you in on a secret,” he said before revealing that he would enter hospital that […]
Parents of kidnapped students in Nigeria plea for help; elsewhere 18 villagers killed in suspected Islamist attack
Kano, NigeriaAP Praying, crying and waiting for news about their children, the parents of more than 120 Nigerian students abducted by armed bandits at the Bethel Baptist High School in the nation’s northern Kaduna state have been gathering at the school awaiting updates about their children. Some weeping mothers pleaded for help from Kaduna State […]