Latest News

Most Americans prefer to die at home, but the US healthcare system often prevents it

July 14, 2026 (Conversation) Ask people what they want at the end of their lives, and overwhelmingly the answers will revolve around comfort, dignity and time at home with loved ones. Yet the U.S. healthcare system often thwarts these wishes. Most Americans say they want to die at home, but only one-third do. What could be an intentional last chapter may instead become a roller coaster of hospitalizations and decisions made with incomplete information. News headlines reflect the challenges of facing the end of life in crisis mode. Stars such as Nicole Kidman have been open about their own negative

Poor muscle health could increase likelihood of developing diabetes: Study

New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) People with both excess body fat and poor muscle health could be more than three-and-a-half times likely to develop diabetes, compared to those with a healthy body composition, according to a new study. People with sarcopenic obesity — the coexistence of excess body fat (obesity) and a loss of skeletal muscle mass and function (sarcopenia) — were 19 per cent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than people with obesity alone and 91 per cent more likely to develop the condition than those with sarcopenia alone, findings published in the journal Diabetes Care show.

Trump rolls out the White House welcome mat for new Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2026 (AP) — President Donald Trump is welcoming Iraq’s new prime minister to the White House on Tuesday after strongly backing the political neophyte in his bid for office. Ali al-Zaidi, a businessman with no political background, emerged as a consensus candidate in Iraq after months of deadlock over the premiership following last year’s parliamentary elections. When al-Zaidi was formally installed as prime minister-designate in April, Trump said in a social media post that it was the “beginning of a tremendous new chapter between our Nations — Prosperity, Stability, and Success like never seen before.” But Trump’s

Activist Sonam Wangchuk urged to give up hunger strike over exam leaks

NEW DELHI, July 14 (Reuters) – A prominent ​Indian social activist demanding the education minister’s resignation over exam paper leaks entered the 17th day of ‌a hunger strike on Tuesday as his condition worsened, prompting opposition leaders to urge him to call off the fast. Sonam Wangchuk has been fasting in central Delhi in solidarity with the founder of India’s youth Cockroach Janta Party, who is staging a sit-in demanding Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan step ​down over the leaks in May that affected millions of students, a rare show of defiance against Prime Minister ​Narendra Modi’s rule. The CJP, founded

1 … 68 69 70 71 72 … 1,652