Daily Focus
When spring comes to Oklahoma, so do the fierce tornadoes
LONDON — For nearly 40 minutes, it travelled 32.2km across largely urban areas, sweeping up debris, trees and even entire homes in winds that are estimated to have reached 320 kmh.
NTU medical students to study plastinated human bodies
SINGAPORE — Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine), the new medical school of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), will be pioneering the use of plastinated bodies...
Polish man gets life-saving face transplant
WARSAW — A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant only three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said yesterday (May 22) is the...
Filling up an empty nest
NEW YORK — Retiring from work? Then it might be time to think about raising a family. Some brave older adults are turning the idea of retirement on its head by choosing to adopt...
Global AIDS programme at a crossroads
WASHINGTON — The decade-old law that transformed the battle against HIV and AIDS in developing countries is at a crossroads as the dream of future generations freed from...
Exploding meteorite may have sealed fate of mammoths
NEW YORK — A giant meteorite that exploded in the Earth’s atmosphere may have triggered the extinction of ice age animals such as the woolly mammoths, scientists have claimed.
Peanut allergies on the rise among kids
SINGAPORE — Mrs Sharine Tan loves peanut soup but she has not had a bite of the traditional dessert in the past five years. Her eldest son Jayden, seven, is severely allergic to...
Forum on managing children’s allergies
I CAN! (The Children’s Asthma and Allergy Network) Public Symposium



