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Greenwich Film Festival Kicks Off Second Year

GREENWICH, Conn. — The Greenwich International Film Festival kicks off Thursday for its second year in Connecticut.
From comedies, dramas, and documentaries, a v...

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Sustainable Development

A Health App's AI Took On Human Doctors To Triage Patients

Two decades on from artificial intelligence
beating chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, AI is proving it can do some conventionally human jobs. One UK-based health app n...

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Human Rights

Dispatches: Five of the Worst Places for Children

In some countries already devastated by war, the situation for children is only getting worse. A new UN report makes for grim reading, with one shattering statistic after a...

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Human Rights

Global Profits, And Peril, From Child Labor

Governments Should Impose Mandatory Restrictions
Governments should better regulate businesses to prevent child labor in global supply chains, Human Rights Watch said ...

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Festivals

Syrian Teen's 9-Minute Doc Hits Cannes, Sundance, L.A. Film Fest

Khaldiya Jibawi dreams of being a documentary filmmaker. And she's off to a great start. The 18-year-old Syrian refugee made her first film in a refugee camp in Jordan, and...

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The Time Muhammad Ali Stopped A Man From Leaping To His Death

In January 1981, the champ talked a man down from a ninth-floor ledge. On Oct. 2, 1980, Larry Holmes humiliated Muhammad Ali in a matchup billed as “The Last Hurrah.&...

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Health

Most Kids In India Lack Timely Vaccinations

Two-thirds of children in India do not receive their vaccinations on time, prolonging their susceptibility to diseases and contributing to untimely deaths, say University o...

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Festivals

Sydney Film Festival Adds New Films Direct From Cannes

The 63rd Sydney Film Festival is set to kick off this week and ahead of its opening night on Wednesday, nine new films have been added to the already-stellar...

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Sustainable Development

Your Regular Doctors’ Checkup Could Soon Include A Scan Of Your Brain Waves

In fact, in the near future, Ryan D’Arcy told me, all doctors should be monitoring brain waves, alongside more standard clinical vital signs of patients, healthy and ...

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Health

The Battle Against Superbugs

The sugar-loving Klebsiella pneumoniae, that resembles a squished-up earplug, can strike fear into the hearts of surgeons and scientists. The bacterium can repel even the m...

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