(Reuters) – South Africa’s Life Healthcare said on Tuesday its southern African operation was hit by a cyber attack affecting its admissions systems, business processing systems and email servers, but is yet to determine the extent to which data has been compr... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Some cruise ship passengers savored lavish meals- others watched movies or pored over Oscar ballots, held rapt by the live Academy Awards broadcast. The lucky few whose turn it was to get fresh air paced the decks, reveling in a glimpse of bl... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Magic realism is a literary genre in which narrative is shot through with surreal, dreamlike, seemingly impossible moments. If famed author Salman Rushdie is a dean of the genre, perhaps it is not surprising that his life exhibits so many ... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new guideline from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association emphasizes social determinants of health and calls for their incorporation into shared decision-making to optimize prevention of cardiovascul... More »
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – As a new war reached the Libyan capital, businessman Mustafa Iskandar opened an art gallery and cultural center, hoping to draw attention to a long-neglected old city in need of revival. One of the best preserved in North Africa with monume... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – British graffiti artist Banksy, known for his politically charged sketches on walls from London to New York to Gaza City, has descended on Paris, painting a series of murals that are sparking debate among residents and tourists. The satirical... More »
MEXICO CITY/LONDON (Reuters) – A subsidiary of Standard Life Aberdeen Plc, one of the world’s largest asset managers, is pressuring a Mexican airport developer to change its shareholder structure, three years after unsuccessfully trying the same strategy in a ... More »
Nearly half of humans believe in alien life and want to make contact, a survey in 24 countries has found, in what researchers said helps to explain the lasting popularity of the "Star Wars" franchise 40 years after the first movie was screened. More »
A scientist does research in a lab in San Diego, California April 26, 2009. REUTERS/Mike Blake CHICAGO (Reuters) – In a major step toward creating artificial life, U.S. researchers have developed a living organism that incorporates both natural and artificial ... More »
Rocky outcrops in eastern Canada contain what may be some of the oldest evidence of life on Earth, dating back about 3.95 billion years. More »
A man reads a book at a bookshop in Bab Doukkala in the city of Marrakech, Morocco May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal Lined up against shopkeepers hawking everything from fresh parsley to colorful socks, Marrakech’s historic booksellers face an uncertain fu... More »
Spanish artist Eugenio Merino poses next to his artwork entitled ‘Picasso died here’, featuring a hyperrealistic figure of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso’s corpse, displayed at the Alliance Francaise (French Alliance) in Malaga, southern Spain May 5, 2017. REUTE... More »
FILE PHOTO: A DNA double helix is seen in an undated artist’s illustration released by the National Human Genome Research Institute to Reuters on May 15, 2012. REUTERS/National Human Genome Research Institute/Handout/File Photo Scientists are getting closer to... More »
Chuck Berry gestures to the audience at the 2012 Awards for Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence awarded to both he and Leonard Cohen at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts February 26, 2012. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi Rock ... More »
Scientists have taken a big step toward designing complex forms of life from scratch by constructing five new artificial chromosomes of baker’s yeast, representing a third of the micro-organism’s genome, or genetic blueprint. More »
Haematite tubes from the NSB hydrothermal vent deposits in Quebec, Canada that represent the oldest microfossils and evidence for life on Earth are pictured in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters March 1, 2017. The remains are at least 3,770 million... More »
A sculpture is seen near an explicit graffiti painted on the side of a building in central Brussels, Belgium, October 11, 2016. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir An online petition to prevent the removal of an explicit mural in Brussels has gained thousands of signature... More »
More than 60 years ago, a bicycle thief in Louisville, Kentucky, unknowingly set in motion one of the most amazing sports careers in history. An angry 12-year-old Cassius Clay went to a policeman on that day in 1954, vowing he would find the thief who took his... More »
LONDON British pop singer Morrissey’s debut novel, “List of the Lost”, won the award for the worst sex scene of the year on Tuesday for a passage in which two characters roll together into “one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation”. Morrissey, one-time... More »
LONDON A quarter of dogs competing in the world’s biggest dog show are overweight, scientists said on Monday. An analysis of canines at Britain’s Crufts show – held annually since the reign of Queen Victoria – found 74 percent were in ideal condition but 26 pe... More »
LONDON Christie’s kept the international art auction caravan rolling with an impressionist and modern art sale that brought in $113 million on Tuesday. A Claude Monet study of mauve irises swaying against a pale blue sky in his Giverny garden was the star lot ... More »
