February2017

News Hour: Standard Chartered Bank has recently launched co-branded credit cards with Grameenphone Ltd. This co-branded credit card is the first of its kind between the largest foreign bank and the largest mobile phone operator in...

News Hour: Telenor Group, on this Safer Internet Day 2017, releases results from a survey of parents and adults across Asia in order to give greater visibility of the types of digital bullying affecting youth and...

News Hour:  The next time someone throws shade at you for ghosting them so you can binge-watch a TV show or retreat to your safe space, you can let them know your behavior has been recognized...

News Hour: Cash incentives may encourage new mothers to breastfeed until their infants are at least six months old, a small experiment suggests. Pediatricians recommend that mothers exclusively breastfeed infants until at least six months of...

News Hour: France’s tightly-contested presidential race sank deeper into smear and sleaze on Tuesday after centrist Emmanuel Macron was forced to deny an extramarital affair and as scandal continued to dog conservative Francois Fillon and his...

News Hour: Prime Minister Theresa May will visit China this year, her spokeswoman said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of foreign trips to cement ties with major trading powers as she negotiates Britain’s divorce...

News Hour: The Syrian government has executed up to 13,000 prisoners in mass hangings and carried out systematic torture at a military jail near Damascus, rights watchdog Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Amnesty said the executions...

News Hour:  The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite hit record levels at the open on Tuesday, while the S&P 500 was less than five points away from hitting another all-time high. Investors are...

News Hour: Artificial heart maker Carmat said on Monday it had decided to withdraw its initial request to France’s national drugs agency (ANSM) to resume trial implantations. ANSM ordered Carmat in December to suspend further implantations...

News Hour: In general, childhood cancer survivors are just as satisfied with their sex lives as people who didn’t have cancer, a recent study suggests. The cancer survivors had fewer lifetime sex partners, on average than...