May2017

News Hour: New Zealand spinner Mitchell Santner has attained a career-best 11th place in the MRF Tyres ICC Player Rankings for ODI Bowlers after taking seven wickets in the ongoing Ireland tri-series which also features Bangladesh....

News Hour: Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney may have to leave the club to extend his career “at the highest level”, former United defender Phil Neville has said. Rooney has made 42 appearances in all competitions...

News Hour: School lessons can successfully teach primary school children to critically evaluate health claims, and could help children make more informed decisions about health treatments and behaviors, according to a trial of over 10,000 children...

News Hour: Russia risk missing out on the 2018 winter Paralympics if the country’s suspended Paralympic Committee (RPC) does not meet obligations for reinstatement after last year’s ban over doping, the International Paralympic Committee said on...

News Hour: Despite global improvements in healthcare quality and access over 25 years, inequalities between the best and worst-performing countries have grown. Even among countries with similar development levels, there is wide variation in healthcare access...

News Hour: Before he agreed to produce Roger Waters’ first album in 25 years, Nigel Godrich had some hard words to say to the ex-Pink Floyd frontman. “I told him what I thought of some of...

News Hour: Bangladesh basketball team beat host Maldives by 86-52 points in their third match of 5th South Asian Basketball Championship (men’s) held on Monday in the Maldives. Shamsuzzaman Khan Soyab was named the man of...

News Hour: New research presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Porto, Portugal (17-20 May) shows that middle-aged people who spend the most nights in hospital (and thus have the highest healthcare burden)...

News Hour: New research presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity suggests that being overweight, especially from a young age, may substantially increase the lifetime risk of major depression. The study by Deborah Gibson-Smith from...

News Hour: New research presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Porto, Portugal (17-20 May) shows that a father’s vitamin D intake pre-conception is associated with his child’s height and weight at five...