Daily Archives: Dec 11, 2014
Preparing Students for Careers in Modern Medicine
The world of healthcare is changing. It's becoming smarter and better connected. Yet people are still composed of the same blood, organs, muscles, and...
Golden Globes 2015: Full List of Nominations
The 2015 Golden Globes film and television awards will take place on January 11. FILM Best film, drama Boyhood Foxcatcher The Imitation Game Selma The Theory of...
CIA torture report: John Brennan defends CIA’s post-9/11 interrogation methods
Director John Brennan has defended the CIA's post-9/11 interrogation techniques but admitted some methods were "harsh" and "abhorrent". Speaking at CIA headquarters, John Brennan said...
Ebola vaccine clinical trial halted temporarily due to joint pains
An Ebola vaccine clinical trial in Switzerland has been interrupted after some patients complained of joint pains in their hands and feet. The trial was...
JK Rowling’s Cuckoo’s Calling and Silkworm to be adapted for TV
JK Rowling’s detective novels The Cuckoo's Calling and The Silkworm, written under the name Robert Galbraith, is to be made for TV, BBC One...
The Interview: Seth Rogen objected to re-editing movie
Seth Rogen objected to re-editing The Interview movie, about an assassination attempt on Kim Jong-un, just "to make North Koreans happy". Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chairman...
Ebola outbreak: Unreported bodies found in Kono, Sierra Leone
A number of bodies have been discovered by health officials in Kono, a remote diamond-mining area of Sierra Leone, raising fears that the scale...
Hong Kong protest: Pro-democracy activists arrested as Admiralty protest camp is cleared
Hong Kong pro-democracy activists have been arrested at the main protest camp at Admiralty, which is now cleared after more than two months of...
Superbugs study: Drug resistant infections will kill more than cancer by 2050
According to a new study, drug resistant infections will kill an extra 10 million people a year worldwide - more than currently die from...
Dick Cheney: CIA torture report is full of crap and George W. Bush knew about interrogation techniques
President George W. Bush was "fully informed" about CIA interrogation techniques condemned in a Senate report, his vice-president, Dick Cheney, says. Speaking to Fox News,...