Michael J. Fox made a surprise appearance onstage during Sunday night’s BAFTA Film Awards as he presented the prize for best film to Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The 62-year-old Canadian-American actor, who is living with Parkinson’s disease and uses a wheelchair, stood at the podium and addressed the crowd. Stars like Ryan Gosling, Robert Downey Jr. and … Read more
The authors regularly advise the automotive and IT/tech industry. The views expressed in this article are personal. As things stand now, European manufacturers are at a disadvantage, as patent owners from around the world can exclude devices that implement standards from the market unless manufacturers give in to their royalty demands. The proposed EU SEP … Read more
As It Happens6:24Great apes get a kick out of ‘playfully teasing’ each other, study finds What do you call it when a chimpanzee offers his buddy a delicious piece of fruit only to pull his hand away at the last second? Or when a bonobo repeatedly pokes, prods and pulls on the hair of an … Read more
Our planet is changing. So is our journalism. This weekly newsletter is part of a CBC News initiative entitled “Our Changing Planet” to show and explain the effects of climate change. Keep up with the latest news on our Climate and Environment page. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox every Thursday. This week: From … Read more
The bloc wants to finalize a 13th package of sanctions against Russia before Feb. 24, which would mark two years since Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The European Commission has also urged national governments to take “concerted action” to toughen sanctions enforcement. EU Council President Charles Michel served notice to Xi Jinping at … Read more
It’s a store you know by scent. For decades, the sometimes-overwhelming aroma of The Body Shop’s satsuma soaps and coconut body butters have wafted through mall concourses, as much a staple to the culture as the food court. The U.K.-based beauty and cosmetics shop has more than 3,000 retail locations in 70 countries, including 110 standalone … Read more
TEL AVIV: Israeli researchers have uncovered a potential link between Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and the composition of the gut microbiome, offering avenues for exploring the long-term effects of microbial interventions during early developmental stages and their impact on brain development.ASD is a developmental disorder that affects communication, social interaction, behavior, and interests.It is referred … Read more
For two decades, Tamara Franz-Odendaal has been studying how space travel affects the human skeleton. Because of the absence of gravity in space, astronauts experience bone loss when they get back to Earth. “We always think of it as just the scaffold that kind of keeps the body together, but it’s a really dynamic tissue,” … Read more
The Munich Security Index 2024 also reveals how the war in Ukraine is competing with other geopolitical threats and priorities. Concern about mass migration and radical Islamic terrorism now top the list of threats in Germany — a turnaround from the previous year. The threat posed by radical Islamic terrorism jumped to second place, compared … Read more
Uber Eats will apparently remove a scene from its Super Bowl ad that depicts a man having an allergic reaction to peanut butter, following backlash from some consumers and food allergy advocates — a sticky situation that brand experts say could have been avoided. The ad starts with a production assistant handing Jennifer Aniston a bag of fresh … Read more
