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Forest rangers have been attempting to drive troupes of monkeys (stump-tailed macaques) back to the Sơn Trà Nature Reserve in the central city of Đà Nẵng Vice director of the city’s Agriculture and Rural Development Department Trần Viết Phương said a group of 30 monkeys that used to gather by the Linh Ứng Pagoda seeking food from visitors have been on the move since social distancing orders were implemented from April 1. Phương said no tourists meant no food for the monkeys, so they would be forced to return to their natural habitat to forage for themselves. Recent research on...

Lead and silver are often mined together and in this period, mines in the Peak District and in Cumbria were among the most productive in Europe. The researchers were able to match the physical records from the ice with the written tax records of lead and silver production in England. Lead had many uses in this time, from water pipes to church roofs to stained glass windows. But production of the metal was clearly linked to political events according to the authors of this latest research. "In the 1169-70 period, there was a major disagreement between Henry II and Thomas...

A couple who drove off a Mendocino Coast cliff with their six children are the focus of a new documentary that is being released April 7, according to E News. "A Thread of Deceit" revisits the lives and deaths of Washington residents Jen and Sarah Hartman, and their six adopted children. The couple drove the family's SUV off of a steep cliff north of Fort Bragg in 2018, and a jury ruled that the crash was a murder-suicide in 2019. The documentary examines the family's history of child abuse, and also includes interviews with family and friends who initially defended...

HONG Kong artiste Karen Mok has been criticised online for supporting Shenzhen’s ban on the eating of cats and dogs, Sin Chew Daily reported. “This is exciting news! Hope the entire China will soon ban the eating of cats and dogs, ” she wrote on Weibo, referring to reports that Shenzhen has become the first Chinese city to ban the sale and consumption of dog and cat meat starting next month. Mok, 49, is an ambassador for the Hong Kong Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Her posting, however, led to dozens of negative comments against her. One...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is breaking with President Trump's decision to fire Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for the intelligence community, saying his removal was "not warranted." "While I recognize that the President has the authority to appoint and remove Inspectors General, I believe Inspector General Atkinson served the intelligence community and the American people well, and his removal was not warranted," she said in a statement over the weekend. Collins noted that by giving the heads of the House and Senate Intelligence committees a 30-day notification that he was removing Atkinson, Trump...

A majority of voters continue to approve of President Trump despite a media onslaught driven by the rise in deaths from the coronavirus, according to a new national survey provided to Secrets. In the latest Zogby Analytics survey, 51% approve of Trump’s job, while 47% do not. A 51% approval rating is considered the level needed for reelection. And while the survey found that the public isn’t ready to blame the president for the mounting virus crisis, his handling of the issue is under water slightly: 48% approve, and 52% disapprove. “There is no doubt there have been major mishaps...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved to intensive care in hospital after his coronavirus symptoms "worsened", Downing Street has said. A spokesman said he was moved on the advice of his medical team and is receiving "excellent care". Mr Johnson has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to deputise "where necessary", the spokesman added. The prime minister, 55, was admitted to hospital in London with "persistent symptoms" on Sunday evening. A No 10 statement read: "The prime minister has been under the care of doctors at St Thomas' Hospital, in London, after being admitted with persistent symptoms of coronavirus. "Over...

Both surgical and cotton masks were found to be ineffective for preventing the dissemination of SARS-CoV-2 from the coughs of patients with COVID-19. A study conducted at two hospitals in Seoul, South Korea, found that when COVID-19 patients coughed into either type of mask, droplets of virus were released to the environment and external mask surface. A brief research report is published in Annals of Internal Medicine. During respiratory viral infection, face masks are thought to prevent transmission, leading health care experts to recommend their use during the COVID-19 pandemic. With a shortage of both N95 and surgical masks, which...

When it comes to deciphering our ancient family tree, DNA from fossils is the new gold standard. But after about half a million years, even the best-preserved DNA degrades into illegibility, leaving the story of our early evolution shrouded in mystery. A new study of proteins taken from the tooth of an enigmatic human ancestor reveals their rough place in the family tree -- and shows how ancient proteins can push beyond the limits of DNA. The new study is "a landmark paper," says Mark Collard, an archaeologist at Simon Fraser University who wasn't involved with the work. "Ancient protein...

A task force led by the American Thoracic Society in New York has temporarily endorsed using hydroxychloroquine for hospitalized coronavirus patients with “severe pneumonia.” The group stressed the recommendation only applies to hospitalized patients where the “clinical condition is sufficiently severe to warrant investigational therapy.” And the endorsement only applies to cases where the patient can be informed of the malaria drug’s possibly lethal side effects, the task force said. The group further warned its recommendation would not apply in the event of a “shortage of drug supply.”

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., are pushing ahead with an aggressive effort to get more federal judges confirmed amid the global coronavirus pandemic, as they grapple with the possibility that the November elections could wrest away Republican control of the Senate and White House. Losing the White House or control of the Senate would be a major blow to efforts to install conservative jurists on the federal bench, as the president nominates judicial nominees and the Senate confirms them....

At this time, states reporting on worldometer are 1046 deaths today. States not reporting yet will come in about 100, estimate up, say 150, gives a daily total of about 1196. Assuming reporting is a day late, the range from INME is 1166. Other metrics coming in low - NY hospital beds, NY peaking, etc. I've been watching Maine, which is at the bottome of the range - namely zero deaths. The "probable range" cone is so big as to be useless.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has evolved and divided into two different groups, according to the latest study of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology. Professor Lê Thị Quỳnh Mai, deputy director of the institute said the scientists had conducted the study after it cultivated and isolated the virus since Việt Nam recorded the first people positive with the virus. Mai said at first, patients mostly returned from Asian countries but now the patients mostly had been in European countries. The virus Việt Nam isolated in COVID-19 patients coming from Europe was found to be...

WASHINGTON — In the early hours of Monday morning, Joe Biden’s campaign sent an email to state leaders offering to connect them with desperately needed coronavirus resources. But at least two Republican states believe they never got the email, while one governor’s office said the campaign’s efforts to insert themselves in the pandemic was only making their jobs harder. In the email obtained by The Post, Biden’s political chief of staff Stacy Eichner told state officials that the former veep’s presidential campaign had received a “significant number of offers” from organizations and people eager to offer resource

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A series of rare artefacts dating back to the Roman Empire, and even later, have been discovered in Long Melford. Among the objects unearthed was a tool – crafted from a sheep's leg bone – which is thought to have been used as a bobbin by workers in the weaving trade during the Romano British era. Engraved markings have been etched on the object, which experts say could relate to yarn, a piece of fibre typically used to create various textiles. On first inspection, members of Long Melford Heritage Centre had identified the object as a whistle or knife handle...

Al Kaline, the legendary Detroit Tigers outfielder who played for more than two decades, has died at the age of 85.

In the year AD 430, Roman north Africa was overrun by a warlike barbarian horde known to history as the Vandals. Under the leadership of their brutal king, Gaiseric, the Vandals were bent on plunder, ruin and conquest to such an extent that the name of their nation lives on as a common noun in the English language with negative connotations reverberating across 15 centuries. With Roman military resistance collapsing on every front before the overwhelming attack, Saint Augustine found himself trapped in his home city of Hippo Regius, deathly ill and under siege by a Vandalic host. More about...

Monday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host and network legal analyst Sunny Hostin accused President Donald Trump of “endangering American lives” with “misinformation” during the administration’s press conferences on the coronavirus pandemic. Hostin said, “I just don’t even think that certain networks should even air these press conferences. I think they are akin to Trump’s rallies. I think they’re dangerous for the American Public. I mean, I almost think that you listen to them at your own peril.”

Trump touts hydroxychloroquine as a cure for Covid-19. Don't believe the hype The anti-malaria drug could be ‘one of the biggest game-changers’, Trump claimed, but there is no magic cure Faced with a global coronavirus pandemic that is increasingly centered upon the US, Donald Trump has touted several drugs that he claims can help tackle the outbreak. In March, the US president used a press conference to promote the use of hydroxychloroquine, a common anti-malaria drug, to treat Covid-19, saying: “I sure as hell think we ought to give it a try.” Chloroquine: Trump's misleading claims spark hoarding and overdoses...