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At least four people have died after two boats carrying close to 100 migrants capsized off the Libyan coast on Saturday, according to rescue workers. The Libyan Red Crescent confirmed that all known victims so far were passengers on a vessel carrying 26 Bangladeshi nationals. The group did not say whether additional deaths occurred on a second boat, which sank while transporting roughly 70 migrants, most of them from Sudan. Both vessels were attempting to cross the central Mediterranean, a route between North Africa and Italy that the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) describes as the deadliest migration pathway…

At least 120 people — including 100 police officers — were injured on Saturday during clashes at large anti-government protests in Mexico City, authorities said. Thousands marched in the capital to denounce rising violent crime and to express dissatisfaction with President Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration. Similar demonstrations took place in several other cities across the country. Sheinbaum accused right-wing political opponents of financing the marches, saying they were attempting to undermine her government. The rally was organized primarily by Gen Z youth groups and drew broad support from citizens angered by a series of high-profile killings, including the recent assassination of…

Nov 14 (Reuters) — A federal jury in California ruled on Friday that Apple (AAPL.O) must pay $634 million to medical-technology company Masimo (MASI.O) for infringing a patent related to blood-oxygen monitoring. Jurors found that certain Apple Watch features — including workout mode and heart-rate notifications — violated Masimo’s patent rights, the company said. A Masimo spokesperson noted that although the company has brought more than two dozen patent claims against Apple over the last six years, most were deemed invalid. The patent at issue in this case, the spokesperson added, expired in 2022 and involved “historic patient-monitoring technology from…

In 2020, as COVID-19 swept across the United States, John Furner — then head of Walmart’s largest U.S. business — turned to colleagues in China for guidance. Drawing on insights from a market already months ahead in responding to the pandemic, he quickly adjusted inventory forecasts and fulfillment operations to keep up with surging demand and prevent stockouts. Furner, a lifelong Walmart (WMT.N) insider who grew up in Arkansas and previously lived in China for two years, said at the time that the experience helped him anticipate consumer needs during rapidly shifting conditions. That ability to collaborate and adapt will…

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, November 15, sharply criticized new joint military drills conducted by the United States and Trinidad and Tobago, calling the exercises “irresponsible” amid what he says is a growing U.S. military presence in the Caribbean. Caracas insists that Washington’s recent operations in the region — officially described by U.S. officials as anti–drug trafficking missions — are actually part of a strategy to destabilize and ultimately remove the leftist Venezuelan leader. The drills announced this week mark the second U.S.–Trinidad training operation in less than a month. In October, a U.S. guided missile destroyer spent four…

Wishing for an extra hour in the day is a familiar sentiment across much of the industrialized world. And every autumn, in places that turn clocks back, that wish technically comes true. Yet many people still feel pressed for time. Why? Although we tend to think of time and “time poverty” — the sense of having too much to do and too little time — as objective and measurable, the experience of time is far more psychological. While having limited leisure time is associated with poorer well-being, simply counting free hours “doesn’t get at the experience of time,” says sociologist…

A new cholesterol-lowering pill has shown strong results for people with an inherited form of high cholesterol, according to findings from a phase 3 clinical trial. The study followed adults with familial hypercholesterolemia, a genetic disorder that causes dangerously high levels of LDL, or “bad,” cholesterol. Participants took the oral drug enlicitide once a day for 52 weeks. By week 24, their LDL levels had fallen by an average of 58 percent, researchers reported on November 9 at the American Heart Association meeting in New Orleans and in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In contrast, those taking a…

In the last moments of Yuka, a well-preserved woolly mammoth, he may have been desperately trying to outrun a cave lion. Scratches on the back of Yuka’s legs hint at a predator’s attack — and inside his ancient muscle tissue, researchers have found molecular traces of intense physical strain. Newly recovered RNA molecules suggest Yuka’s muscles were pushed to exhaustion. These RNA sequences, dating back roughly 40,000 years, are the oldest ever obtained, scientists report on November 14 in Cell. Researchers have sequenced ancient RNA before, but never anything this old. Until now, the record belonged to RNA from a…

‘We didn’t expect there would be so many benefits’ Dr. Zwierzchowska and her colleagues from the CONNECTING Nature project have been working with local authorities and preschools to design and build natural playgrounds that bring young children closer to nature. As climate change intensifies, cities are increasingly vulnerable to extreme heat. Urban trees and green spaces cool neighbourhoods, improve air quality and offer places for communities to connect. When created together with local residents, natural playgrounds have the potential to transform entire districts—and could have even greater impact if scaled up across cities. Cities designed for people Green playgrounds combine…

Tens of thousands of people filled the streets of Belém on Saturday, November 15, transforming the Amazonian host city of COP30 into the scene of the largest protest at a UN climate summit in years. As the first week of negotiations dragged on with little progress, Indigenous groups and climate activists marched, chanted and danced under an intense tropical sun, urging governments to break the deadlock. A giant inflatable Earth bounced above the crowds as demonstrators pushed it through the city. Some participants staged a symbolic funeral for fossil fuels, marching in black and carrying three coffins labelled “coal,” “oil”…