A prominent local voice for animal protection is out as head of the Windsor/Essex County Humane Society. Melanie Coulter, the local humane society’s long-time executive director, said Friday in an emailed statement to the Windsor Star that she was not provided with information as to why the animal rescue service let her go…
Aiming to prevent “climate and ecological collapse,” rainforest inhabitants release a detailed plan to save their home, honing in on ending fossil fuel subsidies and securing Indigenous land rights…
Sierra Leone this week adopted a landmark law banning child marriage — a move heralded by rights groups and foreign partners but leaving some activists demanding more action to end pervasive female genital mutilation (FGM) in the country. Hundreds of thousands of girls are married before turning 18 in the West African nation, where a
When it comes to human needs and desires, there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’. That’s nothing new, of course, yet it’s only in recent years that technology and big data have allowed personalization to permeate our lives, from targeted product ads on social media to tailored music and film recommendations on streaming services and customized guest services…
Egypt’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Population, Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, received on Saturday, the Regional Director for Human Development at the World Bank, Fadia Saada, to follow up on the executive position of the ongoing projects and enhance ways of cooperation with the World Bank in the health sector during the coming…
Wharton management professor Ethan Mollick understands that it’s tempting to treat generative AI as if it were a real person. It’s been trained on the entirety of human knowledge and can respond with precise answers to specific questions. AI has even been shown to respond to people in crisis with more empathy than some doctors…
Court orders Buhari’s Minister, Sadia Umar-Farouk to account for N729 billion The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, in a landmark judgment, has ordered Ms Sadia Umar-Farouk, former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disasters Management and Social Development to account for payments of N729bn to 24.3 million poor Nigerians for six months…