CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, Calif. — A suspect fleeing from the police officers in California was arrested after he reached a dead end and started casually walking away on foot. The chase lead officers into a dangerous and lengthy pursuit through a busy highway in a stolen vehicle. The pursuit took place on Interstate 80 in Contra Costa and Solano County, in California, on the night of March 19. The California Highway Patrol – Golden Gate Division Air Operations dispatched their helicopter crews when California Highway Patrol troopers informed them that they were inactive in pursuing a stolen vehicle. “I was listening to the scanner as well.…
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STALETTÌ, Italy — Italian firefighting crews used a helicopter to rescue a horse that slid 40 meters (131 feet) down a steep mountain slope after trying to escape wild boars. The horse had already spent the entire night in a ditch. The incident took place in the town of Staletti, located in the province of Catanzaro, Calabria, on an intervening night between March 21 and March 22. Catanzaro is both the capital of the area and the capital of the region of Calabria. The province contains a total of 80 municipalities. It contains the Isthmus of Catanzaro between Sant’Eufemia and…
VORONEZH, Russia — A Russian woman who badly burned her face when she was seven-months-old in a house blaze is once again building her life. Today, she is married and a mother to a daughter. Anya Boldyreva, 30, from the small village of Zhuravka in the Russian region of Voronezh, was put on display for her burnt face by her grandmother when she was young to raise cash. The grandmother was unable to meet her needs. Horrifically scarred, Boldyreva was sent to an orphanage and spent several years there until her grandparents came and took her to live with them. Anya Boldyreva,…
CHENNAI, India — “Fellow parents at my daughter’s school are already making plans on what [education] stream their children will choose,” Sapna Raghu, 35, a Chennai-based mom to a first-grader, told Zenger News. “What’s the guarantee that jobs in those streams will be ready for them when they graduate?” Schooling in India — home to the largest young population — is about choices. But more often than not the choices are between science and humanities, and most children end up with science. No wonder that of the approximately 7.5 million science and engineering graduates in the world, one-fourth are from India,…
MUMBAI, India — “#BreakingNews: #BuntyAurBabli2 — scheduled to release in cinemas on April 23 — is postponed,” Indian movie critic and trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted recently. He said Indian movie production company Yash Raj Films would announce a new release date “later”. Zee Studios, another leading production house in the country, announced it would delay the release of its Punjabi film “Puaada”. “Due to the rising cases of Covid-19 and new guidelines for cinemas, with weekend and night closures of theaters, we have postponed our movie Puaada until further notice,” it said on March 23. Just when things were looking up for Indian films…
NEW DELHI — Poonam Kumari, 16, a domestic help in India’s national capital New Delhi, wears jeans to work almost every other day even though her brothers frown against it. Teamed with kurtas (tunics), the teenager has made skin-tight jeans a chic Indo-Western fashion statement. “I love wearing jeans,” said Kumari, who saves up a bit of her salary every month to buy seconds of branded denim from her local market. “They’re stylish, comfortable, and long-lasting. My brothers don’t like to see me in jeans, but my mother doesn’t have a problem. So, I’ll continue to wear them till I get…
NEW DELHI — Indian actors and narratives are slowly, but steadily bringing in a shade of diversity in Hollywood, an industry often deemed “too white”, through multiple projects. It won’t be wrong to say this change is picking up the pace by a margin if one goes by the spate of announcements made in the past few months. British-Indian actor Dev Patel, who became a breakout star with the epochal, Oscar-winning “Slumdog Millionaire”, has roped in two Indian actors for his directorial debut “Monkey Man”. Both artists — Sobhita Dhulipala of “Made In Heaven” fame and Sikander Kher from the 2019…
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — Brazil registered a record number of COVID-19 victims on Tuesday, March 23. In 24 hours, there were 3,158 deaths. It was the first time the figure exceeded 3,000 in one day, said the National Council of Health Secretaries and the Consortium of Press Vehicles. The coronavirus advances in an accelerated and uncontrolled way in the 26 Brazilian states and the Federal District, Brasília. Earlier this week, the country governed by President Jair Bolsonaro (Independent) exceeded 300,000 deaths caused by COVID-19. In an interview with Zenger News, Dr. Margareth Dalcolmo, a pulmonologist and researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz…
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed a rapid and cost-effective test to identify COVID-19’s British and South African variants within hours instead of days, enabling effective response and containment measures. Standard coronavirus variants testing involves sequencing the entire virus genome, a process that is expensive and time-consuming. The new test is based on the gene deletion that differentiates the South African or British strains of the virus from the original SARS-CoV-2. The researchers tried their test on sewage samples from Beersheva in which they detected the British variant but not the South African one — results that…
A new spinoff from Jerusalem-based drug discovery company Pepticom will apply its artificial intelligence-based technology — used to discover and develop novel peptide molecules — for treating COVID-19. The spinoff, PeptiCov, has raised $2.6 million in a round led by the Chartered Group of Japan. Peptides are the hottest area of new drug development, particularly for diabetes and cancer. Medications derived from these naturally occurring proteins are highly targeted and often much less toxic than other treatments. The market for peptide-based drugs is expected to grow to $43 billion by 2024, according to Zion Market Research. “Unfortunately, COVID-19 and the…