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Facebook Tweet Email Link Routine vaccines have prevented the deaths of about 154 million children around the world over the past 50 years, a new study shows, but efforts have been slowing recently, allowing for the growth of some vaccine-preventable diseases. This backslide could lead to many more unnecessary illnesses and deaths without an increased effort to vaccinate children and counter misinformation. The report, published Tuesday in the medical journal The Lancet, says that over the past five decades, the World Health Organization’s Expanded Programme on Immunization has vaccinated more than 4 billion children. This doubling of global coverage of…

by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 10:00 AM ET, Thu June 26, 2025 Global Hotel Alliance, the world’s largest alliance of independent hotel brands, including Kempinski Hotels, Corinthia Group and Pan Pacific Hotels Group, provided an optimistic outlook on the future of the hospitality industry at its annual CEO meeting in Brussels. Over thirty CEOs and senior representatives of over 45 hotel brands met at the Corinthia Hotel Brussels to discuss the global industry’s biggest challenges and their perspectives on the hospitality industry’s near future.  The panelists, including Chris Hartley, GHA’s CEO, were optimistic despite the current geopolitical and economic headwinds of…

Getty Images dropped its primary claims of copyright infringement against Stability AI on Wednesday at London’s High Court, narrowing one of the most closely watched legal fights over how AI companies use copyrighted content to train their models.  The move doesn’t end the case entirely — Getty is still pursuing other claims as well as a separate lawsuit in the U.S. — but it underscores the gray areas surrounding the future of content ownership and usage in the age of generative AI. The development also comes just a day after a U.S. judge sided with Anthropic in a similar dispute…

Jerusalem CNN  —  Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank on Wednesday, Palestinian health authorities said, as settler violence against Palestinians surged in the occupied territory. The military shot 15-year-old Rayan Tamer Hawshiya in the neck, the Ministry of Health in Ramallah said, after troops raided Al Yamoun, near Jenin. Residents in the northern town reported “heavy Israeli gunfire,” according to the minstry. The Israeli military said that “terrorists hurled explosive devices at IDF forces” in Al Yamoun on Wednesday, adding that no IDF injuries were reported. “Afterward, the forces identified terrorists approaching them while holding…

NEW YORK (AP) — The idea that Bruce Springsteen wrote, recorded and ultimately shelved entire albums of music may seem odd to the casual listener. Why put yourself through all that work for nothing? Yet “lost albums” are embedded in music industry lore. Some were literally lost. Some remained unfinished or unreleased because of tragedy, shortsighted executives or creators who were perfectionist — or had short attention spans.Often, the music is eventually made public, like Springsteen is doing now, although out of context from the times in which it was originally made.So in honor of Springsteen’s 83-song “Tracks II: The…

Just in time for Canada Day, G Adventures is honouring its Canadian roots with the launch of nine new itineraries across six provinces. The new trips, available for booking now, span from the peaks of the Rockies to the fjords of Québec and the fishing villages of the East Coast. The newly unveiled tours are part of the company’s Classic, Active, and Marine travel styles, and follow G Adventures’ recent relaunch of its Arctic Expedition program.RELATED: G Adventures Relaunches Arctic Expeditions After Six Years One of the highlights is a rare sea journey aboard the G Expedition ship, sailing from Iceland…

Cow burps are a climate problem, and one startup wants to reprogram them. Livestock are a major source of methane emissions, a greenhouse gas that is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide. While plenty of startups are trying to tackle the issue with seaweed feed, synthetic additives, or carbon offsets, one biotech founder is taking a more fundamental approach: changing what happens inside the cow’s gut. Hoofprint Biome is using enzymes to rewire the cow’s microbiome from the inside out, cutting methane production and improving feed efficiency along the way. The company just raised a $15 million Series A…

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — An explosion and the stampede that followed killed at least 29 schoolchildren and injured more than 250 at a high school in Central African Republic’s capital city, authorities said Thursday.The explosion occurred Wednesday at the Barthelemy Boganda High School in Bangui when power was being restored to an electrical transformer within the school premises after it malfunctioned, according to the country’s Ministry of National Education.Most of the victims – including 16 girls – died at the scene after the explosion resulted in a stampede while others were confirmed dead at the hospital, the Ministry…

Berlin Reuters  —  Germany is cutting financial support for charities that rescue migrants at risk of drowning in the Mediterranean, saying it will redirect resources to addressing conditions in source countries that spur people to leave. For decades, migrants driven by war and poverty have made perilous crossings to reach Europe’s southern borders, with thousands estimated to die every year in their bid to reach a continent grown increasingly hostile to migration. “Germany is committed to being humane and will help where people suffer but I don’t think it’s the foreign office’s job to finance this kind of sea rescue,”…

NEW YORK (AP) — Jeremy Didier had taken her son to a psychologist for a possible ADHD evaluation when she spotted an article about women with the condition. As she read it in the waiting room, she thought to herself: They’re describing me. “Lots of risk-taking, lots of very impulsive behavior growing up,” Didier said. As the magazine described, she’d excelled in school but gotten in trouble for talking too much. She’d amassed too many speeding tickets as an adult. She turned to her husband and said, “I think I might have ADHD.”Didier is now the board president of Children…