Protein tau may spread more rapidly in female brains than males’, adding to range of factors   The reason women appear to be at greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease than men might be due to a number of genetic, anatomical and even social influences, researchers have suggested. Recent figures ...

Organisation calls for more funds as 2,512 cases are confirmed in the region   The Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organization has declared, calling for more funds and support to close it down. The second ...

Stargazers around the world have enjoyed a view of a global lunar eclipse, delighting people from Dehli to Dublin. The partial eclipse was visible in nearly every part of the world except for North America and the polar climes of Greenland and northern Russia. In Australia and Asia, the eclipse ...

The United States looks set to break a promise not to hold military exercises with South Korea, putting talks aimed at getting North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons at risk, the North Korean Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump, who said he agreed to a resumption ...

Representatives from the United States and Russia are set to meet in Geneva on Wednesday to explore the concept of a new accord limiting nuclear arms that could eventually include China, senior U.S. officials said on Monday. U.S. President Donald Trump has said that he would like to see a ...

Wiping out animals could mean 7 per cent more carbon released but conserving them would be worth £34bn in CO2 storage, study finds   Wiping out all of Africa’s elephants could accelerate Earth’s climate crisis by allowing 7 per cent more damaging greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, scientists say. But ...

Growth falls to 6.2 per cent in second quarter – the lowest on record – hit by sharp rise in US tariffs on Chinese goods in May   China’s economy has slowed to its lowest growth rate in almost three decades, suggesting the trade war with Donald Trump is taking its toll. ...

The European Union’s foreign policy chief has said that none of the signatory parties to the Iran nuclear deal believe that the country’s breach of the agreement are “significant.” On July 7, the Iranian government announced it started to increase uranium enrichment beyond the purity threshold it had agreed to in the ...

The Trump administration on Monday unveiled a new rule to bar almost all immigrants from applying for asylum at the southern border, requiring them to first pursue safe haven in a third country through which they had traveled on the way to the United States. The Department of Homeland Security, ...

UK foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt tries to reinforce nuclear deal abandoned by US   Tensions in the Middle East could pose an existential threat to mankind unless the Iran nuclear deal is maintained, Jeremy Hunt will say on Monday in his starkest warning since the regional crisis escalated two months ...