UNB Top-ranked Novak Djokovic retired during his quarterfinal in the Dubai Tennis Championships with an infection in both eyes on Thursday, ending his global run of 17 consecutive final appearances. “It’s an eye problem,” Djokovic, wearing dark sunglasses, said at his post-match news conference. “I have had it ever since I arrived to Dubai….
UNB A man born in North Korea was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in federal prison after pleading guilty in an attempt to export night-vision goggles to China. Song Il Kim, 42, was arrested in Hawaii after a monthslong online sting operation conducted by Utah-based Homeland Security Agents. Prosecutors say Kim gave…
UNB It took an 18-year-old local academy graduate making his professional debut as a late injury replacement to spare Manchester United from potential humiliation in the Europa League on Thursday.Many inside Old Trafford will have known little, if anything, about Marcus Rashford when the striker was called up against FC Midtjylland on Thursday after Anthony…
UNB Behind the scenes at Milan Fashion Week, the industry’s future is shaping up to be a game of fast vs. slow fashion. Word has rippled across the Atlantic Ocean and the English Channel of a movement to speed up the fashion cycle and strut runway creations straight into store windows and consumers’ shopping bags….
UNB The Philadelphia Museum of Art has received a major bequest of over 50 works of American art, including the museum’s first painting by Edward Hopper. The artworks are from the estate of collector Daniel Dietrich II, who died last year. The suburban Philadelphia philanthropist was an heir to a family conglomerate that once included…
UNB Want to lose weight? Are you depriving yourself from eating what you love? Here is a catch, read on to know how you can lose weight by eating not starving. Starving yourself in the hope that few kilos S might reduce in the weighing machines, might seem a good idea to many. But,…
UNB A stillbirth in Brazil is offering another clue to possible health effects of the Zika virus, this time beyond the developing brain. In Brazil, Zika has been linked to babies born with unusually small heads, a birth defect called microcephaly that can signal underlying brain damage. Thursday’s report found a stillborn fetus with devastating…
UNB Colombia is reporting the first probable case of Zika-related microcephaly in an aborted fetus as the country is on high alert for spread of the mosquito-borne virus. Officials said Wednesday that traces of Zika were found in the amniotic fluid of a woman whose fetus appeared to have signs of microcephaly. However they…
UNB Surgeons in Cleveland say they have performed the nation’s first uterus transplant, a new frontier that aims to give women who lack wombs a chance at pregnancy. In a statement Thursday, the Cleveland Clinic said the nine-hour surgery was performed a day earlier on a 26-year-old woman, using a uterus from a deceased donor….
UNB Canada’s most populous province is offering free university and college for low-income students. The pledge in the Ontario government’s 2016-17 budget is to introduce a student grant that would entirely pay for college or university tuition for students from families with incomes of $50,000 or less. The Canadian Federation of Students applauded the…