The other day, a friend decided to playfully name our individual roles within the group: planner, emotional support, and so on. I was the fault-finder – or, as she put it, “the grumpy teenager” – who points out problems, but doesn’t suggest alternatives. She was only kidding around, but she struck at an insecurity I…
Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino has accused his US counterpart Donald Trump of “lying” about Washington taking back the Panama canal. “Once again, President Trump is lying. The Panama Canal is not in the process of recovery,” Mulino wrote on X. “I reject, on behalf of Panama and all Panamanians, this new affront to the…
Flies buzzing between beds may be spreading drug-resistant bugs among patients in hospitals, according to new research. Researchers from the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research (IOI) found that houseflies in Nigerian hospitals carry bacteria resistant to some key antibiotics, including those used only as a last resort. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), when pathogens such as…
The NBA’s most surprising teams so far Which team has shocked the league so far? The For The Hoops crew make their picks for most surprising team here! Dwyane Wade had a cancerous tumor removed from his right kidney 13 months ago, the former NBA star revealed on his podcast. Wade said doctors removed 40%…
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Jim Chalmers has laid into “Peter Dutton’s coalition of cuts and chaos” in a heated televised debate with Angus Taylor, who took aim at a Labor party he claimed had overseen the “biggest collapse in our living standards in history”. The treasurer and his counterpart went head-to-head in a debate hosted by Sky News on…