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Kataza the baboon. Facebook / Baboon Matters The City of Cape Town has asked the public not to feed a baboon that has relocated to Tokai. The baboon, known as Kataza or SK11, is slowly being integrated into the Tokai troop. Video footage, however, shows humans feeding Kataza. The City of Cape Town has requested that Kataza…

Forty-two people have been implicated in a police car branding scam. Forty-two people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a police vehicle branding scam. They face a range of charges including corruption, fraud, money laundering, theft and perjury.Of these, 22 are serving police members.Forty-two people are set to appear in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court on…

St. Louis County recorded its all-time high of new COVID-19 diagnoses on Friday with 73 people who have recently tested positive. Previously, the most cases the county recorded in a single day was 50, on Friday, Sept. 18. The uptick is unrelated to the new COVID-19 saliva testing site at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center,…

Humans 22 September 2020 By Michael Le Page The human population of Santiago Island is evolving rapidlyPeter Adams/Getty Images Yes, we are still evolving. And one of the strongest examples of recent evolution in people has been found on the Cape Verde islands in the Atlantic, where a gene variant conferring a form of malaria…

Wearing eyeglasses daily may reduce the risk of contracting the novel coronavirus, a new study suggests. Researchers from China found that COVID-19 patients were five times less likely to have frames than the general population. The team, from The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, says they believe this is because ACE-2 receptors, which the virus latches…