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By Adam Vaughan Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, BrazilBRUNO KELLY/Reuters/PA Images “I think when you’re sitting in Europe, you feel like you just had the epidemic and everyone’s coming out of it. It feels like it’s over with. But it’s actually just at the start in every country in some ways,” says Azra Ghani at…

A line up of the Brazil International football team: Standing left to right: Carlos, Alberto, Leao, Brito, Fontana, Piazza, Marcos and Antonio. Below : Jairzinho, Direfu, Lopez, Pele, Gerson and Edu (Photo by PA Images via Getty Images) Brazil's 1970 World Cup triumph in Mexico is seen as Pele's crowning glory. He was the star…

By Leah Crane A portrait of George Floyd held during a march across the Brooklyn BridgeErik McGregor/LightRocket via Ge Scientists around the world are striking to raise awareness of institutional and systemic racism against Black academics. This event comes in conjunction with widespread protests against police violence after the killing of George Floyd, who died…

If a two-year-old child living in poverty in India or Bangladesh gets sick with a common bacterial infection, there is more than a 50% chance an antibiotic treatment will fail. Somehow the child has acquired an antibiotic resistant infection – even to drugs to which they may never have been exposed. How?Unfortunately, this child also…

If a two-year-old child living in poverty in India or Bangladesh gets sick with a common bacterial infection, there is more than a 50% chance an antibiotic treatment will fail. Somehow the child has acquired an antibiotic resistant infection – even to drugs to which they may never have been exposed. How?Unfortunately, this child also…