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Food Industry Pushes Back on WHO Guidance for Products with Added Color, Sweeteners

Varieties Around 11 million deaths a year are linked to unhealthy diets, according to the agency, based on data from a global study. (Getty Images)

Food Industry Pushes Back on WHO Guidance for Products with Added Color, Sweeteners

Governments should consider regulating foods that include added colors, flavors or sweeteners designed to make the product more appealing to consumers,…

Varieties Dozens of Pakistani farmers are suing German firms RWE and Heidelberg Materials in a rare bid to make big polluters pay damages for climate impacts. Aamir QURESHI / AFP

Pakistan Farmers in Long Fight to Make German Firms Pay for Flood Damage

In a Pakistani village nestled in rice fields, Abdul Hafeez Khoso remembers the vast industrial zones he saw in Germany when he visited to file a pioneering…

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Varieties A tourist holds an umbrella to shelter from the sun while walking on a hot day in Tokyo on July 15, 2026. (AFP)

This Year Set to Be One of Four Hottest on Record, UN Report Says

This year is ‌on track to be one of the four hottest on record, driven by a powerful El Niño and perpetuating a warming streak of more than a decade, a UN…

Varieties A white-tailed eagle over the Isle of Mull in Scotland. (Natural Resources Wales)

Reintroduction of White-Tailed Eagles Puts Seabird Colonies at Risk of Wipeout

White-tailed eagles reintroduced into England and Wales imperil endangered seabird populations and risk wiping out some colonies, The Guardian reported quoting…

Varieties Residents extend a supply hose to fill a barrel with clean water from a tanker truck in Kavling Bakau Serip, amid local water shortages linked to data center developments in Batam. ANDARU / AFP

Can't Cook or Shower: Indonesians Take Aim at Data Centers

Cooking and bathing became difficult when taps ran dry in Batam, an Indonesian island where residents are protesting as data centers spring up to power the…

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Varieties (FILES) A police officer passes in front of the entrance of the Musee Renoir after four paintings were stolen in an early-morning break-in, with two recovered in the museum's garden and two still missing, in Cagnes-sur-Mer on September 8, 2026. (Photo by Valery HACHE / AFP)

France Arrests 5 Over September Theft of Renoir Paintings

French police have arrested five people as part of the investigation into the theft in September of two Renoir paintings from a museum in southern France, a…

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Varieties Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Workers' Party (PT) candidate for presidential re-election attends the closing ceremony of a joint meeting of the Workers' Party (PT) caucuses in Congress, ahead of the runoff election, in Brasilia, Brazil, October 7, 2026. (Reuters)

Lula, the President Without a Cellphone, Turns to Selfies to Woo Voters

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva does not own a cellphone and has long mocked the "finger-tapping generation." However, facing a fierce battle…

Varieties (Bottom L-R) Heiner Linke, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry; Ellen Moons, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; and Peter Somfai, Member of the Nobel Committee for Vhemistry, react in front of a screen displaying this year's laureates Henri Kagan of France and Kenso Soai from Japan during the announcement of the winners of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 7, 2026.  (Photo by Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Kagan, Soai for Untangling Mirror Images in Molecules

Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has…

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Varieties FILED - 06 June 2025, Saxony, Leipzig: File Photo - The weight (134.7 kilograms) of a morbidly obese woman is measured as part of the Obesity Therapy Program at Leipzig University Hospital. Photo: Jan Woitas/dpa

WHO Says No Obesity Drugs, Surgery for Under-10s

Medicine and surgery are not the answer for overweight children, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Releasing its first guidelines addressing…

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Varieties  This image taken from a Sea Life at Mall of America video shows a rescue kitten from the Bitty Kitty Brigade visiting Sea Life at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026. (Sea Life at Mall of America via AP)

Orphaned Kittens Meet Sharks and Stingrays on an Aquarium Field Trip at Mall of America

A pair of kittens gazed up through the aquarium's shimmering blue waters as a (relatively) enormous fish passed overhead. One kitten stared transfixed through…

Varieties Eva Olsson, Ellen Moons, and Mark Pearce sit in front of a screen displaying Francis Halzen as the recipient of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics during a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 6, 2026. (Photo by Christine OLSSON / TT NEWS AGENCY / AFP)

Belgium’s Francis Halzen Wins Nobel Prize in Physics

Belgian Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for his contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and his discovery of high-energy…

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Varieties A man attempts to extinguish flames with a bucket amid thick smoke and fires burning through peatland in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, on October 3, 2026. (Photo by REINA / AFP)

Indonesia Says Will Halt Forest Destruction for Rice Paddies

Indonesia said on Tuesday it will halt a project to raze several million hectares of forest to clear land for rice production, saying it had reached self…

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Varieties Stray cats. AFP

Vietnam Busts Cat-stealing Ring that Took 2,700 Pets for Food

Vietnamese police have arrested 12 men accused of stealing nearly 2,700 cats during night raids into residential neighborhoods, taking the pets to be…

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Ready, Set, Snooze: Sleep-deprived Japanese Compete for Best-rested

In diligent, exhausted Japan, self-described elite "competitive sleepers" vied to lie down, relax and nap the fastest and deepest in a contest organized by a…

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Varieties Purple yam sprout at a farm in Padre Garcia, Batangas province. Jam STA ROSA / AFP

Purple Reign: Philippines Seeks to Keep Grip on Ube Throne

The Philippine ube has become a trend-setting sensation from Los Angeles to London to Seoul, with the humble yam's bright purple hue drawing lines outside…

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Varieties A banner of the Artemis program is seen outside of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on September 30, 2026. (AFP)

Next Artemis Mission on Track for 2027, but Anything Can Happen, Astronaut Says

The next mission under NASA's Artemis moon program could still launch next summer as planned, but "anything can happen" given the remaining development work…

Varieties Nobel Medicine Prize Goes to 3 Scientists for Research into Brain Activity

Nobel Medicine Prize Goes to 3 Scientists for Research into Brain Activity

The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works. Karl…

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Varieties AI Camp kicks off in Madinah with 120 participants. (SPA)

AI Camp Kicks Off in Madinah with 120 Participants

The AI Camp kicked off at the Madinah Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Sunday as part of the MED AI Forum, bringing together 120 participants and nine…

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Varieties This picture taken on August 25, 2026 shows a woman crossing with her bike on a street in Tokyo. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP)

Tokyo Residents Fight for More Trees

One sweltering day in Tokyo, Kaoru Morimoto told friends she wasn't sure she could endure another summer in her neighborhood, where tree cover and the crucial…

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Varieties The study was published in Science Advances. SPA

KAUST, Oxford Develop Electronic Sensor to Detect Parkinson’s Markers in Blood

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), in collaboration with the University of Oxford, have developed a blood-based…

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Varieties People commute along a road as haze from forest and land fires shrouds Palembang, South Sumatra on October 2, 2026. (Photo by AL ZULKIFLI / AFP)

Sumatra Rhino Pregnancies Nurse Hope for Endangered Species' Future

Two critically endangered Sumatran rhinos have fallen pregnant at an Indonesian sanctuary, boosting hopes for the survival of one of the world's rarest and…

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Varieties NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Enceladus on Nov. 30, 2010. The shadow of the body of Enceladus on the lower portions of the jets is clearly visible (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

Could Alien Life Exist on One of Saturn’s Moons?

Aliens could live on a moon in our solar system, scientists have announced. Researchers have long been particularly excited about the possibility of life on…

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Varieties An array of slices of pizza al taglio at Frumentario (The New York Times)

A Pizza Renaissance in Rome

Rome: By Anya von Bremzen The rectangles of pizza al taglio behind the counter of shoebox-size Frumentario, in Rome’s workaday San Giovanni district,…

Varieties Sand berms have been built along beaches in Southern California in anticipation of storms hitting the area. Patrick T. Fallon / AFP

Sea Levels to Rise in California as Coastal Wave Surges Up West Coast

Sea levels in California are set to rise by as much as a foot (30 centimeters) in the coming days as an enormous wave washes up the US West Coast. The huge…

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Varieties This photo provided by Jack Pearadin shows Brian Busse on Aug. 9, 2026, in Buena Vista, Colo., holding a 6-carat diamond found by Pearadin and Michael Schumacher. (Jack Pearadin via AP)

Arkansas Gem Hunter Says He Found What May Be a $1 Million Diamond

Jack Pearadin is the first to admit that his diamond-hunting hobby hasn't paid off, despite sifting rocks for more than a dozen years. But earlier this year,…

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Varieties This picture taken on October 1, 2026 shows a Bogong moth among the leaves of a tree in Sydney. (Photo by David WILLIAMS / AFP)

Return of Swarming Moth Spectacle Has Australia in a Flutter

Moth swarms so thick they can blot out the stars are fluttering across Australia, heralding a migratory spectacle unseen since the creature's brush with…

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Varieties FILE - Permafrost melts on the coast in Newtok, Alaska, Aug. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Heat-trapping Gas Once Frozen in Arctic Ground is Slowly Leaking, Warming the Planet

As Ted Schuur stepped along the edges of Smith Lake, a bubble surfaced from the muck underfoot. And then another. They're bubbles of methane, a potent heat…

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Varieties “Four Sunflowers Gone to Seed” Credit...Ilvy Njiokiktjien for The New York Times

When the World Saw van Gogh as ‘a Madman,’ she Saw his Genius

By Nina Siegal It was April 1912, and Helene Kröller-Müller was on a shopping spree. She wasn’t interested in the latest shoes or fashions. She was on the…

Varieties Six alpacas roam among the tables in the Alpaca Cafe interacting with the guests in the village of Stajicevo, 50 kilometers north of Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Not Your Everyday Coffee in a Serbia Cafe. Enjoy it in the Company of Alpacas

A cafe in northern Serbia has unusual hosts: six alpacas. The South American animals, of various sizes and colors, roam among the tables at the Tiganjica…

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