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Dubai T100 Triathlon Weekend opens doors to amateur triathletes

Dubai Sports Council (DSC) announced that the second edition of the Dubai T100 Triathlon Weekend is set to return from 13th to 16th November 2025, held in collaboration with the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO). The council said that the 2025 edition is set to be ‘bigger and better’ by opening the registration to

Japan records over 43,000 whooping cough cases in 2025

Whooping cough cases continued to soar in Japan with the cumulative figure reaching 43,728 so far this year, a more than tenfold increase on the approximately 4,000 cases reported for all of 2024, Kyodo News said Tuesday. Preliminary data from the Japan Institute for Health Security showed that the number of cases reported by hospitals and

Sandstorms affect 330 million people globally: WMO

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has reported that sand and dust storms affect 330 million people in more than 150 countries worldwide, causing growing harm to both public health and the global economy. In the annual WMO Airborne Dust Bulletin, the organisation stressed the need to continue enhancing monitoring, forecasting and

Swiss authority approves first drug to treat infants sick with malaria

Switzerland’s medical products authority has granted the first approval for a malaria medicine designed for small infants, touted as an advance against a disease that takes hundreds of thousands of lives, nearly all in Africa, each year. Swissmedic gave a green light Tuesday for the medicine from Basel-based pharmaceutical company

The best books on Endangered Languages

Out of 7000 languages on the planet, 700 of them can be found in New York, and many of those are endangered – Samantha Ellis There is usually a lot of violence and displacement in the stories of these languages becoming endangered. The monolingual empire drains the energy from other cultures Samantha Ellis’s book Chopping