Several weeks after a number of bald eagles began dying in large numbers in Utah, employees at the state’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and the National Wildlife Health Center have concluded that the deaths were caused by widespread contraction of the West Nile virus. The precise origin of the infection is still being looked at, but […]
On Monday, the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan carried out the appointment of Justice Ashraf Jehan, its first female judge. This marks the first time since its creation in 1980 that the court has had a woman serve on the bench. Previously, Jehan had been serving as a judge in the Pakistani province of Sindh. […]
Recently released statistics by the Israeli National Council for the Child reveal that children in the country are seeing the highest rates of various social problems in 30 years. Over one-third of children in Israel, the study reports, are affected by obesity and poverty. There were 2,626,400 children in Israel just last year. Of that […]
