African nation’s high court rules law banning gay sex is ‘unconstitutional’

Crowds cheering and dancing during the Namibian Pride event in 2017 (Picture: Hildegard Titus/AFP) LGBTQ+ activists in Namibia are celebrating a major win as two laws which criminalised sex between men have been deemed unconstitutional. Namibian activist Fiedel Dausab brought the landmark case because while convictions under the ‘sodomy’ and ‘unnatural sexual offences’ laws are … Read more

Remarkable chimpanzees could help solve world’s antibiotic crisis

Chimpanzees in Uganda revealed a remarkable habit (Picture: Elodie Freymann/SWNS) Chimpanzees have been spotted using plants to self-medicate – and could lead their human relatives to new drugs. For many years, scientists have suspected that chimpanzees and other primates could self-medicate by eating particular plants – while recently a remarkable orangutan known as Rakus was … Read more

Newly named Washington Post editor decides not to take job after backlash, will stay in Britain

People walk by the Washington Post’s building in the capital. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press) The Washington Post said Friday that newly named editor Robert Winnett has decided not to take the job and will remain in Britain instead, another upheaval at the news outlet. The Post’s CEO and publisher, Will Lewis, announced Winnett’s … Read more

Conor McGregor reveals injury that forced him out of UFC 303

Conor McGregor’s injury has been revealed as a broken toe that he sustained during a training session just before his scheduled UFC 303 main event fight against Michael Chandler. “We had a lapse in concentration and engaged in a training session without wearing the full protective gear and I hit the toe off the elbow … Read more

Will Latinos be the decisive vote in the 2024 presidential election? This political consultant thinks so

(Photo illustration by Martina Ibáñez-Baldor / De Los; photographs by Unsplash and Jae C. Hong / Associated Press) For three decades, Mike Madrid has been tracking the seismic shifts in the Latino electorate. In that time, the Republican political consultant has noticed a population becoming predominantly U.S.-born and increasingly English-speaking. It’s a change in the … Read more

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