Vending machines offering free sexually transmitted infection (STI) kits could boost the numbers getting tested, research suggests. A pilot study on 11 machines found young people in particular picked up the tests and liked the convenience of testing i…
“Big farce…no realistic plans”: BJP leader V Muraleedharan on Kerala budget
New Delhi [India], February 5 (ANI): After Kerala Finance Minister K. N. Balagopal presented the Kerala Budget 2024-25 today, Union Minister and BJP leader V Muraleedharan termed it a “big farce”. “The Kerala budget presented in the State Assembly is a…
Medway Area Sunday League round-up (04/02/24)
Real 60 will play Pentagon in the Junior League Cup Final after edging out ASK Medway on Sunday. Will Waring’s goal proved the difference in a closely-fought 1-0 Semi-Final win. Goals from Sid Hopkins and Louie Goss saw Caspian Tigers reach the Junior …
IUML plays down ‘Ram Mandir’ comment by state chief, says “It was a warning to not fall into BJP trap”
Kozhikode (Kerala) [India], February 5 (ANI): Amid the recent controversy over IUML Kerala president Sayyid Sadik Ali Shihab Thangal’s statement on Ram Mandir, party MLA and IUML National General Secretary PK Kunhalikutty said that what the state party…
Israeli forces continue operations in Central Gaza
Tel Aviv [Israel], February 5 (ANI/TPS): In the center of the Gaza Strip, a squad of five terrorists was identified in the area where forces of the IDF’s (Israel Defence Forces) Nahal Infantry was operating at the time. In a joint activity of the groun…
Voting during Eurovision National Selection Finals caused Diia app to crash, delay in announcing results
“Today saw the highest number of Diia users in the history of the project,” Fedorov stated. Read also: Jerry Heil and Alyona Alyona’s ‘Teresa & Maria’ will represent Ukraine at Eurovision 2024 He added that, instead of 800 requests per second, as occur…
Moyes calls for £30m man to up his game and makes astonishing claims
West Ham boss David Moyes has called for Nayef Aguerd to up his game and has made a couple of astonishing claims. When Nayef Aguerd cried off sick over Christmas before meeting up with Morocco for AFCON, it looked like he may have played his last game …
‘Trash is just a failure of imagination.’ Artists and environmentalists seek creative ways to keep plastics out of landfills
CHICAGO — In high school, Jordan Parker wrote a paper on plastic pollution titled: “Is our country doomed to be buried beneath its own garbage?” Decades later, that question continues to galvanize Parker, who uses the pronoun them. In 2017 Parker foun…
Commentary: My mom, an athlete in the pre-Title IX days, would have loved basketball phenom Caitlin Clark
I so wish my mother were alive today. She would be proudly sporting a bright gold shirt with No. 22 emblazoned across her chest, and we would be sitting side by side at every possible University of Iowa women’s basketball game. My mother would love Cai…
Arsenal 3-1 Liverpool: Player ratings as Alisson & Van Dijk howlers keep Gunners in title race
By Tom Gott Arsenal kept their Premier League title hopes alive with a huge 3-1 victory over Liverpool at the Emirates on Sunday. Facing the prospect of falling eight points behind with defeat, Arsenal brought one of their best performances of the seas…