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Scientists take a peek behind those sad puppy dog eyes

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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:27:39 +0000

Scientists take a peek behind those sad puppy dog eyes

NEW YORK – What’s behind those hard-to-resist puppy dog eyes?New research suggests that over thousands of years of dog domestication, people preferred pups that could pull off that appealing, sad look. And that encouraged the development of the facial muscle that creates it.

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Hunt for cause of massive South America power outage begins

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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 05:03:50 +0000

Hunt for cause of massive South America power outage begins

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – As lights turned back on across Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay after a massive blackout hit tens of millions people, authorities were still largely in the dark about what caused the collapse of the interconnected grid and tallied the damage from the unforeseen disaster.

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Tarlac university slammed over LGBT graduates’ attire rule

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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 03:22:19 +0000

MANILA, Philippines – Detained opposition senator Leila de Lima lambasted on Monday a state university that barred six transgender students from wearing dresses during their graduation rites.

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Mexico steps up revisions amid US pressure over migrant flow

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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 00:29:54 +0000

Mexico steps up revisions amid US pressure over migrant flow

COMITAN, Mexico – Mexican authorities stepped up revisions along well-traveled routes for migrants in southern Mexico over the weekend, checking identifications, pulling migrants off public transport and intercepting four trucks packed with nearly 800 migrants.

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Hong Kong police begin to clear streets of protesters

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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 00:23:26 +0000

Hong Kong police begin to clear streets of protesters

HONG KONG – Hong Kong citizens marched for hours Sunday in a massive protest that drew a late-in-the-day apology from the city’s top leader for her handling of legislation that has stoked fears of expanding control from Beijing in this former British colony.

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Flight delays expected after red lightning alert raised at Naia

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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:51:16 +0000

Several flights at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) are expected to be delayed after a red lightning alert was raised on Sunday afternoon.

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Flowers pile up for dead Hong Kong protester

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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:25:23 +0000

Mourners place flowers and offer prayers at the site where a protester died, prior to the start of a rally in Hong Kong on June 16, 2019. - Hong Kong was braced for another mass rally, as public anger seethed following unprecedented clashes between protesters and police over an extradition law, despite a climbdown by the city's embattled leader in suspending the bill. Nearly 80 people were injured in this week's unrest, including 22 police officers, and one man died late on June 15, 2019 when he fell from a building where he had been holding an hours-long anti-extradition protest. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)

Bouquets of white flowers, written tributes and origami cranes piled up Sunday outside a high-end Hong Kong shopping mall, where a young man plunged to his death protesting against a controversial extradition bill.

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NBI releases owner of treatment center in ‘ghost dialysis’ scheme

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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 06:38:46 +0000

NBI releases owner of treatment center in ‘ghost dialysis’ scheme

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Sunday released Bryan Sy, the owner of WellMed Dialysis Center which was tagged in a ‘ghost dialysis’ scheme.

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Guam Catholic group protests recruitment of abortion doctors

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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:22:52 +0000

Guam Catholic group protests recruitment of abortion doctors

HAGATNA, Guam — A Catholic group has protested the governor of Guam’s plan to recruit abortion providers to the U.S. territory where no doctors are currently willing to terminate pregnancies.

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