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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched an international clinical trial in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to evaluate two experimental treatments for Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD), a rare form of Ebola, as the country battles an ongoing outbreak. The trial, known as the Platform Adaptive Randomised Trial for New and Repurposed Filovirus TreatmentS (PARTNERS), began enrolling patients on Thursday, WHO said in a statement. The study will assess whether the monoclonal antibody MBP134 and the antiviral drug remdesivir can reduce deaths among people infected with the Bundibugyo virus. Researchers will also investigate whether combining the two medicines provides…

A hunter in Tuktoyaktuk in Canada’s Northwest Territories uses decoy geese to lure birdsNatalya Saprunova The realities of a changing global climate collide with years of tradition in Natalya Saprunova’s icy blue photograph, above, part of a series that won the New Scientist Editors Award in the Earth Photo 2026 competition. The image shows a hunter from an Inuit community in Tuktoyaktuk on Canada’s Arctic coast holding a goose decoy meant to lure migrating birds. In the background, a pale sky touches banks of melting ice and murky water already studded with several faux birds. Indigenous peoples in the region…

Bill ConnellyJul 3, 2026, 12:41 AM ETCloseBill Connelly is a writer for ESPN. He covers college football, soccer and tennis. He has been at ESPN since 2019.Multiple AuthorsTORONTO — In a callback to Euro 2016, when Portugal won its first major trophy without an injured Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal stayed alive in Ronaldo’s final World Cup with the 41-year-old legend on the bench.Portugal’s 2-1 win over Croatia was noteworthy because it was guaranteed to be the last World Cup match for one of two legends — either Ronaldo or Croatia’s 40-year-old Luka Modric — but they were role players in a…

“My Indian Boyfriend: The Golden Mile,” a British romantic drama set against Leicester’s Diwali celebrations, has landed U.K. and Ireland theatrical distribution through RFT Films, ahead of the film’s principal photography this summer. The independent production brings together talent and partners from the U.K., Malaysia, Hong Kong and India. Directed by Vijay Chauhan and produced by Hiu Man Chan, the film follows Jasmine (Jolene Tiong), a Malaysian Chinese architecture student in Leicester, and Krishna (Sushant Shekhar), a British-Indian graduate finding his purpose through dance. Their relationship becomes a lens on identity, ambition, belonging and modern multicultural Britain. The film is…

Since the Nigerian government announced that it didn’t create or appoint a Director-General for a Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) that operated at the federal secretariat for months in 2025, Nigerians have wondered what happened at the organisation, who worked there, and what the agency’s inner workings were like. Adeniyi Adeyemi, whom the government accused of forging his own appointment letter as the ‘DG’ of the agency, as well as other letters of approval, has denied the allegations and said he would prove his innocence in court. He has accused Femi Gbajabiamila, the chief of staff to President Bola…

“A university rises or falls on the quality of its leadership.”The appointment of a new Vice Chancellor at Tribhuvan University (TU) is far more than a routine administrative change. It is a defining moment for Nepal’s higher education system and a rare opportunity to chart a new course for the nation’s oldest, largest, and most influential university.Universities are not merely degree-awarding institutions. They are centres of knowledge creation, research, innovation, critical thinking, leadership development, and social transformation. The strength of a nation depends largely on the quality of education and human capital nurtured within its universities. Strong universities produce not…

A woman has been handed a community work order for punching Lidia Thorpe outside the MCG over claims the independent senator disrespected her mother.Ebony Bell was initially told to undertake an anger management course after her 2024 attack on Thorpe, but committed a second “gratuitous act of violence” while on bail, the Melbourne magistrates court was told in June.The 29-year-old admitted she assaulted a security guard at a regional pub in August 2025, six days after facing court over her attack on the Victorian senator and weeks before pleading guilty.Bell was on Friday handed a $300 fine and 12-month community…

The scorching heat blanketing much of the US this week would have been “virtually impossible” if not for the climate crisis, researchers have found, warning that the high temperatures could threaten Independence Day celebrations and World Cup matches this weekend.“The climate the country has today is fundamentally different to the one it had when the founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence,” said Theodore Keeping, extreme weather and wildfire researcher at Imperial College London, in a press release.The analysis from World Weather Attribution, an international consortium of climate researchers, comes as a high-pressure system, or heat dome, brings hot and…

Jordan Rochester, Mizuho FICC strategy EMEA head, discusses sharp moves in the yen. “From all the frameworks, dollar-yen should be lower,” he tells Bloomberg Television. He adds there has been a change in behaviors in the Japanese space and the yen is not behaving like a G10 currency. “It trades like an EM in terms of its correlation to rates,” Rochester says. (Source: Bloomberg)

New Glenn Catastrophe Aftermath: What’s Next for the Space Industry? | Ars Live This week Ars hosted a live discussion with two space industry experts about the aftermath of the catastrophic explosion of the New Glenn rocket in late May. Along with Ars Technica Space Editor Eric Berger; the director of research at Quilty Space, Caleb Henry; and the host of the Main Engine Cut Off podcast, Anthony Colangelo, spoke about various topics. Chief among them was the implications of this failure for NASA’s attempt to land humans on the Moon for the Artemis IV mission. Blue Origin and SpaceX…