Numbers on ‘happiness’

Mahar Mangahas - @inquirerdotnet 03/25/2023

The annual International Day of Happiness (March 20) saw the release of World Happiness Report (WHR) 2023 recently. In this 10th WHR since the Day was established by the United Nations in 2012, Finland, scoring 7.80 on…

Donaire to fight Mexican boxer for WBC world bantamweight title

Glendale G. Rosal 02/18/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — There is no stopping the former four-division boxing world champion Nonito “Filipino Flash” Donaire Jr. in reclaiming his boxing glory after earning another shot for a world title this year. This was after…

The world is our seminary

Luke Gealogo - @inquirerdotnet 11/28/2022

It all began with a single click. In the middle of my last year in senior high school, I began to think of the many possible scenarios for my future career or journey in life. Having been…

Warmer world linked to poor pregnancy results: study

11/04/2020

Paris, France—Women exposed to high temperatures and heatwaves during pregnancy are more likely to have premature or stillborn babies, researchers said Wednesday, November 4, 2020. Such outcomes — closely linked to poverty, especially in the tropics —…

Global coronavirus cases rise by single-day record of half a million

10/30/2020

Global coronavirus cases rose by more than 500,000 for the first time on Wednesday, a record one-day increase as countries across the Northern Hemisphere reported daily spikes. Global daily COVID-19 cases have risen by nearly 25% in…

World coronavirus cases top 6 million as leaders disagree on pandemic response

Agence France Presse 05/31/2020

  BRASÍLIA, Brazil — The number of coronavirus cases worldwide topped six million Sunday, with Brazil registering another record surge in daily infections as divisions deepened on how to deal with the pandemic. Latin American countries are…

Russia’s coronavirus cases increase; 3rd highest in the world

05/28/2020

MOSCOW — Russia is continuing to see high numbers of new coronavirus cases even though its far-flung regions have increasingly moved to reopen the economy. The government’s anti-coronavirus task force reported 8,371 new infections Thursday, about the…

Imagine a world without a vaccine against COVID-19

Jobers Reynes Bersales 05/07/2020

  I do not want to sound pessimistic. But if you look at another virus that has killed millions of humans in recent past, the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV, no vaccine has been produced yet some…

UN chief: World should follow South Korea on COVID-19 fight

05/01/2020

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief said he hopes many countries in the world will follow the “remarkable example” of South Korea, which he said has been “extremely successful” in addressing the coronavirus pandemic and…

Photos of empty places around the world during social distancing

Marc Cosep 04/29/2020

Governments across the globe have established “stay at home” orders during amid these pandemic, which left some of the world’s most photographed spots or tourists attractions empty. While its quite a scene say the Hollywood Walk of…

Pope guides locked-down world through virtual Easter

04/10/2020

VATICAN CITY—Church doors will be shut and the Vatican sealed off when Pope Francis leads 1.3 billion Catholics in Easter Sunday celebrations held under a worldwide coronavirus lockdown. Fear and confusion in the face of a disease whose…

World faces new ‘Great Depression’ as virus death toll mounts

04/10/2020

UNITED States — World powers scrambled on Thursday to build a global response to the human tragedy and once-in-a-century economic collapse caused by the coronavirus epidemic, as the worldwide death toll topped 90,000. In a locked-down New…

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