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| Care and midwifery in the world's most challenging places – in pictures Midwife Helen Danies speaks to a new mother at the maternity ward at the Juba teaching hospital. More than 10% of infants born in the hospital's neonatal clinic die. South Sudan has some of the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world, with one in 26 infants dying within 28 days of birth.
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| Spanish women give up work for a day in first 'feminist strike' "Today we call for a society free of sexist oppression, exploitation and violence," the commission says in its manifesto. "We call for rebellion and a struggle against the alliance of the patriarchy and capitalism that wants us to be obedient, submissive and quiet. We do not accept worse working conditions, ...
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| Kalanick launches investment fund after cashing in Uber stock Travis Kalanick, a co-founder of Uber, has unveiled a new investment fund called 10100, just weeks after cashing in $1.4bn worth of stock in the car-booking company. The fund will focus on "large-scale job creation", Mr Kalanick said in a statement posted on Twitter, at a time when technologies such as ...
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| Africa's banks lag behind on innovation in financial services African central banks are stifling development by failing to keep up with financial services innovation, according to the head of a UN economic agency and industry executives. Mukhisa Kituyi, secretary-general of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, said regulators did not have "adequate ...
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| 'Women are having different fantasies': romantic fiction in the age of Trump MacLean is in London for RARE, an annual and hugely popular romantic fiction convention. At this year's event, for which 1,500 tickets sold in 24 hours, readers turn up with wheelie suitcases to take home as many books as they can, queueing multiple times to get novels signed by the 100 or so authors ...
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| Stocks in Asia gain after news of potential US tariff exemptions Markets in Asia clawed back some gains on Thursday after sliding in the last session on trade-related fears. Gains in the region came after U.S. stocks closed above session lows on fresh developments related to planned metals tariffs. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose 0.89 percent and the Topix ...
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| Bitmain Wants to Invest in Blockchain-Powered 'Central Banks' Bitcoin mining hardware giant Bitmain announced Wednesday that it intends to invest in as many as thirty startups working to create "private central banks" powered by blockchain. Co-founder Jihan Wu gave the first keynote address at the DC Blockchain Summit, hosted by the Chamber of Digital ...
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| The Perfect Smoky Eye, In Six Simple Steps You wouldn't think it, but the first step to any perfect smoky eye is actually skincare. "Your skin has to look good to wear a smoky eye," says makeup artist Nam Vo, which is how we came up with that idea. Sure, it's about the eye—but only because it's also about the whole darn face. "It can be a tricky look, ...
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| Announcing Machine Learning Model Export in Databricks In recent years, machine learning has become ubiquitous in industry and production environments. Both academic and industry institutions had previously focused on training and producing models, but the focus has shifted to productionizing the trained models. Now we hear more and more machine ...
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| Weekend Forecast: Can 'A Wrinkle In Time' Dethrone 'Black Panther'? This weekend will see the wide release of four new films, only one of which is expected to challenge the reigning Black Panther for the box office crown as Disney takes on Disney. A Wrinkle In Time marks the latest live action adaptation/reimagined work from Disney following their successful efforts with ...
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