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Over two billion people on the planet will turn 60 years old or more by 2050, the Salford Institute for Dementia is one of many centers around the world investigating how health care and robotics can work together. (Photo by University of Salford Press Office)

Modern doctors’ house call: Skype chat and fast diagnosis

One night, when her face turned puffy and painful from what she thought was a sinus infection, Jessica DeVisser decided to try something “kind of sci-fi.” She went online and requested a virtual consultation.

Houston Chronicle

Blog:

Ask your doctor how telemedicine really works

Lid Time

Quake-hit Nepal to train 50,000 workers for reconstruction

Earthquake-hit Nepal will train 50,000 workers to help carry out reconstruction, the finance minister said, the biggest skill development program in the country’s history.

Times of India

Falling Fertility: The impact of declining birth rates

For the first time since the beginning of the Great Recession our nation’s population growth increased: the number of babies being born and the fertility rate increased by one percent, the first increase since 2007.

Law Street

Typhoon Chan-hom weakens to storm as it approaches Koreas

A typhoon that battered the Chinese coast has weakened into a tropical storm as it pushes toward the Korean Peninsula, where some South Korean flights were canceled due to strong winds and rain.

Asian Correspondent

Typhoon Chan-Hom: East China stands rooted through the rain and the gale

Yibada

Iran clinches nuclear deal with powers, historic breakthrough with US

Iran and six major world powers reached a nuclear deal on Tuesday, capping more than a decade of negotiations with an agreement that could transform the Middle East.

Reuters

Landmark deal reached on Iran nuclear program

CNN

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

The world can end AIDS by 2030: UN

Since 2000, the number of new HIV cases has dropped by 35 percent, from 3.1 million to 2 million. The decline is attributed to accessibility to retroviral drugs, community outreach and the effective mobilization of advocates.

Huffington Post

Goal to end AIDS epidemic by 2030 “ambitious but realistic”: UN chief

Yahoo! News

Prince Harry takes Invictus Games to USA in 2016

With a choir singing Invictus in the background, Prince Harry announced Tuesday in a deft online video that he’s bringing his Invictus Games for wounded warriors to the USA next year.

USA TODAY

HUMAN RIGHTS

Five British tourists ‘to face terror charges’ in Inner Mongolia

Five British tourists are reportedly to be criminally charged by the Chinese authorities over alleged terror links. They are being held in police cells in the Inner Mongolia city of Ordos.

Telegraph.co.uk

China accuses human rights lawyers, activists of inciting ‘mob rule’

At least 24 human rights lawyers and activists have been detained or went missing in China since last Thursday, Amnesty International reports. The government continues its nationwide crackdown on civil disobedience.

Christian Science Monitor

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

As Yemen’s civil war grinds on, fears of a potential breakup

UN-sponsored peace talks to end the Saudi-led, and US-supported, air campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen failed this week. Just like the last talks did. And there’s a reason.

Christian Science Monitor

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defiant in face of isolation after Iran deal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suffered a major defeat in failing to stop a nuclear deal with Iran but he remains as defiant as ever even at the risk of further isolation.

Times of India

Japan’s Abe pushes security bills, sparks protests in summer of discontent

Legislation for a dramatic change in Japan’s defense policy that could allow troops to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two was approved by a lower house panel.

Today

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Battery storage breakthroughs accelerate the race to renewables

Tesla’s founder Elon Musk unveiled his cost-cutting Powerwall and Powerpack battery systems earlier this year, designed to “move the electricity grid off of fossil fuels and towards renewable energy sources.”

Agripulse

Surveillance Society: Uber‘s use of customers’ data raises concerns

Uber’s revised privacy policy allows the ride-sharing giant to track passengers even when they disable the GPS features on the app. A spokesperson said the policy represents an improvement for riders.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Rainfall raises mosquito alert in the Midwest, fearing an outbreak of the West Nile Virus

Mosquitoes are well equipped to carry dangerous viruses such as the popular West Nile Virus and also the Eastern Equine Encephalitis.

Standard Daily

New Horizons: Probe sends detailed view of Pluto

NASA’s New Horizons probe has returned the most detailed image of Pluto yet. The image was released as the spacecraft begins the most intense period of its encounter with Pluto.

BBC

Special section:

Pluto flyby LIVE: dwarf planet is red like Mars, NASA finds

Telegraph.co.uk

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GOOD NEWS

Malala marks 18th birthday by opening school for Syria girls

Education campaigner Malala Yousafzai has turned 18, and marked the day by opening a school for Syrian girls in an informal refugee settlement in Lebanon‘s Beka’a Valley.

BBC

Business opportunities abound for plastic bag alternatives following Honolulu ban

It has been a week since the plastic bag ban on Oahu went into effect, and some businesses that have created reusable alternatives to it say their efforts are beginning to pay off.

Pacific Business News

Honolulu mayor calls for less loopholes in plastic bag ban

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

A dozen foreign NGOs declared unwelcome in Russia

The Duma’s Federation Council has placed 12 foreign NGOs in Russia on a blacklist and forbidden any activity in the country. The new legislation has placed even tighter restrictions on NGOs in Russia than before.

Deutsche Welle

A county in which half the economy is nonprofit-driven

A report finds nonprofits in Berkshire County account for almost half the region’s economic activity. Specifically, nearly 373 nonprofits now account for $2.4 billion of the $5.6 billion in economic activity in Berkshire County.

Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Why is the West Antarctic ice sheet melting? It may not be just global warming.

Scientists found a way to measure the heat of the land under the ice sheet and discovered it was higher than estimated, suggesting climate change may not be the sole culprit melting the ice.

Christian Science Monitor

With sonar-reflecting leaves, plant lures bats to poo in it

Imagine a bat flying through the jungle of Borneo. It calls out to find a place to spend the night, and a plant calls back.

National Geographic

Photo of the Day

New Yorkers wait to see the United States women’s soccer team drive past during their ticker tape parade in celebration of winning the World Cup. (Photo by New York City Department of Transportation)

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