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Check out its fabulous toes.These ridges - called lamellae - are blanketed in hairs called setae.And the setae branch out further - into millions of spatula-shaped pads.Spatulae, if you will.But the stick happens even closer in - check out these spatulae atoms.They don't have an electric charge, and neither do the atoms of the surfaces the gecko moves on.

When it comes to Ebola, former President Bill Clinton says politicians and the media need to quit playing the blame game.Clinton, who was on the campaign trail in his home state of Arkansas, called on Sunday for politicians to stop taking to the airwaves to pin blame on others and instead work together to find solutions.

Three closely watched ailing senators remain away from the Capitol this week and it's not clear when they will return.One of them, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, has spoken directly with some members of his leadership team and conveyed to them he is doing well and anxious to get back to work.

Former US President Jimmy Carter will begin receiving hospice care at his home in Georgia, according to a statement from The Carter Center on Saturday.After a series of short hospital stays, former US President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.

Federal prosecutors unsealed charges on Friday against a veteran police officer in Washington, accusing him of obstructing justice by leaking law enforcement information to Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys.Prosecutors say that the officer, Shane Lamond, 47, told Mr. Tarrio that he would not face hate crime charges after a group of Proud Boys under his command burned a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church in Washington after a pro-Trump rally in the city in December 2020.

Bayern Munich are just about ahead in the Bundesliga league standings with Borussia Dortmund breathing down the Bavarians' necks.To make sure that the Rekordmeister keeps the streak of league titles going with the 11 th consecutive win, the team council (which consists of the team leaders like Manuel Neuer, Thomas Müller, Joshua Kimmich, Leon Goretzka, and Kingsley Coman) met with the execs of the club to hold their nerve in this final stretch:

A meeting took place at Säbener Straße between the team council (Neuer, Müller, Kimmich, Goretzka, Coman) and the club's bosses.

Two poultry workers have tested positive for bird flu after coming into contact with infected birds on the same farm in England, according to the UK Health Security Agency.The cases were picked up through a screening programme for people who have come into close contact with the virus, though neither individual suffered symptoms and both have since tested negative.

SAN JOSE - Former San Jose Sharks associate coach Rocky Thompson, who stepped away from the team in September 2021 after one challenging and turbulent season, has found a welcoming new home with the Philadelphia Flyers.Less than a year after he left the Sharks following one season on the bench with former coach Bob Boughner, Thompson was hired by the Flyers in July to be a part of John Tortorella's staff and is running the team's power play.

SAN JOSE  Former San Jose Sharks associate coach Rocky Thompson, who stepped away from the team in September 2021 after one challenging and turbulent season, has found a welcoming new home with the Philadelphia Flyers.Less than a year after he left the Sharks following one season on the bench with former coach Bob Boughner, Thompson was hired by the Flyers in July to be a part of John Tortorella's staff and is running the team's power play.

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Famed for its bald, leathery visage and astonishing wingspan, the federally endangered California Condor symbolizes both a species on the brink of extinction and a thundering success story for conservationists.Just 22 condors existed when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service began a captive breeding effort in the early 1980s.

The former chief financial officer of Tom Girardi's now-shuttered law firm will remain in custody after a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled Monday that his steps to liquidate his assets, stash money overseas and purchase a home in the Bahamas increased his risk of fleeing from law enforcement.The onetime CFO, Christopher Kamon, is accused of carrying out a $10-million "side fraud" at Girardi Keese, a long-running scheme that prosecutors say included issuing checks from the law firm to contractors and other similar outfits, then accepting cash kickbacks.

On 27 September 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, set sail in La Mora, the flagship of a huge fleet that would invade and conquer England.Now a historical society on France's Normandy coast is going to re-create the ship that launched almost 1,000 years of cross-Channel enmity.The Bayeux tapestry, a 70 metre-long (230ft) embroidered account of the Norman Conquest, depicts La Mora as a Viking-style longship with a striped red and gold sail flying the papal banner on its masthead.

Issued on: 28/04/2023 - 22:34 French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna attends a joint press conference with her Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan following their talks in Yerevan on April 28, 2023.AFP, Karen Minasyan France's foreign minister on Friday urged Azerbaijan to restore "unhindered movement" through the Lachin corridor, the only land link between Armenia and the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.

It is no secret that the New England Patriots need help at wide receiver.And that is just what they will get in the first round of this year's draft, according to NFL insider Peter Schrager.A new mock draft published by Schrager on Thursday - based on "what I'm hearing from my sources around the league" - has the Patriots select Boston College's Zay Flowers at No. 14 overall.

Equatorial Guinea has confirmed another eight cases of the "highly virulent" Marburg virus, a deadly haemorrhagic fever with no authorised vaccine or treatment.he World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday said that brings the country's total number of cases to nine in the outbreak declared in mid-February.

NAIROBI, Kenya - Equatorial Guinea has confirmed another eight cases of the "highly virulent" Marburg virus, a deadly hemorrhagic fever with no authorized vaccine or treatment.The World Health Organization on Thursday said that brings the country's total number of cases to nine in the outbreak declared in mid-February.

(Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday said mpox remained a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), its highest level of alert, citing continued transmission in some countries.Mpox - which spreads via close contact and tends to cause flu-like symptoms and pus-filled skin lesions - was declared a global health emergency by the WHO in July 2022.

9 minutes ago9 minutes ago Tanzania confirmed its first-ever cases of Marburg virus.The illness can cause a highly fatal viral hemorrhagic fever with symptoms similar those of Ebola, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).Tanzania's health ministry on Tuesday confirmed that five people have died and three others are being treated for the Ebola-like Marburg disease.

NAIROBI, Kenya - Tanzania's health ministry on Tuesday confirmed that five people have died and three others are being treated for the Ebola-like Marburg disease.Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu said the cases were identified in the western region of Kagera and the government had managed to control its spread to other regions.

For four days, a 29-year-old woman pretended to be a student at a New Jersey public high school.She attended classes, spent time in the guidance office and collected phone numbers from teenagers who helped her find her way through the maze of hallways, according to students and a school official.She continued to text former classmates days after the ruse was discovered last week, students said.

The easing of Covid restrictions over the past week has happened almost as quickly as the abrupt measures to lock down cities at the beginning of the pandemic.At first I was sceptical and thought the situation would only go back to how it was in the second half of 2020, when China stayed mostly clear of infections with only mild restrictions in place, even though the rest of the world was being bombarded by the virus.

At least nine children across the UK are known to have died from invasive Strep A infection.What is Strep A? Strep A bacteria can cause many different infections, ranging from minor illnesses to serious and deadly diseases.The bacteria are commonly found in the throat and on the skin, and some people have no symptoms.

DAKAR, Senegal The World Health Organization says that Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg disease, saying the Ebola-related virus is responsible for at least nine deaths in the tiny Western African country.In a statement on Monday, the U.N. health agency confirmed the epidemic after samples from Equatorial Guinea were sent to a lab in Senegal to pinpoint the cause of disease after an alert from a local health official last week.

A seven-year-old girl is fighting for her life and five others have been injured in a dreadful suspected drive-by shooting outside a funeral in north London.Metropolitan Police officers were called to the incident outside St Aloysius Church on Phoenix Road, near Euston station, at 13.29pm on Saturday.

Two boys who were stabbed to death a mile apart from each other in south east London have been pictured for the first time by police.Kearne Solanke was found with stab wounds in Titmuss Avenue in Thamesmead, while Charlie Bartolo was discovered a short time later in Sewell Road in Abbey Wood just after 5pm on Saturday (November 26).

Two more teenagers have been arrested over the stabbings of two 16-year-old boys in south east London.Charlie Bartolo and Kearne Solanke were found injured a mile apart on Sewell Road, Abbey Wood, and Titmuss Avenue, Thamesmead, just after 5pm on Saturday (November 26).Officers and London Ambulance Service crews attended but both boys were pronounced dead at the scene.

As we continue our Timber Revolution series, we look at Australia's first mass-timber high-rise apartment building named Forté, which was built from cross-laminated timber grown in Austria.Built in 2012, the 10-storey Forté block was the world's tallest timber residential building - measuring 32 metres tall - when it was completed.

Architecture studios Kuehn Malvezzi, Pelletier de Fontenay and Jodoin Lamarre Pratte Architectes have created an insect zoo and museum with interiors that emulate the experience of being a bug.The Montreal Insectarium is part of Space for Life, a science museum district within Montreal's Olympic Park that also houses a planetarium and botanical garden.

Timber and rubber are among the natural materials used at this nursery in Stoke-on-Trent, which British practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has designed to echo an adjacent nature reserve.Named Woodlands Day Nursery and Forest School, the building is located in a former car park at Staffordshire University and provides childcare services for its students and staff, as well as teaching facilities for its own education department.

A frozen organic strawberry product subject to the recalls is pictured in a photo provided by the FDA.Food and Drug Administration Frozen organic strawberries sold at stores across the U.S., including Costco, Aldi and Trader Joe's, have been recalled over the product's potential link to an outbreak of hepatitis A infections in Washington state.

The millions of Norway rats that live alongside New Yorkers are among the animals that can catch the virus that causes Covid-19, a new study says.However, reports of the virus spreading from any types of animals to humans remain rare.Pets like cats, dogs and hamsters; zoo animals such as big cats, primates and hippos; farmed mink; and wildlife such as deer and anteaters are among the animals in which Covid-19 infections have been reported.

After contracting bacterial meningitis, legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck died Wednesday at the age of 78, according to a statement posted to his official social media accounts and confirmed to CNN by his agent.On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck's passing, the statement read.

WASHINGTON  The Biden administration said on Friday that it did not expect to extend its declaration of a public health emergency for the outbreak of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, past its scheduled expiration at the end of January, a signal that the disease no longer constitutes a crisis-level threat in the United States.

One of LA's most noteworthy sushi chefs, Daniel Son, has acquired the Kanpachi space in Gardena with plans to finally open his own omakase counter by March or April called Sushi Sonagi.Son, previously of Kura Fine Japanese Cuisine, opened casual Japanese convenience store-style sandwich shop Katsu Sando in Chinatown back in July 2020.

International travellers visiting bird flu hot zones should avoid farms, wet markets and any areas where animals are slaughtered, the World Health Organization has warned.In an incident that raised global alarm last week, an 11-year-old girl died after contracting the virus in Cambodia, while her infected father remains in isolation in hospital - 11 other close contacts tested negative on Friday.

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Britain's biggest supermarket has begun rationing fresh fruit and vegetables as a row erupted over shortages that have left shelves bare.Tesco has followed Aldi, Asda and Morrisons in introducing limits on items customers can buy.

Peel police say they are investigating online threats made to six high schools in Mississauga and Brampton.In a news release Tuesday, police said officers from its youth criminal investigations bureau were made aware of online threats on social media on Thursday, March 2. The threats indicated someone would go to six secondary schools in Peel Region on Friday, March 10 with the intent to "shoot them up," police said in the release.

Two and a half years ago, Karen Scutt of Toronto posted on Facebook that she was looking for a surrogate mom.Scutt was dealing with the painful knowledge that she would not be able to carry another child, but didn't suspect her online plea would lead anywhere, as she shared with CBC News in 2020  especially to finding Cindy Gilbank, who would ultimately become her surrogate.

R esidents in 175 newly-built flats in Hackney Wick have been without drinking water for a week after a communal tank was contaminated with hydrocarbons.People in the Aspext development on Wick Lane are being provided with bottled water by Thames Water and the developer - and could face another week without being able to drink the water.

A seven-year-old girl was seriously injured by shotgun pellets fired from a black Toyota in London, police have said.Officers were called to St Aloysius Church on Phoenix Road in Euston on Saturday where a memorial service was taking place for a young woman and her mother.They believe the gunmen fired a shotgun from a Toyota C-HR at around 1.30pm before driving off.

D etectives were on Tuesday continuing to question a man in connection with a drive-by shooting outside a funeral service in Euston which left a seven-year-old girl seriously injured.The shooting near St Aloysius Church left five others wounded after a gunman blasted a shotgun at mourners on Saturday afternoon.

A team of British search-and-rescue specialists is heading to Turkey to help the relief effort following the earthquake which has claimed thousands of lives.Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said no Britons had been reported dead in the quake which has devastated parts of Turkey and Syria, but he acknowledged it was still too early to say whether that would remain the case as the full picture emerges.

Five of the seven victims killed in Monday's shooting in Half Moon Bay, California were Chinese citizens, China's consulate in San Francisco said.On Thursday, a spokesperson for the consulate strongly condemned the gruesome attack that took place in a small coastal community south of San Francisco."We are in close contact with relative departments in the U.S. and actively monitoring any update of the investigation," the spokesperson said in a news release.

Former Green Bay Packers receiver Davante Adams posted a photo of Aaron Rodgers and Randall Cobb, thanking them for having a positive influence on his career.It's no secret that Aaron Rodgers and Randall Cobb are still in close contact with Davante Adams.Adams, for one, is Rodgers favorite career target, while Cobb is the quarterback's best friend.

Now that teams, fans and sponsors have left Qatar, Fifa is turning its attention to the Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in July.World football's governing body is hoping for a smoother event, where people can watch matches and have a moment where we don't have to think about this, as its president, Gianni Infantino, said, referring to the uproar over human rights abuses and player protests in Doha.

A spate of deaths among celebrities and public figures across China has sparked concerns that the actual death toll from Covid-19 may be far higher than authorities are reporting.Many on Chinese social media have been mourning the death of actor Gong Jintang, who died aged 83 on New Year's Day.He was known for his portrayal of Father Kang in the sitcom Kang's Family, which first aired in 2000.

Seyfarth Synopsis: On Thursday, December 15, 2022, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year ("OSHSB") approved the long-proposed 2-year "permanent" COVID-19 standard.The new standard will take effect on January 1, 2023, and replace the current Cal/OSHA COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard ("ETS").

Ambulance paramedics will not respond to a fall at home by an elderly person when they go on strike later this month, the health secretary has warned.Steve Barclay said talks are only beginning now to decide which incidents will trigger a call out during the walkouts  but indicated category three calls, including falls, would not.

Washington Wizards guards Johnny Davis and Devon Dotson have been placed in the NBA's healthy and safety protocols.Both are currently on assignment with the Capital City Go-Go.Davis averaged 12.8 points per game in nine appearances for the Go-Go.Dotson is averaging 12.6 points per game in nine appearances for the Go-Go.

Two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murdering two 16-year-old boys stabbed to death just a mile apart in southeast London, police said.Kearne Solanke was knifed in Titmuss Avenue, Thamesmead, and Charlie Bartolo was found in Sewell Road, Abbey Wood, on Saturday.The Metropolitan Police said a 16-year-old boy had been arrested on Tuesday and a 15-year-old boy later in the day.

The role of the civil service in Scotland is being re-examined following the Supreme Court's ruling last week, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack has said.Cabinet Secretary Simon Case and senior civil servants are discussing the issue with John-Paul Marks, the Scottish Government's permanent secretary, the minister said.

A resident carries her groceries at a supermarket in Beijing, on Friday.Residents of China's capital were emptying supermarket shelves and overwhelming delivery apps as the city government ordered accelerated construction of COVID-19 quarantine centers and field hospitals.Ng Han Guan/AP BEIJING (AP)  Residents of China's capital were emptying supermarket shelves and overwhelming delivery apps Friday as the city government ordered accelerated construction of COVID-19 quarantine centers and field hospitals.