How the US and China have handled the coronavirus contagion and the secret history of Labor's election debacle.

Like anyone at the end of their working life, when Matilda the Commonwealth Games mascot retired she had one thing in mind travel. Curious Brisbane tracks her adventures these past 36 years, and reveals where she can be found today.

An obscure character from traditional Japanese folklore has become an unlikely unifier in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic.

While hygiene and handwashing are on people's minds at present, there's hope that water conservation is right up there with it as parts of Australia come out of drought.

Property experts call on the NSW Government to do more to ensure residents of strata apartments are better protected if their buildings are affected by major structural damage, with owners of the Mascot Towers likely to foot the bill for costly repairs.

MORNING BRIEFING: The father of missing Belgian backpacker Theo Hayez will front the media today as homicide detectives travel to Byron Bay to assist in the investigation, while some of the residents of Mascot Towers will be permitted to return to their homes to pick up belongings.

Mascot Towers building management tells residents who were evacuated on Friday night after cracks were found in the Sydney apartment building to seek help from the Salvation Army if they are facing financial hardship.

There is a "crisis of confidence" in the NSW building industry following the second emergency evacuation of an apartment block in Sydney in six months, the Insurance Council of Australia and Federal Government warns.

Animal rights activists have repeatedly called for college sports teams to stop using real animals as their mascots. Are these complaints fair or an overreaction?

(California Court of Appeal) - Postjudgment order awarding defendants attorney fees and costs pursuant to Civil Code section 3426.4 is affirmed where the trial court: 1) applied the correct interpretation of section 3426.4; and 2) did not abuse its discretion in finding "bad faith" on the part of plaintiff in bringing its trade secret misappropriation claim against defendants.

The Neighborhood Fund will provide funding to startups.

Watson matched tumor board treatment recommendations in up to 96% of cases;reduced clinical trial screening time by 78%, studies find. Prostate cancer is latest add to Watson for Oncology; the tech will be available to support 80 percent of the incidence of cancer by year-end. Nine new adopters of Watson oncology offerings around the globe expands Watson's reach to 55 organizations worldwide.

The prime minister has refused to go head-to-head with Ed Miliband – and the multi-party debate we are getting will be a 90-minute cry for help on behalf of the democratic system

Last week, Germany chose its entry for this year’s Eurovision: Heart of Stone, performed by Andreas Kümmert, former winner of the German version of The Voice (which is known as The Voice of Germany in its native country, rather than Die Stimme von Deutschland. Presumably the producers didn’t want to put viewers off by making it sound too German).

After wailing his guts out and winning the public vote, Kümmert abruptly announced, on live TV, that he didn’t actually want to “do” Eurovision after all, and awarded his “prize” to the runner-up instead. A chorus of boos broke out. German boos. Buhen.

Daily Express Chief Sports Writer Neil Squires urges the EFL and its clubs to protect their long-term future once the coronavirus crisis ends.

Chihuahua is also known for the beautiful Cooper Canyon which is best seen from the train that transverses it. Copper Canyon is a popular tourist destination with Mexicans. Copper Canyon is larger and portions are deeper than the Grande Canyon.

Wild plants, Edible.

How the beloved figure has become a lightning rod in a heated environmental debate

Jill Gascoine, actress and novelist

Peroxidases are a group of heterogeneous family of enzyme that plays diverse biological functions. Ascorbate peroxidase is a redox enzyme that is reduced by trypanothione, which plays a central role in the redox defence system of Leishmania. In view of developing new and novel therapeutics, we have performed in silico studies in order to search for ligand library and identification of new drug candidates and its physiological role against promastigotes and intracellular amastigotes of Leishmania donovani. Our results demonstrated that the selected inhibitor ZINC96021026 has significant anti-leishmanial effect and effectively killed both free and intracellular forms of the parasite. ZINC96021026 was found to be identical to ML-240, a selective inhibitor of Valosin-containing protein (VCP) or p97, a member of AAA-ATPase protein family which was derived from the scaffold of DBeQ, targeting the D2-ATPase domain of the enzyme. ZINC96021026 (ML-240) thus have broad range of cellular functions, thought to be derived from its ability to unfold proteins or disassemble protein complexes besides inhibiting the ascorbate peroxidase activity. ML-240 may inhibits the parasite's ascorbate peroxidase leading to extensive apoptosis and inducing generation of reactive oxygen species. Taken together, our results demonstrated that ML-240 could be an attractive therapeutic option for treatment against leishmaniasis.

Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein is being lambasted for apparent double standards after attacking Tara Reade, the former Joe Biden staffer who alleges the Democrat presidential candidate sexually assaulted her.
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The US has elevated its ambassador to Belgium, former businessman Ronald J. Gidwitz, to the post of caretaker ambassador to the EU, it said Tuesday, adding he will "advance a strong US-EU partnership", help Europe in its economic recovery after the pandemic, and promote "our shared interests and values across the globe." The last US ambassador to the EU, businessman Gordon Sondland, left in disgrace over a Ukraine blackmail scandal.

MARLBOROUGH (UNITED KINGDOM) - Leading English trainer Richard Hannon Junior is blessed with self-deprecatory humour, but that quality will be tested by how his horses run at Royal Ascot this week.

Governance can be a complex, broad topic but its basic underlying definition is deceptively simple.

The delivery of services – such as clean water, reliable public transport, schools and hospitals – through economic and social infrastructure is among the most important functions of government. Resources must be well spent to ensure quality.

With timely and well-targeted programs, policy makers can prevent the health crisis from deepening into a wider economic and financial crisis. This could sow the seeds of economic recovery.  

HARMAN International, sussidiaria di Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., focalizzata sulle tecnologie per il mercato automotive, per quello consumer ed enterprise, ha commissionato una nuova e approfondita ricerca1 sulle abitudini di ascolto contemporanee degli utenti e cosa aspettarci dal futuro.

June 16 - With attention focused on the world's greatest soccer stars in Brazil, conservationists are working hard to promote the plight of the animal being used as the official World Cup mascot. Known as Fuleco on posters and banners throughout the country, the three-banded armadillo is in decline, and conservation groups say FIFA and the Brazilian government should be doing more during the World Cup to ensure the animal's long term survival. Rob Muir reports.

Plants require a high concentration of ascorbate as a redox buffer for survival under stress conditions, such as high light. Dehydroascorbate reductases (DHARs) are enzymes that catalyze the reduction of DHA to ascorbate using reduced glutathione (GSH) as an electron donor, allowing rapid ascorbate recycling. However, a recent study using an Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) triple mutant lacking all three DHAR genes (herein called dhar) did not find evidence for their role in ascorbate recycling under oxidative stress. To further study the function of DHARs, we generated dhar Arabidopsis plants as well as a quadruple mutant line combining dhar with an additional vtc2 mutation that causes ascorbate deficiency. Measurements of ascorbate in these mutants under low- or high-light conditions indicated that DHARs have a nonnegligible impact on full ascorbate accumulation under high light, but that they are dispensable when ascorbate concentrations are low to moderate. Because GSH itself can reduce DHA nonenzymatically, we used the pad2 mutant that contains ~30% of the wild-type GSH level. The pad2 mutant accumulated ascorbate at a wild-type level under high light; however, when the pad2 mutation was combined with dhar, there was near-complete inhibition of high-light–dependent ascorbate accumulation. The lack of ascorbate accumulation was consistent with a marked increase in the ascorbate degradation product threonate. These findings indicate that ascorbate recycling capacity is limited in dhar pad2 plants, and that both DHAR activity and GSH content set a threshold for high-light–induced ascorbate accumulation.

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Pioneering TV star passed away after a long battle with Alzheimer's

Gascoine was best known for her role as DI Maggie Forbes in the groundbreaking ITV police drama

April 14 is a date blessed with an abundance of spectacular football goals, with three particularly notable efforts coming against Arsenal - but which did one did Twitter pick as the best strike?

The owners of Sydney's troubled Mascot Towers claim new test have revealed a "loss of soil" under the apartment complex's north east corner the same area cracks first appeared before the building was evacuated in June.