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Adverse Outcome Pathways, Molecular Screening and Toxicogenomics

Latest releases: AOPs are the central element of a toxicological knowledge framework, promoted by member countries through OECD, built to support chemical risk assessment based on mechanistic reasoning. Seven New AOPs have now been published.




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The Slow Lane: Where myths match reality

The story of Sisyphus compares quite well with the experience of zero-hours contracts




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This Week in Apps: WWDC goes online, Android 11 delays, Facebook SDK turns into app kill switch

We continue to look at how the coronavirus outbreak is impacting mobile apps; that big app crash caused by Facebook; new app releases from Facebook and Google; and Apple's plans to move WWDC online.




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This Week in Apps: WWDC goes online, Android 11 delays, Facebook SDK turns into app kill switch

We continue to look at how the coronavirus outbreak is impacting mobile apps; that big app crash caused by Facebook; new app releases from Facebook and Google; and Apple's plans to move WWDC online.




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Firefighters rescue Duchess the horse stuck in mud after falling into ditch

A team of firefighters worked tirelessly for three hours to rescue a horse named Duchess who had fallen into a ditch in Great Horkesley, near Colchester on the Friday of bank holiday.




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PETER HITCHENS: Has our mad mass house arrest during Covid-19 saved even a single life? 

PETER HITCHENS: We will not escape from this misery until the Government has been forced to admit that it made a foolish mistake and over-reacted wildly to Covid-19.




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Mum leaves the internet in stitches after microwaving lemons but was left with burnt marks 

An Australian woman attempted to clean her microwave using the lemon in water trick. But she missed the vital step of putting the citrus fruit in water, which resulted in heavily burnt lemons.




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Qantas to put in stretch and move zones for London to Sydney direct flight

The airline is flying 50 passengers and crew on a non-stop flight from London to Sydney on Friday as it researches how to make long haul flights more comfortable for passengers.




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Qantas reveals the most watched movies and songs on inflight entertainment this year

Australia's most popular airline Qantas has released the names of the most watched movies, box sets and comedies on its inflight entertainment system ahead of the new year.




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Terrified Qantas passengers describe flying through a thick fire cloud in 'pitch black' conditions

Terrified Qantas passengers have spoken about the moment their fight entered a massive cloud created by the NSW bushfires which turned the cabin from daylight to midnight in seconds.




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Chinese minister says nation's health system has 'shortcomings'

Deputy director of China's National Health Commission Li Bin said that reforms are underway to improve the country's disease prevention and control mechanisms.




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Professional baseball pitcher Mary Pratt, of the Rockford Peaches, has died aged 101 

Mary Pratt (pictured), who played for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League teams, The Rockford Peaches and Kenosha Comets in the 1940s, died Wednesday.




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BGT: Ant McPartlin sheds a tear after watching 'miracle' dog saved from meat trade

Host Ant McPartlin was forced to wipe away a tear after watching the audition featuring Amanda Leask and her dog Miracle, who was rescued from the illegal meat trade.




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New VW Golf GTI is the weakling of the hot hatch bunch

The 242bhp power output of the new Mk8 Golf GTI is less than the car's natural hot hatch rivals, including the Hyundai i30N Performance, Honda Civic Type R and Ford Focus ST.




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Battered 1982 Ford Fiesta XR2 'hot hatch' is tipped to sell for £22,000 following restoration

The Fiesta XR2 was popular with boy racers in the 1980s but is now a collectors' item. Auctioneers in Cheshire say the restored Fiesta is the best example they have ever seen.




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UK roads could become 'dangerous postcode lotteries' during lockdown

Nick Freeman said the decision by some police forces not to pursue low-level speeding cases will mean motorists in certain parts of the country will effectively have the green light to put their foot down.




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Muller Anniversary Games: Five athletes to watch out for on Friday night as Usain Bolt, Jessica Ennis-Hill and more compete at the Olympic Stadium in London

The Muller Anniversary Games takes place at London's Olympic Stadium this weekend as some of the world's best athletes prepare for the start of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.




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CHRIS HOY: 10 Team GB stars to watch at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games

With the Rio Olympic Games just around the corner, Sir Chris Hoy - the most decorated Olympic cyclist of all time - has picked out his top 10 British athletes to watch out for.




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It's not totally clear why The Worst Witch at the Vaudeville Theatre needed to be a musical

Long before Harry Potter there was Mildred Hubble - a luckless pupil at Miss Cackle's Academy For Witches.




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Firefighters rescue Duchess the horse stuck in mud after falling into ditch

A team of firefighters worked tirelessly for three hours to rescue a horse named Duchess who had fallen into a ditch in Great Horkesley, near Colchester on the Friday of bank holiday.




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PETER HITCHENS: Has our mad mass house arrest during Covid-19 saved even a single life? 

PETER HITCHENS: We will not escape from this misery until the Government has been forced to admit that it made a foolish mistake and over-reacted wildly to Covid-19.




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Mum leaves the internet in stitches after microwaving lemons but was left with burnt marks 

An Australian woman attempted to clean her microwave using the lemon in water trick. But she missed the vital step of putting the citrus fruit in water, which resulted in heavily burnt lemons.




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Rugby has plan 'to AXE six games' and midweek matches seem likely

EXCLUSIVE BY NIK SIMON: Premiership clubs are working towards six different return-to-play scenarios and could cancel six rounds of fixtures to salvage the 2019-20 season.




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Heather Dubrow shows off her incredible kitchen pantry and garden in Château Dubrow home tour

The former Real Housewives of Orange County star and her husband, Botched doctor Terry Dubrow, own a lavish mansion in Southern California.




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Strictly's Saffron Barker credits routine with AJ Pritchard with helping her to sleep since burglary

The Vlogger, 19, was left petrified by the 3am raid on her Brighton home two weeks ago, but revealed that her training schedule has left exhausted enough to go to bed.




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Is Bitcoin an idea whose time has finally come or a crazy gamble?

This Tuesday, the Bitcoin is expected to undergo a 'halving'. Will it offer a new opportunity for investors to make a profit? Or as legendary investor Warren Buffett believes, is it no more than 'rat poison'?




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STOCK WATCH: Ryanair and the riddle of the soaring biotech shares

There's been plenty of head-scratching over at Omega Diagnostics, one of the biotech minnows whose share price has shot up on the back of its efforts to tackle the pandemic.




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BGT: Ant McPartlin sheds a tear after watching 'miracle' dog saved from meat trade

Host Ant McPartlin was forced to wipe away a tear after watching the audition featuring Amanda Leask and her dog Miracle, who was rescued from the illegal meat trade.




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Amanda Kloots recalls a shark watching trip with Nick Cordero from their honeymoon

The wife of Broadway star Nick Cordero recounted how her husband saved their disappointing South African honeymoon as he continues to battle COVID-19 in the ICU.




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Kylie Jenner says her daughter gives the 'best cuddles' while watching Frozen for the '127th time'

The 22-year-old reality star, who was previously watching an episode of Little Fires Everywhere, flipped the channel to provide a more family-friendly evening on Saturday.




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DANNY MURPHY: Players will be itching to get back on the pitch... I know I'd be

DANNY MURPHY: As a footballer, my instinct was always to play. I played in the Champions League for Liverpool v Boavista on the night of 9-11. There weren't any dissenting voices among the players.




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40 years on, the scale of the European Cup win by Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest is hard to match

The night ended with some of the team playing Connect 4 in a remote hotel and others heading for the bright lights in a clapped-out Spanish saloon car.




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Crystal Palace fans head on charity cycle to Vitality Stadium only for match to get called off

Palace fans have completed a 116-mile charity cycle to Bournemouth's Vitality Stadium for their Premier League clash only for the match to be called off halfway through.




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Team-mates Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer fought on pitch in an incredible season 15 years ago

Before this season, few Premier League campaigns had been more barmy than 2004-05, when conventions were ripped up and troublemaking footballers hit the front pages as well as the back.




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'We both know it's disgusting': Raheem Sterling and Wilfried Zaha amusingly bicker over FIFA match

Wilfried Zaha was left disgusted on Wednesday after he lost to Raheem Sterling on FIFA 20 in the first round of the Premier League esports tournament. 




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COVID-19: First batch of 88 nurses from India arrive in UAE

Dubai, May 10 () The first batch of 88 nurses from India arrived in the UAE to help the country's stretched healthcare professionals amid a surge in the number of COVID-19 infections in the Gulf nation that has crossed 17,000, according to media reports.The Ministry of Health and Prevention said the UAE reported 624 new cases on Saturday, taking the total number of infections to 17,417.The number of fatalities reached 185 after 11 deaths were reported on the day.The nurses, who are from Aster DM Healthcare hospitals in the states of Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra, will be put under quarantine for 14 days after which they will be assigned to various field hospitals as per requirement, the Khaleej Times reported.They arrived on a special flight at the Dubai airport on Saturday.India's Ambassador




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Peaches pitcher Mary Pratt dies at age 101

Mary Pratt, believed to be one of the last surviving members of the women's baseball league which was celebrated in the Hollywood film "A League of Their Own," has died. She was 101. The baseball icon Pratt pitched in the 1940s for the Rockford Peaches, one of the original teams in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She was the last surviving member of the Peaches. She died peacefully in her sleep at the John Scott Nursing home in Quincy, Massachusetts. "We are terribly sad to report that former Rockford Peaches and Kenosha Comets pitcher, Mary Pratt passed away on May 6th. She was 101 years old," the AAGPBL wrote on its Twitter account. "Mary was the last known original Peaches player that played on the 1943 team. Her stories, her energy will be missed for a long time." The league was immortalized in the 1992 film which was directed by Penny Marshall and starred Tom Hanks and Geena Davis. Born in 1918 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Pratt joined the inaugural season of




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Less is more for Mitchell when rugby resumes post virus

Former New Zealand head coach and current England defence chief John Mitchell believes some good may come for rugby union from the coronavirus if it creates "greater professionalism" thanks to a concentration of talent at fewer clubs worldwide, including Super Rugby. Even before COVID-19 saw this year's edition of Super Rugby suspended after seven rounds in March, there was a widespread view the southern hemisphere's now 15-string premier club tournament had become increasingly unattractive for fans and broadcasters alike, with talent spread too thinly. The pandemic has already had a huge financial impact on rugby and there are concerns current club structures won't survive the outbreak fully intact. England's Rugby Football Union has lost ?15 million ($19 million) so far due to the crisis, with Twickenham chiefs forecasting a total loss of ?107 million if the autumn internationals are cancelled. Meanwhile Rugby Australia, already reeling after reaching a multi-million dollar ...




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COVID-19: First batch of 88 nurses from India arrive in UAE

The first batch of 88 nurses from India arrived in the UAE to help the country's stretched healthcare professionals amid a surge in the number of COVID-19 infections in the Gulf nation that has crossed 17,000, according to media reports. The Ministry of Health and Prevention said the UAE reported 624 new cases on Saturday, taking the total number of infections to 17,417. The number of fatalities reached 185 after 11 deaths were reported on the day. The nurses, who are from Aster DM Healthcare hospitals in the states of Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra, will be put under quarantine for 14 days after which they will be assigned to various field hospitals as per requirement, the Khaleej Times reported. They arrived on a special flight at the Dubai airport on Saturday. India's Ambassador to UAE Pavan Kapoor said that this would further strengthen the long-standing friendship between the two countries. "India and the UAE are showing how a strategic partnership translates into concrete ...




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1st batch of 326 Indians stranded in UK arrives in Mumbai

The first batch of 326 Indian nationals stranded in the UK due to the coronavirus-linked global travel restrictions arrived here from London early on Sunday morning. The special evacuation flight AI 130, a Boeing 777 plane which departed from London on Saturday, landed at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) at around 1.30 AM with 326 Indians, according to a source. "1st flight 2 #Mumbai landed- crew interaction less with the passengers. Protective kit was given 2 all-along with snack n meal kept on the seat beforehand. Next #quarantine. Watch the space," tweeted a passenger onboard the flight. "Reached Mumbai safely from UK. Thank you so much to @airindiain @HCI_London, @NISAU_UK, @MEAIndia," another person said in a tweet. The airport authorities, in a statement on Saturday, said that the arriving passengers with symptoms will be moved to isolation centres. Asymptomatic passengers residing in Mumbai will be moved to quarantine facilities like hotels, ..




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Budgets are not outcomes


The new government's candour that meaningful reforms must permeate into the institutions beyond the budgetary process itself is a start. The India Together editorial.




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Hopscotch and skipping school


The Chingrajpara slum in Bilaspur, Chhatisgarh is the city's largest of nearly 50 slums. Why are the children not in school? Why is a schooling cost of Rs 318 per year per child a tall figure for poor parents? Ashima Sood chronicles the lived experience of poverty from her visits of 2002 and 2003.




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Watching the watchdog


The press is expected to play a vanguard role in making the legislature and the executive accountable. But is there a mechanism by which we can correct the errors, biases, and malpractices of newspapers and television channels, asks Ramachandra Guha.




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Whose news are you watching today?


Television news in the southern part of the country has largely become the preserve of the various political dynasties, with a glut of channels acting as mouthpieces of the owners rather than objective news broadcasters. T S Sudhir brings us the true picture.




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What to expect when you watch the most talked-about film today


Though based on strong reporting, India’s Daughter remains restricted in its scope, and even strays from its purported objective, thanks to a very pronounced colonial supremacist gaze, writes Shoma Chatterji in a dispassionate review that cuts through the noise.




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Quickies catch on

When an IIT graduate wrote a bestseller that also became an award-winning movie, he inspired a legion of young authors. The result?




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Why do pirates wear a black patch over one eye?

There exists no evidence to support the popular view that pirates wore a black patch over one eye.




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Guest workers in dark about pass system to catch train back home




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Apple iOS 10 download: Update marred by glitches

Several user reports and news websites mentioned that after the installation process the handset showed an error prompting users to plug it to iTunes on a PC. On connecting, another error cropped up which read, “There is a problem with the iPhone 'iPhone' that requires it to be updated or restored.”




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Apple watchOS 3, tvOS 10: Top features and download guide

To download watchOS 3, users are recommended to install the latest iOS version and keep the Apple Watch’s minimum charge of up to 50%.