Enlarge (credit: Getty | Xinhua News Agency) A sub-lineage of the omicron coronavirus variant, dubbed BA.2, continues to increase steadily around the globe as scientists and health officials are still working to understand the risk it poses to public health. So far, the overall data has been a mix. Some recent laboratory and animal data […]
Minka Kelly and Trevor Noah’s romance seems to be heating up! The actress and The Daily Show host posed for the sweetest selfie on Sunday during an evening of drinks with friends in South Africa. The Friday Night Lights alum reflected in the caption: “Take a trip to South Africa. Find friends like these. Have […]
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Enlarge (credit: Craig Hastings | Getty Images) President Joe Biden on Tuesday issued a proclamation revoking controversial travel restrictions targeting southern Africa where the ultra-transmissible omicron coronavirus variant was first detected in late November. The travel limitations on eight countries in southern Africa—Botswana, Eswatini/Swaziland, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe—will be lifted at […]
This is wild. Earlier this month, the world was freaking out over its first recorded successful birth of decuplets when a woman in South Africa claimed she had given birth to 10 BABIES! Sorry, Octomom! Old news! This would have been a world record. Related: Woman Gives Birth To NINE Babies — But Was Only […]
Enlarge Between 125,000 and 70,000 years ago, people began to do some very modern things: collecting small objects for no practical reason, decorating things with pigments, and storing water and possibly even food in containers. The oldest known sites with evidence of those behaviors are along the coastline of southern Africa. Today, most of those […]
Actress Ashley Judd is now recovering in a South African hospital after breaking her leg in multiple places during an expedition in the country of Congo. The 52-year-old actress revealed the ordeal — including her severe injury — in a video interview with New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof on Friday, February 12. Related: Judge Dismisses Ashley Judd’s […]
Enlarge / Vials in front of the AstraZeneca British biopharmaceutical company logo are seen in this creative photo taken on 18 November 2020. (credit: Getty| NurPhoto) Dismal preliminary data on AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine in South Africa—where the B.1.351/ 501Y.V2 coronavirus variant is spreading widely—lead the government there to rethink its vaccination rollout and raised further […]