How to keep your house cool – cover it with new whiter-than-white paint, says research

Jun 08, 2021 00:13 am UTC| Life

From icy tundras to billowing clouds, the colour white crops up repeatedly in our planets palette. This colour provides a natural way for light from the sun to reflect back from the Earths surface and into space. This...

'Bride kidnapping' haunts rural Kyrgyzstan, causing young women to flee their homeland

Jun 08, 2021 00:01 am UTC| Life

There are many types of forced marriage in this world, but perhaps the most dramatic is marriage by abduction, or bride kidnapping. Bride kidnapping is common in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, the Caucasus and Central...

Obituary: TB Joshua, Nigeria's controversial Pentecostal titan

Jun 07, 2021 09:46 am UTC| Life

The controversial Nigerian televangelist, faith healer, and neo-Pentecostal pastor Temitope Balogun (TB) Joshua has died at the age of 57. He was the leader of Nigeria-based The Synagogue Church of All Nations. Many...

Employees are feeling burned over broken work-from-home promises and corporate culture ‘BS’ as employers try to bring them back to the office

May 20, 2021 01:17 am UTC| Life

As vaccinations and relaxed health guidelines make returning to the office a reality for more companies, there seems to be a disconnect between managers and their workers over remote work. A good example of this is a...

Here’s how much your personal information is worth to cybercriminals – and what they do with it

May 16, 2021 12:22 pm UTC| Life

Data breaches have become common, and billions of records are stolen worldwide every year. Most of the media coverage of data breaches tends to focus on how the breach happened, how many records were stolen and the...

Making space for Buddha in the boardroom

May 09, 2021 08:48 am UTC| Life

It seems farfetched to imagine that an ancient meditation technique, practised by Buddhists over 2,000 years ago, could have a place in the 21st-century corporate boardroom. Yet, despite criticisms that it is just...

Survey shows some bosses are using the pandemic as an excuse to push workers

May 06, 2021 04:49 am UTC| Life

A middle-aged woman in the public sector says she and her colleagues have been underappreciated, overworked and mentally stressed out as they faced pandemic-related challenges and stresses, without any pay increase. An...