The University of Cape Town (UCT) has lost 250 million rand ($15.2m) in donor funding after adopting two resolutions on Israel’s war on Gaza. Vice-Chancellor Mosa Moshabela disclosed the losses to Parliament in June, explaining that the Donald Gordon Foundation had withdrawn the remaining funding under a 200 million rand ($12.1m), 10-year commitment to a neuroscience institute. Other benefactors withheld another 50 million rand ($3m), including 15 million rand ($910,000) annually for bursaries.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Angelina Viglione, a 36-year-old based in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, who works as a barista and laundry professional. The following has been edited for length and clarity.
South Africa took bronze in the men’s 4×100 medley relay swimming event for Chad le Clos’s record 21st Games medal.
Veteran South African swimmer Chad le Clos has won a 21st Commonwealth Games medal to overtake Australia’s Emma McKeon as the most decorated athlete in the Games’ history.
Corporate climate spending now steers trillions of dollars in transition finance worldwide. Does it drive genuine climate action? Research shows that accounting flexibility alone can make a company's reported emissions vary by roughly a factor of two—enough to appear either as a climate leader or a laggard. A new perspective in Nature Sustainability proposes developing industry-specific net-zero blueprints to close that gap.
Amina Helmi's passion for the Milky Way is clear as soon as one steps into her small office at the University of Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands.
“La Mesías,” the multi-prized series created by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, behind the Cannes best-director winning “La bola negra,” will be released by Mubi in U.K., Canada, Turkey, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria and Australia, streaming exclusively from Sept. 3.
Firefighters in France on Thursday were hopeful a massive forest fire was no longer spreading, as Spain said there were "almost no flames" left after a similar blaze near Madrid.
The company's chip division absolutely smashed it, though.
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How can one of the world's largest smartphone companies lose money by selling more smartphones than ever? I think we all know the answer: soaring memory prices caused by the AI boom. Samsung just announced that despite "solid" smartphone sales and growing revenue, its DX division (which includes mobile) posted its first-ever loss of 800 billion won ($544 million) in the company's second fiscal quarter.
Flat head syndrome, commonly associated with modern parenting practices, especially placing babies to sleep on their backs, may have been common at least 2800 years ago.
The 82-year-old musician’s former manager thanked the community for helping to “amplify this effort by sharing information, reaching out with support, and expressing genuine care for Linda’s well-being”
