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Font Size: A study from France and Lebanon indicates that dogs can be trained to detect the coronavirus in human sweat. The researchers in the study took sweat samples from the underarms of 177 hospital patients, just over half of whom had tested positive for COVID-19, according to a CNN report. They then trained 14 canines who previously served as explosives detection, search and rescue or colon cancer detection dogs to pick up the scent of COVID-19 samples. The six dogs that were formally tes...

If anything is palpable as soon as one arrives in Helsinki, the capital city of Finland, it is that the air is crisp and delicious. In fact, the country is supposed to have the best air quality in the world and it felt almost like breathing straight out of an oxygen cylinder. I arrived at the city’s Vantaa Airport, on a chilly September evening and headed straight to a kiosk to pick up a 12-euro day pass that would entitle me to unlimited travel on the city’s public transport for 24 hours. ...

The city that can’t stand still The Finnish capital’s ability and willingness to reinvent itself knows no bounds. Oodi, an enormous wood-clad marvel that redefines the concept of the library; the cavernous Tripla mall, hotel and transport hub in the Pasila district; ambitious, achievable targets for public transport and sustainable development, breathing new life into existing suburbs and creating new ones; world-class cultural venues and festivals; exciting bars and cosy cafés, an...

House asking -- do you have any response to that? >> i dont. ill refer taught department of treasury. >> the other day the president tweeted that for the past eight years during the obama presidency russia, quote, ran over the united states, and in part, picked off crimea and added missiles, which the president described in his tweet as weak. given he seems to be focused on crimea, as far as the tweet is concerned, will the president use the authority and funding granted him in the ntaa to letha...