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Donanemab was found to slow down cognitive decline by 35% in people with early Alzheimer’s. How does the drug work?

The demand for a separate “Kukiland” dates back to the late 1980s, when the first and largest of the Kuki-Zomi insurgent groups, the Kuki National Organisation (KNO), came into being. The demand has surfaced periodically ever since.

The bone of contention in the latest Delhi-Centre spat was Services Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj’s decision to replace the Services Secretary, Ashish More.

Cannes 2023: The Cannes festival generates interest every year not just for its top prizes but also the red carpet looks. What actually happens as part of it and who all can participate? We explain.

Neither President Recep Tayyip Erdogan nor his main challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu appear to have won the required 50% of the vote in the May 14 first round. Erdogan is said to have an edge in the second round that is scheduled for May 28.

With coastal areas around the world threatened by rising sea levels and increasingly destructive storms, should we still be creating new land in our oceans?

Contrary to common perception, the Arctic is dotted with countless industrial facilities such as oilfields and pipelines, mines and military bases. All this infrastructure is built on permafrost, which was once believed to be perennially stable.

In a rebuke to Thailand’s entrenched military-royalist elite, Thai voters have overwhelmingly voted for reform-oriented parties, with youth-led Move Forward and populist Pheu Thai parties the biggest winners.

Companies like Vice, Buzzfeed, and Vox have struggled to make enough profits to be sustainable because much of their ad revenue has gone to the major Internet platforms.

So what is the larger story that the May 13 result tells us? What are the factors that led to the outcome? Is there a pattern across the state or is it a sum of different regions? And how will the results affect the two major parties in the run-up to the General Election in 2024?