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May 25, 9:04 AM EDT Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury World By Alex Perry 01/05/18 AT 2:23 PM A mummified child long thought to have suffered from smallpox may have had an entirely different affliction, according to a new study from PLOS Pathogens. A recent look at the DNA of the 16th-century child led researchers to believe their initial diagnosis was wrong, as the mummy may have had Hepatitis B instead, Gizmodo reported.Scientists discover 16th-century child mummy had seemingly modern strain of hepatitis B https://t.co/EH4MKcZVFb pic.twitter.com/HoZsfILL0w— Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) January 5, 2018Smallpox was a highly contagious virus that would have been a serious threat in the 1500s, when the child was mummified and buried in Naples, Italy. Due to a visible rash on the child’s body, scientists in the 1980s concluded it likely suffered from smallpox. However, testing during this latest study found DNA belonging … [Read more...] about Nearly 500-Year-Old Italian Mummy Diagnosed With Hepatitis B

A trader on the New York Stock Exchange. Getty Images / Spencer Platt S&P 500 companies have returned a record $1 trillion to shareholders over the past year. The dividend and buyback surge has been helped by corporate tax cuts introduced by Republicans. Earnings per share of S&P 500 companies surged 26% in the March quarter. In the 12 months through March, S&P 500 companies paid out $428 billion in dividends and bought up $573 billion of their own shares, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices analyst Howard Silverblatt. That compares to combined dividends and buybacks worth $939 billion during the year through March 2017, Silverblatt said in a research note. Earnings per share of S&P 500 companies surged 26% in the March quarter, boosted by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed by Republican lawmakers in December. Companies have been returning much of that profit windfall to shareholders via share buybacks and increased dividends at never before seen … [Read more...] about S&P 500 companies have returned $1 trillion to shareholders in tax-cut surge

Aug 28, 1:45 AM EDT Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury Business By Reuters 08/28/18 AT 1:08 AM Toyota Motor Corp will invest $500 million in Uber Technologies Inc to jointly work on developing self-driving cars, the companies said on Monday, a bid by both to catch up to rivals in the hotly competitive autonomous driving business.Toyota, one of the world's largest carmakers, and Uber [UBER.UL], the leading ride-hailing service, are widely seen as lagging the competition in developing self-driving cars.Their deal deepens an existing relationship and reflects CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's strategy of Uber developing autonomous vehicles through partnerships, rather than on its own.The deal also breathes new life into Uber's self-driving business. Since a self-driving Uber SUV killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, in March, Uber has removed its robot cars from the road, laid off hundreds of test drivers and shuttered operations in … [Read more...] about Toyota To Invest $500 Million In Uber For Self-Driving Cars

Sep 19, 7:04 AM EDT Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury World By Preeti Maheshwari 11/15/17 AT 1:13 AM Government workers of a prosecutor's office in the Mexican city of Chilpancingo protested against the stink from rotting corpses at the municipal morgue Tuesday, forcing the office to be closed for nearly three hours, Mexican officials said.According to various reports, at least 500 corpses were being stored in the morgue in the capital city of southern Guerrero state.Opium poppies are the predominant cash crop in the far-flung mountains of the state, and intense cartel competition to secure the harvest has led to a wave of violence that has displaced entire communities from their ancestral homelands.According to the New York Times, violence increased in Guerrero in the past decade as a growing number of criminal gangs fight for control of poppy crops and drug-trafficking routes.The wave of violence has … [Read more...] about 500 Corpses Raise A Stink In Mexican Town Morgue, Lead To Protests

'I got £500, a week's wage, for the murder of my father ... mum couldn't afford to keep the farm' BelfastTelegraph.co.uk The son of one of three Co Fermanagh brothers who were systematically hunted down and murdered by the IRA in the 1980s has branded the compensation he and his mother received as "laughable" and urged the Government to act. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/i-got-500-a-weeks-wage-for-the-murder-of-my-father-mum-couldnt-afford-to-keep-the-farm-37389425.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/article37389424.ece/a8889/AUTOCROP/h342/2018-10-06_lif_44679448_I4.JPG Email The son of one of three Co Fermanagh brothers who were systematically hunted down and murdered by the IRA in the 1980s has branded the compensation he and his mother received as "laughable" and urged the Government to act. Father-of-one Darren Graham (36), who comes from Lisnaskea, was only five weeks old when his father, Cecil, was shot dead. Darren had been born prematurely and … [Read more...] about ‘I got £500, a week’s wage, for the murder of my father … mum couldn’t afford to keep the farm’