BRAZIL'S RIGHT TAKES BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS

BRAZIL'S RIGHT TAKES BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS

Brazil's conservative Liberal Party is now the largest in both houses of Congress, carried by voter anger over crime and the Supreme Court.

OPIOID DEATHS DROP 20% AS CHINA FINALLY BUDGES

U.S. opioid deaths fell 20% in 2025 as China began helping the FBI cut off fentanyl chemicals.

ITALY PUT SPAIN ON SCHENGEN TIMEOUT

Nobel Prize in Medicine honours the scientists who made neurons obey light

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel share the 2026 award for light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, a tool now used in brain labs worldwide