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17 April 2020

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Test-tube on data graphic

Will AI speed up discovery of a coronavirus cure?

How machine learning is crunching data to search for drugs that could alleviate or cure Covid-19.

Baptism

A wedding, birth and baptism unite frontline families

The recent peace between once bitter enemies Ethiopia and Eritrea has transformed lives there.

Suman suspended by hooks in his back

Extreme piercing: A festival of self-inflicted pain

Since time immemorial, a village in West Bengal has paid tribute to Shiva by self-inflicting pain. This year coronavirus put a stop to it.

BCG vaccine

BCG and other coronavirus rumours fact-checked

Fact-checking the week's most popular dodgy claims, including BCG jabs and Iran's highly dubious testing device.

Tony Ferns

Mother's plea over unsolved murder

Tony Ferns, 33, died after he was stabbed in his car in Glasgow a year ago.

mountain rescue

Longest period with no mountain rescue in 19 years

Scottish Mountain Rescue says people are heeding warnings not to venture into the hills.

Ferrywell Youth Project

‘It’s the hidden faces we worry about'

An Edinburgh youth worker describes the impact of the lockdown on her work in the community.

health worker wearing face mask

Nursing body concerned about re-use of PPE

The Royal College of Nursing says nurses in "high risk" environments have been asked to recycle single-use equipment.

Alan Higgins and Harold Boudier

Medals for the last WW2 Arctic Convoys veterans

Two surviving Welsh veterans of the convoys mark the 75th anniversary of the final wartime supply voyage.

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