In a first, researchers at the&nbsp;Tel Aviv University have discovered an animal that does not require oxygen to survive. The parasite lives in salmon tissue and is believed to be a relative of the jellyfish. As the animal evolved, it gave up breathing and consuming oxygen to produce energy.&nbsp;The&nbsp;H. salminicola&nbsp;"steals ready-made nutrients" from salmon, inside which it lives. A study related to the discovery was published in the journal&nbsp;PNAS&nbsp;and expands the definition of what an animal could be.&nbsp;

In a first, researchers at the Tel Aviv University have discovered an animal that does not require oxygen to survive. The parasite lives in salmon tissue and is believed to be a relative of the jellyfish. As the animal evolved, it gave up breathing and consuming oxygen to produce energy. The H. salminicola "steals ready-made nutrients" from salmon, inside which it lives. A study related to the discovery was published in the journal PNAS and expands the definition of what an animal could be.

A predictive study published in The Lancet Global Health journal says that mortality from HIV, tuberculosis and malaria&nbsp;in poor and middle-income countries could surge due the Covid-19 pandemic as already weak health care systems face the increased strain.&nbsp;
Researchers from Imperial College London claim that&nbsp;deaths from the three diseases could rise by as much as 10%, 20% and 36% respectively in the next five years. Interruption&nbsp;in supplies of the antiretroviral AIDS drugs taken by many would cause the worst impact on HIV&nbsp;patients. Overall, the pandemic will undo&nbsp;significant progress made against these diseases over the past two decades, said one of the study's authors.&nbsp;

Prada headlined Day 1 of Milan's first Digital Fashion Week on Tuesday with a series of out-sourced videos and the apt subtitle 'the show that never happened.'&nbsp;Prada told its story through five video chapters by international artists, featuring glimpses of the collection against the backdrop of the Fondazione Prada's exhibition space in Milan. "We are used to doing fashion shows,'&nbsp;Miuccia Prada said in notes emailed to journalists. 'But the moment you can't do a physical show, you have to invent another work.' Only two fashion houses are hosting live shows this week in Milan: Dolce and Gabbana and Etro.

In the first case of plague in the US this year adding onto the deadly Covid-19 outbreak, a squirrel in Colorado has tested positive for the bubonic plague, a rare but serious bacterial infection that is believed to be transmitted by fleas. The squirrel tested positive on July 11 in the town of Morrison, according to a news release from the Jefferson County Public Health (JCPH) department cited by CNN.&nbsp;The disease has been around for centuries but has recently made a comeback, and the World Health Organization has categorized it as a re-emerging disease. There are approximately 1,000 to 2,000 cases every year, but that is likely a modest figure as there are a number of unreported cases, according to the WHO.

Making an announcement on World Skills Day, couture house Dior said that it is expanding the scope of its Women @ Dior mentorship&nbsp;programme. The fashion brand has partnered with UNESCO&nbsp;and opened the mentorship&nbsp;1o 100 female students from Niger, Ghana, Tanzania, Jamaica, Pakistan, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. The initiative&nbsp;gives disadvantaged female students the opportunity to receive an education focused on inclusion. Each of the participants will be able to receive mentorship from a Dior employee and will follow the 10-month Dior educational program launched online in June. The programme has already assisted more than 1,000 young women since its launch.&nbsp;

Improved access to contraceptives, family planning initiatives and education of women will lead to a sustained declined in fertility rates, meaning that&nbsp;world population will likely peak in 2064 at around 9.7 billion, finds a new Lancet study. This will be followed by a decline to about 8.8 billion by 2100&mdash;about 2 billion lower than some previous estimates.&nbsp;Dramatic declines in working age-populations are predicted in countries such as India and China, which will hamper economic growth and lead to shifts in global powers.&nbsp;Researchers from the University of Washington's School of Medicine estimate that by 2100, 183 of 195 countries will have total fertility rates&nbsp;below the replacement level of 2.1 births per woman.&nbsp;

Fast-food chain Burger King has a peace offering for sustainable meat lovers. The burger giant is rebalancing the diet&nbsp;of some of its cows by adding lemongrass in an effort to limit bovine contributions to climate change.&nbsp;Cows emit methane as a by-product of their digestion, and that has become a major cause of protest with climate activists against&nbsp;major burger chains.
BK claims that the initiative can reduce a cow&rsquo;s daily methane emissions by about 33%. The company has launched a social media campaign to lure in climate-conscious consumers who are cutting down on meat with this shift with its Reduced Methane Emissions Burgers.&nbsp;

Challenging local players like Zomato and Swiggy,&nbsp;tech giant Google wants to have a piece of India's growing food delivery business. Following a similar announcement by Amazon, Google is testing a tool to not just allow users to search for restaurants but also place food orders on Google itself, according to an ET NOW finding. Users will be able to place their orders on the search engine's platform and delivery will be conducted through local partners like Dunzo&nbsp;and more.&nbsp;President of National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI), Anurag Katriar told ET NOW that Google&rsquo;s entry in the business will be 'a game-changer because there is no one as big as Google as far as search is concerned.'&nbsp;

For the first time ever, a black photographer has shot the cover image of&nbsp; the new issue of Vanity Fair that&nbsp;features&nbsp; actor Viola Davis. The cover image by Dario Calmese shows 54-year-old Oscar winning Viola in a profile, with her back facing the camera. According to Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Radhika Jones, 17 black people have been on the cover between 1983 and 2017, and she always wanted to fix the lack of representation when she took over. About the issue, which hits the stands on July 21, Jones said that it celebrates Calmese&nbsp;and "honours&nbsp;his vision at this heightened moment in American history." The cover image recreates the&nbsp;Louis Agassiz slave portraits taken in the 1800s.

Indian pharma&nbsp;company&nbsp;Zydus Cadila on Wednesday said it has started human clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate ZyCoV-D.
In the first phase of trials, the Ahmedabad-based company will be enrolling over 1,000 subjects across multiple clinical study sites in India.&nbsp;The adaptive phase I/ II human clinical trials of ZyCoV-D have commenced with the first human dosing, the company said. Earlier this week, ICMR&nbsp;revealed that Bharat&nbsp;Biotech's indigenously-developed Covaxin&nbsp;has also started its phase 1 of human testing.&nbsp;

Bringing disruption to India's healthcare&nbsp;market, Reliance Jio&nbsp;unveiled its Jio&nbsp;Health Hub at the virtual Reliance AGM&nbsp;2020. Talking about the Internet giant's commitment to digital services, Mukesh&nbsp;Ambani's daughter Isha&nbsp;Ambani&nbsp;Piramal said that the&nbsp;Covid-19 pandemic has brought about a fundamental shift, with migration from physical to digital, in medical services. The comprehensive&nbsp;healthcare&nbsp;platform will utilise the recently launched video conferencing platform JioMeet&nbsp;for teleconsultations&nbsp;and offer secure storage of health records, ability to book at-home tests and more.

American biotechnology company Moderna Inc.'s potential Covid-19 vaccine has shown positive results in an initial safety trial on all participants. According to U.S. researchers, it revved up immune systems in volunteers just the way scientists had hoped. The vaccine will now enter its most crucial stage. Around the 27th of July, a 30,000-person study will begin to see if the jab really works. This will be the world's largest study of a potential Covid-19 vaccine so far. In the early stage trial, 45 volunteers developed neutralising antibodies in the blood stream at levels comparable to those found in Covid-19 survivors, according to the report published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The vaccine, which requires administering two doses, saw no serious side effects but there were flu-like reactions including fatigue, headache and fever among other signs. This trial included only young adults.

In a rare yet majestic sight, three lionesses were seen swimming across a river in Gujarat's Gir Forest in &lrm;Junagadh. The video was captured by a beat officer as the wild cats moved between the riverine islands of a reservoir and covered a 200-metre stretch. The viral clip serves as a reminder to never doubt the swimming capabilities of Asiatic lions!

Just a few hours after anonymous street artist Banksy uploaded his latest work on Instagram, created in a London Underground train urging people to wear masks, Transport for London shared that the work has been removed. While&nbsp;it appreciated the sentiment behind the artwork,&nbsp;it was a violation of the transport service's anti-graffiti policy, said authorities.&nbsp;It also added that it would like to offer Banksy the opportunity to create a new version of the same message in a suitable location. The video uploaded by Banksy&nbsp;showed him dressed as a cleaner, spraying graffiti&nbsp;on the train. Banksy is seen painting rats, where one is sneezing virus droplets, another is holding a mask as a parachute and a third holding a bottle of sanitiser. The clip ends with the artist spraying a message on the wall 'I get lockdown' and as the doors of the Tube carriage close, they reveal 'but I get up again'.

French doctors have confirmed the first case of Covid-19 in the womb, transmitted by the mother. The boy, who was born in March, suffered from brain swelling and neurological symptoms linked to Covid-19&nbsp;in adults and has recovered. The case study was published&nbsp;in the journal Nature Communications. Doctors at the Antoine Beclere Hospital suggest that the novel coronavirus can be transmitted from the mother to the&nbsp;foetus through the placenta, during the last few weeks of pregnancy. They found that the concentration of the virus was highest in the placenta. It is important for pregnant women to take all precautions including washing their hands regularly and maintaining social distance, they said.

HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank along with Minister of State for HRD, Sanjay Dhotre launched a low-cost Covid-19 test developed by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT) Delhi on Wednesday.&nbsp;Called 'Corosure', the test is being dubbed as the world&rsquo;s most affordable probe free RT-PCR based Covid-19 diagnostic kit, however the price has not been made public yet. The test kit uses an alternative method for testing Covid-19 samples and is being launched by Delhi-based pharma&nbsp;company&nbsp;Newtech Medical Devices. As per reports, the test kit can be used to conduct two million tests per month at an extremely affordable cost.&nbsp;The product, has been approved by the&nbsp;ICMR and the&nbsp;DCGI.
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The&nbsp;Delhi&nbsp;Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) has started a free ambulance service for Covid-19 patients on the occasion of&nbsp;Guru Har Krishan Sahib Ji's Prakash Purab. The move comes with an aim to aid in the fight against Covid-19.&nbsp;12 ambulances equipped with essential medical facilities will be stationed at various spots across Delhi. Those who require the service, can get in touch with a nearby gurudwara. The committee hopes to increase the number of ambulances in the coming days.&nbsp;

In a shocking incident, a Japanese woman complained of sore throat and turns out, there was a live worm in her left tonsil. Doctors at Tokyo's St. Luke's International Hospital removed the worm using a tweezer, which was almost 1.5 inches long and was still moving! According to a case study&nbsp;published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the woman had consumed assorted sashimi, a Japanese&nbsp;delicacy consisting of raw meat or fish,&nbsp;five days before the incident. Her symptoms rapidly improved after the worm was taken out.

Just days after anonymous street artist Banky's stolen mural, created on the door of Paris' Bataclan concert hall, was found in Abruzzo in Italy, it has been returned to France by the Italian authorities. The artwork, which included a veiled female figure, was believed to be a tribute to the Bataclan terrorist attack victims that killed 90 people in 2015. On the same day as France celebrated Bastille Day on 14 July, it was handed over during a ceremony at the French Embassy in Rome. The mural was found in a farmhouse in Teramo by the Italian Police and French investigators on June 10th after being stolen in 2019.

As the demand for eco-friendly products is on the rise, the&nbsp;Tripura Rehabilitation Plantation Corporation&nbsp;is training the tribal youth and local artisans to make hand-crafted bamboo water bottles in Agartala. These sustainable bottles have been trending on social media after a tweet by&nbsp;Bollywood actor Raveena Tandon.&nbsp;Tripura produces about 28% of the overall bamboo produced in the country with around 19 varieties found in its forests.&nbsp;The entire process of making these bottles is completely organic and herbs such as&nbsp;neem&nbsp;and&nbsp;turmeric are used to treat the product. The outer lining of the bottle is made of bamboo and the inner lining is of copper, steel, or glass.&nbsp;
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Residents of the Sydmar Lodge Care Home in London&nbsp;did something extraordinary to keep themselves entertained amid the lockdown. The senior citizens recreated iconic music album covers and posed like celebrities.&nbsp;Among the iconic album covers were those by Madonna, Adele,&nbsp;Taylor Swift and David Bowie. The carers featured in one of the photos, but the real stars of the 12-part series were the&nbsp;residents. The covers were a hit online as the nursing home received tons of praise and album requests! They even received&nbsp;suggestions to host an exhibition and make a calendar to raise funds. The senior home has launched a GoFundMe campaign following the overwhelming response.&nbsp;

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