PARIS: More than 12 percent of people who have gastrointestinal surgery become infected within 30 days of going under the knife, researchers said Wednesday in a study covering 66 countries. For low-income nations, the incidence of so-called surgical site infection was double the global average, according to the results, based …

LONDON: Facebook launched a community leadership program on Friday that will award $10 million in total to more than 100 people who have successfully built groups on the social network as part of its push to create “meaningful” interactions. The initiative, announced at a Facebook Communities Summit in London, will …

KABUL: In a country fallen prey to turmoil, unrest and terrorism, a girl group in Afghanistan is defying all odds to learn coding and create tech unconventionally. Enrolled in Code to Inspire (CTI) – an all-female computer programming school – these girls are changing their future, one algorithm at a …