The Russian Defence Ministry earlier announced that the United States had poured money into biological research facilities in Ukraine, alleging they may have been used in order to create biological weapons and conduct bat coronavirus-related experiments. Among the goals of the biological research laboratories in Ukraine suspected of having been funded by the United States was the creation of bioagents... 

For the first time in US history, racial and ethnic minorities outnumber its white majority – white births make up fewer than half the children born in the country, according to the US Census Bureau. ­The new 2011 census, which was made public on Thursday, reveals non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 per cent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July. The minorities – Hispanics,... 

Cape Town – Almost half of South Africans are less confident about peaceful co-existence with people of other race or ethnic groups than they were in 2007, according to survey results released on Thursday. The survey, the SA Reconciliation Barometer, was conducted in April and May on behalf of the Cape Town-based Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. IJR staffer Jan Hofmeyr said it showed...