Instead of bringing calm to the besieged Yemeni city, calls for a ceasefire in Hodeidah have brought some of the worst violence the vital port has yet faced in the three-year war.

Baseem al-Janani, who lives in the city, said: "The clashes are absolutely crazy right now. I have a headache from the shelling and bombing in the east. People are trapped in their houses for hours at a time because of shrapnel and gunfire. But their houses are not safe either."

Since the 1960s, women have made sweeping inroads across professions and academic fields, achieving not just excellence but pre-eminence in a wide range of areas. These include medicine, psychology, veterinary science, biology, the law, journalism, and education. This year, the Nobel prize in physics was jointly awarded to Donna Strickland, a Canadian physics professor, for the invention of chirped pulse amplification, and her doctoral adviser Gerard Mourou.

Despite these massive gains, however, women have not made sweeping inroads in every field. Some remain stubborn outposts of male dominance. Such fields include mathematics, computer science, and, bringing up the rear, engineering, in which women only make up about 12 percent of the workforce.

For advocates of gender equality in the workplace, women's persistent low representation in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) is a particular concern. Some have sought to blame it on the prevalence of sexual harassment in these fields, in spite of the fact that sexual harassment across all fields is declining. In 1997, the United States' Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received 16,000 complaints about sexual harassment; by 2017, that rate had dropped to 9,800, a decline of 40 percent in 20 years.

Has STEM bucked this trend? A national report on sexual harassment in engineering was released earlier this year and was promoted recently at the October 19th at the Society of Women Engineer's Conference. Entitled 'Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine' (2018), it was produced by a committee of scientists belonging to NASEM (National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine) and published by the National Academies Press. Its claims are stark, pronouncing that "50 percent of women faculty and staff in academia experience sexual harassment" and "20-50 percent of students experience such harassment from faculty or staff." These claims are made in the present tense, indicating this is the current state of affairs.

Six Ryanair cabin crew members pictured sleeping on the floor of a Spanish airport office last month have been sacked, the airline says.

The image, which Ryanair said was staged, was widely shared online. A Portuguese union that represents airline crews criticised the airline.

The staff were dismissed for gross misconduct, a Ryanair spokesman said.

Over 20 crew members were stranded in Malaga airport when their Porto-bound flights were diverted on 14 October.

However Ryanair said that despite the issues, "no crew slept on the floor".

14 sailors working in the nuclear reactor department aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan face disciplinary action for using and distributing LSD, the latest embarrassment for the Navy's scandal-ridden 7th Fleet.

Ten of the sailors have already been disciplined on "LSD related charges," a 7th Fleet spokesman told Navy Times. Two sailors are in more serious trouble, and are heading to court-martial for using, possessing, and distributing the hallucinogenic drug, while the Navy is considering charging another three as well.

All 14 worked on the carrier's nuclear reactors, and were described as "senior personnel." Two Westinghouse nuclear reactors power the 101,000 ton behemoth, which has a staff of almost 6,000 personnel and can remain at sea for over 20 years. Despite the sailors' proclivity for hardcore hallucinogens, the Navy said that the reactors "remain safe."

A UK hospital is probing the cause of a patient's death after the UK's first robot-assisted heart valve surgery. Was it the surgeon's lack of training? His supervisors' early departure? Poor communication? Or...the robot itself?

The pioneering robot-assisted mitral valve repair ended in catastrophe, with a cascade of failures resulting in the death of retired conductor Stephen Pettitt at Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, according to a continuing inquest as reported in the Daily Mail.

Lead surgeon Sukumaran Nair and assisting surgeon Thasee Pillay could hardly hear each other due to a "tinny" sound emanating from the robot console Nair was operating. Nair had to shout to warn his colleague that the robot, called Da Vinci, was stitching up the valve incorrectly - and then shout again when he saw the robot "knocked" one of the surgical assistants' arms.

The robot damaged the patient's aorta, spurting blood everywhere, including the camera it used to "see." As events spiraled out of control, the two supervisors - robotics experts normally on hand to take over in a crisis -were nowhere to be found, having gone home part of the way through the procedure.

Fox News is pushing RFID chip implants, encouraging people that the tech is safe and good for medical by stating it's similar to getting a tetanus shot.

Recently in Sweden, thousands of people have reportedly had chips implanted. Fox highlights this news expressing that a company called Biohax has already "installed" around 4,000 chips into "customers."

The article then goes onto explain how awesome it is to have a chip in one's hand, stating that those chipped can open secure doors, pay for tickets, and share emergency medical information.

Years ago, it was seen as a "conspiracy theory" that the elite wanted to microchip the populace. Now, it's right in our faces constantly; it's no longer a secret. I'll start by repeating the words of the great Aaron Russo, Rockefeller's best friend: "Do not take the chip."

Italian officials say they are working to help relocate a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy in Pakistan to a country where she and her family would be safe from death threats.

"We are working with other Western countries. We must do it discreetly and carefully," Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini told an Italian radio station on November 6.

"I want women and children whose lives are at risk to be able to have a secure future, in our country or in other Western countries, so I will do everything humanly possible to guarantee that," he said.

A politician has created a manifesto of sorts in which he lays out the case for a "holy war" against non-believers. Washington State Representative Matt Shea, a Republican, says that the holy war would be needed to kill all non-Christian men who "do not yield."

Shea must have missed one of the cardinal rules of Christianity, thou shall not kill, but nonetheless, doesn't hide the fact that he's a violent sociopath hell-bent on killing those with whom he disagrees. The document, which Shea apparently hands out to some folks, was leaked online and on Wednesday the Republican politician took credit for it.

Following the deadly 737 MAX 8 crash in Indonesia, Boeing is preparing to alert airlines that errors in its newest aircraft series can make the plane "abruptly dive," Bloomberg revealed.

The bulletin from Boeing will say that erroneous readings from the jet's flight-monitoring system can cause the planes to "abruptly dive," the news agency reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar fight the company's plans.

According to the report, the warning is based on the investigation of the Lion Air Flight 610 crash in Indonesia. On October 29, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft crashed in the sea shortly after takeoff, killing all 189 people on board.

A 'meat tax' which would almost double the price of a packet of sausages should be brought in to prevent thousands of Britons dying each year, health experts have said.

Researchers at Oxford University set out to determine the level of tax needed to offset the healthcare costs of eating red and processed meat.

They calculated that increasing the cost of red meat by 14 per cent, and processed meat by 79 per cent would prevent the deaths of nearly 6,000 people each year and save the NHS nearly £1 billion annually.