Key developments and global perspectives that matter.
Key developments and global perspectives that matter.
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Greta Thunberg - the teenage climate activist from Sweden, who condemned world leaders for not taking enough action as far as tackling climate change is concerned - was earlier today named as one of four winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award. The honour is an immense one, not least…
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There are few things more soul-destroying than a debilitating hangover. Head throbbing and throat drier than the Sahara Desert, sometimes hangovers can be so horrendously all-consuming it feels like they'll never end. When the inside of your skull feels like it's being battered with a thousand tiny hammers, the last…
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A young climate change activist has vowed not to have children until governments take serious action to tackle the problem. Eighteen-year-old Emma Lim, a student at McGill University in Montreal, launched the #NoFutureNoChildren movement. Because of the crisis the planet is currently facing, she does not believe that it is…
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been forced to apologise after a yearbook photo emerged of him in 'brownface'. The image, which was published in a recent article in Time Magazine, shows Trudeau wearing brown makeup and a turban while dressed as Aladdin at an Arabian Nights-themed gala at West…
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Dwarfism is a condition which is estimated to affect between 1 in 15,000 to 1 in 40,000 people, Medicine Plus reports. The condition, which can vary significantly in severity and form, has been notoriously stigmatized, with many terms offensive to those affected still used in everyday language, such as "midget".…
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Photographic memory - also known as eidetic memory - refers to a person's ability to memorise specific details about an object after having only seen it once, and for a short period of time. Generally, it is a phenomenon that people without a photographic memory are very impressed by. We…
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the Turkish Daily Sabah newspaper has released audio transcripts of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the Saudi hit squad that reportedly killed him inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year. The recordings, which were obtained by Turkey's National Intelligence Organisation (MIT), and subsequently published by the newspaper yesterday, recount the…
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Legendary chef Jose Andres has brought his non-profit organisation, “World Central Kitchen”, to the Bahamas in order to help victims of the devastating hurricane that has ripped through the region. On the 31st of August, Andres tweeted that he and the organisation were heading to Nassau by plane, before completing…
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A woman has managed the unprecedented achievement of giving birth to a pair of twins at the age of 74. Per The Telegraph, Eramatti Mangayamma gave birth to two healthy baby girls on September 5, 2019. She was able to conceive the children with her 78-year-old husband, who was by…
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A woman who developed 2,500 personalities to cope with the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father has watched him get locked away. Jennifer Haynes was raped and molested by her father from the age of four to 11 between 1974 and 1981. The Australian was then forced…
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The Royal Caribbean plans to send a ship carrying food, water and gas-powered generators to areas severely hit by Hurricane Dorian, the mightiest storm on record to hit the Bahamas. It was last weekend that the then Category 5 storm began blowing off roofs, flipping cars, and causing extreme flooding…
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Recent headlines have been inundated by the devastating fires tearing through the Amazon rainforest. While the wildfires were, in part, the result of global warming, they were also influenced by the actions of the government, which has authorized deforestation and the contamination of water sources with pesticides. The latter of…
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A Chinese surgeon has been hailed a hero after fighting through sleep deprivation to complete seven operations without a break. Physician Dai Yu became an overnight celebrity after completing a gruelling seven operations, then - instead of going home to sleep - he took an accidental nap on a ten-minute…
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Just days after Brazillian president Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree to deploy military forces to help combat the Amazon wildfires, a heartbreaking video has been circulated on social media showing what appears to be a native Pataxó woman delivering an emotional plea as a fire burns behind her. Per the…
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A man has married both of his girlfriends at once in a bid not to hurt either woman. The incident took place on August 17 in Indonesia. A video of the ceremony was subsequently posted to Facebook where it went viral. In the video, the groom struggles to remember his…
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People in Iceland have gathered together this week to hold a memorial service for a glacier, which has melted and been destroyed as a result of climate change. The huge pile of ice, which was called 'Okjokull', was destroyed after enduring the warmest July ever recorded. Climate change activists mounted…
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Per the Daily Mail, the Brazillian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has pledged to deploy military forces in an effort to control the Amazon wildfires that have left the country covered in smoke and darkness. [caption id="attachment_12548011" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Credit: Getty[/caption] Speaking at a conference. President Bolsonaro said: "The protection of the…
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It doesn’t take an expert on global warming to see that wildfires are a problem. Whether it’s discussing the destruction brought to California in 2018, or the thousands of individual infernos currently tearing through the world’s most important rainforest, the reality of a burning planet is beginning to dawn on…
