Key developments and global perspectives that matter.
Key developments and global perspectives that matter.
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A Japanese department store is now "rethinking" a policy where they allowed staff to wear badges if they were menstruating. The badges, which featured a cartoon character known as Miss Period - were introduced in October for the 500 or so staff in the women's wardrobe department at the Daimaru…
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A school for disabled children in Japan has launched a futuristic new initiative, which will grant sick or handicapped children the opportunity to attend classes remotely via a robot avatar. According to a recent report by The Ashai Shimbun, the Tomobe-Higashi special support school in Kasama launched the innovative new…
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The world's first contraceptive injection for men may be available for consumer use within six months, after Indian scientists announced that clinical trials have been completed on the drug, according to The Independent. The birth control, which is purportedly effective for 13 years, has now been sent to the national…
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A Swedish prosecutor has confirmed that the alleged rape investigation involving WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been discontinued, the Guardian has reported. Assange, who is currently incarcerated in HM Prison Belmarsh in London, England, is still fighting extradition to the US, which accuses him of publishing secret documents to the…
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Flooding in this historic city of Venice has reached catastrophic levels this week, and some experts are worried it could lead to further sinking. Per BBC News, the local tide monitoring center claims that the waters in Venice have peaked at 1.87m (6ft). The only time that the tide has…
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A note left by a firefighter to the man whose house he saved has gone viral on social media this week after he drank the milk in his fridge. The image of the note was first shared on Facebook by a man named Paul Sefky, returned to his property in…
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A gender-reveal stunt has inadvertently led to disaster this week, after a light aircraft crashed to the ground in Texas, causing minor injuries to the two passengers. Pilot Raj Horan was flying the small yellow plane over the town of Turkey on the 7th of September. His intention was to…
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The police officer involved in the arrest of the son of notorious drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman has been assassinated in a parking lot after being shot 150 times, the Mirror reports. The 30-year-old officer, named by police only as Eduardo N was killed on Wednesday by gunmen in…
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A company in Tel Aviv has started using a flashing image of Swedish activist Greta Thunberg to shame employees into forgoing plastic, and the images of this offbeat method have now gone viral on social media. The trend has since been dubbed "Greta shaming", and it involves images of the…
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A Chinese pilot has been banned from flying for life after a photograph of a female passenger in the cockpit of a plane went viral. The incident is said to have taken place on January 4, on board an Air Guilin flight from Guilin City to Yangzhou City, according to…
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Leaked footage shows the shocking moment an Israeli policewoman, who has since been fired, shot a Palestinian man in the back "for fun", the Guardian reports. The horrifying ordeal from over a year ago was recently released as a part of a video broadcast by Israel’s Channel 13 news agency.…
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Eleven thousand scientists in 153 countries have issued a stark warning about the climate crisis, declaring a global climate emergency, the Independent reports. They warn that "untold human suffering" is inevitable unless substantial changes are made to our way of life in terms of how it impacts the environment. The…
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Three innocent US women and six children have allegedly been slaughtered by a drug cartel while traveling to Mexico for a wedding, the New York Post has reported. The attack was a highway ambush in the Mexican border state of Sonora on Monday, November 4, in the town of Bavispe,…
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Microsoft Japan has tested a four-day workweek and discovered that it has boosted employee productivity. The tech company recorded an almost 40 per cent increase in productivity after cutting working hours in a bid to promote a healthier work-life balance. The Work Life Choice Challenge initiative was started back in…
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A 71-year-old retired barber tragically lost his life after spending three weeks stuck inside a stairwell, an Australian inquest has heard. As reported by news.com.au, Bernard Gore, who had been making a shopping trip to Sydney’s enormous Westfield Bondi Junction mall with his family, went missing on January 6th, 2017,…
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A new audit has found that Coca-Cola is the biggest polluter in the world. It was conducted by the global movement Break Free From Plastics, which obtained its findings from the work of 72,000 volunteers who combed beaches, waterways and streets for litter on a single day in September this…
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A court in Barcelona has acquitted five men over the rape of a 14-year-old girl because she was unconscious, and therefore no "violence or intimidation" took place, resulting in a lesser charge of sexual abuse. CNN has reported how, under Spanish law, a sexual attack can only be classified as…
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The shocking moment a teenager was thrown to the ground in Iran because she wasn't wearing a hijab has been caught on camera. The girl was walking unveiled through Shahr-e-Rey, near the south of Tehran, when she was stopped by a male officer. She kept on walking as the officer…
