Key developments and global perspectives that matter.
Key developments and global perspectives that matter.
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Gucci has publicly apologised after receiving an online backlash over a jumper some believed resembled blackface. The black balaclava sweater, which was from their 2018 Fall Winter collection, caused an uproar on social media, with one user describing it as "Haute Couture Blackface for millennials". The $900 sweater featured big…
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Pope Francis has been offered a sum of $1 million to a charity of his choice if he goes vegan, following a campaign by an environmental rights group. The Million Dollar Vegan campaign, backed by celebrities such as Paul McCartney and TV presenter Chris Packham, aims to tackle climate change…
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A man in China has been arrested after killing and injuring several people in his neighbourhood on Wednesday. Police in Baiyin, a city in Gansu province, said that the man suspected his wife had been cheating on him, and is now accused of killing eight people with a knife in…
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A European teenager faces jail time for attempting to walk out of a store having paid a tiny amount for a Playstation, according to local news reports. The 19-year-old only described as Adel, who lives in Monbéliard in France, was able to walk out of a supermarket with a Playstation 4…
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A new study has discovered that meat from sharks on the verge of extinction is increasingly making its way to plates in restaurants all across the United Kingdom. Reports from British scientists say that shark products ordered at restaurants may not be from a sustainable population, and reveal that consumers…
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A restaurant has come in for immense criticism on social media after serving burgers decorated with a line of white powder, seemingly made to resemble cocaine. The eatery, which goes by the name of Pablo Escoburgers, is located in Australia, and after posting a photo of the burger in question,…
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New medical research has declared that a regular sore throat, combined with shortness of breath, trouble swallowing or earache, could be a sign of larynx cancer. General practitioners have reportedly been told that hoarseness that is severe enough to prompt a patient to book an appointment should make them think seriously…
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An American missionary who has visited an isolated Brazilian tribe has potentially exposed them to fatal diseases to which they have no immunity. Now a charity claims that the missionary in question could be charged with genocide if the pathogens he has exposed the indigenous people to end up wiping…
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Ladies and gentlemen, creating a business is super hard. Not only do you have to find a niche in your chosen market, construct a business plan and figure out how to get the whole thing together, but you have to put a name to the entire organisation that's not only…
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A 28-year-old Bangladeshi man named Abul Bajandar, also known as the "Tree Man," who suffers from an extremely rare genetic disease, is facing more surgery after a relapse in his condition. Abul has been living with a curious dermatological phenomenon for almost 30 years: the uncontrollable growth of large, bark-like…
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Last year, the internet's collective imagination was captured after a CCTV video emerged showing someone who looked startlingly like Ross from 'Friends' making his way out of a store in Blackpool with a crate of beer. The video was viewed many thousands of times on Twitter, and naturally a widespread…
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Rescuers are desperately drilling to find a two-year-old boy who has been trapped in a deep well for a week. Julen Roselló fell down the 250ft borehole while out walking with his parents in a mountainous area near the village of Totalan, northeast of Malaga, southern Spain. The 25cm-wide waterhole is…
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A transgender woman from Australia has been jailed for nine years for attempted murder after she walked into a 7-Eleven and began randomly attacking two terrified shoppers with a fire axe. In the early hours of January 7 of 2017, 25-year-old Evie Amati used a two-kilogram axe to batter Ben Rimmer in the…
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All over social media, everyone seems to be taking part in the ten-year challenge, and it's fair to say that some of the before/after pictures have been pretty interesting. In case you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks, and have never heard of it before, the…
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A 32-foot smuggling tunnel has been unearthed on the Arizona-Mexico border, reportedly the third tunnel found in the area in less than a month. According to a tweet on Wednesday from the Mexican Federal Police, the latest tunnel was uncovered across the border from Nogales, Arizona. Officials claimed the tunnel was…
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Kevin Fret, Latin trap music's first openly gay artist, has been killed aged 24. Fret was shot eight times at around 5:30 local time while riding a motorbike in Puerto Rico's capital, San Juan. The musician was rushed to the Medical Centre of Río Piedras with wounds to his hip…
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Former teacher and model Kathryn Mayorga claims that Portuguese soccer star Christiano Ronaldo raped her at his Las Vegas hotel room in June 2009, then paid her $375,000 to keep it secret. Last September, she filed a civil lawsuit and asked the police to discard the non-disclosure agreement she signed at the…
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An massive overhead road sign became dislodged and fell onto a moving car on the Tullamarine Freeway near Melbourne, Australia. Dashcam footage captured the horrifying moment, as the sign struck the road and the car slammed into the sign. We drive by those signs every day without considering how big…
