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A girl from Utah, who survived being shot and left to die in a ditch, has been crowned homecoming queen by her high school. 17-year-old Deserae Turner was left paralyzed on her left side after being shot by two classmates and left for dead. She was found eight hours later,…
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It's often said that not all heroes wear capes. Now, it turns out that they can rock pompoms too. This was the case when 17-year-old Texas cheerleader Tyra Winters noticed a toddler choking from her homecoming float. She immediately jumped into action to save the child, whose mother had called…
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A father has provoked controversy on social media by removing his son from his school after disagreeing with the climate change syllabus. Thirty-eight-year-old Matt Karlos, who hails from Australia, was reportedly incensed about the way in which his son Max was taught about the issue of global warming. Karlos believes…
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Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl who galvanised a movement to fight climate change, is tipped to win the Nobel Peace Prize, which she was nominated for by three Norwegian MPs back in March. The environmental campaigner is reportedly the bookies' favourite to pick up the award next week, with…
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The Duchess of Sussex is suing British tabloid newspaper, the Mail on Sunday, for illegally publishing a private letter which it allegedly edited to proffer a negative portrayal of Meghan. In a damning statement published on the couple's website, Prince Harry said that the "relentless propaganda" about his wife was…
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The Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica has produced its biggest iceberg in over 50 years. According to the BBC, the calved block, called D28, is 631 square miles, which is just smaller than the Isle of Skye. The incident is not believed to be related to climate change, and instead…
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The owners of Wonderful Co., Stewart and Lynda Resnick have announced a $750 million pledge to the California Institute of Technology. The Resnicks, who made the announcement on Thursday, have advised that the donation is to support environmental sustainability research, per Forbes. The Wonderful Company is the world's largest producer…
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A policy from Japan Airlines shows passengers the location of any children under two years old as they are making their booking. Though the move is nothing new, it has recently caused a disturbance in the Twittersphere, as customers argue about the pros and cons of the plan. Several commentators…
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A 13-year-old boy has died just over a week after being sucker-punched at school in an attack that was captured on camera, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department announced yesterday, according to NBC Palm Springs reports. The video was posted to social media last week and showed the California middle school…
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Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg has responded to the criticism she received in the wake of her viral speech at the UN summit. During the speech, she encouraged world leaders to tackle the global climate change emergency. "People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are…
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A woman was detained by police after she opened the emergency exit for "a breath of fresh air" before the flight took off in central China’s Hubei province on Monday, Newsweek reports. According to the South China Morning Post, it is believed that the unidentified woman was in her 50s. Footage…
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Everything in life is better with friends, everything apart from work - if new research is anything to go by. The unsurprising revelation was made by Dr. Sangyoon Park, assistant professor of economics at the University of Hong Kong. While the answer to this question is pretty obvious, he set…
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We are in a global climate change emergency. Annual ice loss is at an "unprecedented" rate, and this summer, the Amazon rainforest, often dubbed as the "Earth's lungs", has been ravaged by fire. Now, people all around the world are taking action in an attempt stop the crisis before it's…
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Some parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children, leading to the revival of diseases that are avoidable thanks to vaccines. Now, following the worst measles outbreak in decades, a new law in the state of New York has come into effect to prohibit unvaccinated children from going to school.…
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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 woman who urged her boyfriend to commit suicide is set to be released early from prison due to good behaviour. This comes after the parole board denied a bid to reduce her sentence. 22-year-old Michelle Carter has had her release date moved up to the 13th March from the…
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A woman who claims to be America's highest-paid prostitute has said that business is booming thanks to the Storm Area 51 event. In case your memory needs refreshing, this was a Facebook event in Nevada that two million people agreed to attend (although only 150 turned up), which encouraged alien…
