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US researchers have claimed that Hurricane Maria killed more than 4,600 people in Puerto Rico, 70 times the official death toll. According to a Harvard University study, an accurate count of those killed was complicated by the widespread devastation that occurred after the powerful tropical cyclone, regarded as the worst natural disaster…
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Over 8,000 Starbucks coffee shops in the United States have closed today in order to accommodate "anti-racial bias training", at a cost of an estimated $12 million in lost profits. The training scheme was launched in response to an alleged case of racial profiling which occurred in Pennsylvania. A Starbucks…
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A man who was forced to change his eight-month-old daughter on a "disgusting" public bathroom floor has slammed the facilities that are available to men, claiming it's time to recognise that fathers take care of their children too. Chris Boneyard Mau, from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, took to Facebook in anger after…
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A gunman has killed two female police officers and one civilian in the eastern Belgian city of Liège in a suspected terror attack. The assailant, named as Benjamin Herman, reportedly seized the police officer's own service weapons and stabbed them before shooting them near Cafe des Augustins on Boulevard d'Avroy. After, he…
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Yesterday, the story of a young man who scaled a Paris building in order to save a child went viral after footage of his superhuman abilities hit the web. The hero was later identified as Mamoudou Gassama, a 22-year-old originally from Mali, who had only moved to France a few months…
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American veterans have blasted Donald Trump's self-congratulatory Memorial Day tweet as the "most inappropriate" one ever, taking to social media to express their disgust at his "appalling" attitude. The outrage comes after the president wrote a post that was meant to honour Memorial Day, remembering the millions who have died while…
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The government of Papua New Guinea has announced that the Oceanic nation will completely ban its population from using Facebook for four weeks, in an attempt to crack down on bot farms and other "fake users", and to study the sociological effect of social media influence. During the course of the…
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Over the years, the world of high fashion has turned out some pretty bizarre spectacles. These are clothes that designers and critics gush over, which sculpted models flaunt with pride on the catwalk. But on the other hand, most of the big showstoppers are so loud, garish or outlandish that…
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When the people elected Donald Trump to be their president, they probably didn't expect to get a family package deal thrown into the mix; but, here we are, a year and a half later, and Ivanka Trump is holding a White House role - despite having no experience in politics.…
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Danielle Cumberworth and Ashley Grant-Smith first met while on holiday in Crete in 2015, and the couple immediately hit it off. When they returned back to England, they decided to start up a relationship, even though they weren't living in the same city. Before long, they had got engaged to…
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Ever since Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016, many mainstream celebrities have added a more political flavor to their interactions with the public. Kanye West has caused Twitter wars with a picture of his Make America Great Again hat, the likes of otherwise fairly neutral celebs such as…
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It is often said that "not all heroes wear capes", and that was proven to be true this weekend when a seemingly ordinary man scaled a building in order to rescue a boy that had somehow become stuck hanging over the balcony. Mamoudou Gassama, a 22-year-old originally from Mali, was…
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Over the past few months, US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un have had the kind of on-again off-again relationship that makes Ross and Rachel's tumultuous Friends love affair look tame. One minute they're extending the hand of friendship, the next, they're slinging insults half way…
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China is setting up a ranking system which will monitor the behaviour of its 1.379 billion person population, and judge them all based on their "social credit". According to a government document, the "social credit system," which was first announced in 2014, is designed to enforce the belief that "keeping trust is glorious…
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From time to time, there will be a scandal coming out of Hollywood, where an actor is revealed to be difficult to work with, or some other star has stepped over the line. Yet over the last eight months, we have seen more and more instances of sexual misconduct being…
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On Friday we learned that there had been a shooting in an Indiana middle school, in which two people were injured. The news was confirmed by Sergeant John Perrine, the Public Information Officer for the Indiana State Police. The suspect, whose identity hasn't been revealed, was taken into custody, after his…
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On Thursday, CNN revealed that multiple women had come forward to accuse Morgan Freeman of sexual harassment on set, on press tours, and in the office of his production company, Revelations Entertainment. Their investigation found 16 people that opened up about Freeman's "pattern of inappropriate behaviour" that created a "toxic" workplace,…
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Taxi Driver and Godfather actor Robert De Niro has never been one to mince words when it comes to Donald Trump. He even went so far as to call him a "f*cking fool” during a January awards show, and state at a fundraising dinner that "He’s still an idiot. And he…
