Key developments and global perspectives that matter.
Key developments and global perspectives that matter.
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Since the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke towards the end of last year, more and more victims of sexual misconduct have found the courage to speak out about their own traumatic experiences. As a result, the #MeToo movement has seen a resurgence, the Time's Up initiative has been born, and allegations…
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"The Fat American" is a typical stereotype, but the United Kingdom is catching up quickly. Last November the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development published a report declaring the UK to be the most obese country in Western Europe. They predicted that by the year 2030, 40% of British people will…
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In 2016, it was revealed that there were only 10 countries in the world that could be considered completely devoid of conflict by the 10th annual Global Peace Index. It was a statistic that almost seemed inconceivable at first. How could so few places across the world be at complete…
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Last week footage of an orgy in a hotel room went viral on Chinese social media. (There's a sentence you don't get to write every day!) The videos were posted on the popular Chinese microblogging platform Weibo, and although China has tried to scrub it from the Internet, it's like…
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We all rate people in our heads. You’d be lying if you said you didn’t. When an idiot driver speeds past you on the motorway, or when a parent sits back and lets their kid wreak havoc in a public area, these people immediately plummet in your estimations. But what…
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The case, or indeed cases, against Donald Trump, seem to be growing by the week. It would be safe to say that the 45th President of the United States has courted controversy since he first decided to run in the 2016 Presidential election against former First Lady and Secretary of…
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We all know that smoking is bad for our health; it rots your lungs, gives you cancer, and can even damage fertility. Every year, five million people die as a result of tobacco-related illnesses. And yet, across the world more than a billion of us globally still have a weakness for…
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We have all been in the position at some point in our lives where we've majorly messed up at work. A lot of the time, this is during your first few weeks and ends up being something that is easily sorted out, but sometimes you can royally screw up and…
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The Russian hacker has become the perfect boogeyman for the digital age and much of the west's current anxiety about the state of modern politics can be linked its fear of outside influence, or of the manipulation of the media. On social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter and Reddit, troll…
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If there's anyone we should be able to rely on to be an upstanding citizen, it's a police officer. We're supposed to trust them to take care of us, to uphold the law to protect us, and to set an example of how to behave. But, just like everyone else,…
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In the wake of the Parkland shooting, there was one sentence on the tip of many people's tongues. It went something like this: "America should just give all teachers guns - that’s what Israel did after a school shooting and they don’t have any school shootings now." The fire was…
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There are undoubtedly many disasters happening each week that forever change the lives of those affected. However, there are some events that are so tragic that they catch the attention of people all over the planet. In this case, a catastrophic plane crash took the lives of a bachelorette party.…
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We all like to think that in an emergency we would be the calm and collected person whose quick-thinking saves the day. But the truth of the matter is that, when it comes down to it, no one knows exactly what they would do when a case of life or death…
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Short-term memory loss is a rare but devastating condition. It can be caused by a number of factors, from drug and alcohol abuse and head injuries to chronic medical disorders or developmental diseases; and, unfortunately, it is often incurable. Porphyria is just one cause of short-term memory loss, and it…
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Much like pirates or knights in shining armor, messages in bottles sound like the sort of thing that have only ever existed in fairytales. However, despite being a legit thing, they're also pretty rare, and notable instances of bottled notes being used as an effective form of communication are few…
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When it comes to freebies, very few people will turn down the chance to get something for nothing. Whether it's a complimentary sample of food in the supermarket, or a coupon for half-off that thing you weren't even planning on buying in the first place, most of us are more…
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The mass shooting of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas, as well as the suicide terror attack at the Ariana Grande concert in the UK's Manchester, were two devastating events last year that made us well aware that attackers like to target music events for…
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It's pretty hard to imagine the richest one per cent ever worrying about money. When you think about the lives of the seriously rich (multi-millionaire or billionaires that is) the idea that they could ever struggle financially, or even lose money at all, seems preposterous. When you have that many…
