Sun 26 September 2021: German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s preferred successor Armin Laschet of the conservative CDU/CSU bloc revealed his choice by mistake as he cast a ballot in Sunday’s parliamentary polls. His incorrectly folded ballot showed that the conservative leader unsurprisingly voted for his own party at a polling station in his hometown of Aachen, […]
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Sun 26 September 2021: by Jessica Colarossi, Boston University From inside the womb and as soon as they enter the world, babies absorb information from their environment and the adults around them, quickly learning after birth how to start communicating through cries, sounds, giggles, and other kinds of baby talk. But are a child’s long-term language […]
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Sun 26 September 2021: Warm temperatures and clear blue skies greeted voters across Germany as tens of millions of voters headed to polling stations to vote in a nationwide election to elect a new parliament and the successor to Angela Merkel as chancellor. Armin Laschet of the Christian Democrats and Olaf Scholz of the Social […]
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Sun 26 September 2021: In a video aired during the Global Citizen concert in Paris on Saturday, French President Emmanuel Macron committed to double the amount of vaccine doses sent to poorer countries to 120 million. “The injustice is that in other continents, obviously, vaccination is very late…,” he said. “We have to go faster, […]
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Sat 25 September 2021: The UK government is poised to temporarily ease visa rules to attract more foreign lorry drivers, reports said Saturday, as it grapples with a growing shortage that has now hit fuel supplies. The lack of tanker drivers has led to huge queues at petrol stations in recent days, as people ignore […]
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Sat 25 September 2021: Thousands of pro-independence campaigners marched through Edinburgh on Saturday. All Under One Banner (AUOB) organized the march, which claimed that roughly “5000 independence supporters” took part in the event in Scotland’s capital. The march started near the Royal Commonwealth Pool just after midday and protesters marched through the city streets to […]
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Sat 25 September 2021: Bitcoin dropped over 5% on Friday after China’s central bank announced that it would crack down on cryptocurrency trading, banning foreign exchanges from serving mainland investors. Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, fell almost 6% to $42,2167 in response to the new move, after falling approximately 1% earlier. Smaller coins, which usually […]
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Sat 25 September 2021: Uber Technologies said it would start rolling out its pension plan to all eligible drivers in the United Kingdom, months after the ride-hailing service granted workers’ rights to its drivers in the country. In March, Uber had reclassified its more than 70,000 drivers in Britain as workers following a Supreme Court […]
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Sat 25 September 2021: The Catholic Bishops of Canada formally apologized Friday to Canada’s Indigenous peoples for the church’s role in running Indian residential schools. The Bishops acknowledged the “grave abuses” suffered by Indigenous children who were forced to attend the schools beginning around 1825. By the time the last school closed in the mid-1990s, […]
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Sat 25 September 2021: The number of first-time asylum seekers to the European Union has more than doubled over the spring months, Reuters said a report released today by the bloc’s statistics office revealed. Nearly 103,900 first-time asylum seekers applied for international protection in EU countries between April and June of this year, according to Eurostat, up […]
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