Thu 05 June 2025: Parliament voted to impose record suspensions on the trio of legislators for their protest haka. New Zealand legislators have voted to suspend three MPs who performed a Maori haka in the House to protest against a controversial bill. The MPs from Te Pati Maori – the Maori Party – were handed […]
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Wed 04 June 2025: Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and harming wildlife. While scientists have long experimented with biodegradable plastics, researchers from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and the University of Tokyo say their new material breaks down much more […]
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Wed 04 June 2025: Vietnam has ended a two-child policy, aiming to meet population challenges as the Southeast Asian country has seen a decline in fertility rate. The lawmakers of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly approved the changes to the population law on Tuesday, the daily Hanoi Times reported. Health Minister Dao Hong […]
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Wed 04 June 2025: Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been humanity’s companions throughout our evolutionary history. Yet, the greatest parasite of the modern age is no blood-sucking invertebrate. It is sleek, glass-fronted and addictive by design. Its host? Every human on Earth with a wifi signal. Far from being benign tools, smartphones parasitise our […]
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Wed 04 June 2025: Nearly two million Muslim pilgrims began the soul-searching journey of the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. With temperatures expected to top 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), robed pilgrims slowly circled the Kaaba — the black cube at the heart of Mecca’s Grand Mosque which is Islam’s holiest site. […]
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Tue 03 June 2025: A report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Poland’s National Research Institute (NASK) revealed Tuesday that 25% of jobs worldwide are potentially exposed to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), with clerical and highly digital occupations facing the highest vulnerability. The report, “Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational […]
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Tue 03 June 2025: An Atlas of Civil Society report warns that democracy and human rights are under attack globally. Just 40 countries representing 3.5 percent of the world’s population respect all civil liberties, a new study has found, warning that “democracy and human rights are under attack worldwide in a way we have not […]
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Tue 03 June 2025: Every day, 1.6 million people around the world fall ill due to unsafe food, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday, urging stronger global efforts to ensure food safety through science-based policies and practices. “Food safety is a global responsibility,” said Simone Moraes Raszl, the scientist at WHO’s Department of Nutrition and Food […]
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Mon 02 June 2025: The UK government has enacted a nationwide ban on single-use vapes, effective June 1, 2025, aiming to curb youth vaping and reduce environmental harm. “The new crackdown makes it illegal to sell single-use vapes at corner shops and supermarkets, putting an end to their alarming rise in school playgrounds and the avalanche of rubbish flooding the […]
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Mon 02 June 2025: The study found that without the phasing out of fossil fuels, temperatures will continue to soar. About half of the world’s population experienced an additional month of extreme heat over the past year due to human-caused climate change, according to a new study. The extreme heat caused deaths and illnesses, damaged […]
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