Thu 09 December 2021: New Zealand is proposing one of the world’s toughest anti-tobacco crackdowns, prohibiting young people from ever purchasing cigarettes in their lives, reasoning that other measures to eliminate smoking were taking too long. “We want to make sure young people never start smoking so we will make it an offence to sell […]
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Thu 09 December 2021: According to a new study published in the Lancet journal, the world’s population will decline for the first time ever in the next century. The world’s population is currently estimated to be around 7.8 billion people. According to the study, the global population will peak around 9.7 billion in 2064, then […]
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Wed 08 December 2021: A US billionaire hedge fund manager has surrendered 180 antiquities worth $70 million after an investigation found that they had been looted and illegally smuggled. Michael Steinhardt, 81, illegally acquired art that was smuggled from 11 countries, including Egypt, Syria and Turkey, during wars or civil unrest using 12 criminal networks. […]
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Wed 08 December 2021: A little clay tablet dating back 3,500 years and featuring a section of the Epic of Gilgamesh has been formally returned to Iraq after being plundered from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago and recently retrieved from the United States. The Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, worth $1.7 million, is one of the […]
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Tue 07 December 2021: Around 900 bison in Yellowstone National Park in the United States will be allowed to be hunted, quarantined, or murdered in the next months, according to authorities. According to a report, the order was issued to prevent the bacterial disease brucellosis from spreading from bison to cattle over the winter. Another […]
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Mon 06 December 2021: Animal protection organizations said Monday that around 100 dead cats were discovered in the home of a retired man in southern France. The volunteers were alerted by the niece of the 81-year-old who entered his house on Sunday after he was taken to hospital in Nice on the French Riviera and […]
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Mon 06 December 2021: Business leaders and management experts often encourage people to speak up in the workplace. Suggesting a creative idea or a more efficient way to work can help companies overcome challenges and meet goals. But new research shows another, more subtle and often overlooked form of speaking up has a big effect […]
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Mon 06 December 2021: Creating a world record for a one-of-a-kind thing is memorable, but breaking your own world record again is driven by a desire to be even better. This is true for the Gay family of Hudson Valley, New York. This family broke their own world record for the most Christmas lights on a residential property with a display of 687,000 lights. This family set the Guinness World Record for the most bulbs in a single day for the first time in 2014, with 601,736 bulbs. Since then, they have been making concerted efforts to break the record. According to the Albany Times-Union, the family also hopes to raise $500,000 for the fire department and local charities from visitors to the drive-through display they set up this year. The massive displays are created by Tim Gay, Grace Gay, and their three grown children. After the addition of animation in 2007, it began to gain popularity among visitors. “It always felt pretty cool being a part of something so big. It’s really been […]
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Sun 05 December 2021: Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has introduced a new platform to help stop revenge porn in an effort to bring positive changes to the internet and make it a safer place. Meta, in collaboration with more than 50 non-governmental organizations from around the world, has launched StopNCII.org, a portal that will […]
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Sun 05 December 2021: For his wife, an Indian man created a one-third-sized replica of the renowned Taj Mahal, but unlike the original, it is their home, not a tomb. The replica contains the original Taj Mahal’s huge dome, complex minarets, and even some of its artwork, and was built with white marble from the […]
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