Sun 28 November 2021: The Chinese capital of Beijing launched its first commercial trial of autonomous driving and rolled out relevant management policies earlier this week, according to the city’s high-level autonomous driving demonstration zone office. The cumulative mileage of autonomous driving tests has reached nearly 3 million km since April this year with the […]
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Sat 27 November 2021: A trio of psychologists at Lund University has found via online questionnaire, that people who believe in astrology tend to be less intelligent than the norm and more narcissistic. In their paper published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, Ida Andersson, Julia Persson and Petri Kajonius describe their study and what […]
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Sat 27 November 2021: A woman or girl is being killed by someone in their family every 11 minutes in the world, UNODC Executive Director, Ghada Waly said on Thursday and Anadolu News Agency reports. “In 2020, 47,000 women and girls worldwide died at the hands of intimate partners or other family members, according to new data […]
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Fri 26 November 2021: According to data issued by the National Family Health Survey, India’s overall fertility rate has dipped below the replacement level for the first time (NFHS). According to the United Nations’ population division, countries experiencing below-replacement fertility — lower than 2.1 children per woman — indicates that a generation is not producing […]
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Thu 25 November 2021: Middle East Monitor‘s flagship annual literary awards ceremony – the Palestine Book Awards (PBA) – has entered its 10th year today, as awards were handed out to the winning authors and books in the much-awaited event. For the second year in a row the event was held online as a result […]
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Mon 22 November 2021: A million enormous jellyfish washed ashore in a national park in Ukraine’s Odessa region following a storm, according to the park’s press department on Monday. “Recently there was a strong storm in the Black Sea. Such storms do not happen often… Of course, the sea gathered and dumped a lot of […]
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Mon 22 November 2021: On Sunday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed for the protection of human life at a time when one person is killed in a traffic accident every 24 seconds. “Every 24 seconds a life is cut short because of a road traffic collision. The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims […]
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Mon 22 November 2021: The manuscript of Albert Einstein, a German-born theoretical physicist, will be auctioned off in Paris on Tuesday. The rare text, which contains preparatory work for Einstein’s theory of relativity, is expected to bring stratospheric price. According to Christie’s, which is conducting the auction on behalf of Aguttes, it is valued at […]
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Sun 21 November 2021: A 45-year-old man, declared dead after a road accident in Uttar Pradesh, shocked his relatives when they found him still breathing despite a night in the freezer of a hospital morgue. Srikesh Kumar was rushed to a clinic in a critical condition after he was hit by a motorbike in Uttar […]
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Sun 21 November 2021: It’s no secret that being a work-from-home mom during the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic was a drag. And those tech tools—video meetings and texting—designed to make remote work easier? They just added to the stress and exacerbated the mental health toll on burnt out moms trying to hold everything together. […]
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