Thu 02 April 2026: Switzerland’s population continued to grow in 2025, while a historic demographic shift saw older residents outnumber young people for the first time, according to provisional data released Thursday by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office. The country’s permanent resident population reached over 9.1 million by Dec. 31, an increase of 73,300 people, […]
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Thu 02 April 2026: Japan on Wednesday began enforcing new rules that penalize unsafe cycling behavior, including using a phone or holding an umbrella while riding. Any cyclist aged 16 or older who commits violations such as using a mobile phone, wearing headphones, using an umbrella while riding, riding double, riding side by side, or failing to yield to […]
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Thu 02 April 2026: The mission is a major step in NASA’s plan to return humans to the moon and eventually send astronauts to Mars. The Artemis II space mission has blasted off from the US state of Florida, sending four astronauts on a historic journey around the moon and marking the first time humans have travelled […]
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Wed 01 April 2026: Thousands of Germans have taken to the streets in recent days in support of a TV personality who has had fake sexualised images of her spread online, spurring a new “#MeToo” moment around online abuse. Headlines in Germany have been dominated by the case of Collien Fernandes, 44, after she went public about faked pornographic […]
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Wed 01 April 2026: Artificial intelligence (AI) platforms are making efforts to detect users who attempt to use them for criminal purposes by shutting down accounts and alerting local law enforcement when deemed necessary. People use large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Grok, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude, for everything these […]
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Wed 01 April 2026: Pope Leo XIV has urged US President Donald Trump to seek a diplomatic exit from the widening Iran conflict as casualties mount across the region. “I’m told that President Trump has recently stated that he would like to end the war. Hopefully he’s looking for an off-ramp. … Hopefully he’s looking […]
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Wed 01 April 2026: Turkiye secure a return to football’s biggest tournament for the first time since 2002, when they finished third. When Turkiye finished third at the 2002 World Cup, few Turkish fans thought it would be almost a quarter of a century before their side’s next appearance at football’s showcase event. So Turkiye’s […]
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Tue 31 March 2026: When you spot false or misleading information online, or in a family group chat, how do you respond? For many people, their first impulse is to factcheck – reply with statistics, make a debunking post on social media or point people towards trustworthy sources. Factchecking is seen as a go-to method […]
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Tue 31 March 2026: As early as the 1880s, there was evidence that smoking tobacco damaged your lungs. But it took almost 100 years to definitively show that smoking causes lung cancer. So, what about vapes? Until now, most research that has looked at the cancer risk for people using vapes, also known as electronic or e-cigarettes, has mainly […]
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Mon 30 March 2026: During the first world war, the British government was looking for ways to help people stretch their limited food supplies. It found pamphlets from a noted 19th-century herbalist who said rhubarb leaves could be used as a vegetable along with the stalks. The government duly printed its own pamphlets advising people […]
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