Wed 17 April 2024: A Muslim pupil in the United Kingdom has lost a court challenge against a top London school’s ban on prayer rituals in a case about freedom of religion in schools that has captured national attention. The student, who cannot be named, took legal action against Michaela Community School in northwest London, […]
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Researchers think that the central skeleton in the grave (marked 1) was an older woman who was buried after dying of natural causes, and that the two other skeletons (marked 2 and 3) were younger sacrificial victims bound “incaprettamento.” (Image credit: Ludes et al., Sci. Adv. 10, eadl3374 (2024)) Tue 16 April 2024: STUDY UNEARTHS […]
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Tue 16 April 2024: Households in Britain throw away some 1.7 billion pieces of plastic every week, according to a new report by the UK’s Big Plastic Count initiative. According to the report, only 17% of the country’s plastic waste is recycled while 58% is incinerated, 14% exported, and 11% landfilled. Stressing that incineration releases […]
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Mon 15 April 2024: A former government staffer in Australia raped a colleague in the country’s Parliament, a judge has found, rejecting his defamation claim against a broadcaster that aired his accuser’s allegations. Justice Michael Lee ruled that Bruce Lehrmann, an adviser to the previous conservative government, was not defamed in the television interview with […]
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A view of summer Olympic 2024 host city Paris (Source: @OlympicsParis) Photograph:(Twitter) Mon 15 April 2024: French President Emmanuel Macron has stated that the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics will be rescheduled if there is a substantial risk of a terrorist attack, and that backup preparations are in place to deal with […]
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Ramadan vibes in Oxford street Mon 15 April 2024: Experts say a new definition disproportionately targets groups that advocate for Muslims’ civil rights. The United Kingdom government’s new definition of “extremism”, touted as a bid to tackle rising Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in the aftermath of Israel’s war on Gaza, has ignited fierce debate across the political […]
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Mon 15 April 2024: America’s mounting debt bill is the country’s greatest national security crisis-in-waiting, U.S. magazine The National Interest has reported. Noting that the country registered a 1.6 trillion-U.S. dollar deficit this year and a 35-trillion-dollar overall debt, the report said Thursday that Washington is “carrying the debt load that the United States has […]
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Sun 14 April 2024: Australians are mourning the death of five women and a “courageous” Pakistani security guard killed in a stabbing attack at a Sydney shopping centre. Police on Sunday said they were yet to confirm any motivation or ideology behind the attacks in Sydney’s Bondi Junction but are investigating if the killer deliberately targeted […]
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Sun 14 April 2024: Research has found young children who are exposed to news and current affair programs can be impacted so much that they start viewing the world as a scarier place. While much attention has been drawn to the detrimental impact of violent video games on children’s developing brains, there has been relatively little discussion […]
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Sun 14 April 2024: The British government should communicate its messages to young people using TikTok, the British House of Commons said in a report on Friday. The call was made in the Trusted Voices report by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee in the House of Commons following an inquiry into the role of […]
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