Fri 20 January 2023: ‘Toadzilla’ weighed in at 2.7kg (almost 6lbs) and could have set a new world record for size, Queensland ranger said. A “monster cane toad” equal in weight to some newborn human babies has been discovered by Australian rangers in North Queensland. The gigantic cane toad, which was named “Toadzilla”, was found by […]
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Fri 20 January 2023: It will likely survive, but only after more firms and currencies crash and burn. Here’s why. As the Los Angeles Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals in the championship game of the National Football League last February, an unlikely set of players made a splash off the field, in living rooms across […]
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Fri 20 January 2023: More than a million people have joined a day of protests and strikes, according to France’s interior ministry, against plans to push back the age of retirement, from sixty two to sixty four. Some eighty thousand protesters took to the streets of Paris, with demonstrations in two hundred more French cities. […]
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Thu 19 January 2023: The president of Serbia expressed his pessimistic about his country’s and its neighbors’ chances of joining the European Union on Thursday, Anandolu Agency reportd. “I am pessimistic about the possibility of entering the European Union in a relatively soon period of time. I am pessimistic for all of us, including Montenegro, […]
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Thu 19 January 2023: Failure to act on the climate emergency means ‘parts of our planet will be uninhabitable and for many it will be a death sentence’, Antonio Guterres warns. Some big oil companies ignored their own science on the dangers of climate change and “peddled the big lie” for decades about the […]
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Thu 19 January 2023: Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, has announced that she will step down in a month and not run in the general elections this year. Ardern, fighting back tears, told reporters in Napier on Thursday that February 7 will be her last day in office. “I am not leaving […]
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Thu 19 January 2023: In Norway, archaeologists discovered a flat, square block of a brownish runestone, which they claim to be the world’s oldest due to its over 2,000-year-old inscriptions. The stone measures 31 by 32 cm in size (12.2 inches by 12.3 inches). According to the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, this runestone […]
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Thu 19 January 2023: Mo Gawdat, author and former chief business officer at Google X, predicts that AI will become a billion times smarter than humans. The time is now, he says, to influence it with the right ethics to have humanity’s best interests in mind. Artificial intelligence is becoming unavoidable with smart devices in […]
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Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota in the US has said it is reviewing its actions Thu 19 January 2023: A professor in the United States has announced plans to sue a Minnesota university following a row over her showing a painting depicting the Prophet Muhammad during a lesson on Islamic art. Hamline University, a […]
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Wed 18 January 2023: Former US President Donald Trump is planning a social media comeback on Facebook and Twitter after being banned from both platforms. This unfolds as Trump gets ready to run for president of the United States. According to several sources, the Trump campaign team had already petitioned Facebook’s parent company, Meta, to […]
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