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5 years ago+24 24 0Bees are being 'driven to the edge' as humans and climate change destroy their havens
A third of Irish bee species are threatened with extinction with bumblebee populations falling year-on-year due to removal of hedgerows and ditches, use of pesticides and insecticides and climate change. Tomorrow is the first ever global World Bee Da ...
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5 years ago+4 4 0Hello Kitty bullet train to debut in Japan on June 30
West Japan Railway Co. said Friday it will begin operating a Hello Kitty-themed shinkansen bullet train on June 30. The interior and seats of the 500-series shinkansen to be used for daily-round trips between Shin-Osaka Station in Osaka Prefecture a ...
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5 years ago+10 10 0Canadian humanitarian charged with child rape in Nepal, stunning villagers
Peter Dalglish endeared himself to many in the community, greeting villagers in Nepali, offering chocolates to children and helping people rebuild their homes destroyed by devastating earthquakes in 2015. The goodwill was shattered last month when po ...
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5 years ago+5 6 1Book your Aussie holiday online? Budget change means you could be paying more from next year
Australian hotel bookings through overseas websites like Expedia could cost travellers more from next year, following the budget announcement that these companies must start paying the GST. Websites such as Booking.com, Trivago and Wotif will be expe ...
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5 years ago+2 2 0A black Yale graduate student was reported to police for napping in her dorm
A white person voices suspicions about an innocuous person of color. Police are summoned. And the encounter is posted on social media, sparking outrage about racial profiling. In what is becoming an all-too familiar episode, a black Yale University g ...
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5 years ago+14 14 0Veggie-based diets could save 8 million lives by 2050 and cut global warming
A global switch to diets that rely less on meat and more on fruit and vegetables could save up to 8 million lives by 2050, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by two thirds, and lead to healthcare-related savings. It could also avoid climate-related dama ...
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6 years ago+2 2 0Photos of 'migrants' humiliated in Tel Aviv cause outrage
A black man is grabbed and manhandled by a white man, who takes a selfie of them both, grinning, while the black man cringes. The photos that caught this moment shocked social media when they were posted online on April 26. We spoke with the photogra ...
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6 years ago+3 3 0Suncor oil refinery spews 8.5 tons a year of cyanide gas over low-income north Denver neighborhoods, state records show
Suncor Energy’s oil refinery is spewing 8.5 tons a year of invisible hydrogen cyanide gas over low-income north Denver neighborhoods, state records show. Community groups in Globeville, Swansea and Elyria this week petitioned the Environmental Protec ...
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6 years ago+12 12 0Top German court permits use of online ad blockers, dismissing Axel Springer claim
Germany's highest civil court has ruled that the online ad blocker AdBlock Plus doesn't violate competition laws. Axel Springer is the latest of several German media companies to bring a case against developers and lose. Applications that f ...
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6 years ago+10 10 0Jeff Bezos reveals Amazon has 100 million Prime members in letter to shareholders
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has released his latest annual shareholder letter. In the letter, Bezos stressed the importance of having high standards in running a business. By setting high standards, companies are able to live up to "ever-rising custom ...
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6 years ago+13 13 0Oregon Governor Signs Net Neutrality Bill Alongside the Middle Schoolers Who Fought for Its Passage
n February, three middle school students helped push a statewide net neutrality bill. Today, Gov. Kate Brown is headed to the girls’ middle school in Portland, where she will sign the bill into law. “It’s an honor for the Governor to come to our scho ...
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6 years ago+13 13 0Six teenagers stabbed in 90 minutes during night of violence in London
Six teenagers have been stabbed within 90 minutes in another night of violence on London’s streets. A 13-year-old boy was among the victims of four separate knife attacks, which took place as protesters gathered elsewhere in the capital to demand act ...
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6 years ago+30 30 0 x 1Panera Bread leaked customer data on its website for eight months
Panera Bread issued a statement to Fox News this week saying it resolved a data breach that exposed the personal information of “thousands” of customer records. However, according to KrebsOnSecurity, the company was first alerted to the issue by secu ...
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6 years ago+5 5 0How ‘Smallville’ Actress Allison Mack Became a Women-Branding Cult Leader
A former Hollywood actress, Mack rose up the ranks of the cult Nxivm—whose founder, Keith Raniere, was recently arrested in Mexico—to second in command.
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6 years ago+30 30 0 x 1Construction companies are welcoming their new robot workers
Automation is changing the face of nearly every industry in the world, but the construction industry may lead the way for robots. The Associated Press reports on the intersection between tech and construction, with new startups unleashing a wave of i ...
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6 years ago+13 13 0U.S. steel tariffs meet barrage of criticism at WTO
U.S. President Donald Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs met a barrage of criticism at a World Trade Organization meeting on Friday, as the European Union, Japan, Australia and others joined a debate started by China and Russia.
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6 years ago+5 5 0Russian Pleads Guilty to Aiding Massive Hacks in U.S.
A Russian national who was extradited to the U.S. last year over Kremlin objections pleaded guilty in a Virginia federal courtroom Monday to conspiracy and aiding and abetting computer intrusion, admitting he operated a dark web service that helped t ...
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6 years ago+17 17 0I Have A Rare Genetic Disease. CRISPR Might Fix It.
Right before I turned five, I went to the eye doctor for the first time. I even wrote about it in my kindergarten journal: “I am going to get galassis! I am so aixidad!” (I was a complicated speller.) At that appointment, I was diagnosed with vitell ...
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6 years ago+16 16 0Game Dev Tycoon adds ultra hard mode where you combat piracy with DRM
Video games development simulator Game Dev Tycoon now has an ultra difficult "Pirate Mode" where your software gets pirated. Emulating the real world problem of piracy, this advanced option will see reduced sales on all of your games. " ...
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6 years ago+18 18 0Heroic midwife uses Stanley knife to cut choking boyfriend's airway open
He was "as good as dead anyway" so his girlfriend made a risky, split-second decision to stop him choking at a barbecue - she cut his airway with a Stanley knife. Hastings man Izak Bester said the emergency tracheotomy could have had major ...