NYC sues oil companies for the cost of adapting to climate change. How to Address the Epidemic of Lies in Politics. Mugabe resignation ushers in new era for Zimbabwe. Nine out of 10 flounder swimming in the Thames have plastic fragments in their guts, says research. Britain’s rivers are awash with so much plastic that nine out of 10 flounder swimming in the Thames have fragments in their guts, according to alarming new research.
Despite a new 5p charge for carrier bags being introduced in England on 5 October, environmentalists say the move doesn’t go far enough to stem the plastic tide causing havoc in the country’s rivers. Mugabe named as goodwill ambassador by WHO. Image copyright AFP/Getty The choice of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe as a World Health Organization (WHO) goodwill ambassador has been criticised by several organisations including the British government.
It described his selection as "surprising and disappointing" given his country's rights record, and warned it could overshadow the WHO's work. The opposition in Zimbabwe and campaign groups also criticised the move. The WHO head said he was "rethinking his approach in light of WHO values". Four black men die. Did police actions play a part? Darren Cumberbatch’s sister Carla could not remember him being so upbeat.
Finally, he’d passed his driving test and was at last ready to fulfil his ambition of working full-time as an electrician. On 9 July – the last day on which anyone would recognise him as a healthy young man – Cumberbatch had called at Carla’s for a celebratory Sunday lunch, then spent several hours playing with her three children, who he cherished as much as his pitbulls: Bailey, Cream and their pup, Kaiser. Assessing ExxonMobil's climate change communications (1977–2014) Sleeping Through the Night Is a Relatively New Invention. A Story of Slavery in Modern America - The Atlantic. 点击这里阅读中文版本 (Chinese) | Basahin ang artikulong ito sa Tagalog (Tagalog) Alex Tizon passed away in March.
He was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author of Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self. French journalist Florence Hartmann jailed by war crimes tribunal. The journalist Florence Hartmann, a former correspondent for Le Monde, has been jailed at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, the body established to try the criminals she devoted her life to exposing.
She was arrested ahead of the verdict handed down to former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić. Hartmann’s lawyer said she was being held in isolation, a situation that will last until at least Tuesday because of the Easter holiday. In a private phone call from detention she said that she was in the bizarre position of “watching General Ratko Mladić [the accused Bosnian Serb military leader] walking around the yard and associating with other prisoners while I’m locked away in a cage. The outrageous thing was to see the UN and Dutch police kick away women from Srebrenica and survivors from the camps who were trying to protect me from arrest, after all they’ve been through”.
Her lawyer, Guénaël Mettraux, described her situation as a disgrace on Friday. Mr Golcevski said that Ms. EU parliament leader: we want Britain out as soon as possible. A senior EU leader has confirmed the bloc wants Britain out as soon as possible, warning that David Cameron’s decision to delay the start of Brexit negotiations until his successor is in place may not be fast enough.
Cameron announced on Friday morning that he would step down as prime minister by the autumn, after the British public caused a political earthquake by voting 52%-48% to leave the European Union. Martin Schulz, the president of the European parliament, told the Guardian that EU lawyers were studying whether it was possible to speed up the triggering of article 50 of the Lisbon treaty – the untested procedure for leaving the union. Donald Trump wants to 'close up' the Internet - Dec. 8, 2015. UK flooding: How a Yorkshire town worked with nature to stay dry. While the sodden, submerged North of Britain was, literally, wringing out the old year last week, one notorious Yorkshire flood blackspot was celebrating staying dry – despite having been refused a multimillion pound defence scheme.
Pickering, North Yorkshire, pulled off protection by embracing the very opposite of what passes for conventional wisdom. On its citizens’ own initiative, it ended repeated inundation by working with nature, not against it. Is New Orleans in danger of turning into a modern-day Atlantis? In the years before Hurricane Katrina, residents of New Orleans sought solace in the belief that the Crescent City could build itself out of all environmental threats.
Despite a sinking urban footprint, a shrinking coastal buffer and rising sea levels, they had faith that strong stormwater infrastructure was enough to keep them safe. The huge, federally built levee system encircling the metropolitan area enshrined that belief. But then, in late August of 2005, the levees failed, allowing Katrina’s storm surge to flood roughly 80% of the city, killing hundreds and damaging 134,000 housing units. The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 1. “I imagine that someday I may have a story written about my life and it would be good to have a detailed account of it.”
—home/frosty/documents/journal/2012/q1/january/week1 The postman only rang once. Curtis Green was at home, greeting the morning with 64 ounces of Coca-Cola and powdered mini doughnuts. Fingers frosted synthetic white, he was startled to hear someone at the door. NHS details released against patients' wishes, admits data body. The body responsible for releasing NHS patient data to organisations has admitted information about patients has been shared against their wishes, it has emerged.
Requests by up to 700,000 patients for details from their records not to be passed on, registered during preparations for the creation of a giant medical database, have not been met. But the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) told MPs that it “does not currently have the resources or processes to handle such a significant level of objection” and it also encountered technical issues over logging the preferences. Patients registered their objections during the development of the controversial care data system but the plans were shelved in March 2014. Game of Fear: The Story Behind GamerGate. Grant Shapps accused of editing Wikipedia pages of Tory rivals. The Radical Humaneness of Norway’s Halden Prison. Like everything else in Norway, the two-hour drive southeast from Oslo seemed impossibly civilized.
DEA warns of stoned rabbits if Utah passes medical marijuana. The new face of marijuana addiction. (Flickr user Chung Ho Leung/CC) Utah is considering a bill that would allow patients with certain debilitating conditions to be treated with edible forms of marijuana. If the bill passes, the state's wildlife may "cultivate a taste" for the plant, lose their fear of humans, and basically be high all the time.
That's according to testimony presented to a Utah Senate panel (time stamp 58:00) last week by an agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration. NYPD Caught Editing Wikipedia Entries About Police Brutality Victims. American atheist blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh. President Mobutu's ruined jungle paradise, Gbadolite - in pictures. Mugabe falls: comedy memes of Zimbabwe's president go viral. Randomly generated tweet by bot prompts investigation by Dutch police. When Twitter user @jeffrybooks tweeted saying “I seriously want to kill people” at a fashion and cosmetics convention happening at Amsterdam, the Dutch police took the threat seriously.
Jeffry van der Goot, a 28-year-old web developer who created the account, received a visit from the police in short order. After Copenhagen: The Myth of Civilized Censorship. Nigeria: 2,000 feared killed in Boko Haram's 'deadliest massacre' Two suspected child suicide bombers attack Nigerian market. After a week of bloodshed unleashed by Islamists Boko Haram left hundreds of civilians dead across north-eastern Nigeria, Ibrahim Abu wanted to try to forget.
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Black men survive longer in prison than out: study. Icelanders turn in first draft of crowdsourced constitution. Spirit levels. Hasan Elahi: FBI, here I am! Thousands Sterilized, North Carolina Weighs Restitution. David McCullough at Wellesley Commencement: ‘You Are Not Special’ (Video) Press criticism: The balance trap. How Doctors Die. Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says. Who Needs Twitter? Libyan Protesters Covertly Connect on Dating Website. I don't hate Macs, but they do give me a syncing feeling. Atheists Outdo Some Believers in Survey on Religion. The Stoner Arms Dealers. Doctor slang is a dying art. Guantánamo: security services must be protected, says Ken Clarke. David Eagleman on Possibilianism. Row after Pope's remarks on atheism and Nazis. The End of the Best Friend. 2605_Graph_Inegalite.jpg (JPEG Image, 984×640 pixels) Stallion Semen Served Up in New Zealand as New Energy Drink.
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