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Thursday, Dec 09, 2021

New Zealand Will Ban Cigarettes for All Future Generations

New Zealand Will Ban Cigarettes for All Future Generations

The New Zealand government said it would ban all sales of cigarettes for its future generations, as part of the country’s push to go smoke free by 2025. Anyone born after 2008 will be prohibited from buying cigarettes in their lifetime.

The No 10 Christmas party fallout

The No 10 Christmas party fallout

Allegra Stratton has resigned as a government adviser following an angry backlash over a video of No 10 staff joking about holding a Christmas party.

Once again, British lawmakers break the rules they enforce on their tax payers, then they “apologise”, and life goes on

Once again, British lawmakers break the rules they enforce on their tax payers, then they “apologise”, and life goes on

Once again, British lawmakers break the rules they enforce on their tax payers, then they “apologise”, and life goes on

Once again, British lawmakers break the rules they enforce on their tax payers, then they “apologise”, and life goes on

And after the fake apology the stupid British people carry on following the rules the lawmakers break. Once again.

Two Chinese property firms default on $1.6 billion in bonds - Fitch

Two Chinese property firms default on $1.6 billion in bonds - Fitch

Two major Chinese property firms have defaulted on $1.6 billion worth of bonds to overseas creditors, Fitch Ratings agency said Thursday, as contagion spreads within the country's debt-ridden real estate sector.

Comments on "Human Intelligence in a Digital Age" - A brilliant Speech by MI6 Chief Richard Moore, and the neglected elephants in the room

Comments on "Human Intelligence in a Digital Age" - A brilliant Speech by MI6 Chief Richard Moore, and the neglected elephants in the room

The author is not important. The content is.

Justified compliments about Mr. Moore's speech have been spread extensively and appropriately in the pages of many newspapers, but I would like to remark on precisely what I think was missing in the speech. Missing, not necessarily becau...

Mia A. Mottley deserves standing ovation for Barbados leadership- Skelton-Cline

Mia A. Mottley deserves standing ovation for Barbados leadership- Skelton-Cline

Pastor and host of the Honestly Speaking radio show Claude O. Skelton-Cline has called on the region to give standing ovations to Barbados Prime Minister Mia A. Mottley over her leadership that saw the removal of Queen Elizabeth II as He...

COVAX orders SVG to pay for vaccines donated to Trinidad

COVAX orders SVG to pay for vaccines donated to Trinidad

The worldwide initiative aimed at equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines has ordered St. Vincent and the Grenadines to pay US$70,000 for COVID-19 vaccines that it donated to Trinidad and Tobago in May.

Trinidad's ruling party toppled in Tobago elections

Trinidad's ruling party toppled in Tobago elections

A majority of Tobagonians opted for change when they elected the Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP) headed by Watson Duke and Farley Augustine to run their Tobago House of Assembly affairs until 2025.

Instagram Head Calls For Industry Body To Regulate Online Safety For Youth

Instagram Head Calls For Industry Body To Regulate Online Safety For Youth

Instagram Head Adam Mosseri, speaking before a Senate panel, said a industry body should be formed with input from civil society, parents, and regulators to create standards on age verification, age-appropriate experiences, and parental ...

Jamaica Top Cop says technology has outpaced laws

Jamaica Top Cop says technology has outpaced laws

Noting that the police have been flayed for seemingly ignoring some acts which shock the public’s conscience, Commissioner of Police Major General Antony Anderson says the blame cannot be laid at the feet of law enforcers but rather on l...

Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa Arrives At Space Station

Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa Arrives At Space Station

Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson all made breakthrough commercial tourism flights this year, bursting into a market Russia is keen to defend.

Ghislaine Maxwell trial: Government releases new photos of Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell

Ghislaine Maxwell trial: Government releases new photos of Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell

Ghislaine Maxwell trial: Government releases new photos of Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell

Everything You Need to Know: Limewash Paint - A Beginner's Guide + DIY Tutorial for Interior Walls

Everything You Need to Know: Limewash Paint - A Beginner's Guide + DIY Tutorial for Interior Walls

A beginner’s guide to Limewash for Interiors.

UK “freedom of press”: TV show deletes poll after 89% oppose mandatory vaccination

UK “freedom of press”: TV show deletes poll after 89% oppose mandatory vaccination

ITV breakfast television show ‘Good Morning Britain’ received backlash on social media after deleting a poll which showed a vast majority of respondents opposed mandatory Covid-19 vaccination.

Analysis: Boris Johnson's aides joked about Christmas party in Downing Street while London was in lockdown

Analysis: Boris Johnson's aides joked about Christmas party in Downing Street while London was in lockdown

Boris Johnson has faced many scandals in his more than two years as UK Prime Minister. But the latest one is the gravest yet.

Musk Tries to Brush Off Whistleblower Accusations Against Tesla by Selling Cyberwhistle

Musk Tries to Brush Off Whistleblower Accusations Against Tesla by Selling Cyberwhistle

A former Tesla field quality manager reportedly filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that the firm failed to properly warn investors about problems with its solar panel systems that could result in fires.

16 Times Dakota Johnson’s Fringe Made Us Want To Cut In Bangs

16 Times Dakota Johnson’s Fringe Made Us Want To Cut In Bangs

The actor’s fringe adds a sense of easy glamour to her looks

Bitcoin Drops to Lowest Value Since September Amid Cryptocurrency Market Turbulence

Bitcoin Drops to Lowest Value Since September Amid Cryptocurrency Market Turbulence

Bitcoin shed about 20% of its value overnight, dropping from $57,600 to $42,000, its lowest value since the end of September, data on the trading website Binance shows.

Musk Tells SpaceX Team Company Is on Verge of Bankruptcy Amid Troubled Engine Production - Report

Musk Tells SpaceX Team Company Is on Verge of Bankruptcy Amid Troubled Engine Production - Report

SpaceX, which employs 7,000 people, is valued at more than $100 billion. NASA has awarded it a $2.9 billion contract to create a lunar lander capable of carrying astronauts to the moon. However, the current production situation presents ...

Quote of the Day

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better.
Jim Rohn

The best bars in the world for 2021 have been revealed

The best bars in the world for 2021 have been revealed

We're sorry, USA. Europe has completely trounced you at the cocktail game.

Amazon cloud outage hits websites and streaming apps

Amazon cloud outage hits websites and streaming apps

The outage comes around five months after Amazon experienced a disruption in its online stores' service, which lasted for nearly two hours and affected more than 38,000 users.

Government’s vaccination strategy is not designed to support the NHS

Government’s vaccination strategy is not designed to support the NHS

Shaun Soper on why a well-functioning health service is at odds with the Tory privatisation agenda, and Dr Tim Owen on training people to vaccinate

Wikipedia's first ever edit is being auctioned as an NFT

Wikipedia's first ever edit is being auctioned as an NFT

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is auctioning off a non-fungible token (NFT) of the first edit ever made on the site.

The world has the tools to end the coronavirus pandemic. They're not being used properly

The world has the tools to end the coronavirus pandemic. They're not being used properly

The Covid-19 pandemic will not last forever.

Fury as transgender UPenn swimmer, 22, who used to compete as a man smashes TWO US women's records in weekend competition and finishes one race 38 seconds ahead of her nearest rival

Fury as transgender UPenn swimmer, 22, who used to compete as a man smashes TWO US women's records in weekend competition and finishes one race 38 seconds ahead of her nearest rival

Fury as transgender UPenn swimmer, 22, who used to compete as a man smashes TWO US women's records in weekend competition and finishes one race 38 seconds ahead of her nearest rival

Fury as transgender UPenn swimmer, 22, who used to compete as a man smashes TWO US women's records in weekend competition and finishes one race 38 seconds ahead of her nearest rival

Fury as transgender UPenn swimmer, 22, who used to compete as a man smashes TWO US women's records in weekend competition and finishes one race 38 seconds ahead of her nearest rival

Fury as transgender UPenn swimmer, 22, who used to compete as a man smashes TWO US women's records in weekend competition and finishes one race 38 seconds ahead of her nearest rival

Fury as transgender UPenn swimmer, 22, who used to compete as a man smashes TWO US women's records in weekend competition and finishes one race 38 seconds ahead of her nearest rival

Lia Thomas, 22, smashed two U.S. swimming records at an Akron, Ohio contest. Thomas won the 1,650 freestyle in a record time of 15:59.71 beating her closest rival Anna Sofia Kalandaze by 38 seconds.

Dominic Cummings: ‘very unwise for No 10 to lie’ about Christmas parties

Dominic Cummings: ‘very unwise for No 10 to lie’ about Christmas parties

Ex-chief aide to Boris Johnson also alleges some journalists are trying to play down coverage of 2020 events

British PM Under Fire Over Video Of Staff Joking About Lockdown Party

British PM Under Fire Over Video Of Staff Joking About Lockdown Party

The government has been accused repeatedly of hypocrisy over breaches of lockdown rules and in a major scandal health secretary Matt Hancock resigned in June after revelations that he broke coronavirus restrictions during an affair with ...

Omicron "Makes Situation More Worrying": Europe Gets Grim Covid Warning

Omicron "Makes Situation More Worrying": Europe Gets Grim Covid Warning

In the coming weeks, there will be increasing parameters of COVID-19 cases, deaths, hospitalization and ICU admissions in European countries, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said.

Pfizer Jab Provides Less Immunity To Omicron Than Other Variants

Pfizer Jab Provides Less Immunity To Omicron Than Other Variants

Researchers at the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, South Africa, found omicron resulted in about a 40-fold reduction in levels of neutralizing antibodies produced by people who had received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech SE...

This Fashion Billionaire Plans To Hand Out Cash From Space

This Fashion Billionaire Plans To Hand Out Cash From Space

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Wednesday on a Soyuz spacecraft taking him to the International Space Station for a 12-day trip.

Twitter's New CEO Parag Agrawal Got Nod From Jack Dorsey A Year Ago

Twitter's New CEO Parag Agrawal Got Nod From Jack Dorsey A Year Ago

Jack Dorsey's decision to step down as chief executive officer of Twitter caught investors and employees by surprise but the framework for his departure had been in place for more than a year.

UN Chief Cancels Meetings, Isolates After COVID-19 Exposure

UN Chief Cancels Meetings, Isolates After COVID-19 Exposure

The UN chief was due to be the guest of honor of the UN Press Association at its annual gala in Manhattan on Wednesday.

Biden's Electric Vehicle Bill Should Not Pass Congress, Says Elon Musk

Biden's Electric Vehicle Bill Should Not Pass Congress, Says Elon Musk

Tesla's billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is escalating criticism about the Biden administration and Democrats for a proposal to give union-made, US-built electric vehicles an additional $4,500 tax incentive.

Ghislaine Maxwell Arranged 'Massages' With Jeffrey Epstein, Says Accuser

Ghislaine Maxwell Arranged 'Massages' With Jeffrey Epstein, Says Accuser

A woman testified at the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell on Tuesday that she was just 14 years old when the British socialite started arranging for her to have encounters with Jeffrey Epstein that would always ended in sexual ...

Half a Billion in Bitcoin, Lost in the Dump

Half a Billion in Bitcoin, Lost in the Dump

For years, a Welshman who threw away the key to his cybercurrency stash has been fighting to excavate the local landfill.

Viagra may be useful against Alzheimer's dementia

Viagra may be useful against Alzheimer's dementia

The impotence pill Viagra may be a useful treatment against Alzheimer's disease, say US researchers who have been studying its effects in the brain.

German husband kills himself, his family after faking jab certificate

German husband kills himself, his family after faking jab certificate

Police found two adults, both 40, and three children aged four, eight and 10 dead from gunshot wounds in a family home in Koenigs Wusterhausen south of Berlin on Saturday.

Crypto exchange Bitmart says hackers took $150 million

Crypto exchange Bitmart says hackers took $150 million

Hackers stole at least $150 million from crypto exchange Bitmart, the platform said Monday.

Man Burns Down $1.8 Million Home While Trying To Get Rid Of Snakes

Man Burns Down $1.8 Million Home While Trying To Get Rid Of Snakes

The images showed the fire engulfing the property and also what was left of it when the fire was doused.

UK alcohol deaths hit new record

UK alcohol deaths hit new record

The UK has seen its highest yearly increase in the number of deaths directly related to alcohol consumption, new government figures show, with the somber record reached in 2020 amid the pandemic.

Open to corruption? Ukraine's new crypto law is dividing opinion

Open to corruption? Ukraine's new crypto law is dividing opinion

A new law in Ukraine seeks to legalise cryptocurrencies, a first step on its path to a crypto-inclusive future. Not everyone approves.

Democrats' new minimum tax would target Facebook, Amazon, analysis shows

Democrats' new minimum tax would target Facebook, Amazon, analysis shows

At least 70 of the largest companies in the U.S. could see higher tax bills under a new minimum levy that President Biden has endorsed in order to help fund his sweeping Build Back Better plan.

Biden's Summit For Democracy Attracts Authoritarian Eyre

Biden's Summit For Democracy Attracts Authoritarian Eyre

More than 70 years ago, Britain’s Winston Churchill warned that an iron curtain was descending across Europe dividing the continent into the throes of democratic states and the Soviet Union. In a speech in Fulton, Missouri, the great war...

Starbucks CEO says unionization would go against 'direct relationship' with employees

Starbucks CEO says unionization would go against 'direct relationship' with employees

Kevin Johnson said union could make company less agile in responding to its workforce

Pfizer accused of ‘sabotaging’ AstraZeneca jab

Pfizer accused of ‘sabotaging’ AstraZeneca jab

US drugsmaker Pfizer is denying any wrongdoing after a British TV documentary showed that a presentation made on its behalf had criticized a rival Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by AstraZeneca as being potentially unsafe.

How food influencers affect what we eat

How food influencers affect what we eat

It is hard to browse through social media without coming across a banquet's worth of mouth-watering posts, but do these actually alter your own food choices?

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