Image copyright EPA Image caption At least 7,070 people have been killed and 36,818 others injured since March 2015 More than half of the health facilities in war-torn Yemen are closed or partially functioning, a survey by the World Health Organisation has found. Only 45% of the 3,507 facilities contacted in 16 out of Yemen’s […]
Archives for November 7, 2016
Nuclear weapon missing since 1950 'may have been found'
Media captionA nuclear bomb may have been discovered off the coast of British Columbia by a diver A commercial diver may have discovered a lost US nuclear bomb off the coast of Canada. Sean Smyrichinsky was diving for sea cucumbers near British Columbia when he discovered a large metal device that looked a bit like […]
Campaign Against 18C, a War on The Rule of Law
Campaign Against 18C, a War on The Rule of Law Senator McKimm, a law that should prevent inciting racial hatred that caused the death of Mr Gong Ling Tang by Victoria Police at Dandenong, Ms Dhu in Deaths in Custody, and Manmeet Alisher Campaign Against 18C a War on Multiculturalism? NO ! The government’s campaign […]
Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning ‘aren’t whistleblowers’ – Australian AG
Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning ‘aren’t whistleblowers’ – Australian AG 15/08/2013 A reminder from 2013, Never to trust WHITE Saviours…. “NOW this is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky, And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As […]
Working for nothing
Image copyright Twitter Image caption The gender pay gap in France is 15.1% It seems an insignificant time: 16:34 on Monday 7 November. And yet, for women across France, it has huge importance: it is the moment they effectively stop being paid for 2016, thanks to the gender pay gap. And this year, many were […]
US election 2016: Trump team tries to ease global concern
Media captionDonald Trump’s team says the “world has nothing to fear” Donald Trump’s campaign team has sought to allay negative views expressed overseas towards their candidate, a day before the US goes to the polls. Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told the BBC such antipathy “doesn’t reflect why Donald Trump is running and who he would […]
South Africa's Julius Malema challenges apartheid-era law
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom fighters often wear red berets and red boiler suits South African opposition figure Julius Malema is challenging an apartheid-era law used to prosecute him over calls to occupy white-owned land. He is accused of urging his supporters to occupy white-owned land in a speech he gave […]
Jobs for the girls
Image copyright Thinkstock Image caption Dawn Bonfield found this kind of early enthusiasm had disappeared by the age of eight or nine When Dawn Bonfield, the former chief executive of the Women’s Engineering Society, ran a stand recently at a big military airshow, she was in for a shock. There were around 900 Brownies amongst […]
Sounds far-fetched
Image copyright Ben Gold He’s the boss of one of the world’s fastest-growing luxury fashion websites, yet Jose Neves admits that he used to find the clothing industry “frivolous and uninteresting”. A self-confessed “computer geek”, it was instead information technology that stirred his passion growing up in Portugal. And while studying economics at Porto University […]
Prince Charles in Birmingham Koran display in UAE visit
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall visited a mosque on their visit to the UAE Prince Charles is to present a digital replica of the ancient Koran fragments discovered by the University of Birmingham, in a visit to the United Arab Emirates. The copy of the manuscript […]
