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Animal Protection

Joaquin Phoenix saves mother cow and newborn calf from slaughterhouse the day after the Oscars

Joaquin Phoenix has liberated a cow and her newborn calf from a slaughterhouse. Just one day after Phoenix advocated for animal rights during his Oscars acceptance speech for best actor, the Joker star helped save a cow and her baby from a slaughterhouse in Los Angeles. Phoenix then took the…

bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

Big Data

How Big Data Has Changed the Financial Industry

The accessibility and value of consumer data has grown substantially in the past several years. These days, nearly every company bigger than a “mom and pop” shop works to gather and analyze terabytes of data from their customers, hoping to better understand and serve them while one-upping the competition.In the…

bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

Animal Protection

Gear Break: New Clothing, Cycling on TV and Race Relief Gel

Gear Break: The mix doesn't get more varied than this week's 'Gear Break'. Do you want to watch all the cycle race action? Then check-out fuboTV. New on the market: Race Relief cold therapy gel from Zaelios, Rapha's Pro Team range for 2020 and Stages® Cycling new Shimano MTB and…

bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

Homeless

Lost In America

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bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

Bootleg Peddler

Beehives Are Now Black Market Gold In California

California's Central Valley is where a quarter of the U.S.'s produce is grown. All of that farmland needs honeybee hives to pollinate crops, especially the ever-expanding almond industry. Beekeepers are having a hard time keeping their hives alive enough as it is, with toxic pesticides and diseases causing up to…

bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

Water Scarcity

Africa: Unprecedented Survey Resets Global Narrative On Africa

Johannesburg — Largest of its kind Youth Survey reveals rising Afro-Optimism and Afro-Capability driven by entrepreneurship, post-colonial mindset, digital technologies and shared African identity 48% choose stable governments over democracy 75% feel they positively change their communities through their work 79% believe that Wi-Fi access should be a fundamental human…

bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

Julian Assange

Assange’s fate hangs in balance as UK court considers U.S. extradition bid

LONDON (Reuters) - Almost a decade after his WikiLeaks website enraged Washington by leaking secret U.S. documents, a London court will begin hearings on Monday to decide whether Julian Assange should be extradited to the United States. A hero to admirers who say he has exposed abuses of power, Assange…

bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

Xi Jinping

Japanese Prime Minister Abe Under Increasing Fire for Handling of Coronavirus-Stricken Cruise

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has so far managed to keep the coronavirus outbreak from damaging his hard-won relationship with China. That’s getting even more difficult with each new case confirmed in Japan. Abe has taken a softer approach to China over the virus than the Trump administration, winning Tokyo praise…

bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

Scotland

Scotland to set up payments service for public sector

Scottish government seeks supplier to work on beta phase of development The Scottish government is planning a new payments service with potential for use across the the public sector. In a public information notice for the project, the government said the platform will be “user-centred, organisationally agnostic, secure, scalable and…

bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Three in Four Poles Know Soviet Troops Liberated Auschwitz, New Poll Shows

On 27 January 1945, Soviet troops entered Auschwitz-Birkenau, the centre of the Nazi mass-extermination effort, where more than 1 million people were gassed, worked and starved to death during the World War.Nearly three in four people in Poland know it was the Red Army that liberated Auschwitz and about two…

bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

Joaquin Phoenix saves mother cow and newborn calf from slaughterhouse the day after the Oscars

How Big Data Has Changed the Financial Industry

Gear Break: New Clothing, Cycling on TV and Race Relief Gel

Lost In America

Beehives Are Now Black Market Gold In California

Africa: Unprecedented Survey Resets Global Narrative On Africa

Assange’s fate hangs in balance as UK court considers U.S. extradition bid

Japanese Prime Minister Abe Under Increasing Fire for Handling of Coronavirus-Stricken Cruise

Scotland to set up payments service for public sector

Three in Four Poles Know Soviet Troops Liberated Auschwitz, New Poll Shows

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