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Best last-minute holiday deals for December, from Barbados to Cornwall

If the build-up to Christmas is getting too much and you need to escape, think about going somewhere warm or snuggle up in a country cottage. You might even want to celebrate Christmas somewhere snowy and festive. If youre looking ahead to a March holiday, s…

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Food Industry

Asia needs to invest $800 BILLION in the next ten years to solve food crisis – report

Asia is “relying on imports flowing through long supply chains from the Americas, Europe and Africa,” states a report from PwC, Rabobank, and investment firm Temasek. “If this investment does not materialize, we believe the industry will struggle to keep up …

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Climate Change

9 songs about climate change you should play at full volume

Eight years ago, NASA oceanographer Josh Willis strolled through the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. There, he spotted Elvis. At an exhibit displaying the destined King of Rock and Roll at age 21, Willis noticed a particular photograph snapped i…

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Chinese Economy

Further to run for global stocks, but trade salve needed: Reuters poll

BENGALURU (Reuters) - The global stock market rally has further to run in 2020, according to analysts, brokers and strategists polled by Reuters, but much depends on U.S. and Chinese officials making real progress in stopping a disruptive trade war. A slim …

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Times Square

PHOTOS: Past and present — balloons of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

The Grinch balloon will attempt to steal some holiday cheer in his first-ever appearance in the 91st Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, Nov. 23, 2017. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) The Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented…

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Orangutan

Green palm oil push: Kit Kat, Dove makers could face fines

Companies that make top brands including Kit Kat chocolate and Dove soap may face fines if they fail to buy more green palm oil under new rules aimed at improving the controversial industry's environmental sustainability. Green groups cautiously welcomed the…

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Singapore

How cities are using technology to solve their trash problems

London (CNN Business)The world has a gargantuan waste problem. Two billion tons of municipal solid waste is generated globally per year, according to the World Bank equivalent to the weight of the Great Pyramid of Giza, in trash, every single day. As urban …

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Virtual Reality

Russian cows get VR headsets ‘to reduce anxiety’

Image copyrightMoscow Ministry of Agriculture and FoodImage caption The headsets were specially adapted to fit cow heads A Russian farm has given its dairy cows virtual reality headsets in a bid to reduce their anxiety. The herd donned VR systems adapted …

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

The malign influence of Jean Raspail’s Camp of the Saints, and how it became a favourite of white supremacists

One morning in 1972, French author Jean Raspail was at his home on the Mediterranean coast when he had a vision of a million refugees clamoring to enter Europe. Armed only with their weakness and their numbers, overwhelmed by misery, encumbered with starving…

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

West Africa: Right Commission Tasks Ecowas On Legislation to Protect Older Persons

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and other stakeholders have tasked the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to ensure legislation for older persons in the region. The stakeholders also urged all individual countries under ECOWAS to …

bubmagNovember 27, 2019

Best last-minute holiday deals for December, from Barbados to Cornwall

Asia needs to invest $800 BILLION in the next ten years to solve food crisis – report

9 songs about climate change you should play at full volume

Further to run for global stocks, but trade salve needed: Reuters poll

PHOTOS: Past and present — balloons of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Green palm oil push: Kit Kat, Dove makers could face fines

How cities are using technology to solve their trash problems

Russian cows get VR headsets ‘to reduce anxiety’

The malign influence of Jean Raspail’s Camp of the Saints, and how it became a favourite of white supremacists

West Africa: Right Commission Tasks Ecowas On Legislation to Protect Older Persons

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