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Singapore

Inside Safdie Architects’ $1.3 Billion Jewel Changi Airport Complex

With 65 million travelers passing through in 2018 alone and amenities that include a butterfly garden and a rooftop swimming pool, Changi Airport is one of the world’s leading transit hubs and a prominent part of Singapore’s identity. It’s now part of the c…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Animal Protection

Momentous Decision By Cites To Limit Trade In Wild Caught African Elephants

Geneva — This momentous decision will save countless elephants from being snatched from their families and natural environment, says Humane Society International at CITES CoP18 in Geneva Wildlife experts from animal protection charity Humane Society Internat…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Hiroshima

10 Ridiculous Injuries That Wolverine Should Never Have Survived

You can stab him, shoot him, and blow him up with a rocket launchernext to nothing will keep James Howlett, aka Logan as well as the Wolverine, down for long! Wolvie's insane healing factor helps him shrug off wounds that most other mutants simply can't. REL…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Alibaba

People may have to work just 12 hours a week thanks to AI, says Jack Ma

Billionaire Jack Ma, long an outspoken advocate for China’s extreme work culture, says that people should be able to work just 12 hours a week with the benefits of artificial intelligence. People could work as little as three days a week, four hours a day wi…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Elon Musk

Tesla rolls out electric vehicle insurance in California

(Reuters) — Tesla said on Wednesday it was launching an insurance service designed to give drivers in California, its biggest market, lower rates because of safety features on its electric vehicles. Chief Executive Elon Musk has been one of the strongest pro…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

Europe’s Complicity in Turkey’s Syrian-Refugee Crackdown

ISTANBUL—Under the cover of night, Turkish police officers pushed Ahmed onto a large bus parked in central Istanbul. In the darkness, the Syrian man from Damascus could discern dozens of other handcuffed refugees being crammed into the vehicle. Many of them w…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Water Scarcity

More People, Less Water? Scientists See Risks On Upper Nile

London — Rapid population growth, combined with a hike in hot and dry years, is likely to dramatically increase the number of people suffering water scarcity on the upper River Nile, climate change scientists said on Wednesday. By 2030, demand for Nile water…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

Current NSG chair Kazakhstan pushes for global elimination of nuclear weapons

NEW DELHI: Kazakhstan, the current Nuclear Suppliers Group or NSG chair and one of biggest producers of uranium globally, has emphasised on total elimination of nuclear weapons. “On August 29, 1991 the First President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev made …

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Water Pollution

North Canterbury crash victim a loveable ‘ratbag’ who ‘lit up a room’

North Canterbury man Colin McCormick was "made for the outdoors", friends and family say. The talented musician and keen fisherman was hit by a car on Beach Rd, Kaiapoi, just after 1am last Friday. He died at the scene. It was yet to be confirmed whether …

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Scotland

Surge in self-harm at immigration removal centre with dozens of ‘vulnerable’ detainees, finds report

There has been a surge in self-harm incidents at an immigration removal centre where dozens of people are detained despite being identified as vulnerable individuals, a new report shows. Inspectors found they had increased from 181 in 2017 to 217 in 2018, de…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Inside Safdie Architects’ $1.3 Billion Jewel Changi Airport Complex

Momentous Decision By Cites To Limit Trade In Wild Caught African Elephants

10 Ridiculous Injuries That Wolverine Should Never Have Survived

People may have to work just 12 hours a week thanks to AI, says Jack Ma

Tesla rolls out electric vehicle insurance in California

Europe’s Complicity in Turkey’s Syrian-Refugee Crackdown

More People, Less Water? Scientists See Risks On Upper Nile

Current NSG chair Kazakhstan pushes for global elimination of nuclear weapons

North Canterbury crash victim a loveable ‘ratbag’ who ‘lit up a room’

Surge in self-harm at immigration removal centre with dozens of ‘vulnerable’ detainees, finds report

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