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Plastic Pollution

Plastic junk spawns desert island disaster in Pacific…

Floating plastic garbage has swamped a remote Pacific island once regarded as an environmental jewel and scientists say little can be done to save it while a throwaway culture persists. Henderson Island is an uninhabited coral atoll that lies almost exactly …

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

Jeremy Corbyn’s Finest Hour?

With Boris Johnson as UK prime minister, and his Brexit strategy crystal clear, the task of the Labour opposition is equally clear. It must expose the truth about Johnsons no-deal option namely, that it means a Trump-deal Brexit and put forward its own plan t…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

The Queen

15 highlights from the Buckingham Palace tour

Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNNUpdated 30th July 2019 (CNN) Historic residences don't get much more regal than Buckingham Palace in London. Originally owned by the Duke of Buckingham, Buckingham House (as it was known then) was bought by King George III for his…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Venezuela

Trump deports more Cubans even as he rails against the island’s government

The hotel charged by the hour, but the two young Cubans dirty, hungry and dazed after being released from detention in the United States and pushed back into Mexico had nowhere else to go. The pair and some fellow Cubans detained with them pooled a few crump…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

The Crisis In Journalism Won’t Be Solved By Money Alone

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin A stand at the Global Conference on Press Freedom in London honors murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi on July 10, 2019. (Photo by Tayfun Salci/Anadolu A…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Solar Storm

How the global media were duped into blaming two non-existent ‘North African’ suspects for stabbing an Italian policeman

Italian politics got quite strange last weekend. I was first aware of this on Saturday, when my Twitter started twanging to the sound of a far right politician rowing back on some hatred. That is a rare event, and cause for celebration, even if the proximate …

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Pinterest and YouTube Shine While Facebook User Satisfaction Suffers Amid Privacy Concerns, ACSI Data Show

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Satisfaction with social media isnt falling, but the industry has room for improvement. After dropping in 2018, customer satisfaction with social media overall holds steady at 72 on a scale of 0 to 100, according to the Ame…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Doping in Cycling

Tour de France 2019: 21 talking points from confusing jerseys to ‘wheelsuckers’ via coffee in the Alps

1) The minor classifications are broken. As the different jersey winners stepped on to the podium in Paris, it wasnt always easy to recall the moments that got them there. The climbers polka dot jersey was won by a sheepish Romain Bardet, despite having flun…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Orangutan

Human-animal hybrids to be developed in Japan after ban controversially lifted

Human-animal hybrids are to be developed in embryo form in Japan after the government approved controversial stem-cell research. Human cells will be grown in rat and mouse embryos, then brought to term in a surrogate animal, as part of experiments set to be …

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

This video of kids playing on seesaws at the border wall is a poignant reminder of our shared humanity

The border wall between Mexico and the United States is the ultimate symbol of division. But two architects have found a simple, playful way to connect the people on either side: seesaws.Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, partners at the design firm Rael …

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Plastic junk spawns desert island disaster in Pacific…

Jeremy Corbyn’s Finest Hour?

15 highlights from the Buckingham Palace tour

Trump deports more Cubans even as he rails against the island’s government

The Crisis In Journalism Won’t Be Solved By Money Alone

How the global media were duped into blaming two non-existent ‘North African’ suspects for stabbing an Italian policeman

Pinterest and YouTube Shine While Facebook User Satisfaction Suffers Amid Privacy Concerns, ACSI Data Show

Tour de France 2019: 21 talking points from confusing jerseys to ‘wheelsuckers’ via coffee in the Alps

Human-animal hybrids to be developed in Japan after ban controversially lifted

This video of kids playing on seesaws at the border wall is a poignant reminder of our shared humanity

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