Controversy has erupted after New Zealand trans weightlifter, Laurel Hubbard, who was born male, now looks set to make history by taking part in the women’s super heavyweight weightlifting category in the Olympics. Despite being 43 years old, considered long past the peak of strength in competitive weightlifting, Hubbard won silver at the 2017 world championships. While some […]
One of the rites of passage for American Children, as any person who has watched an American coming-of-age movie will know, is heading off to what they call “summer camp”, which is sort of a convenient way for parents to get rid of their children over the summer holidays. There were, of course, no such […]
Facebook’s oversight board has voted to uphold Donald Trump’s ban from both Facebook and Instagram. Facebook was one of many major tech companies that earlier this year moved to indefinitely block Trump’s access to his accounts on their platforms, citing alleged concerns that Trump was guilty of inciting violence. At the time of his initial […]
“No one is allowed to steal my home!” al-Kurd responds.
“Amazon pays all the taxes required in every country where we operate,” the spokesman said.
The Law Commission is considering whether the list of protected groups should be expanded under current hate crime laws in the UK.
A Harris Interactive poll of French citizens has found 58 per cent of respondents support a controversial warning issued by a group of active and retired military personnel that the country is close to “civil war” due to Islamic fundamentalism.
The EU’s border agency, Frontex, has been given new powers to oversee the deportation of illegal immigrants. In a new strategy revealed by the European Commission on Tuesday, Frontex will be at the centre of new plans to send illegal migrants home once they are denied entry into Europe. “Frontex will become the European Union’s […]
A peaceful 75-year-old Christian preacher was roughed up and arrested by London police for reading Bible verses about there being only two genders, which some onlookers called “hate speech.” Pastor John Sherwood, a minister at a north London church, was preaching the Christian gospel in Boris Johnson’s home constituency with a colleague, Peter Simpson. According […]
16 nursery students and 2 teachers have been wounded during a knife attack at a créche in China. Footage of the suspect being arrested by police has been circulating on social media following the attack in the Guanxi region of southern China. According to Xinhua, Chinese State-run media, two of the children were seriously injured, […]
Michael Collins, one of the original three-man crew of the first manned mission to the Moon, has passed away at age 90 after “a valiant battle with cancer.” Collins reportedly passed away Wednesday, and “spent his final days peacefully, with his family by his side” according to his relatives. During the Apollo 11 mission in […]
The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), an international cross-party group of parliamentarians, yesterday launched a global campaign calling on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to invite Taiwan to participate in the World Health Assembly planned for next month. The campaign, titled Let Taiwan Help, argues that Taiwan’s response to COVID-19 was “a great example to […]