Harvey Weinstein, one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, has been convicted of rape and sexual assault by a jury in one of the most high-profile trials to take in New York this past year. The disgraced movie mogul was found guilty on two of the five potential criminal charges he faced during the […]
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Friday that “this outbreak could go in any direction.”
His legacy came under suspicion just before his death when allegations were leveled by no less than six women that they had been coerced and manipulated into sexual activity with the founder between 1970 and 2005.
Once again, the Belgian parliament is debating abortion – not whether to decriminalise it, for that happened in 1990, but whether to criminalise protests against it. A new bill would relax existing restrictions by allowing abortions up to 18 weeks (from 12 weeks), removing all penalties for women who do not comply with the law, […]
A Dutch woman suffering with mental health problems has shared her story of how a psychiatrist suggested she ask for euthanasia because he could see she was “tired out” and had “gone through too much”.
China has expelled three Beijing-based Wall Street Journal staff from the country after the paper printed an op-ed headline which authorities there deemed “racist”.
A Labour party deputy leadership candidate has said babies are not born with a sex and that talking about biological reality is “dog whistle transphobia.”
Dubai was host to the world’s first ever fully autonomous human flight with vertical takeoff, a feat sponsored by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed, the Crown Prince of the city.
Imagine, for a moment, that the world’s ten biggest, richest, and most cartoon-villain evil polluters came together in a secret conference to develop a plan to discredit the Green movement and make the population think that environmentalists were all dangerous wackos. Could they conceivably come up with a better plan than to send millions of […]
The British media is currently engulfed in a controversy over Boris Johnson’s adviser, Andrew Sabisky, who, it has been revealed, made a series of questionable comments on various areas of public policy in the years prior to his appointment. British writer Ben Sixsmith writes that the furore around Sabisky is overblown, and symptomatic of a […]
Mr. Justice Julian Knowles said the effect of workplace visits by police due to political opinions of staff “must not be underestimated.”
In the wake of reports of the rapid spread of novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) has said it is in “aggressive containment mode”, and fear the illness isn’t going away any time soon. “This virus is probably with us beyond this season, beyond this year, and I think […]