How to use the new & improved Google Flights to save money
The air travel industry has face some turbulent times lately, with factors like rising fuel costs and tightening corporate travel policies presenting particular challenges. That’s not to say that the sky is falling: Most air carriers are still enjoying big profits and in 2017 airlines enjoyed their safest year on record, as no fatalities involving […]
Social media is making you miserable. Here’s how to delete your accounts.
So long, and thanks for all the Likes. Ditch your social apps—for good. Rahul Chakraborty via Unsplash In theory, social media promises to connect you with the world. In practice, it compromises your personal privacy, puts you at risk of online abuse, and makes you unsatisfied and unhappy with your real life. If you’re irritated […]
UN: Millions of Iraqi Children Affected by Conflict, Poverty Face Grim Future
The U.N. children’s fund warns that millions of Iraqi children affected by conflict and poverty face a grim future and are in desperate need of international support. UNICEF says that in Iraq more than four million children, about one quarter of all Iraqi children, live in poverty. Most of these children, it says, are scarred […]
Thousands of Women March for Equal Rights, in US, Around World
Thousands of women gathered in cities across the United States and around the world on the anniversary of the inauguration of President Donald Trump to call for equal rights in pay and health care, to denounce sexual harassment and to encourage women to run for office. Marchers also addressed such issues as racial equality, gun […]
AMERICA – Major breakthrough towards universal cancer blood test
Scientists have made significant progress towards a universal blood test for cancer. This would radically change diagnosis, treatment and crucially survival rates for sufferers. In a huge breakthrough in the world of science, a new blood test aims to identify cancers before they develop. Called CancerSEEK, it has been trialled by a team of scientists […]
Women’s March protests: Thousands rally against Trump
Thousands have taken part in women’s marches across the US on the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s inauguration, in a bid to get more female candidates running for office as well as protest against the US president’s policies. Under the name Power to the Polls, the rallies on Saturday were hailed as the beginning of […]
The next supreme leader could transform Iran
In early January, Iran experienced its biggest protest wave since the suppression of the Green Movement in 2009. In spite of shaking the Islamic Republic, these demonstrations did not produce any major political changes. Leaderless and without a clear political goal, the protesters could not sustain the initial momentum. They had no support from the […]
Croatia leader visits site of wartime massacre of Muslims
Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic made an unexpected visit Thursday to the site of a massacre of Muslim civilians by Bosnian Croats during the country’s 1990s war, an atrocity that led to several war crimes convictions. Grabar-Kitarovic, on an official visit to Bosnia, paid her respects to 116 Muslim civilians, among whom 33 children and women, […]
Greek neo-Nazi group threatens Muslim association
Athens, Greece – A neo-Nazi organisation has threatened the Muslim Association of Greece and pro-migrant organisations, amid an uptick in anti-immigrant violence in the Greek capital. On Thursday, the organisation said it had received a menacing phone call from Crypteia, a far-right group that attacked the home of an Afghan child last year. “We are […]
Men in Bomb Plot Won’t Get to Add Trump Voters to Jury
A judge on Wednesday said no to three Kansas residents who requested to have Trump voters on their jury as they’re tried for attempting to bomb a mosque and a Somali refugee community. Gavin Wright, Patrick Stein and Curtis Allen were denied their request to include voters from a Trump-voting region in Kansas in their […]