Laws that have driven smoking out of offices, restaurants, public transport and other public spaces have reduced exposure to second-hand smoke, but a global study suggests the problem remains far from resolved.
An 11-hour surveillance video recorded outside Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell has reignited controversy over the late financier’s death, after it was revealed to contain a minute-long gap. The footage, made public Monday
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A man who once inspected tomatoes and cleaned toilets after late-night parties now stands among the world’s most respected scientists. American virologist Charles M. Rice, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine,
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A controversial proposal to redevelop postwar Gaza into a high-tech economic hub—complete with projects like a “Trump Riviera” and an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone”—has drawn international scrutiny, with the Tony Blair
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Sergei Torop, the self-proclaimed reincarnation of Jesus Christ known to followers as “Vissarion,” has been sentenced to 12 years in a maximum-security prison camp by a Siberian court, marking the dramatic downfall
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The Conservative Party has unveiled a bold proposal to bar foreign nationals from claiming key disability benefits, in a move aimed at curbing Britain’s rising welfare bill. The plan, which would restrict
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Ania Goledzinowska, a former TV showgirl and ex-girlfriend of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s nephew, has revealed that she underwent 25 exorcisms over a period of six years after allegedly being possessed
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Russia has formally recognized the Taliban government in Afghanistan, becoming the first nation to do so since the Islamist group seized control of Kabul in 2021. The recognition was made official on
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A landmark report by the Yoorrook Justice Commission has found that British colonisers committed genocide against Aboriginal people in the state of Victoria during the early years of colonization, marking one of
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The cry echoes up and down New York City’s crowded streets. Out of nowhere has emerged a malevolent Muslim candidate for mayor named Zohran Mamdani. He’s 33 years old and born in
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