Athletes who fled their country of origin but had yet to get citizenship elsewhere were previously prevented from competing in the Olympics. But not next year.
Changing attitudes towards sexism in the workplace is hard enough. What about if the workplace involves rappelling down a wall, covered in mud, while being screamed at by a drill instructor?
The image of a young girl running naked and screaming in agony came to define the suffering of the Vietnam War.
Earlier this year, when one professor analyzed 151,000 applications to the Russell Group of the 24 most prestigious UK universities, she found they had a particular problem with diversity. While 54.7% of white applicants got an offer, black applicants had a success rate of 21.9%. Offer rates for Pakistani and Indian students were 30.3% and 43.1%, respectively.
Just when you thought the news about climate change couldn’t get any worse, consider this.
Everyone is now expected to add punctuation when writing, but that wasn’t always the case. It took centuries for the English language to build up the list of rules that has now become commonplace. Here’s a brief look at how we came to use these well-known punctuation marks.
The Eurotunnel, the company that operates the important link between the UK and France under the English Channel, announced the number of freight trains using the tunnel fell by 33% in the third quarter.
When new technology threatens to fundamentally change a sport, governing bodies usually step in to assess the damage—if any. But in the exciting world of curling, the world’s top players have taken the decision into their own hands. By refusing to use high-tech brooms.
IBM, the one-time PC king, is now an Apple fanboy. After the two tech giants first announced their landmark partnership last year, the company has been deploying Macs internally at a rapid pace in the last few months—1,900 per week—and it’s saving them a lot of money. IBM’s workforce has found it a lot easier to use Macs.
Most academic journals charge expensive subscriptions and, for those without a login, fees of $30 or more per article. Now academics are using the hashtag #icanhazpdf to freely share copyrighted papers.
Unlike their American counterparts, British storms don’t often get named and are instead usually known by their dates, such as the Great Storm of 1987. As there was no official naming system, some storms ended up getting multiple names by different forecasters. But that’s now all about to change.
What do hedge funds really want in an office? Armani-inspired gold-plated toilets and in-house dining, apparently.
As part of a wave of violence that has engulfed both Israel and the Palestinian territories in the last month, an Eritrean immigrant who was mistaken for a gunman during an attack on a bus station in the southern city of Beersheba was shot and beaten to death. In a video, which some may find distressing, the man is seen bleeding on the floor, while being kicked and attacked by a nearby mob.
Following the destruction of world heritage sites in Syria and Iraq by ISIL, including the ancient city of Palmyra, UNESCO has vowed to take decisive action. The UN agency that looks after the world’s heritage has approved Italy’s proposal to send peacekeepers to defend protected sites globally against further attacks by Islamist militants.
For much of Germany’s Autobahn, the federally-controlled highway system, there are no speed limits. But for how much longer?
While the majority of European citizens think asylum seekers should be redistributed throughout the EU, a recent poll found bitter divisions between countries in Europe.
School dinners have become the strange, new battleground for secularism in France. In the most recent debacle, a school made students who don’t eat pork or meat wear red and yellow tags, respectively.
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Ireland is home to the European arms of Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft—all of which are mainly there for the low taxes. Ireland has a 12.5% corporate tax rate, which is one of the lowest in the developed world, and it has been heavily criticized for it by other nations.
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Dell has announced the largest-ever deal between technology companies. The computer maker will buy data storage company EMC for $67 billion.
Table for one? You’re probably not alone.
After getting a string of As at her school-leaving exams, Malala Yousafzai has her pick of top colleges around the world.
A young boy—let’s call him H—arrived in the UK in 2011. He had hoped his life would finally start to get better after fleeing Afghanistan. He was wrong.
