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World’s ‘cheapest dress’ has been unveiled – made out of 2,500 Venezuelan banknotes.
The colourful garment comprises currency once worth around £5,000 - but is now virtually worthless due to the country's economic crisis.
As the government abandons Dubs kids, these UK teens headed out to help them
As reports emerge that the Home Office is slashing a scheme to bring vulnerable unaccompanied children to the UK, four British children the same age as many of the children homeless in Northern France gave us their response after helping their counterparts not fortunate enough to have been born in the UK. Labour peer Lord Alf Dubs, who came to the UK as a Jewish child refugee on the Kindertransport, urged the UK Government to take its fair share of...
Moment smoke and flames burst from a woman’s mouth as she exploded in hospital
Doctors think the poison she injected reacted with the air or her stomach gases to produce an explosion
Antarctica ice now unstable as glaciers melt five times as fast as in the 90s
Coastal communities across the planet will be affected.
Home Office reveals more refugees feel forced to risk dangerous channel crossing
The Home Office has released figures revealing that British and French authorities encountered 562 people attempting the crossing across the Channel from France in small boats in 2018 and 177 in the first two months of 2019. With the humanitarian situation for many sleeping rough around Calais deteriorating and the summer coming, figures are expected to rise. - Though the figures are still a drop in the ocean, compared to the 625,000 people who moved to the UK last year,...
US state passes bill banning abortion even in case of rape or incest
The US state of Alabama have just passed the strictest abortion law in the US. The state Senate passed the law by 25 votes to six, which does not allow exemptions for rape or incest. This vote makes it the most restrictive anti-abortion measure passed since pro-life campaigners were defeated in the landmark Roe v. Wade case in 1973. Abortions are banned at any stage of pregnancy, with exceptions only if the pregnancy could severely damage the health of the...
Octopus goes viral as it fights back vlogger trying to eat it alive
Why a Chinese vlogger thought it a good idea to livestream herself eating an octopus alive is a mystery. But as you can see the octopus didn’t intend to make it easy for her and fought back using the suckers on its tentacles – which tend to stick to stuff. Tentacles have hundreds of suckers which can stick onto objects powerfully enough to open shellfish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=43&v=9qvl8HDO1Nc The video of the food vlogger known as ‘seaside girl Little Seven’ went viral...
Humans at risk as world set to lose an eighth of species if drastic action isn’t taken warns UN biodiversity report
A landmark report by the United Nations’ scientific panel on biodiversity warns humanity is at dire peril unless urgent action is taken to restore the plants, animals and other natural resources we depend upon to survive. Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history, warns the grim report by UN scientists. The rate of species extinctions is accelerating, It is is worse than at any other time in human history. From coral reefs and the life they support...
Florida voted to arm teachers
Florida’s House of Representatives voted to pass a bill allowing teachers to carry guns in the classroom, reports Huffington Post. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign into law a bill that would allow classroom teachers to be armed, after the state's House voted 65 to 47 for the measure on Wednesday. The bill states that teachers who volunteer to carry a gun on campus will first need to undergo screening and a 144-hour training course. A state commission...