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Many environmentalists are expressing concern over Sydney’s water supply. Coal mining is affecting the region’s catchments – a network of dams, rivers, lakes and wetlands spanning 16,000sq kilometres – that supply water to the country’s most populous city. Mines have operated in the region for well over a century, but recent data shows that those…
The Almighty Sister JeanImage: kevin c. cox/Getty ImagesBy Heather Dockray2018-03-30 18:02:45 UTC From the Book of Sister Jean, Chapter 1, Verse 3: « God is probably a basketball fan, more of the NCAA than the NBA. » The word is truth, especially when it’s spoken by Loyola-Chicago’s Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt, the school’s basketball team’s chaplain. On Friday,…
Four in five (81 per cent) of teachers said they believed they had suffered sexual harassment or bullying in the workplace since starting the profession, a shocking study has revealed. When asked whether they had experienced bullying since starting as a teacher, only 5 per cent said they had not. Meanwhile, a fifth (20 per cent)…
Funerals have begun for the 17 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces as thousands marched near Gaza’s border with Israel to mark the 42nd anniversary of Land Day. Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip held the funeral for 30-year-old Sari Abu Odeh late on Friday. He was shot dead earlier in the day after Israeli forces…
Islamabad – Malala Yousafzai, the 20-year-old Pakistani education rights icon, has returned home to her native Swat Valley for the first time since being shot by the Taliban there more than five years ago. Yousafzai flew from the capital Islamabad to Mingora, the main town in Swat, by helicopter on Saturday morning. She briefly met…
The modern web contains no shortage of horrors, from ubiquitous ad trackers to all-consuming platforms to YouTube comments, generally. Unfortunately, there’s no panacea for what ails this internet we’ve built. But anyone weary of black-box algorithms controlling what you see online at least has a respite, one that’s been there all along but has often…
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Baghdad, Iraq – Hidden away behind a huge concrete blast wall and a heavily armed police checkpoint in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad is a beautiful little Chaldean church. In the garden, a statue of the Virgin Mary is tucked away into a little man-made cave and inside the word of God is written in English,…
We’ve already published a pretty extensive guide on how to find out everything Google knows about you. It knows a lot, particularly if you use its services such as Google Maps or search. I discovered late last year that it knows my name, gender, birthday, personal cell phone numbers, where I work, where I’ve been…
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