Boy, 14, charged in deadly South Loop shooting during teen takeover, Chicago police say A 14-year-old boy has been charged after a 17-year-old boy was killed and a 15-year-old boy wounded during a teen takeover in the South Loop last month.The shooting took place on March 2 in the ... 04/23/2024 - 5:13 am | View Link
‘People like Connor are still left to die in squalor’: the truth, joy and tragedy behind Laughing Boy A decade after her autistic son Connor Sparrowhawk died in a specialist NHS facility, Sara Ryan’s campaign to reveal the truth about what happened is coming to the stage. ‘It’s the most important ... 04/21/2024 - 8:00 pm | View Link
Tributes paid to boy, 7, who died in a swimming pool at a birthday party ‘A 7-year-old boy was transported from the scene to University Hospital Limerick, where he was later pronounced deceased. ‘The local coroner has been notified, and arrangements are being made for a ... 04/20/2024 - 8:13 pm | View Link
16-year-old boy killed by crocodile after boat breaks down: police Australian authorities say that a 16-year-old boy was swimming with a 13-year-old in the waters off of Saibai Island when a crocodile killed him. The pair's boat had broken down. 04/20/2024 - 11:58 am | View Link
Boy (seven) dies at swimming pool in Clare A boy has died after an incident at a swimming pool in county Clare. Emergency services responded to a call for help at around 15:00 BST. The boy was taken to University Hospital Limerick and died a ... 04/20/2024 - 11:16 am | View Link
The sails of Paris’ iconic Moulin Rouge windmill have collapsed overnight for the first time in the 134 year history of the cabaret club.
The accident is believed to have occurred at 2 a.m. local time, less than an hour after the venue’s last show had ended, according to the club owners.
It’s not just U. S. universities where the Israel-Hamas war is a touchy topic. This week, an American professor has sparked controversy in Malaysia after criticizing the Southeast Asian nation’s official pro-Palestinian stance on the conflict during a visiting lecture.
“A country whose political leaders advocate a second Holocaust against the Jewish people will never be a serious player in world affairs, and will certainly never be a friend or partner of the United States,” Bruce Gilley, a professor of political science at Portland State University, said during a keynote address at the University of Malaya on Tuesday, according to a now-deleted post on X in which he quoted himself.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis has a confession to make. “Sometimes I watch the footage from my speeches and I always look much taller than everyone else around,” the 6-ft. 1-in. Greek Prime Minister says with a wry smile, buckled up in the back seat of his car in a pressed blue shirt and black hoodie.
It’s easy to let high stress steal our full attention. Often, high stress leaves us vulnerable to a dysregulated, unproductive state. This means we need reliable resources we can connect to in order to renew and maintain our mental, emotional, and physical energy, and to help us recover from work stressors that, left unchecked, can make us vulnerable to burnout.
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“We are all at risk of manipulation online right now.”
So begins a short animated video about a practice known as decontextualization and how it can be used to misinform people online. The video identifies signs to watch out for, including surprising or out of the ordinary content, seemingly unreliable sources, or video or audio that appear to have been manipulated or repurposed.
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Though it may not look like it, this 50-second video is actually an election ad—one of three that Google will be rolling out across five European countries next month in advance of the European Union’s June parliamentary elections.
Venice, the historic Italian city known for its canals, would like to draw a balance between its residents who live there and help to keep the place running and its visitors, an important source of economic revenue but increasingly also a burden on social services and the livability of the city.
In recent years, the balance has shifted: in the 1970s, Venice had some 175,000 residents; as of last year, its population dipped below 50,000—and the number of tourist beds outnumbered residents for the first time.