Female genital mutilation is on the rise in Africa: disturbing new trends are driving up the numbers: Thirteen-year-old Salamatu Jalloh had her whole future to look forward to. But in January 2023, her lifeless body was found wrapped in a pink and blue shroud on an earthen floor in a village in north-west Sierra Leone. …
Forced mass abortions are a new and disturbing phenomenon in Nigeria: Induced abortion is illegal in Nigeria. Getty Images Nigeria classifies abortion as illegal except under certain medical circumstances. A recent investigation by Reuters news agency has alleged that, since 2013, the Nigerian military has run a secret mass abortion programme in the north-east of …
The disturbing parallels between Awaab Ishak’s death in Rochdale and the Grenfell Tower disaster: The Grenfell inquiry showed that every death incurred during the fire was avoidable. JessicaGirvan | Shutterstock A senior coroner in Rochdale, a large town in England’s northwest, has ruled that two-year-old Awaab Ishak died as a direct result of prolonged exposure …
Farming without disturbing soil could cut agriculture’s climate impact by 30% – new research: Perhaps because there are no chimney stacks belching smoke, the contribution of the world’s farms to climate change seems somehow remote. But agriculture accounts for a staggering 26% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Tractors running on diesel release carbon dioxide (CO?) …
Chatbots that resurrect the dead: legal experts weigh in on ‘disturbing’ technology: Tatiana Shepeleva/Shutterstock It was recently revealed that in 2017 Microsoft patented a chatbot which, if built, would digitally resurrect the dead. Using AI and machine learning, the proposed chatbot would bring our digital persona back to life for our family and friends to …
These 7 weird and disturbing facts about Donald Trump’s personality will make your skin crawl: Senator Al Franken, who formerly made his living in comedy, recently made a weirdly unsettling observation about Donald Trump. He never seems to laugh. : Weird News Have you tried: Travelling to South Africa?