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Motor sport's governing body the FIA (International Automobile Federation) has not ruled out extending its recent swearing ban to Formula One (F1) team radio communication. Last month FIA president Mohammed Sulayem said the ...
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Nike's current CEO, Elliott Hill, began his career at the global footwear giant as an intern fresh out of university, steadily making his way up the ranks.
Economics & Business
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The biggest challenge to limiting climate change to 2°C, the upper target of the 2015 Paris agreement, is this: methane emissions are rising very fast.
Environment
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In Latin America, deeply ingrained cultural beliefs about gender roles—what women and men should and shouldn't do—persist. This is despite increased involvement by women in traditionally male spheres, such as business ...
Social Sciences
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Nigeria recently rebased its consumer price index (CPI) from 2009 to 2024, leading to a significant drop in the reported inflation rate from 34.80% to 24.48%.
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Cities can be deeply unwelcoming places for wildlife. They are noisy, difficult to get around, full of people and heavily reliant on artificial lighting. Yet some species do better in urban areas than in rural ones.
Ecology
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Most English-language learning classrooms use conventional teaching methods that focus on grammar drills, vocabulary memorization, reading comprehension and structured writing tasks—all with the emphasis on language accuracy. ...
Social Sciences
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Madagascar is an island that's no stranger to natural disasters, in particular cyclones. This is because it's located in the south-west Indian Ocean cyclone basin, a region of the Indian Ocean where tropical cyclones typically ...
Plants & Animals
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After Martin Bryant killed 35 people and wounded 23 others at Port Arthur in 1996, Australia made fundamental changes to its gun laws. The use of automatic and semi-automatic weapons became restricted and a national gun registry ...
Political science
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In the second season of "Severance," there's an unexpected character: a child supervisor named Miss Huang, who matter-of-factly explains she's a child "because of when I was born."
Social Sciences
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