December 6, 2023
Sky News host Chris Kenny says selfies are a “modern health hazard”. According to Mr Kenny, increasing numbers of people have died from taking selfie photos. “Like falling off cliffs, off waterfall ledges because they’re taking selfies,” he said. “Analysts tell us the victims are most likely to be female tourists in their early 20s.”
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They look like small dots of pepper on a tasty egg yolk, or an ‘archipelago’ – a big group of islands on some faraway yellow planet. But the latest set of snaps from NASA actually show a cluster of ‘sunspots’ – cooler parts on the sun’s surface caused by massive changes in our star’s magnetic field.
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Trade disputes myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. This week’s Apec summit in San Francisco, which includes 21 nations in the Pacific region, including the US and China, will cover any number of predictable topics, from trade relations to currency and debt issues.
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Shadow Infrastructure Minister Bridget McKenzie says Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ claims that the infrastructure pipeline is causing inflation and rate rises is “misinformation”. Ms McKenzie has condemned the government’s response to a review of infrastructure programs and projects which has received pushback. This comes after the government said they can’t go full steam ahead on infrastructure
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Mexico’s president said Monday he is going to send a diplomatic note to the United States to protest Texas truck inspections that have caused major delays at border crossings. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador claimed Monday that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to enforce additional truck inspections was “very irresponsible” and politically motivated. Mexico’s national
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Apple on Saturday said it has identified a few issues which can cause new iPhones to run warmer than expected, including a bug in the iOS 17 software which will be fixed in an upcoming update. After complaints that the new phones are getting very warm, Apple has said that the device may feel warmer
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In 2019, a river cruise boat collided with a smaller tourist boat in Hungary’s Danube River and caused 27 deaths, mostly South Korean tourists. Yuriy Chaplinsky, the Ukrainian captain of the river cruise boat Viking Sigyn, was found responsible for the collision and was sentenced to five and a half years behind bars. While some
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Scientists are blaming climate change for the rise in alcohol and drug use. A team from Columbia University analyzed hospital rates in New York State from 1995 to 2014, finding an increase amid warmer temperatures. Researchers suggested that alcohol-related visits may be driven by people’s tendency to consume more substances in pleasant outdoor weather and more
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A major factory fire in Sydney’s southwest has caused traffic chaos for morning peak hour commuters on Tuesday. Emergency crews were alerted just after 2:40am to a fire engulfing a Canterbury appliance store. More than 70 firefighters and 25 trucks attended the scene to contain the blaze as fears the fire could have ignited a
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By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com Published: 15:11 BST, 19 September 2023 | Updated: 17:17 BST, 19 September 2023 X, formally known as Twitter, was hit with a worldwide outage – the second time the platform has crashed in 24 hours. Issues appeared around 10am ET and plagued the website, app and server connection – but
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