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Climate protesters marry on Westminster Bridge
8Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

Climate protesters marry on Westminster Bridge

    This is the moment a couple appear to get married on Westminster Bridge during a huge Extinction Rebellion demonstration. The pair, who are believed to have been protesting, were snapped in an embrace on an action site demonstrators dubbed The Beacon, one of 12 places around key government locations targeted today. While Westminster Bridge doesn't hold licences to host weddings, witnesses said they couple hitched there after parts of the capital came to a standstill. The couple, who have not been named, were cheered on by other protesters and some threw what appeared to be pink flowers. Others enjoyed an impromptu cricket game outside the Supreme Court as the streets rang with drumming, whistles and chanting. Dozens of tents were erected on the roads and yoga clas...
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Five warning signs of early onset Alzheimer’s
7Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, Life Style

Five warning signs of early onset Alzheimer’s

    You totally spaced on grabbing your gym bag (or lunch...or flat keys...or phone...) on your way to work in the morning. Hey, no judgement forgetting stuff happens to all of us. But what if your memory loss doesn’t seem like a typical part of breezing into your, say, forth decade – and this is happening all the time? While Early-Onset Alzheimer's – defined as when the illness hits people under 65 – is rare, it does affect 5% of all of those ultimately diagnosed. (In 2017, in fact, one 27-year-old British women was told to prepare for the disease, as tests showed it would likely hit her, soon.) Plus, two-thirds of all Alzheimer’s patients and caregivers are female, according to the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement, meaning women are disproportionately affected by the dis...
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The EU’s rejection of Johnson’s plan
7Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

The EU’s rejection of Johnson’s plan

    The European Union’s full devastating point-by-point rejection of Boris Johnson’s Brexit proposals for the Irish border has been revealed in documents obtained by the Guardian. Leaked documents lay bare the scale of the multiple faults highlighted to David Frost, the prime minister’s chief negotiator, during the recent talks. The disclosure follows the prime minister’s claim on Monday that he had not yet heard the EU’s thoughts on the legal text tabled by Downing Street, under which a customs border would be reimposed on the island of Ireland. Under the draft text, which the UK has not published in full, Northern Ireland would stay in the EU’s single market for goods and electricity if Stormont consents, giving the DUP a veto before the arrangement comes into force...
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Four homeless men in US beaten to death as they slept
6Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, Featured

Four homeless men in US beaten to death as they slept

    Four homeless men have been beaten to death with a metal pipe as they slept in doorways and pavements in New York's Chinatown, police say. The suspect, who is also homeless, wielded the weapon and went on his rampage early on Saturday morning. A fifth person was left with serious injuries, police said. Police recovered the weapon, which was still in the suspect's hands when he was arrested, officials said. The motive appears to be, right now, just random attacks, Chief of Manhattan South Detectives Michael Baldassano said at a news conference, adding there was no evidence yet that the victims were targeted by race, age, anything of that nature. Two law enforcement officials identified the 24-year-old suspect as Randy Rodriguez Santos. The officials spoke on the ...
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British bake off winner Nadiya reveals she was abused at age five
6Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

British bake off winner Nadiya reveals she was abused at age five

    Nadiya Hussain has bravely told how she was a victim of childhood sexual abuse. The Great British Bake Off winner said she was sexually assaulted by a relative at the age of five. Her ordeal left her suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and panic attacks for decades, and she also considered suicide. She told The Mail on Sunday: No doubt that would have played a role in my PTSD, my panic disorder. It must have done, because it’s a memory that has stayed with me for ever. Nadiya said she learned about sex in a biology class and threw up in a sink in the science lab when she realised what had happened to her as a child. She added: "I've only told my sisters recently and, growing up, I had a close friend at school who I told. It turned out a very simil...
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Macron’s decision at end of week
6Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Macron’s decision at end of week

    The French president has given Boris Johnson until the end of the week to fundamentally revise his Brexit plan, in a move that increases the chances of the negotiations imploding within days. The UK proposals tabled last week are not regarded in Brussels as being a basis for a deal and Emmanuel Macron emphasised it was up to the UK to think again before an upcoming EU summit. After declining to meet with the prime minister in person, Macron further insisted during a phone call on Sunday that the talks would only be advanced through Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator. Boris Johnson presented his latest proposals, an official at the Élysée Palace said of the conversation. “The president told him that the negotiations should continue swiftly with Michel Barnier...
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Blow for PM as EU drops Brexit talks
5Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Blow for PM as EU drops Brexit talks

    Talks between the UK and European Union will not take place this weekend as anticipated after the European Commission said Boris Johnson's new Brexit proposals "do not provide a basis for concluding an agreement". EU Commission spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud said discussions on the prime minister's plan to replace the Irish backstop would not take place this weekend, but that the UK would be given "another opportunity to present its proposals in detail" on Monday. She said: "Michel Barnier debriefed (officials) yesterday, where Member States agreed that the UK proposals do not provide a basis for concluding an agreement." Mr Johnson is expected to embark on a tour of European capitals for face-to-face talks next week as well as continuing to speak by phone to counter...
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Hundreds of trans people want to reverse sex change
5Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Hundreds of trans people want to reverse sex change

    Hundreds of young transgender people are seeking help to return to their original sex, Sky News has learnt. According to a charity being set up to help them, many members of the trans community are detransitioning - and the numbers may increase further. The number of young people seeking gender transition is at an all-time high but we hear very little, if anything, about those who may come to regret their decision. There is currently no data to reflect the number who may be unhappy in their new gender or who may opt to detransition to their biological sex. Charlie Evans, 28, was born female but identified as male for nearly 10 years. Last year, she detransitioned and went public with her story - and said she was stunned by the number of people she discovered in a...
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UK’s first outdoor primary school opens
5Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

UK’s first outdoor primary school opens

    An outdoor primary school has opened in south London where children spend 95 per cent of their days outside even in winter. Liberty Woodland School, which launched in Worcester Park last week for ages four to 11, is believed to be the UK’s first outdoor primary school, drawing inspiration from Scandinavia. The school says its lessons will “take some influence” from the core national curriculum but will be taught via creative projects and “play-based learning”. Each day begins in a circle around the campfire. Pupils eat lunch cooked in the Edwardian house that is the school’s official building on tree stumps, swing from trees, and do art, music and woodwork projects in sheds. The independent “forest school”, which advertises fees of £3,995 per term, runs on a four-...
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Parents win battle: Court allow to take girl to Italy
3Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

Parents win battle: Court allow to take girl to Italy

    The parents of a severely disabled girl have won a High Court life-support fight to take her to Italy for treatment. Tafida Raqeeb was a healthy four-year-old girl until a blood vessel in her brain burst on February 9 this year, leading doctors to give her only 24 hours to live. Despite defying their prognosis and making some signs of improvement on a ventilator over the last seven months, doctors at Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel said the damage was permanent. Tafida's parents' Shelina Begum and father Mohammed Raqeeb argued that she should be flown out to Gaslini hospital in Italy. Specialists at Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel had said the damage is permanent and that there is no chance of recovery. Tafida's parents, from Newham in East London, had ...
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