DOT Desk US pharmaceutical and cosmetics group Johnson & Johnson saw its shares plunge Friday after a media report alleged the group had deliberately concealed for decades that its baby powder sometimes contained asbestos, reports The New Age. A lengthy investigation by the Reuters news agency, which reviewed thousands of company documents, showed the company…
DOT Desk A man has died in police custody in Dhaka, hours after his arrest, reports The Financial Express. He breathed his last at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) after he complained of chest pains, according to the police. The accused Ripon was taken to Jatrabari Police Station after his arrest from the Kajla Sheikhdi…
Latika Bourke, Reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age based in London/The Age The magic of the BBC radio program Desert Island Discs is that otherwise private, staid or even on-the-surface dull people with eight tracks, one book and a luxury item can expose a piece of their soul. It’s an exercise made…
Ma Jun, Chairman of China’s Green Finance Committee & Co-Chair of the G20 Sustainable Finance Study Group & Caio Koch-Weser, Chairman of the Board of the European Climate Foundation / Project Syndicate There is no doubt that avoiding the worst effects of climate change will require action on an unprecedented scale – starting immediately. That…
Utah is getting ready to implement the strictest blood-alcohol driving limits in the country. The law, which was passed in March 2017 by Gov. Gary Herbert, will define driving under the influence as having a “blood or breath alcohol concentration of .05 grams or greater,” making it lower than the nation’s standard of .08. Under…
Katherine Zoepf, Journalist who writes about the Middle East/ New York Times The murder of Jamal Khashoggi has focused attention on Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuses. We need to remember all of the thousands in prison. In November 2015, I spent a couple of weeks reporting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It had been less than…
Science Alert Sticks and stones may break your bones, but name-calling could actually change the structure of your brain. A new study has found that persistent bullying in high school is not just psychologically traumatising, it could also cause real and lasting damage to the developing brain. The findings are drawn from a long-term study…
NTV A former Kentucky beauty queen-turned-teacher has been busted for sending nude photos of herself to a 15-year-old former student, authorities said. Ramsey BethAnn Bearse, Miss Kentucky 2014, was arrested Friday in West Virginia and charged with four felonies for sending the illicit snaps, reports the nypost.com. The boy’s parent’s found the nude photos of…
Daniel Oberhaus/Motherboard A reflection on my month without Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon, plus a how-to guide if you want to quit the biggest companies in tech. It was just before closing time at a Verizon store in Bushwick, New York last May when I burst through the door, sweaty and exasperated. I had…
North Koreans are marking the seventh anniversary of the death of leader Kim Jong Il with visits to statues and vows of loyalty to his son, Kim Jong Un. As snow fell Sunday, a steady flow of North Koreans offering flowers and paying respects to the late leader was seen at Mansu Hill in central…