Pope Francis (85) landed in Canada for a pastoral visit and a historic apology for school abuses in Canada. Pope Francis apologized to the Indigenous people of Canada for the role of the Catholic Church in the Canadian Indian residential system. Pope Francis will visit a former residential school in Edmonton today, where he is…
Britain voted to leave the EU, in 2016, according to a YouGov poll last month 54 per cent of UK adults think Brexit has gone badly, and only 16 per cent think it is going well. David McRaney, a science journalist, self-delusion expert, psychology nerd, and one of our greatest thinkers on reasoning, used…
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) investigated Pontins about their working practices after disclosure it had blacklisted several Irish surnames and screen out their booking for its holiday park from Gypsies and Travellers, after being contacted by a whistleblower. Pontins said it had now signed a legally binding agreement with the EHRC to stop…
Bellingcat, the home-grown investigative unit, the most innovative practitioners of open-source intelligence and online journalism, self-taught internet sleuths end up solving several mega crimes of our time. Their founder, a high school dropout on a kitchen laptop tells the story of how they created a whole new category of information-gathering galvanising citizen journalists across the…
Upstream probes the psychological forces that push us downstream – including the problem of blindness, which can leave us oblivious to serious problems in our midst. Often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with emergencies. We stay downstream, handling one problem after another, but we…
President Donald Trump has been cleared in his impeachment trail, ending congressional bid to oust him from office that divided the US. IN an historic vote on Wednesday, The Senate, run by Fellow Republicans, voted to acquit him 52-48 on charges of abuse of power and 53-47 on obstruction of Congress and decided…
A couple of months ago, the heads from 18 small British telecoms companies met at a London bank to discuss investment, strategy, and mergers. In the meeting, they were asked if they thought the Chinese could eavesdrop through back doors in Huawei equipment all 18 hands went up. One of the bankers then asked, if…
Samsung is investigating reports that some of its washing machines have exploded in the US. A class-action lawsuit filed in New Jersey is alleging some Samsung top-loading washing machines have exploded in their owners’ homes, and allegedly caused damage to walls and doors and presented significant injury risks. One of the Plaintiffs in the case,…
The consumer Group “Which?” found 9000 flights and 37 million passenger journeys to and from UK were delayed by 15 minutes or more between June 2014 and May 2015, and out of 90,000 passengers who could be eligible to claim compensation only four in 10 people, 38% put in a claim. So delayed airline passengers…
“Kids and special needs passengers sleep on floor. British Airways officials have disappeared,” tweeted musician Sean Read, stranded passengers at Mumbai airport. He said passengers had been offered “no hotel, no food, no flight” by either the airport or the airline as minimum standards have been compromised. The 38 of stranded British Airways passengers, including…