Author: Alexandra Heminsley
Violence against women on UK trains has risen by 50% in two years, it was reported this week. The news barely raised an eyebrow among my female friends, so commonplace are sexual assaults and aggressions on public transport. Society seems to be teetering at a crossroads, perilously close to accepting that being stroked, squeezed or grabbed at is just another mundanity of women’s commutes. Grim, but not unlikely. And hardly a crime. Right? Except it is. Of course it is. It’s just that the system, from railways to courts, seems to have accepted otherwise. I was sexually assaulted on a…
The year is 2224. AI Donald Trump is entering his 50th term. Polar bears have gone the way of the dodo. Happily, Cher remains entirely unchanged. A magazine headline asks: “Should men be allowed to wear shorts?” It’s my belief that the perennial debate over whether men can wear shorts should have been put to bed the moment Paul Mescal was papped in a minuscule O’Neills pair, sending the global happiness index soaring by approximately 10,000 points. Here was a way for a man to wear the equivalent of Diana’s revenge dress – or Beyoncé’s freakum dress, for younger readers…
Ahead of the All-Around Gymnastics Final, Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles took to TikTok to share a get-ready-with-me video in which she opened up about her misadventure with Botox. In the clip, the gymnast explained that she had gotten “baby Botox,” or a lower dose of Botox, for her 27th birthday but was unhappy with the results. That’s because after undergoing the procedure, every so often, she said one of her eyebrows would lift uncontrollably for about 20 seconds at a time. According to med spa owner and physician Kate Dee, MD, this is referred to as “Spock eyebrow.” “When…
China added as much new clean energy generation in the first half of this year as the UK produced from all sources in the same period last year, data shows, as wind and solar power generation continued to surge in the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. Electricity generation from coal and gas dropped by 5% in China in July, year on year, according to an update from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) thinktank, basing its analysis on data released by the Chinese government on Thursday. The latest figures reinforce a clear trend – China…
Jonathan Watts and Isabella Kaminski Fri 16 Aug 2024 13.00 BSTLast modified on Sat 17 Aug 2024 05.08 BST Heat inequality is causing thousands of unreported deaths in poor countries and communities across the world, a leading analyst of climate impacts has warned, following global temperature records that may not have been seen in 120,000 years. Sweltering conditions act as a stealthy killer that preys on the most economically fragile, said Friederike Otto, co-founder of World Weather Attribution, in an appeal for the media and authorities to pay more attention to the dangers. “Heatwaves are the deadliest type of extreme…
The Tree plantation program ‘24’ jointly organized by Rotary Club Of Islamabad, Chattogram and Chattogram Sangbadik Housing Society was formally inaugurated at Chattogram Sangbadik Housing Society premises at Shershah under Byezid police station on Friday, August 16, 2024. Prof. Dr. Ishaq Chowdhury, president of Rotary Club of Islamabad, Chattogram attended the event as Chief Guest while , flute maestro and Ekushey medal winner Ustad Azizul Islam , veteran journalist Osman Gani Mansur, President of Chittagong Rotary Center, journalist Satadal Barua, ex-president Shafiqul Alam Khan, president elect engineer Dr. Asif, Rotaract President Mohammad Riyadul, Rotary Club of Chittagong Supreme Founder President…
BISAP Conducted training on “Listening & learning provisions for families and communities structures of environmental sanitation, hygiene, health and nutrition awareness which will enable them to better withstand spikes in COVID transmission and future pandemic” among beneficiaries for limiting the risk of disease spread. During the training emphasis was laid building their capacities to act cooperatively in minimizing health risk of the communities. The said training was conducted by programme staff & invited resources guests.
In the wake of the Awami League-led government’s collapse, young singers have called for freedom from the irregularities, corruption, and political biases that have plagued the music industry for the past 16 years. The “Free Artistes’ Society” held a meeting at the Reporters’ Unit in the capital, attended by nearly two hundred artistes and industry professionals. Musician Muhin Khan played a key role in organising the gathering. The organisation intends to establish a new monitoring database centre that will function as a music regulatory commission. This entirely non-political body is designed to support artistes throughout Bangladesh. The event was attended…
A record 15 national heat records have been broken since the start of this year, an influential climate historian has told the Guardian, as weather extremes grow more frequent and climate breakdown intensifies. An additional 130 monthly national temperature records have also been broken, along with tens of thousands of local highs registered at monitoring stations from the Arctic to the South Pacific, according to Maximiliano Herrera, who keeps an archive of extreme events. He said the unprecedented number of records in the first six months was astonishing. “This amount of extreme heat events is beyond anything ever seen or…
For the first time since Israel launched its brutal war on Gaza more than 300 days ago, there is a glimmer of hope, with almost unanimous global agreement that the conflict must finally end. The US, Egypt, and Qatar, a troika that is directly involved in mediation talks between Israel and Hamas, earlier this month agreed that the time has come to embrace a framework agreement to halt the fighting based on US President Joe Biden’s ceasefire plan. Two days ago, the UK, France, and Germany also issued a joint statement calling for a permanent ceasefire and the unfettered passage…