In Hong Kong there has been an issue with voyeuristic crimes such as upskirting since the legislation is not very clear in this cases or actually non-existent. Recently, a court ruling rendered existing legislation ineffective for many smartphone-related offenses. Democratic Party lawmaker James To Kun-sun is urging justice officials to draft the laws against such […]
A definitive link between the consumption of milk and the possession of strong bones has never actually been proven, the closest that people have gotten to proving this, is a research study conducted by Harvard University and published in 1997. The study implied following a number of 77,761 women who had never used calcium supplements
New cars typically come with a manufacturer’s warranty, but it most likely expires a lot sooner than a driver’s willingness to give up his car. If the car or any of its components break down after the warranty has expired, the repair bill will be the car owner’s responsibility unless it is covered by a
The incident reportedly took place on Monday after the man entered the park with four others in order to target rhinos, according to the parks media release, when an elephant suddenly attacked the alleged poacher and killed him. According to the police, “his accomplices claimed to have carried his body to the road so that
Andreas Gal, an Apple employee, was stopped at an unnamed checkpoint in San Francisco International Airport back in December after returning from a business trip to Europe. He was questioned about his work and advocacy for online privacy and was asked to unlock his corporate laptop and cell phone, both property of Apple covered by
A new report on climate change commissioned by the Canadian Environment and Climate Change Department announced that Canada has been and will continue to warm up twice than the rest of the world. It seems that since 1948, Canada’s average land temperature increased by 1.7 degrees Celsius. The report also noted that the warming of
The small southeast Asian kingdom of Brunei announced back in 2014 that it would adopt strict Islamic laws such as death by stoning for gay sex and adultery. That was when many in the country’s LGBT community considered fleeing, but some stayed on, hoping that the law would never come to pass. Presently, beginning with
Palaeontologists consider these fossils to be estimated about 518 million years old and more than half of them have not been discovered before. The fossils are particularly unusual because they are of soft-bodied creatures like jellyfish and worms that can hardly get fossilized. But it seems that they were rapidly buried by mudflows and sediment
Until recently there were 4,000 exoplanets that have been discovered and confirmed by scientists as exoplanets, with nearly 3,000 more exoplanets detections that need further observations in order to be confirmed as real or not. These discoveries were made possible thanks to the explosion of findings from searches with telescopes on the ground and in
The coffee company announced it will start trials for recyclable and compostable cup designs later this year. They are transitioning from the flat, plastic lids that require straws to the ones that feature a raised lid you can drink from. However, customers who still prefer straws will be able to request eco-friendly versions. It seems
