Author: Trainee Reporter

Paris: Animal rights activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), have disrupted Victoria Beckham’s fashion show during Paris Fashion Week to protest fashion’s use of animal skins. During the event, a PETA activists wearing a t-shirt with the slogan “Animals aren’t fabric” and holding a sign that read “Viva vegan leather” briefly stopped the runway show, joining Beckham’s models on the catwalk. Victoria Beckham’s fashion brand avoids using fur or exotic skins, but Peta pointed out that some designs utilize leather. Mimi Bekhechi, PETA’s European president, highlighted the brutality implicated in using animal skins for fashion. She…

United States: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has allowed food manufacturers to claim that eating yoghurt can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. In 2018, Danone North America, the company that owns major food brands such as Dannon, Activia, Wallaby Organic, and Silk, submitted a petition to the FDA. They requested that the FDA acknowledge that they would not object if Danone marketed their yoghurt as a product that can reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes. The decision was made in response to this petition. The FDA has confirmed that it will not object to the claim…

Argentina: Javier Milei, the libertarian President of Argentina, has vowed to pursue his radical economic liberalisation plans with or without the backing of parliament. In a State of the Union-style speech to lawmakers, Milei announced his plans for economic reforms to lift the country out of decades of decline. “We are going to change the country for good, with or without the support of political leaders, with all the legal resources of the executive. If you look for conflict, you will have conflict,” the President said. Milei handed over a gauntlet to parliament after legislators last month denied his omnibus…

Do you feel midnight hunger or lose sleep over food cravings? Many factors can cause you to wake up hungry at night, including lifestyle, eating habits, and metabolism. But it can be remedied by taking a few steps to help improve your sleep and well-being. In today’s world, people are more conscious of their health, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. But they mostly prefer to use drugs or other options that affect them badly in the future. Here, too, we can try some healthy and simple ways like eating a balanced dinner, avoiding heavy meals before bed, managing stress, and establishing…

United States: Iris Apfel, a fashion icon, who found fame as an octogenarian, has died at her home in Palm Beach, Florida at age 102. Apfel’s estate spokesman, Stu Loeser confirmed that she died of natural causes surrounded by longtime caregivers. Apfel was a renowned expert on antique textiles, and often provided consultation on restoration projects, including those at the White House. She was the subject of various museum exhibitions and a documentary and was featured in campaigns for H&M, eBay, and Citroën. A Barbie doll was even made in her likeness. The fashion tastemaker had a unique personal style…

Kenya: William Ruto, President of Kenya, has announced that Kenya and Haiti signed a “reciprocal” agreement to deploy police from the East African nation to lead a United Nations-backed law and order mission in the gang-ridden Caribbean nation. Ruto said that he and Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry had “discussed the next steps to enable the fast-tracking of the deployment, but it was not immediately clear whether the agreement would counter a court ruling in January that branded the deployment unconstitutional.” Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, wracked by deadly gang-related violence, forcing the closure of businesses and schools and cancelling flights, leading up…

San Francisco: Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman. Musk accused them of abandoning the company’s founding mission to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI), “for the benefit of humanity broadly.” In the legal case filed with a San Francisco court, Musk’s attorneys noted that the tech billionaire was approached in 2015 by Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman to form a non-profit lab that would develop artificial general intelligence for the “benefit of humanity.” “To this day, OpenAI, Inc.’s website continues to profess that its charter is to ensure that AGI benefits all…

United Kingdom: A recent global analysis has found that the worldwide obesity rate exceeded one billion. Participants in the research included health scientists from around the world affiliated with the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration and the World Health Organization (WHO). The study, published in the journal ‘The Lancet’, indicated that 879 million adults and 159 million children were obese in 2022. Research shows that 16.8 million people in the UK suffer from obesity, including 8 million women, 7.4 million men, 760,000 boys, and 590,000 girls. From 1990 to 2022, obesity rates among children and adolescents have quadrupled globally, while rates…

Australia: Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has declared it will no longer be involved in deals to pay news publishers in Australia, prompting condemnation from the government and the media industry. “Additionally, to ensure that we continue to invest in products and services that drive user engagement, we will not enter into new commercial deals for traditional news content in these countries and will not offer new Facebook products specifically for news publishers in the future,” Meta stated in a blog post. The company assured that the move will not affect existing contracts with publishers until they expire. The tech…

United Kingdom: The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved the first product through the International Recognition Procedure (IRP). Since its launch in January 2024, the IRP aims to bring life-saving new treatments to UK patients without delay. MHRA permitted a new formulation for XGEVA (denosumab), through the IRP. XGEVA is a treatment used in adults to prevent bone-related complications caused by bone metastasis and to treat oversized cell tumours of bone in both adults and adolescents. This marks the first product approved under the new procedure. The treatment was approved in 30 days, providing UK patients…