Month: January 2018

Prayuth Chan-ocha appeared ready for a media conference before producing the unusual prop and walking off Thailand’s prime minister has found a novel way to avoid journalists’ questions: producing a life-sized cardboard cutout of himself and telling the reporters to quiz it instead of him.At a press conference in Bangkok, Read more…

Barring a handful of couples who got an exemption from the mandatory waiting period, 9 January was the first day same-sex couples could legally wed in Australia. As the clock struck midnight, couples around the country tied the knot. Here are pictures of some of the happy couples Continue reading… Read more…

Former first lady obtained her 2014 doctorate in just a few months but her dissertation has never been publishedZimbabwean anti-corruption investigators are probing whether former first lady Grace Mugabe fraudulently obtained a doctorate that she apparently received within months, the dissertation for which remains unpublished.Grace Mugabe, whose apparent desire to Read more…

The unexpected decision by the Republican-controlled body is a blow to the president’s high-profile mission to revive the struggling US coal industryAn independent energy agency on Monday rejected a Trump administration plan to bolster coal-fired and nuclear power plants with subsidies, dealing a blow to the president’s high-profile mission to Read more…

Ape spent most of his life in Wiltshire after arriving from Switzerland in 1980 Via: One of the world's oldest gorillas, Nico, dies at Longleat Safari Park

Landmark step will stop manufacturers from adding the tiny pieces of plastic to rinse-off products such as face scrubs and shower gels Via: UK bans manufacture of products containing microbeads over environmental concerns