UN welcomes major partnership initiative with tech giants to counter terrorism online
A senior United Nations official has called for sustained joint efforts to combat terrorism and welcomed a partnership initiative with tech giants Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube to counter terrorism
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World population to hit 9.8 billion by 2050, despite nearly universal lower fertility rates
The world population is now nearly 7.6 billion, up from 7.4 billion in 2015, spurred by the relatively high levels of fertility in developing countries – despite an overall drop in the number of children
Italy’s struggling economy World’s Healthiest People
The high-heeled boot surrounded by five seas is ranked the healthiest country on Earth in the Bloomberg Global Health Index of 163 countries. A baby born in Italy can expect to live to be an octogenarian
Boy genius Boyan Slat’s giant ocean cleanup machine is real
A system of trash-collecting booms will launch in 2018, and–the 22-year-old inventor claims–will collect half the plastic trash in the Pacific Garbage Patch in five years
Shareholders force ExxonMobil to come clean on cost of climate change
‘Historic’ vote by nearly two-thirds of shareholders will force annual ‘stress test’ to measure how regulation will affect assets
UN chief Guterres highlights importance of sustainable energy
Underlining the importance of energy, in particular for realizing the SDGs, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for urgent action to ensure that everyone has access to clean energy
Let there be light: Germans switch on 'largest artificial sun'
Scientists hope experiment, which can generate temperatures of around 3,500C, will help to develop carbon-neutral fuel. Scientists are switching on “the world’s largest artificial sun” in the hope
