SYDNEY — Energy giant Australian Gas Light Energy (AGL) has taken Greenpeace to court in a bid to stop the environment group from using its corporate logo in climate change campaigns. Greenpeace has used the Australian Gas Light Energy logo in an online advertising campaign featuring the slogan “AGL – Australia’s Greatest Liability”. Greenpeace Australia Pacific is an independent environmental campaigning organization that uses peaceful protests to highlight environmental problems for a peaceful and green future. The campaign describes the company as “Australia’s biggest corporate climate polluter”. Amongst Australia’s leading energy giants, Australian Gas Light Energy offers gas, electricity, renewable and…
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BRISBANE, Australia — Redback spiders, sunscreen, and Home and Away have been immortalized in the currency as part of a celebration of Australia’s unique way of life. From Akubra to Zinc, the A to Z collection of one dollar coins forms the second Great Aussie Coin Hunt, a partnership between Australia Post and the Royal Australian Mint. The Ulysses Butterfly and Xanthorrhoea (grass tree) take care of some of the more obscure letters and sit alongside famous brands such as the Victa lawnmower and Milo. Australia’s position in the debate over the origin of Pavlova has also gained wider currency now the meringue-based dish officially…
MELBOURNE, Australia — Health authorities are warning Australian women from Victoria to be on alert for symptoms after 16 developed a rare form of cancer from breast implants. The cases of breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL) have been linked to the use of “textured” implants in cosmetic and clinical surgeries as far back as 2004. BIA-ALCL is extremely rare, with Australia’s medical devices regulator the Therapeutic Goods Administration only aware of about 76 cases nationally. The risk for women ranges from one in 1000 and one in 10,000, although is about 23 times greater for those who received the highly textured implants…
BARCELONA — Bullfighting in Spain — fiercely defended by some as cultural heritage and loudly denounced by others who condemn animal cruelty — is heavily subsidized by the government, including local councils. Until last November, the European Union subsidized bulls raised for fighting through the EU’s Common Agriculture Policy. That’s when the European Parliament voted 335-297, with 60 abstentions, to remove such funding. The owners of the bullfighting herds had received the funds without judgment as to how the land was used. “In the current Common Agricultural Policy framework, there is no EU aid designed to support the breeding of bulls…
CHENNAI, India — India has allowed its southern state of Telangana to run experimental drone flights from May-end to deliver Covid-19 vaccines and speed up the country’s slow inoculation drive. “Last month, Telangana was granted a conditional exemption for conducting experimental delivery of Covid-19 vaccines within visual line of sight range using drones,” India’s civil aviation ministry said on May 7. “To accelerate the drone deployment process to formulate application-based models, the grant has been extended to beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS).” The ministry said, “exemption from Unmanned Aircraft System Rules, 2021, has been granted to Telangana as part of government’s constant endeavor…
MUMBAI, India — “Can’t take this sitting down anymore,” Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Ethereum-compatible blockchain network, Polygon, tweeted recently. “I am going to run a Covid relief campaign in lieu of what’s going on in India. Need help from the global crypto community Knowing fully well the nebulous regulatory stand in India on anything to do with cryptocurrency, Nailwal said, “I will take full responsibility for transparency, funds usage, and regulatory compliance.” India is dealing with a deadly second wave of Covid-19. On April 30, daily cases crossed the 400,000-mark, and the numbers haven’t dipped below 350,000 cases since. India’s healthcare…
NEW DELHI — Dharmendra Kumar, a 37-year-old doctor, saw four patients slip away on April 26 as the medical oxygen supply ran out. He is the operational head of Covid care at Virat Hospital in Rewari, a city in India’s central state of Haryana. “We tried everything we could to arrange oxygen cylinders,” said Dharmendra. “I called the nodal officer, gas agencies, district magistrate, inquired at the government hospital, called everyone that I could, fought till the end, but no one helped out.” Dharmendra remembers it was around half past two when the supply ran out. The medical staff attends to…
A Finnish artist who turned his camera skyward 25 years ago has completed an unprecedented image of the Milky Way. Jukka-Pekka Metsävainio, who goes by J-P, began shooting the project in 2009, and it took 12 years and 1,250 hours to make the photo, which is 100,000 pixels wide and comprises 234 individual panels stitched together, featuring millions of celestial objects. J-P is one of the few to document photons that traveled millions of years through space with such clarity and dedication to detail. The practice is so rare there isn’t an official name for it. J-P calls himself an astronomical nature…
A new female baby bison at the world’s oldest zoo has been named Calamity Jane, in honor of the legendary American frontierswoman. She was born on April 15 at Schonbrunn Zoo in the Austrian capital Vienna. The calf has orange fur, but it will turn brown within six months. “Our bison offspring are already experiencing their first big adventures. They run and jump through the facility,” said zoo director Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck. “The young animal quickly tires from romping around, and it keeps taking short naps in the bark mulch or sand — mostly near mother Yvonka.” Calamity Jane’s father is…
KAKUMA, Kenya — Bahama Hydrogene fled political violence in his home country of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2013. Kakuma refugee camp in north-western Kenya has been his home for the past six years. “I arrived in Kakuma completely lost,” he told Zenger News. “It wasn’t easy for me. I could not speak English properly and had no source of income. Kenya doesn’t recognize my academic certificates. I made more than 100 applications for work and scholarships but failed. Yet, going back home was not an option.” But his stay at Kakuma will end in June next year, according to…