SYDNEY, Australia — Places, where there’s a lot of misogynistic tweeting, are also likely to have many domestic violence cases, a new Australian study has found. The connection to domestic and family violence can be made despite the presence of alcohol and inequality, as per the study conducted by the University of New South Wales (UNSW), published in the journal Psychological Science. “We found that misogynistic social media may not be harmless. It contributes to norms of violence toward women and a hostile worldview that may slip into real-world violence. I imagine a lot of people are fairly flippant about what…
Author: zenger.news
CANBERRA, Australia — Australian Uighurs have called for a meeting with the Chinese ambassador to help make contact with their loved ones missing in Xinjiang. Several Uighur associations issued the joint request after China’s ambassador called local journalists to his residency in Canberra. There are several thousand Uighur people living in Australia, and many of them have families living in China. “So many of us living in Australia have lost contact with our loved ones and have no idea where they are,” Australian Uighur Association secretary Bahtiyar Bora said. “We are asking Cheng to sit down with us to hear our stories and answer…
BRISBANE, Australia — A man accused of murdering a Gold Coast inventor in Australia has allegedly confessed to the killing, but lawyers claimed in the court that it must have been an “inside job”. Philip Michael Stearman, 63, is charged with murdering Hugo Benscher, 89, found gagged in his canal-front home on June 21, 1992. The wealthy widower’s body was found on the kitchen floor of his plush Paradise Point home on kitchen floor tied and gagged with evidence of head injuries. A grey-haired and bearded Stearman waved to the court by videolink in Brisbane Magistrates Court on April 8 as his lawyers applied…
CHANGZHOU, China — Two cute Siberian tiger cubs were shot wrestling with a tiger soft-toy, nibbling its tail and clamping down on its throat in the Yangtze River golden triangle area of the city of Changzhou in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu. The adorable footage was shared on social media by Yancheng Wild Animal World. The footage shows the endangered cubs biting parts of the soft toy as one even demonstrates its early throat-clamping skills. “The tiger cubs are siblings and four months old. That they are like human children, full of energy and curiosity,” said a zoo spokesperson. Yancheng…
ODESA, Ukraine — This is the moment a clever toddler shows incredible strength by climbing his parents’ kitchen worktops and furniture with apparent ease earning him over 10 million views and the nickname “Super Mark”. Mark Gurnitskiy, who is 16 months old and was born in the Ukrainian city of Odesa, has become an online sensation on TikTok under the account ‘Super Mark’ where his parents upload clips of exploits at home. His mother Natalie said “he was born in Odessa on Nov 20, 2019, a little prematurely at 37 weeks”. “He weighed 3.1 kilograms (6.8 lbs) and was 51 centimeters…
SOKHUMI, Abkhazia — An avalanche of snow was replaced by a vast waterfall that flooded over the side of a cliff before forming a huge mound on the mountainside below in remote Abkhazia. The footage was filmed by a local tourist guide Ruslan at the 70-meter (230-foot) Gegsky waterfall in the self-governing but largely unrecognized state of Abkhazia on the Black Sea. The waterfall is one of the Caucasian nation’s prime attractions, though few know its sublime snowy phenomenon. “Every year, an avalanche descends, and I know about it. This avalanche is dozens of times larger than others due to the…
LISTVYANKA, Russia — This is when a Soviet-era army truck loaded with wood crashes through the ice on a Russian lake and sinks below the surface. The passengers could barely make the escape. The incident was filmed on Lake Baikal, Russia’s largest lake, near the village of Listvyanka in the central region of Irkutsk Oblast, on April 5. The footage shows ZIL-131, a general purpose army truck, driving on the frozen lake before suddenly breaking through the ice. “It was one of two ZIL-131 lorries that fell through the ice on Lake Baikal the same day, with all passengers managing to…
ADELAIDE, Australia — Prolonged immigration detention 20 years ago allegedly caused a refugee to develop mental health problems that persist to this day, a court in South Australia’s Adelaide has heard. Iran-born Payam Saadat is suing the commonwealth government over mental illnesses he alleges out of his confinement at the Curtin, Western Australia, and Baxter, South Australia, detention centers from 2000-2005. The legal action, which the now 45-year-old Australian citizen has pursued in various forms since 2012, is seen as a test case for more than 60 immigration detainees with claims against the Commonwealth and private companies that ran the facilities. The case this week…
PUNE, India — The forests have been burning for days in India’s northern state of Uttarakhand — a major tourism destination for Indians and foreigners alike. In just five days of April, Uttarakhand, home to the mighty Himalayas, has witnessed 361 incidents of forest fires that have damaged almost 567 hectares of forest land, equivalent to over 1,000 football fields. The state has around 38,000 square kilometers of forests, which constitutes almost 71 percent of its total geographical area. The Forest Survey of India reported 40 active cases of forest fires in various districts of the state on April 9. With over 1,000…
NAIROBI, Kenya — A petition signed by more than 160,000 Kenyans protesting alleged corruption by top government officials did not dissuade the International Monetary Fund from approving a $2.34 billion loan last week “to support Kenya’s pandemic response and economic-reform program.” The country has been hit hard during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the Kawangware slums west of Nairobi, residents are forced to walk a long way to the city center to look for jobs. Food is a luxury. Rajab Owino, who had worked as a teller at a local bank but is now jobless, said: “I don’t know what is wrong…