Researchers from watchdog group glued trackers to chain’s cups and found not one ended up at a recycling facility If you attach a GPS tracker to a “widely recyclable” plastic Starbucks cup and drop it in an in-store recycling bin, you might expect it to end up in a recycling plant, but environmental watchdog organization Beyond Plastics says that’s not the case in a new report. Starbucks announced that their plastic cups were now considered “widely recyclable” earlier this year, according to How
UK calls incident ‘unacceptable’ after Su-27 jet comes within six metres of unarmed RAF plane over Black Sea A Russian jet flew within six metres of an RAF spy plane flying at 500mph over the Black Sea, one of two mid-air incidents last month described as “dangerous and unacceptable” by the defence secretary, John Healey. An Su-27 jet conducted six passes in front of an unarmed RAF Rivet Joint flying close to its nose, risking a collision that could have caused a diplomatic crisis between the tw
Exclusive: Ashley Dalton says rejected amendments could have made bill stronger but it became a ‘pretty dangerous set of affairs’ A former public health minister facing terminal cancer has urged MPs not to bring back the assisted dying bill in England and Wales. The Labour MP Ashley Dalton revealed she would be on lifelong treatment for metastatic breast cancer, which has spread throughout her body – but said her parliamentary colleagues should not revive the bill, which would legalise an assist
Amin Abdullah, Nadir Awad and Mansour Kaziha distracted and delayed two gunmen at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Their actions saved the many children and staff inside the mosque and cost them their lives. (Image credit: The Islamic Center of San Diego)
Soft power institution faces funding crisis linked to Covid-era government loan soon due to be repaid Staff at the British Council in Italy will go on strike over deep cuts that would slash about 80% of its workforce due to a funding crisis facing the organisation . Out of 130 of its teaching staff across Rome, Milan and Naples, 108 are being targeted as teaching activities in Italy face the axe. The move would end 80 years of British Council English language teaching in Italy as part of the org
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A staff member of the CBCA Virunga Hospital in Goma, Congo, checks a visitor's temperature.
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Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com Inc., in Miami in 2025.
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Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. in 2023.
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Mandatory cap on top grades at one of America’s most prestigious colleges will go into effect in the fall of 2027 Harvard faculty has voted to impose a roughly 20% cap on A grades in an effort to curb decades of grade inflation that, the faculty argues, degrades the value of top-tier academic achievement at the college. The mandatory cap on top grades at one of America’s most prestigious colleges will go into effect in the fall of 2027. Under an agreed “20 plus four” formula, the number of A gra
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Retired Capitol police officer and DC officer allege Trump’s $1.8bn fund unlawfully rewards January 6 rioters and allies US politics live – latest updates Two police officers who clashed with rioters at the US Capitol during the January 6 insurrection in 2021 have sued Donald Trump over plans to create a $1.776bn “anti-weaponization” fund. The fund, which critics have argued is essentially a slush fund , is set to compensate allies of the US president who he claims were victims of prosecutorial
