BBC News : The UK government has announced plans to ban microbeads used in cosmetics and cleaning products by 2017. The small pieces of plastic commonly found in toothpaste, exfoliating body scrubs and other household products and are thought to damage the environment. Environmentalists fear they are building up in oceans and potentially entering the […]
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Dave Lee North America technology reporter BBC What do we know about the curious, secretive NSO Group? Very little – but after this week, an awful lot more than we did before. The group, an Israeli-based but American-owned company, specialises in creating what it calls tools against crime and terrorism. But the security researchers call them
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BBC News : The US and China – together responsible for 40% of the world’s carbon emissions – have now both ratified the Paris global climate agreement. After arriving with other leaders of G20 nations for a summit in the city of Hangzhou, Mr Obama said: “History will judge today’s effort as pivotal.” CO2 emissions
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BBC News : Google has suspended work on Project Ara, its modular smartphone. The project, which the company launched in 2013. was designed to let users buy a basic phone and add different modules like a keyboard or other sensors. Google had announced during its developer conference I/O in May, its intentions to have a
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BBC News : Action movie star Jackie Chan is to be given an honorary Academy Award for his “extraordinary achievements” in film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also voted to give honorary Oscars to British editor Anne V Coates, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and documentary maker Frederick Wiseman. Academy president Cheryl
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BBC News : A New York state appeals court has dismissed Lindsay Lohan’s case against Rockstar Games. Lohan was suing Rockstar’s parent company, Take-Two Interactive Software Inc, because she believed a character in Grand Theft Auto V looked like her. Character “Lacey Jonas” is an actress and Lindsay’s legal team say it is based on
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BBC News : Samsung Electronics is recalling its flagship Galaxy Note 7 smartphone and said that battery problems were behind phones catching fire. The decision follows reports in the US and South Korea of the phone “exploding” during or after charging. The South Korean company said customers who had already bought the phone would be
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BBC News : Melania Trump is suing a British newspaper and a US blogger for $150m (£114m) over allegations she was a sex worker in the 1990s, her lawyer says. The Daily Mail suggested Mrs Trump may have worked as a part-time escort in New York, and met husband Donald Trump, who is now running
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By Caroline Parkinson Health editor, BBC News website A drug that destroys the characteristic protein plaques that build up in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s is showing “tantalising” promise, scientists say. Experts are cautious because the drug, Aducanumab, is still in the early stages of development. But a study in Nature has shown it is
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By Amy Ellis Nutt – The Washington Post on Sexting Dangr33 is back. Yep, it wasn’t enough for disgraced former New York congressman Anthony Weiner to be caught sexting twice or even to bare his soul in a documentary about his sextcapades. Now he’s been caught sexting a woman, again not his wife, with his
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