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A 36-year-old Brandon, Man., man has been sentenced to a nine-month custodial sentence in an “egregious” intimate image betrayal case after he uploaded sexually explicit videos of his then-pregnant ex-girlfriend to a popular porn website without her consent. A version of the victim’s…
Watch: Toronto plane crash analysed by aviation experts Delta Air Lines is offering US$30,000 (£23,792) to each person on board a plane that crash-landed in Toronto on Monday – all of whom survived. As it landed in the Canadian city,…
Patrick Barlow BBC News, South East Supplied The man suspected of fatally shooting Lisa Smith is believed to have died, Kent Police say A man suspected of fatally shooting his wife outside a pub in Kent is believed to have…
Bob Dale BBC News, South East SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL The operation to tackle the sinkhole has been declared a major incident A huge sinkhole that opened in the middle of a Surrey village has stopped getting bigger but could prevent…
Pet owners’ defining psychographic is the “pets as family” mindset. Long before COVID-19, a large majority of owners considered their pets as full-fledged family members. The pandemic-related traumatization of minimal human contact, maximum anxiety over personal health and financial insecurity…
As pet owners increasingly seek transparency, measurable health benefits, and tailored nutrition for their pets, the pet food industry is undergoing a significant transformation. At the forefront of this evolution is Ollie’s “Foodback” loop, a data-driven system that leverages real-world…
The White House fact sheet said the goal of this provision is to ensure that the president and attorney general “interpret the law for the executive branch, instead of having separate agencies adopt conflicting interpretations.” John Bergmayer, legal director of…
Scientists can now explain the prevailing unpredictability of contact electrification, unveiling order from what has long been considered chaos. Static electricity—specifically the triboelectric effect, aka contact electrification—is ubiquitous in our daily lives, found in such things as a balloon rubbed…
Over the weekend, the Trump administration fired several frontline responders to the ongoing H5N1 bird flu outbreak—then quickly backpedaled, rescinding those terminations and attempting to reinstate the critical staff. The termination letters went out to employees at the US Department…
Uber is moving away from its commission-based model for three-wheeled motorized rickshaw drivers in India in response to increased competition from local rivals Rapido and Namma Yatri. The ride-hailing giant will instead charge drivers a daily fee to use the…
