Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire, released the list of people he will bring on a week-long trip to the Moon. Born on November 22, 1975, he is a Japanese entrepreneur, art collector, and astronaut....
On November 30, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan's courts announced that they have banned same-sex marriage. The cause of this incident was the lack of protection for same-sex families; it violated Japan's human...
Rats with backpacks, also called rescue rats, are the future. When the aftermath of an earthquake occurs, the rescue rats will be there. A non-profit organization from Belgium called APOPO officially launched...
On October 16th, Xi Jinpin, the president of the People's Republic of China, threatened to use force to take over Taiwan if necessary. President Biden responded to his threat saying that if China were...
On October 14, 2022, at approximately 11 a.m., two women of the Just Stop Oil organization, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland, threw two cans of Heinz tomato soup at a glass-covered Van Gogh sunflower painting.
The...
Growing up in today's society, people are judged based on their appearance or even their skin color. People are so quick to judge without actually knowing each other. Like stereotypes, stereotypes are...
Tragedy struck a soccer stadium in Indonesia on October 1st, 2022, where more than 125 died, and at least 300 were injured.
Arema FC fans (one of Indonesia's biggest teams) and supporters of Persebaya...
Liz Truss, the third female prime minister of the United Kingdom, claimed the title of Conservative Party leader of the United Kingdom on September 5th, 2022. However, on October 20th, 2022, she announced...
Queen Elizabeth’s term was longer than any other monarch’s reign, but there was one constant that stood with Elizabeth throughout her 70 years on the throne: her Corgi Dogs.
Elizabeth was just a...
On May 18, 2022, Sweden and Finland formally announced their wish to join NATO. This wish to give up decades of military neutrality quickly developed after Putin’s Russia attacked Ukraine on February 24th, 2022, leaving large parts of Ukraine in ruins. But we can’t be sure whether Sweden and Finland will actually be accepted into NATO since Turkey has already announced that it plans on vetoing the accession of the two Nordic countries. What exactly NATO is, why the Swedes and Finns have recently changed their views on it, and why Erdogan does not want them to join will all be discussed in this article.
Sri Lanka is a south Asian island nation of 22 million people right off the coast of India. The British colonized the island in 1815 and it remained a dominion until 1972, when it finally became fully independent and subsequently its own republic. But since then, the people of Sri Lanka have been suffering from a civil war and corruption everywhere. Now, Sri Lanka is in its worst economic crisis since it gained independence. But how could it come to this and how is the Rajapaksa family related to it?
In the past century, humans have been continuously destroying rainforests to satisfy their hunger for industrial and agricultural success; in short: money. Today, two thirds of all original tropical rainforest cover around the world is either gone or severely damaged. That has led to many scientists exclaiming that it is too late for us, that we have gone too far. But why even are rainforests so important for the planet and the species living on it, including us? And is it really too late for us to change and save the rainforests?