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Video: Zookeepers Killed a Critically Endangered Gorilla After He Grabbed a Four-Year Old at the Zoo

A western lowland male gorilla in the Cincinnati Zoo was killed by keepers on Saturday after he dragged around a four-year-old boy who fell into the animal's enclosure, a z...

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Gender

Yale Promotes Gender Neutral Bathrooms

Visitors at Yale University's 315th commencement will notice something new on campus this year - gender-neutral bathrooms in 23 buildings.
The school is promoting them...

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Alternative Entertainment

No 'Joke': Comic Book Movies Aren't For Kids Anymore, And Studios Embrace It

Imagine this narrative of an upcoming R-rated movie: A homicidal maniac escapes captivity, kidnaps a high-ranking city official and subjects him to a litany of extreme degr...

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Gender

I Am Transgender. And I Oppose Safe Schools

It has a particular significance for me because on Australia Day 2012, both Ricky Ponting and I were awarded the Order of Australia.It should have been the proudest day of ...

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Health

WHO South–East Asia Region Eliminates Maternal And Neonatal Tetanus

In a major public health feat, WHO South-East Asia Region has eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus with all districts across the 11 countries having reduced the cases t...

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Hollywood

Martin Freeman Joins Eat Kind Campaign

Sherlock star Martin Freeman has lent his voice to a new video by animal protection group Humane Society International/UK, to encourage people to take meat off the menu &nd...

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Sustainable Development

SpaceX Is Already Working On Legal Approval For Its 2018 Mars Flight

I’ve been to the Humans to Mars Summit, an annual conference thrown by Explore Mars about speeding up human colonization of the Red Planet, a few times. It’s al...

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Environment

More Than 100 Feared Dead After Landslides In Sri Lanka

Roughly 150 people are feared dead on Wednesday after more than three days of heavy rainfall triggered two landslides in central Sri Lanka. Rescuers have been digging throu...

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Hollywood

Andrea Arnold In Cannes: I Was Shocked And Upset By The Poverty I Saw In The US

The director of Palme d’Or contender American Honey has spoken about how the experience of making her first movie outside the UK informed her thinking about poverty a...

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Human Rights

Kenya Could Become The Next Country In Africa To Legalize Homosexuality

In a country where gay sex is punishable by up to 14 years in prison and where attacks on the LGBT community occur frequently, a solitary rainbow flag flapping in the wind ...

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