After a unanimous local vote in 1996, the Swedish town of Växjö became the first in the world to commit to becoming fossil fuel free ~design urban planning architecture Article 1302 words 14 votes
Fewer kids are going to California public schools. Is there a right way to close campuses? ~society politics Article 1834 words 7 votes
How Bluesky, the rival of Elon Musk’s X, is seizing the moment ~tech social media Article 77 words 54 votes
Donald Trump nominates Fox News host and Army National Guard Major Pete Hegseth for US defense secretary ~society politics Article 152 words 26 votes
EU judges grill Ursula von der Leyen’s lawyers over missing text messages [with Pfizer chief during COVID] ~society politics Link 12 votes
Embracer has entered a $1.2 billion agreement to divest mobile developer Easybrain to digital entertainment firm Miniclip ~games Article 264 words 10 votes
Google is testing the ‘impact’ of removing EU news from search results ~tech google.search internet Article 359 words 21 votes
Man in Denmark hands in eighty guns and suspected WWII grenade during weapons amnesty – part of nationwide scheme to tackle violence between criminal gangs ~news denmark crime Article 363 words 14 votes
Landslide win for Sri Lanka’s leftist coalition in snap general elections ~society politics Article 471 words 18 votes
Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the 1940s are being returned to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island ~humanities.history Article 518 words 8 votes
A new rallying cry for the irony-poisoned right. It took less than twenty-four hours after Trump’s re-election for young men to take up a slogan that could define the coming era of gendered regression ~society politics Article 2039 words 26 votes
Dwayne Johnson became the world’s biggest movie star. Now he’s trying to disappear. ~movies Article 5466 words 33 votes
Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts ~tech social media Article 518 words 53 votes
Iran announces ‘treatment clinic’ for women who defy strict hijab laws ~humanities religion Article 485 words 12 votes
Korean Air passenger tries to open emergency exit, gets restrained ~transport Article 802 words, published Nov 9 2024 8 votes
Denmark is the latest country to join the Artemis Accords, the 48th country to sign the document outlining best practices for sustainable space exploration ~space Article 456 words 6 votes
Climate change and fish farming are endangering the future of Norway's Atlantic salmon ~enviro climate change Link 6 votes
John Thune elected as US Senate Republican leader to succeed Mitch McConnell ~society politics Article 542 words 16 votes
New York Governor Kathy Hochul to relaunch congestion pricing with $9 base toll, sources say ~transport Article 752 words 15 votes
World's largest renewable energy plant in Australia would be bigger than entire countries ~enviro energy.renewable Link 9 votes
St Andrews researchers discover ‘King Arthur’s Hall’ is five times older than thought ~humanities.history Article 368 words 22 votes
How a Soviet zoologist remade the Azerbaijan animal species population ~enviro Article 1801 words 13 votes
Norway's parliament has apologised to minority groups and Indigenous people for historical injustices committed against them as part of its “Norwegianisation” policy ~society politics Article 520 words 14 votes
Growing pollution in Pakistan’s Punjab province has sickened 1.8M people in a month, officials say ~enviro pollution.air Article 586 words 13 votes
Senior Russian naval officer killed by IED in Sevastopol – SBU claims responsibility ~news russia ukraine Article 389 words 14 votes
Donald Trump expected to try to halt US TikTok ban, allies say ~society politics Article 1346 words 12 votes
Why rich people don’t cover their windows – An unexpected status symbol has become a fixture of high-end homes ~life housing Article 1092 words, published Jan 22 2024 7 votes