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| Global smartphone market drops 9% in biggest ever fall But as Samsung and others join Apple in pushing the top end of the market to higher prices the demand for new phones appears to be waning. Data from Strategy Analytics shows global smartphone shipments shrank year-on-year from 438.7m to 400.2m in the fourth quarter of 2017. Linda Sui, director ...
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| Miners rescued from Beatrix gold mine in South Africa "Everybody's out," company spokesman James Wellsted said. Aside from "cases of dehydration and high blood pressure" the employees did not report serious injuries. By dawn, several buses with the rescued miners had already left the site in the small town of Theunissen near the city of Welkom.
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| Humanitarian diplomacy 'getting nowhere' in Syria warns UN special adviser 1 February 2018 – Civilians in Syria's besieged areas have not seen a single convoy of humanitarian aid arrive for a full two months, a senior United Nations adviser said on Thursday, lamenting that diplomatic efforts appear "totally impotent," and that hundreds of lives are being lost as a result. Briefing ...
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| Asylum seekers win case over smoking in immigration detention centres As a result of his ruling, the home secretary, Amber Rudd, must take steps to rectify both problems across all 10 immigration removal centres in the UK. There may be concerns, however, about the potential for unrest among the smoking detainees if they are unable to smoke in their cells. The case was ...
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| CDC Director's Investment in Tobacco, Drug Companies Baffles Ethics Experts It was a financial investment in a tobacco company that helped lead to the downfall of Brenda Fitzgerald, who until Wednesday was the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For many in the public health community, the notion that the head of the CDC held shares of a company in ...
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| Saudi and UAE move to end standoff in Yemen's Aden Saudi Arabia and the UAE have called on Yemeni government fighters and southern secessionists to focus their efforts on fighting Houthi rebels, in an apparent attempt to end a standoff between the two sides in Aden. Emirati-backed separatists took over large parts of the southern port city earlier this ...
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| In the face of strongmen, conservatives are letting their principles vanish In 1989, the year Soviet communism collapsed, John O'Sullivan, Margaret Thatcher's former speechwriter, gave the world O'Sullivan's First Law of Politics. 'All organisations that are not actually right wing,' he pronounced, 'will over time become left wing.' No one who watched Amnesty International's ...
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| Office romance hits a 10-year low, for good reason This Valentine's Day, office workers would be wise to think twice before sneaking a box of chocolates to the cutie in the adjacent cube. The #MeToo movement has importantly illuminated the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace — and put a serious damper on any interoffice romantic sentiment.
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| The Month in WordPress: January 2018 Things got off to a gradual start in 2018 with momentum starting to pick up over the course of the month. There were some notable developments in January, including a new point release and work being done on other important areas of the WordPress project.
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