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| Blue Planet series set to fuel a boom in eco-tourism The popularity of Blue Planet will lead to a rise in eco-holidays, a travel boss has said. Mark Tanzer, chief executive of the Association of British Travel Agents, predicted that the popular BBC nature series will encourage more tourists to visit new destinations as they become aware of the negative impact ...
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| In 2017, LGBTQ Progress Was Built on Local Elections Before Jenny Durkan was elected mayor of Seattle in November, there had only been two other openly lesbian mayors of major U.S. cities in history: former Houston Mayor Annise Parker—who was the first openly LGBTQ mayor of any major American city—and Jackie Biskupski, the current mayor of Salt ...
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| The Reaction In Japan To 'The Last Jedi' Has Been Decidedly Mixed From all the references to Akira Kurosawa's movies to the Jedi being effectively space-based samurai to the fact that even the name Jedi comes from the Japanese word jidaigeki. In short, Star Wars has always had a huge impact in Japan; not only with fans but also on creators too, as without Star Wars, ...
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| Millions of British children living in areas with illegal and harmful air quality Nearly two thirds of youngsters in the UK are living in areas where illegal levels of air pollution have been recorded, new figures suggest. Around 8.3 million under-18s were found to be living in local authority areas where levels of the harmful pollutant nitrogen dioxide exceeded legal limits in 2015, ...
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| The Year In Video Game Paintings, 2017 Paintings in video games are like toilets: they don't do much, but you notice if they aren't there. ... Prey is one of the first games I've seen that has its own artist statement, which you can find early on in the game. ... It'd be nicer to have spotlights hooked up in your ceiling, but that would be expensive.
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| Lavazza buys €25m ticket in Italian video-on-demand company The family behind global coffee brand Lavazza has acquired a minority stake in Chili, an Italian video-on-demand platform that counts Hollywood studios Sony Pictures Entertainment and Paramount Pictures among its investors. The Lavazza family has bought about 25 per cent of Milan-based Chili for ...
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| August Solar Eclipse Created Boat-Like Ripples in Earth's Atmosphere This photo is one of the first glimpses of the eclipse captured by National Geographic photographer Babak Tafreshi in a jet above the Pacific at the moment the eclipse began. Babak is aboard the flight along with two Airbnb guests who won the chance to be among the first to witness the solar eclipse ...
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| Reuters journalists in Myanmar appear in court, remanded for another 14 days Reuters reporter Wa Lone talks to reporters as he leaves court in Yangon, Myanmar, December 27, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer. Dozens of reporters and cameramen were outside the courthouse in a northern district of Yangon for the appearance of the two journalists. They were brought in a white van, ...
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| UNICEF official calls 2017 'horrible' for children in Yemen 26 December 2017 – Children in Yemen could not have a worse year than 2017, according to a senior official from the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF). "2017 was a horrible year for the children of Yemen," UNICEF Representative in the country, Meritxell Relaño, told UN News by telephone from the ...
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