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Top Fashion Houses Found Buying From Highly Polluting Factories In Asia

Global fashion brands including H&M, Zara and Marks & Spencer are buying material produced in factories that devastate peoples’ health in Indonesia, China and...

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Festivals

When Otis Redding Delivered The 20 Best Minutes Of Pop Ever

Late on the evening of June 17, 1967, as Saturday night turned to Sunday morning, the San Francisco–based rock group known as the Jefferson Airplane concluded their 4...

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Human Rights

Held Back By Social Norms, Share Of Working Women Not Improving Globally: UN

The share of women in the labour market globally is not increasing even though most females want paid work, according to a major report on employment trends. Social norms o...

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Alternative Entertainment

Akira Kurosawa Names His 21 Favourite Art Films In The Criterion Collection

The highly auteur-respecting Criterion Collection has, as you might expect, done quite well by the work of Akira Kurosawa, director of Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Ikiru, and R...

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Gender

Givenchy: The Designer Hailed As A 'Personality Maker' By Audrey Hepburn

A retrospective exhibition self-curated by a 90-year-old legend of fashion has all the hallmarks of an ego-flaunting vanity project. But Hubert de Givenchy, who attended th...

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Sustainable Development

Beyond Binaries: PeriPhery, A Startup That Finds Jobs For Trans People

Ever looked at a transgender beggar at a signal and wondered why they can’t get jobs instead? After all, they look fit enough. But how many of us will actually rub sh...

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Environment

Bat Attacks On Humans Increasing Due To Urbanisation and Deforestation

'Diseases in bats have been around for a long time and historically have not been a problem. Now, there is cause for concern,' expert says Bats have been attacking humans i...

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Trending

This Year's Most Expertly Choreographed Ad Has A Superb Ending That Explains Everything

Here’s a commercial that should undoubtedly charm the Film judges at Cannes. It’s a spot out of Japan by agency Mori Inc., featuring incredible mathematical cho...

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Hollywood

Hans Zimmer To Donate Concert Proceeds To London Fire Victims

Composer Hans Zimmer is donating all proceeds from a London show to the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire. The German film score composer behind such films as Inception, S...

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Thought Factory

So Long, Farewell, It’s Hard To Say Goodbye!

The last time I spoke to Piroj was two days before Nina Goel, her friend called me from Piroj’s mobile phone to inform me of her hospitalization and to tell me that P...

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