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A 14 year old Offaly schoolboy who faced deportation after being denied asylum will be allowed to remain in Ireland along with his mother and college-going brother. Following a 21,000 signature-strong online campaign which was set up by his classmates…
Google+ is shutting down. Google announced last Monday that it was officially shutting down the platform for consumers. The process will be concluded in ten months. Low engagement The final decision has been taken by Google after a bug was…
The Girl With Balloon is gone. On Friday, October 5, one of Banksy’s best known works of art ended up going through a shredder. Just a few seconds after it auctioned for 1.4 million, the painting appeared to self-destruct at…
About 400 people have been killed in Indonesia after a strong earthquake. The number is expected to rise. At least more than 500 have been injured. A few days ago a tsunami hit an Indonesian city. It was caused by…
Female genital mutilation has been illegal in the Burkina Faso region of West Africa since 1996. However, around 50 girls are being treated for failed circumcision attempts. Twelve girls have been admitted to the Kaya Regional Hospital while 38 are…
Nobel Peace Prize winner and Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi stated that the jailing of two Reuters journalists had “nothing to do with freedom of expression at all”. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were found in…
Three villages southwest of Berlin have been evacuated as wildfire the size of 400 soccer fields spread today. Hundreds of firefighters were trying to cut trees to make long swathes in the forests to prevent the fire from spreading further.…
Ryanair and trade union Forsa have reached agreement in their talks over pilots’s dispute at the airline. Talks between Ryanair and the pilot’s union Forsa began on Wednesday morning and concluded on Thursday morning, at about 7.30am, after a…
An earthquake shook the north-eastern coast of Venezuela on Tuesday. It was felt across the Caribbean and sent people rushing out into the streets hundreds of kilometres away in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. According to the United States…