Ships may sail over North Pole by 2050 due to Arctic melt
The Arctic sea ice cover, melting rapidly due to
global warming, will be so thin by 2050 that ships will be able to
sail directly across the North Pole for the first time, experts have
predicted.
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Over 20 per cent lawmakers in world are women
The share of women in the world’s parliaments
has risen to a new high topping 20 percent, with quotas the driving
the surge, the International Parliamentary Union said Tuesday.
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Hope as Japan marks tsunami anniversary
The catastrophic tsunami that smashed into
Japan, killed almost 19,000 people sparking a nuclear disaster. Now,
two years on and with an energised new administration in Tokyo, some
are daring to believe that better times lie ahead for the stricken
northeast, and the country as a whole.
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