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As we approach the new year, many will reflect on the last 12 months. Who would have thought that we would have witnessed the near terminal implosion of the Conservative Party? Even in the last three weeks, the party has further torn itself apart over one of its flagship policies – immigration and the ill-conceived Rwanda initiative. Rishi Sunak looks increasingly forlorn and tetchy, an empty shell in an expensive suit. He can’t please the left or right in his own party. What hope has he of co Source link [Featured] [Just In]

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View gallery Image Credit: Eddy Risch/EPA/Shutterstock Barbra Streisand doesn’t care what you think of her fashion choices. The 81-year-old actress recalled once having a desire to pose in “no pants” and just a white shirt. Essentially “just legs,” she explained in a new interview. But at the time, she worried about showing too much skin. “I was too afraid to be seen that way at that time,” the Yentl star said. “Now I’m too old to care.” The Funny Girl icon also looked back on her unconventional style early in her career. “I guess I looked different, I dressed different,”…

NFTs have suffered everything from ridicule and scams to a broad dip in demand due to the crypto winter. Sometimes it almost feels like some of the projects in the space are kept going simply on hopes and dreams. Still, the sector has persisted through the downturn, and recent momentum in crypto has investors, community members and spectators alike becoming interested in NFTs again. Sure, NFTs get a lot of heat for all the silly apes, rocks and JPEGs that people spend millions on, but there’s a widespread belief in the industry that there’s ample value underlying the concept and…

2024 could be a slower year for the business landscape in the US economy, however, many economists are positive that the US recession could be thwarted with a soft landing. Bulls made a strong comeback this year in 2023, and as the year ends, the Fed has given major signals of interest rate cuts in 2024. This has kept the markets upbeat and investors bullish on Wall Street. Does this mean that the US economy is completely out of the woods? Well, not entirely as economists share mixed opinions of what’s to come in 2024. Experts are suggesting that an…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain As each day passes, the need to protect Australia’s environment grows more urgent. As noted in the most recent State of Environment Report in 2021, we are increasingly turning to “measures of last resort” to prevent species extinctions and the collapse of ecosystems. In legal theory, the “rights of nature” acknowledges all Earth’s natural elements as having an inherent right to exist and flourish. Developments towards recognition of the rights of nature have attracted international attention. In some countries, they have come about through legislative reform, constitutional amendment and the courts. In Australia, federal, state and…

Eight people were killed and seven homes were destroyed on December 27, 1836, when a huge build-up of snow on a cliff overlooking the town of Lewes collapsed and buried all before it. The winter had been exceptionally severe across the entire country, with heavy snow, freezing temperatures and strong winds recorded from the end of October through until April the following year. A period of very heavy snowfall across the South Downs began on Christmas Eve and continued over the festive season.  According to the now-defunct Brighton Herald, snow “attained some height, yet, being unaccompanied by wind, it appeared…

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Lauren Feeney suffered 26 broken bones, eye injuries, internal bleeding and brain damage when the car she was a passenger in collided with a 32-tonne truck on New Year’s Eve, 2019. The 29-year-old injuries were so bad that when the police officer who was first on the scene pulled her from the car, her body was “like jelly”, and she spent a month in a coma. All three other occupants of the car died in the crash. Lauren said: “I can’t remember anything. When I hear about what happened, it’s like listening to a story about someone else, or watching a…

View gallery Image Credit: Andrew H. Walker/Shutterstock Morgan Wallen has dominated country music and is continuing to break records in the industry. The 30-year-old is also an awards darling and recently headed into the 2023 CMA Awards on November 8 with four nominations, including Entertainer of the Year and Album of the Year. Now, his fans will be able to catch him during the New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash special on CBS on December 31, 2023. Morgan is scheduled to perform to ring in the New Year along with other performers including Thomas Rhett, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Lainey…