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Australian airline Qantas has relaxed its gender-based uniform rules, allowing male employees to wear makeup and have long hair. Its new style guide means female employees will no longer have to wear makeup and heels while on duty....
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) will stop making and selling its talc-based baby powder around the world from next year. The announcement comes more than two years after the healthcare giant ended sales of the product in the US. J&...
Ten of the world's most protected forests have become net emitters of carbon, as they are degraded by human activity and climate change. The alarming insight is from a study of planet-warming gases emitted from and ...
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Seafood is difficult to veganise well, but some companies are betting on new technologies and customers to overcome the challenges. Seaweed-wrapped deep-fried tofu, served in newspaper. Marinated aubergine slices pressed over rice. Chunks ...
The team developing Switzerland's coronavirus contact-tracing app says it has become the first to have launched a product incorporating a technology provided by Apple and Google. Members of the Swiss army, hospital workers and civil servants...
New Zealand's White Island volcano is showing increased seismic activity, putting recovery efforts on hold. Authorities hoped they would be able to retrieve the eight people presumed dead on the island on Wednesday. So far, six people have ...
The Affordable Care Act is the first federal law to provide protection against sex discrimination in health care. LGBT advocates have been hoping that the Obama administration would interpret Section 1557, the law's civil rights provision, to protec...
The National Transitional Council promised Monday evening to run a new Libyan government based on moderate Islam. It was the first speech of NTC head Mustafa Abdul Jalil, who said moderate Muslim tenets （教义, 信条） would be the main source of legi...
A country of eastern Arabia on a peninsula in the southwest Persian Gulf. It was under British protection from 1916 until 1971, when it became independent. Oil was first produced commercially in 1949. Doha is the capital. Population, 220,000....