Friday, Nov 01, 2024 03:34AM
BBC News : Stock markets around the world have slumped after US President Donald Trump's unexpected threat to impose new tariffs on Chinese exports. In the US th... FULL STORY >>
John Paulson’s $400 million gift to Harvard University initially attracted a ton of detractors who condemned the hedge fund mogul for his outsized generosity to America... FULL STORY >>
Resources: WBUR
A multi-millionaire who gave away his fortune to set up a cancer charity split up with his wife of 30 years after falling out over his philanthropy. Brian Burnie, a pe... FULL STORY >>
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Sightsavers is an association that aims at preventing unnecessary blindness, restore sight, and campaign for the social inclusion and equal treatment of persons with disabilities. Recently, the organization coordinated a phot... FULL STORY >>
BBC News : The indigenous islanders of North Sentinel, among the last of the "uncontacted" tribes in the world, killed 27-year-old John Allen Chau with arrows when he went to their island last week. Police said that Cha... FULL STORY >>
A Photography Project by Blind People Our modern, mobile, internet connected devices—laptops, cell phones, tablets, etc.—have come to play an increasingly important, now even dominant, role in modern life. The degree to... FULL STORY >>
To mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the New Delhi chapter of the British Council featured an exhibit of photography by the blindearly in December. The key pieces of the exhibit were roughly thirty phot... FULL STORY >>
BBC News : One of three men convicted in the 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr, one of modern America's worst hate crimes, has been executed in Texas. Byrd, a black man, was beaten, chained to a truck and dragged for mile... FULL STORY >>
MUMBAI (PRWEB) FEBRUARY 12, 2014 Sightsavers (http://www.sightsaversindia.in/) organized a world-class concert and fundraising event for the visually impaired in India's most populous city, Mumbai. "Ability of Disability -... FULL STORY >>
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BBC News : US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made an unscheduled, fleeting visit to Iraq, amid growing tensions with Iran. Mr Pompeo cancelled a trip to Berlin to meet with Iraqi leaders during a four-hour stop in the ... FULL STORY >>
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