January 4th 2018
Iceland has become the first country in the world to make it illegal to pay men more than women for doing the same work
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Shenzhen in China has 16,359 all-electric buses – more than New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Los Angeles and Toronto have buses of any kind combined.
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Although 2017 was the second hottest year on record, record low temperatures on both coasts of North America are now causing sharks to freeze to death.
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New sewbots can make 17 times as many T-shirts per hour as people, but human labour currently remains cheaper.
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The mass protests in Mashhad, Iran’s second largest city, started over a 40% rise in the price of eggs.
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106 days after Hurricane Maria, 45% of Puerto Ricans still don’t have power.