Tag: Worlds

Facebook did little to moderate posts in the world’s most violent countries – POLITICO

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In late 2020, Facebook researchers came to a sobering conclusion. The company’s efforts to curb hate speech in the Arabic world were not working.

In a 59-page memo circulated internally just before New Year’s Eve, engineers detailed the grim numbers.

Only 6 percent of Arabic-language hate content was detected on Instagram before it made its way onto the photo-sharing platform owned by Facebook. That compared with a 40 percent takedown rate on Facebook.

Ads attacking women and the LGBTQ community

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Dazzling new photobook reveals the beauty and fragility of the world’s jungles

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Bats catching fish, snakes snatching eggs and chimps relaxing after lunch: Beauty and drama of world’s rainforests presented in dazzling photobook

  • The book has been put together by prolific photojournalist Christian Ziegler and his biologist wife Daisy Dent
  • The tome features almost 200 images of the world’s jungles and their plants, flowers, fruits and wildlife 
  • Ziegler says: ‘With this book, Daisy and I want to encourage you to care about the future of these forests’  

By Sarah Holt For Mailonline

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A fascinating cycling tour of North East England along the world’s oldest former railways

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One of the historically resonant things about riding the Bowes and the Tanfield railway paths close to Newcastle is the proximity of the family-friendly Beamish, the ‘Living Museum of the North’. This 350-acre open-air museum houses several significant steam locomotives that once toot-tooted along these former rail lines.

It’s a given that North East England led the railway revolution almost 200 years ago, but what’s less well known is that this was the second railway revolution. 

North East England was

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The world’s most unusual languages revealed

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There are many languages throughout the world that have survived only in the tiniest of pockets.

There is a language in Nepal that doesn’t have a word for green, a language on two Pacific islands invented by the mutineers of HMS Bounty in the late 18th century, a language in the U.S spoken fluently by just six people and one in Mexico that calls a radio ‘a thing that stands there singing’.

These and many more are explored in fascinating

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Pictured: The world’s most spectacular palaces, from Hawaii to the UK

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Spectacular indeed.

We’ve scoured the world to bring you the world’s most edifying royal edifices – palaces that are big on beauty and plain big in scale.

Behold the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, which holds the Guinness World Record for being the heaviest building on the planet with its 700,000 tonnes of steel and bronze.

Marvel at Hampton Court Palace with its vast kitchens, where 200 cooks would rustle up feeds for Henry VIII and his entourage.

And feel

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World’s scientists say disastrous climate change is here – POLITICO

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The long-feared era of disastrous climate change has arrived.

For the first time, the planet’s top scientists said in a monumental report released on Monday they have definitively linked greenhouse gas emissions to the type of disasters driven by a warmer climate that have touched every corner of the globe this year: Extreme rainfall in Germany and China, brutal droughts in the western U.S., a record cyclone in the Philippines and compound events

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How One of the World’s Biggest Ships Jammed the Suez Canal

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CAIRO — When the Ever Given — one of the largest container ships ever built, more sideways skyscraper than boat — got stuck in the Suez Canal for six days in March, it dammed up worldwide shipping and froze nearly $10 billion in trade a day.

For the internet, it was a bottomlessly amusing spectacle. For global shipping, it was a worst-nightmare lesson in the perils of a new breed of mega-freighter operating in tight spaces.

It was, said Richard

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Has Anyone Really Summited the World’s 14 Highest Mountains?

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Only 44 people have reached the summit of all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks, according to the people who chronicle such things.Only 44 people have reached the summit of all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks, according to the people who chronicle such things.

Or, they now say, maybe no one has.Or, they now say, maybe no one has.

The difference rides on a timeless question getting a fresh look:The difference rides on a

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