The Canadian town of Asbestos has officially changed its name to Val-des-Sources (Valley of the Springs) after connotations with the cancer-causing mineral resulted in ‘harmed tourism.’ Approximately half of the town’s 6,800 residents (2,796) turned out for a parking lot-based car vote or directly voted at the council offices last week in the municipality, located … Read more
Russian businessman tells High Court that ex-MI6 spy Christopher Steele harmed his reputation by claiming he was involved in Moscow hack on Democrats in ‘dodgy’ dossier that linked Putin and Trump Aleksej Gubarev is suing the former MI6 operative Christopher Steele in London Mr Steele’s intelligence report alleged ties between Trump’s and the Kremlin Lawyers … Read more
Tens of thousands of women and children were ‘catastrophically’ harmed by three avoidable health scandals, a damning report concludes today. It says crippling symptoms were dismissed as ‘women’s problems’ by intimidating or arrogant doctors and surgeons. Patients who complained faced an ‘unresponsive and defensive’ healthcare system. The inquiry said lives were ‘catastrophically affected’ by mistakes … Read more