Parents are urged to check AI teddy bear safety after a Singapore-made bear chatbot offered sexual content and instructions on knives.
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Greenland limits foreigners’ right to property
Non-Danish citizens and foreign companies can only buy property if they have been permanent residents and paid all their taxes in Greenland for the previous two years
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In Norway, mail might only be delivered once a week
Norway’s government is proposing to have mail distributed once a week instead of every other day and newspapers ‘at least’ three times a week
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‘Soap opera on cocaine’: how vertical dramas flipped Hollywood
Vertical dramas, algorithm-driven movies watched in 60-second installments, are runaway moneymakers-but some say they romanticize abusive relationships
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World’s most expensive coffee goes on sale in Dubai at $1,000 a cup
Twenty kilograms of the rare coffee bean from Panama went for US$600,000; Dubai cafe plans to sell 400 cups
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Why are stock markets hitting record highs?
Many trade tensions have decreased, but experts warn that possible economic uncertainty – including the U.S. government shutdown – can rattle markets
Posted inHealth
Protein powders found with high levels of lead: report
Levels of heavy metals in plant-based products were on average nine times higher than those found in dairy proteins, such as whey, and twice as high as quantities found in beef-based ones
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Michelin Guide gets an appetite beyond restaurants
France’s famed Michelin Guide is expanding into hotel and wine recommendations as it aims to become a global lifestyle brand
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Hong Kong to regulate ‘shoebox’ flats starting March 2026
More than 220,000 households live in subdivided flats, cubicles that can be less than 50 square, with shared bathrooms and showers inside ageing walk-up buildings
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Lab-grown diamonds robbing southern Africa of riches
Diamonds brought Botswanan out of poverty – now the country’s looking to luxury tourism, medical cannabis and solar power to boost its economy