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Activists have removed a statue of Belgium’s King Leopold II in Brussels – days after another one was taken down in Antwerp due to anti-racism vandalism. The figure was removed from its plinth during Thursday night, Belgian broadcaster RTBF reported, leaving an empty stand in the Auderghem neighbourhood on Friday. Photos show the separated bust on the floor … Read more
Activists have removed a statue of Belgium’s King Leopold II in Brussels – days after another one was taken down in Antwerp due to anti-racism vandalism. The figure vanished from its plinth during Thursday night, Belgian broadcaster RTBF reported, leaving an empty stand in the Auderghem neighbourhood on Friday. Leopold owned the Belgian Congo as his … Read more
Internationally-renowned Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London will remove the statue of its slave-owning founder Sir Thomas Guy. The hospital – where Boris Johnson received treatment for coronavirus in April – revealed in a statement on Twitter that contentious statues of Sir Thomas would be removed from view following pressure from anti-racist protesters. Bookseller … Read more
He became a national hero during the Second Boer War in South Africa for defending a town for 217 days and is mostly known today for founding the world Scout Movement. But Lord Baden-Powell is also considered as a racist by some for forcing Africans out on cattle drives by threatening them with floggings and … Read more
Hours after President Trump said he woudn’t be renaming military bases named for Confederate leaders, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flaunted her opposition by highlighting her work to get Confederate statues in the U.S. Capitol removed. Pelosi sent out a copy of a letter she had addressed to the chairs of the Joint Committee on the Library, … Read more
Have you been cleaning your oven wrong your whole life? Mind blowing video shows a little-known feature that removes the glass door in seconds A homeowner has revealed how she made her greasy oven door squeaky clean Woman said she’d struggled to thoroughly clean her ‘double glassed’ oven door But her husband recently showed her … Read more
Man, 30, has a whole fish stuck in his rectum after ‘sitting on it by accident’ The 30-year-old went to a hospital in China after having abdominal pain Doctors were shocked to find a fish inside his body during an X-ray scan The man said the fish slipped into his backside after ‘he sat on … Read more
Makeup artists have been slammed for painting their faces with slogans and optical illusion looks to resemble being choked in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Protests have erupted in recent days after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, who died after former officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck while he was … Read more
An app designed to remove Chinese apps from smartphones and tablets has been pulled from the Google Play Store. The app, called ‘Remove China Apps’, garnered nearly five million downloads in India, where anti-Chinese sentiment is growing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was free to download, had no adds, and its sole … Read more
Groomer honeybees can boost a colony’s immunity by clearing deadly parasites off their nestmates using their mandibles, a study has found. For a short period of their lives, some worker bees take on the role of removing debris including dangerous pests from other members of the colony. These bees – dubbed allogroomers – develop a … Read more