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What if polluters footed the climate bill?
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Should rich countries and fossil fuel companies pay for the climate losses and damages they have caused?
Artists imagine a new utopia for Kenya's capital
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Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has long been known as “the green city in the sun” because of its mix of forest and grasslands among the urban sprawl, but it all depends on where you are viewing it from.
Seen from one of the city’s comfortable apartment blocks or homes, then yes, perhaps – from one of its densely packed slums, then no.
There, life can be characterised by poverty and ecological disaster, such as flooding and deadly landslides.
Why an ADHD diagnosis can be a mixed blessing
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Joseph Aquilina hates the term attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Aquilina feels that the two Ds in the term ADHD suggest dysfunction. He prefers his own term: attention difference hyperdrive.
Aquilina's ADHD diagnosis came at the age of 37, 16 years after his diagnosis with dyslexia. The fast-talking Londoner had long thought that his difficulties with focus, memory and planning were due to dyslexia, until the people in his life started asking more questions about his behaviour.
Actors demand action over 'disgusting' explicit video game scenes
Performers working in the games industry have spoken of their distress at being asked to work on explicit content without notice, including a scene featuring a sexual assault.
Sex scenes are common in modern games - and are often made by filming human actors who are then digitised into game characters.
But performers have told the BBC a culture of secrecy around projects - where scripts are often not shared until the last moment - means they frequently do not know in advance that scenes may involve intimate acts.
MP has 'renewed focus' after Democrats' convention
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An MP who attended the Democratic Party's National Convention said the experience gave her a "renewed" focus to address local issues.
Lucy Rigby, Labour MP for Northampton North, attended the event in Chicago this week at which Kamala Harris officially accepted her party's nomination for the upcoming US presidential election.
The MP described the event as an opportunity to "learn and share ideas" with her American counterparts.
Sinner parts with physio & fitness coach
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The world number one twice tested positive for clostebol - a steroid that can be used to build muscle mass - in March.
The Italian was cleared of fault or negligence by a tribunal last week, with the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) finding Sinner had been inadvertently contaminated with the substance by Naldi.
Naldi had been applying an over-the-counter spray - given to him by Ferrara - to a cut on his own hand before then carrying out treatments on Sinner.
Yoshitomo Nara and the dark side of Japanese 'cuteness'
How Japan's "most famous" artist, and others, are subverting the country's cute "kawaii" aesthetic to question the world we live in.
