Since of last Friday female members of the British royal family are granted the same rights as males to ascend to the British throne. This changes a 300 years rule stating that first-born sons inherit the throne. The only way for a woman to ascend to the throne had been if the previous monarch had no sons.
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At the beginning of the week, Fauja Singh, a 100 year old marathoner , finished Toronto race and became the oldest man to complete a full distance marathon.
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On Sunday, Saudi King Abdullah, granted women in his country the voting right and the right to run in municipal elections. This is an historic first for the ultra-conservative country where women are subjected to many restrictions.
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August of this year is the first month since the US-led invasion in 2003 that no US soldiers were killed in Iraq. The data is displayed by icasualties.org, which tracks US fatalities in Iraq every month.
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according to Statistics Canada, Canada’s crime rate is the lowest since 1973, as the volume of crime dropped five per cent in 2010 from the year before.
The Crime Severity Index, which measures the severity of crime acts, has also fallen six per cent and reached its lowest point since 1998. Police reported about 7,200 fewer crime acts in 2010 than in the previous year.
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Many USA cities are suffering heat waves during this summer and a lot of the cities from Lansing, Mich., to Boston are sending out street patrols with cold containers with water and opening cooling centers to make sure homeless residents are cared for during the heat wave.
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President Barack Obama is ending on Sep 20. the ban on homosexuals serving openly in the military. This will end a 17 year old policy of “dont ask, dont tell” .
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In Denmark, an anonymous donor has left almost $200,000 in a clothes recycling container located just outside a charity shop run by the Red Cross.
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As part of The Paradigm Project, Greg Spencer and Austin Mann, have decided to distribute five million low cost cook stoves in developing countries by 2020 and impacting the lives of 25 million people by doing so.
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Charlie Ross he is an 88 years old man who started competing at the age of 70. Since then he has won 8 gold medals and 7 silver ones.
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