China shuts down prominent Christian church


Beijing officials have shut down one of China's largest "underground" Protestant churches for operating without a licence, the Communist government's latest move to ramp up control over religious worship. Around 70 officials stormed into the Zion Church housed on the third floor of a nondescript office building in the north of the capital after its Sunday afternoon service, church pastor Jin Mingri said.

Amputee model Mama Cox debut at New York Fashion Week.

a group of people on a beach: Chromat show at New York Fashion Week SS19
It's no secret that the fashion world has a long way to go in representing the people we see every day. Still, progress is definitely being made. Take last night's Chromat show, for example.

Dutch prisons are closing because the country is so safe


In 2013, 19 prisons in the Netherlands closed because the country didn't have enough criminals to fill them. Now, five more are slated to close their doors by the end of the summer, according to internal documents obtained by The Telegraaf. While these closures will result in the loss of nearly 2,000 jobs, only 700 of which will transition into other unknown roles within Dutch law enforcement, the trend of closing prisons follows a steady drop in crime since 2004.

Australian Cartoonist Tries and Fails to Prove His Drawing of Serena Williams Somehow Isn’t Racist


Serena Williams's shocking U.S. Open loss to Naomi Osaka has set off a storm of debate about professionalism and double standards in the sport. Williams maintains that she was penalized more harshly than a male player would have been (more harshly, in fact, than they've been punished in the past), but she had the poise to congratulate and support Osaka despite her disappointment and anger.

Warehouse worker on €37k fired for drinking a €2 soft drink and putting it back

A WAREHOUSE OPERATIVE was dismissed from his €37,585 post after being found to take and consume half the contents of a soft-drink bottle costing less than €2 while on the job. The worker sued for unfair dismissal but the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has found that the warehousing and distribution company was fair in sacking the man. In the case, WRC Adjudication Officer, Roger McGrath found that the worker on 14 February 2017 took a soft drink from a pallet in the warehouse and consumed half the contents of the bottle before putting it back on the pallet.
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