Daily Diamond - South Sudan Peace Talks and Hopeful Ceasefire

On December 15 fighting broke out across South Sudan, the world’s newest country that has only been independent of Sudan since 2011. It is worried that the clashes will lead to an all out civil war, but though the fighting isn’t over yet, peace talks are underway in Ethiopia, and Chia is......
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Daily Diamond - Body Piercings Help Paralysed People Control Wheelchairs

Many people are against body piercing for whatever reason, but US scientists have been working on a way of using tongue studs to help paralysed people move their motorised wheelchairs, making a lot of anti-piercers bite their tongues.
Researchers from the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, the......
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Daily Diamond - Kenya launches railway to boost trade

Late 2013, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta announced the launch of a railway project that could revolutionise transportation in East Africa. The railway is said to be Kenya’s biggest construction project for their half a century of independence, eventually extending all the way to Burundi,......
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Daily Diamond - Return of the Tamagotchi

Back in the 90s, a children’s trend dominated the toy market. The craze was Tamagotchi, and now the little virtual pets are back.
Tamagotchi was a small digital toy on a keyring, where owners would hatch their virtual pet from an egg and raise it to adulthood by pressing the relevant buttons......
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Daily Diamond - Sperm test for infertile men could show if they can father children through IVF

When it comes to infertility, we usually just think about women and their side of things, but in reality just as many men suffer with fertility issues, and suffer through the psychological and emotional turmoil just as much as women when pregnancy and seeing a baby to term just doesn’t......
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Daily Diamond - Three London 'slaves' rescued after 30 years

In a movie-worthy plotline, three women have been rescued from a house in London after being held captive for more than 30 years by a married couple, and forced to be their domestic slaves.
After more than three decades, the women were rescued from their enslavement from what appeared to be an......
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Daily Diamond - London Heathrow opens first E-Cig zone

Back in September, Daily Diamond covered the benefits of electronic cigarettes compared to tobacco products and nicotine patches. E-cigarettes are becoming increasingly popular, and as if to prove this point, Heathrow Airport in London and e-cigarette brand Gamucci are to open the world’s......
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