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  • The Night Sky This Week

    The Night Sky This Week

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    This week features a sky where winter’s brightest stars strain to be seen as the moon grows from gibbous to full. The Pleiades, Taurus’s horns and Gemini’s twin stars — the latter with Jupiter in their midst — all share the sky…

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  • NDMA issues alert for possible rainfall, snowfall in upper parts – RADIO PAKISTAN

    1. NDMA issues alert for possible rainfall, snowfall in upper parts  RADIO PAKISTAN
    2. PMD warns of more road closures, landslides  Dawn
    3. The Weather  Business Recorder
    4. PMD issues early warning as western system brings strong winds to Sindh  The Express…

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  • ‘Getting autism diagnosis helped my son understand himself’

    ‘Getting autism diagnosis helped my son understand himself’

    BBC A child draws out letters on a piece of paper against a wooden table. The pencil is yellow and she writes with her right hand.BBC

    Nearly 1,500 people living on the Isle of Man have some form of autism.

    The head of a charity that supports those in the community with autism says getting an early diagnosis can help people to progress through education and into adulthood more…

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  • Info Minister felicitates office bearers of Lahore Press Club – RADIO PAKISTAN

    1. Info Minister felicitates office bearers of Lahore Press Club  RADIO PAKISTAN
    2. Information minister felicitates new Lahore Press Club office bearers  The Nation (Pakistan )
    3. Lahore Press Club Elections see another Journalist Panel Landslide Victory  

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  • Google AI Overviews Cite YouTube Most for Health Queries – 조선일보

    Google AI Overviews Cite YouTube Most for Health Queries – 조선일보

    1. Google AI Overviews Cite YouTube Most for Health Queries  조선일보
    2. Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries, study suggests  The Guardian
    3. Don’t like Google’s AI answers? Here’s how to get rid of…

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  • The extraordinary wildlife photography of Alejandro Prieto

    The extraordinary wildlife photography of Alejandro Prieto

    Confluences is a book you can’t possibly put down, once you start paging through it. Whether you come across photos of prairie dogs or flamingos, blue whales or blue-footed boobies, you know immediately that Guadalajara native Alejandro Prieto…

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  • Irish and Iraqi artists build bonds through shared musical journey

    Irish and Iraqi artists build bonds through shared musical journey

    British Council Musicians rehearse together, playing a mix of stringed instruments including a large wooden harp, a lyre‑style instrument, and a violin. Sheet music is visible in the foreground, and the group is seated in a rehearsal space.
British Council

    The Macalla cross-cultural collaboration has been three years in the making

    At a time when increasing debates on cultural identity shape how communities see one another, the musicians of Macalla are quietly carving out a different…

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  • AI Agents Revolutionize Solid Electrolyte Discovery

    AI Agents Revolutionize Solid Electrolyte Discovery

    Solid-state batteries are widely viewed as a key technology for the future of energy storage, particularly for electric vehicles and large-scale renewable energy systems. Unlike conventional lithium-ion batteries, which rely on…

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  • Scabies: What is the parasitic skin disease and why are cases rising in the UK?

    Scabies: What is the parasitic skin disease and why are cases rising in the UK?

    When we think of scabies, we tend to think of 19th-century London: its gloomy streets swollen with people covered in rashes, vehemently scratching themselves.

    But scabies is far from an itch-inducing nightmare of the past. In fact, cases of…

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  • Canon’s sustainability efforts recognized with top 1% Platinum rating from global sustainability ratings organization EcoVadis for second consecutive year

    Canon’s sustainability efforts recognized with top 1% Platinum rating from global sustainability ratings organization EcoVadis for second consecutive year

    Canon’s sustainability efforts recognized with top 1% Platinum rating from global sustainability ratings organization EcoVadis for second consecutive year

    TOKYO, January 26, 2026—Canon Inc. announced today that the company has been awarded the Platinum rating for the second consecutive year for its sustainability efforts by France-based global sustainability ratings organization EcoVadis. The award places Canon within the top 1% of companies assessed globally.

    EcoVadis assesses over 150,000 companies spanning 185 countries and 250 industries according to various criteria across the four themes of “Environment,” “Labor & Human Rights,” “Ethics” and “Sustainable Procurement.” As worldwide interest in corporate sustainability efforts increases, companies around the world now take into consideration the EcoVadis rating of potential clients and partners.

    The Canon Group has made continued efforts toward sustainability, which led to high rankings in all four categories. Canon received particularly high marks in the categories of “Environment” and “Labor & Human Rights” which helped it to obtain the Platinum rating for a second consecutive year.

    Canon’s initiatives for sustainability

    Canon is working to strengthen initiatives related to environmental and societal issues in order to contribute to societal sustainability.

    In the environmental field, Canon aims to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions throughout entire product life cycles (Scope 1, 2, and 3) by 2050.1 Canon has also set science-based GHG emissions reduction targets in line with SBTi standards: by 2030, a 42% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions and a 25% reduction in Scope 3 emissions (Category 1 and 11) compared to 2022 levels.2

    Furthermore, Canon respects the human rights of all stakeholders involved in its business activities, including employees and business partners. It has formulated the Canon Group Human Rights Policy as a declaration of its stance on human rights and implements human rights due diligence throughout the entire Group while carrying out activities to spread awareness among Group employees both in Japan and overseas through such methods as e-learning.

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      Scope 1: Direct emissions (city gas, LPG, diesel, kerosene, non-energy-related greenhouse gases, etc.); Scope 2: Indirect emissions (electricity, steam, etc.); Scope 3: Emissions in the supply chains. category 1: Purchased goods and services; category 11: Use of products sold.

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      The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is a global initiative that encourages companies to set GHG reduction targets based on climate science. It is jointly operated by the UN Global Compact (UNGC), World Resources Institute (WRI), World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and the CDP.

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