Yahoo - Stop Your Deadly Ivory Trade!

Image via Avaaz.org

Yahoo is making a killing selling ivory which companies like Google refuse to touch. But right now the company is under pressure to keep employees happy -- let’s make sure every last one of them knows Yahoo’s bloody secret.  

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Jason Rezaian Released From Iranian Prison After 544 Days

Jason Rezaian Released From Iranian Prison After 544 Days (PRNewsFoto/National Press Club)

[Good news are, and will always be, our favourite kind of news, here at LoupDargent.info... Enjoy!]

Members of the National Press Club and journalist around the world are overjoyed at the news our colleague Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian who has been in prison for 544 days for simply doing his job has been released, and will now be reunited with his family and friends.

Canada's History Marks The 100th Anniversary Of Women's Suffrage

Canada's Great Women (CNW Group/Canada's History)

Canada's History Society marks the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage with special editions of Canada's History and Kayak: Canada's History Magazine for Kids.

For Canada's History, a special panel – including former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson and bestselling author Charlotte Gray – selected "20 Great Women" from Canada's political, business, artistic, and activist history.

Bowie's Greatest Gift? Even His 'Failures' Will Echo Through The Ages

Reuters/Charles Platiau

The second single from David Bowie’s iconic 1973 album, Aladdin Sane, was called Drive-in-Saturday. Part science-fiction ballad, part-vignette of a young marriage – and all lyrical and musical tour de force, it’s a song Bowie utterly owned on record and in its rare live outings. His TV performance of the song on the Russell Harty Plus show shifted between boyish raunch, fey knowingness and majestically queer authority.

A Storm In A Twitter Cup... [The One About That Milo Unverified Account Thing]

With the #JeSuisMilo hashtag spamming Twitter these last days, you could easily make the mistake to think that someone called Milo got killed by some terrorists... 

I mean, after all, the anniversary of the dreadful events in Paris was only a few days ago and nobody would trivialise what happened then by using a hashtag a la #JeSuisCharlie for something silly, would they?

Oh, yes, they would... and they bloody did!

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Tango Down! #BNP Struck Off Register Of UK Political Parties

It's "tango down" for the BNP...

I know it's not Breaking News as such (it was on Twitter, and all over the net, already yesterday after all) but this is Good News! And, good news, even if they're temporary, do need to be shared a lot as they do help making the start of the new year a bit more cheerful, somehow...