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China’s falling birth rate: Despite social pressure, women prefer independence
As the world’s population reaches 8 billion inhabitants, China, the planet’s most populous country, is suffering from a demographic crisis. In ten years, the number of births has halved. After four decades of the One Child Policy, the Chinese government now allows families to have two, sometimes even three children. But the policy reversal isn’t enough to convince would-be parents. Education in China is one of the most expensive in the world and younger generations are turning down traditional family models. More and more women are prioritising their careers, despite social pressure. Our correspondents report.
The company making steaks out of thin air
It was space travel that inspired scientist Lisa Dyson to create an unusual climate solution: protein made from air, which can be grown inside a tank instead of using up valuable land.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/world/air-protein-lisa-dyson-climate-scn-spc-intl/index.html
Every day, Gen Zers stop everything to post on this app. Is BeReal a fad, or here to stay?
Every day, Gen Z floods an app to take a picture and share it with their friends. USA TODAY asked three college students what they like about BeReal.
Ethiopia: Tigray awaits desperately needed aid
Ethiopia’s government and Tigrayan fighters have agreed to immediately allow aid into the Tigray region. It’s still uncertain though when it will arrive.
Fukushima fears aside, Japan still depends on nuclear power
The 2011 Fukushima disaster helped seal the fate of nuclear power in Japan, or so it seemed. Tokyo now plans to extend the life of its nuclear plants and is considering new smaller, safer reactors.
NFL legend Larry Csonka toasts Commanders for ending Eagles’ perfect season: ‘I’m a Washington fan tonight’
NFL legend Larry Csonka offered a toast to the Washington Commanders after the NFC East squad ended the Philadelphia Eagles’ pursuit of an undefeated season on Monday night.
Csonka was a part of the only NFL team to go undefeated in the regular season and the playoffs when he and the Miami Dolphins did it in 1972.
Tom Brady’s New England Patriots led the team to an undefeated regular season in 2007 but lost to the New York Giants in one of the biggest Super Bowl upsets ever.
The Hall of Fame running back had a beverage in his hand and tweeted a picture of his toast.
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“Thank you #WashingtonCommanders As in 2020 when you knocked out the #Steelers I’m a Washington fan tonight!” Csonka wrote.
While the myth around the NFL is that Dolphins players from the ’72 team pop champagne after an undefeated team goes down, the late Don Shula explained in 2011 no such celebration ever happens.
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“The champagne story is ridiculous,” Shula told the Cleveland Browns Daily at the time. “People really do think that we’re a bunch of angry old men and we gather and just root for that last undefeated team to get beat and when they do, we pop the champagne. I think the thing that happened is, one year, the last undefeated team got beat and Nick Buoniconti and Dick Anderson lived next to each other in Coral Gables, and they went out in their driveway and opened a bottle of champagne and popped it and toasted to each other. And they were too cheap to invite the rest of us to their party.”
On Monday night, the Commanders put up a tough game and kept Jalen Hurts and the Eagles off the field for enough time to keep their lead.
A missed call and few mistakes from the Eagles also burned them in the end.
Election denier Kari Lake finally met her match in her run for governor: Arizona voters
Kari Lake seemed indestructible, except when she had to face her greatest test: A full range of Arizona voters.
Divorced couple fights over frozen embryo: She wants another baby. He doesn’t.
An egg from a woman’s sister that was fertilized by her ex-husband is at the center of a post-divorce legal fight.
Filmmaker Paul Haggis ordered to pay total of $10M in rape lawsuit
Oscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis was ordered on Monday to fork over an additional $2.5 million in damages in a rape lawsuit, bringing the total amount he must pay to $10 million.
He is accused of sexually assaulting Haleigh Breest nearly a decade ago.
Breest’s lawyers lauded the verdict, but Haggis insisted that he was falsely accused and hurt financially by fighting the civil case, and has vowed to appeal.
“I can’t live with lies like this. I will die clearing my name,” he said as he left the court.
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Breest said Haggis raped her and forced her to perform oral sex on him in his New York apartment on Jan. 31, 2013. The filmmaker claims the sexual encounter was consensual.
Last week, the jury delivered a verdict in Breest’s favor and awarded her $7.5 million in compensatory damages for suffering. The jury also decided that she was owed punitive damages.
Jurors returned to court on Monday to hear testimony about Haggis’ finances and to determine how much more he would be forced to pay.
Haggis was questioned about his earnings on films such as Oscar best picture winners “Crash” and “Million Dollar Baby,” as well as the James Bond films “Casino Royale” and “Quantum of Solace.”
He explained to jurors the complexities of screenwriting compensation and estimated that he has made as much as $25 million before taxes, agents’ and other representatives’ fees and asset splits with his two ex-wives.
Haggis has worked in film for more than 40 years.
The filmmaker said he had suffered various financial losses throughout his career, including a poorly insured home being destroyed in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. But, he said, Breest’s lawsuit wiped him out, and his legal bills surpassed $2.6 million.
“I’ve spent all the money I have at my disposal. I’ve gutted my pension plan, I’ve lived on loans, in order to pay for this case in a very naive belief in justice,” he said outside the court.
Breest’s legal questioned the validity of Haggis’ claims regarding his financial situation.
“Nothing Paul Haggis says can be trusted,” attorney Ilann Maazel said.
Maazel said after the verdict that the jury “did the right thing.”
Breest said she suffered both professional and psychological harm from the incident at Haggis’ apartment. She had accepted an invitation for a drink at his place after a movie premiere.
She filed a lawsuit for unspecified damages. Haggis was not criminally charged.
In a statement after the initial verdict on Thursday, Breest said she appreciated “the opportunity to seek justice and accountability in court — and that the jury chose to follow the facts — and believed me.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/filmmaker-paul-haggis-ordered-pay-total-10m-rape-lawsuit
Opinion: The bigger message from the Biden-Xi meeting
It took two years after Joe Biden was elected US President before the leaders of the world’s two most powerful countries could finally speak in person, but when Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping finally met in Bali, Indonesia, on Monday on the sidelines of the G20 summit, the timing could not have been any better for the United States, for democracy and for the world.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/opinions/biden-xi-meeting-democracy-ghitis/index.html