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Google and a team of university researchers have hit on what they say could be an effective way to make people more impervious to the harmful impact of online misinformation

It’s been nearly two decades since the oil giant BP released a calculator to help consumers figure out all the ways carbon was creeping into their lives, from commuting to work to buying food. The PR campaign was wildly successful: It popularized the very idea of an individual “carbon footprint.”

Nathan Sparling, 31, was on trial accused of taking images of man while he was naked from waist down following drinking session.

A man from Queanbeyan is permanently prohibited from providing health services to members of the public after he attended a car accident in a mock ambulance and posed as a paramedic.