Dublin: A controversial anti-gay and anti-Semitic US preacher has become the first person to be banned from Ireland under a 20-year-old Act, a media report said on Monday. Steven Anderson, a pastor from Arizona, runs the Faithful Word Baptist church, the media reported. His website claimed that he was due to preach in Dublin on May 26. However, an online petition calling for Anderson to be banned from Ireland was created in response, and gained 14,000 signatures. Irish Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan signed an exclusion order for Anderson with immediate effect under the Immigration Act 1999 IANS
Octopus farming 'unethical, environmentally dangerous'
London: Researchers have said plans to create octopus farms in coastal waters around the world are ethically inexcusable and environmentally dangerous and called on private companies, academic institutions and governments to block funding for these ventures. Experts say that farming octopuses would require the catching of vast amounts of fish and shellfish to feed them, putting further pressure on the planet's already threatened marine livestock, the Guardian reported on Sunday. IANS
Doris Day, last of Hollywood’s golden stars, dies at 97
Los Angeles: Screen icon Doris Day, last of the stars to represent the golden era of Hollywood and the velvety voice behind the classic “Que Sera Sera (whatever will be, will be), has died. She was 97. A popular singer-actor of her era, Day ruled the industry in the 1950s and ‘60s with films such as “Pillow Talk”, “That Touch of Mink” and “The Man Who Knew Too Much”. She breathed her last on Monday at her Carmel Valley home in California, Doris Day Animal Foundation, said. PTI
1.5 cr will need chemotherapy by 2040: Study
Melbourne: Over 1.5 crore people will need chemotherapy globally each year by 2040, a new study has said, suggesting that around one lakh cancer physicians will be required to treat the growing number of cancer patients mostly in low and middle-income countries. The study published recently in the prestigious the Lancet Oncology journal has predicted that from 2018 to 2040, the number of patients needing chemotherapy each year will rise by a 53 per cent from 9.8 million to 15 million (1.5 crore) globally. PTI
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