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7 Things You Should Never Pack in Checked Luggage – Pack wisely to ensure a safe and sound flight!

List.ly 

A Listly List - Air travel can often be stressful, but knowing what to pack in your checked luggage can significantly ease that burden. Being mindful of prohibited items ensures that your baggage doesn’t pose a safety risk to the aircraft or other passengers' belongings. Discover a comprehensive list of items that cannot go in checked baggage, allowing you to breeze through airport security with peace of mind.

OPINION - Mediocre A-listers are ruining fashion catwalks — bring back the real models

Evening Standard 

There’s a famous scene in Bruno where Sacha Baron Cohen interviews a catwalk model backstage at a fashion show. “It’s the hardest job in the world isn’t it?” he asks her mockingly. “You’ve got to remember, like, to put your right leg forward, and then your left leg forward, and then which one now? And then sometimes you even have to turn,” he says. The poor unsuspecting model agrees. “It’s very hard.”

Arkansas’ Randal Tyson Track Center named host of 2027 NCAA Indoor Championships

University of Arkansas Women's Gymnastics 

The NCAA announced on Wednesday the University of Arkansas will serve as host for the 2027 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships. Previously, the Randal Tyson Track Center was awarded the 2026 NCAA Indoor Championships, so the Razorbacks will host the event in consecutive years.

Savannah Ridley

CBC 

Savannah is a Onöndowa'ge:onö' journalist based in Tkaronto, Ont. She is a recipient of the 2024 CJF-CBC Indigenous Journalism Fellowship.

Verifying facts in the age of AI–librarians offer 5 strategies

«Albany Democrat Herald» (democratherald.com) 

The phenomenal growth in artificial intelligence tools has made it easy to create a story quickly, complicating a reader's ability to determine if a news source or article is truthful or reliable. For instance, earlier this year, people were sharing…

A Beacon of Hope

City Journal 

Bernard-Henri Lévy deems Israel a “hearth that radiates a light and a language without which a part of humanity would be lost.”

DDG Ellard emphasizes vital role of parliaments, provides update on WTO priorities

World Trade Organization 

Deputy Director-General Angela Ellard addressed on 2 October a virtual meeting of parliamentarians worldwide on the outcomes of the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO (PCWTO) and the 13th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC13) held in Abu Dhabi in February 2024. She thanked the parliamentarians for their ongoing support of the WTO and provided an update on the Organization’s activities since MC13, highlighting its current negotiating priorities.

Members underline need for services trade to be inclusive

World Trade Organization 

A meeting of the Council for Trade in Services on 2 October spotlighted the importance of services trade to WTO members’ economies and of advancing work stemming from the 13th Ministerial Conference. They also discussed ways to boost the participation of least-developed countries (LDCs) in services trade, based on a questionnaire by the WTO’s LDCs Group, and exchanged views on the E-commerce Work Programme. At a meeting of the Committee on Trade and Financial Services on 1 October, members discussed... Читать дальше...