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To Find Criminals and Child Exploitation in Gold Mines, We Just Had to Look

✇NYT - Top Stories
By: Justin Scheck
Layers of people certify that gold is free from rights abuses and criminality. Nobody makes them leave their desks.

© Lynsey Addario for The New York Times

Labor abuses and criminality are not hard to find in the world’s unlicensed gold mines. Assuming someone visits.
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Bank of England governor walks out of IMF summit in protest against Russia

✇The Guardian - Europe
By: Harry Taylor

Andrew Bailey among finance leaders to leave session in Bangkok when Russian finance minister addressed group

The Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey, has taken part in a walkout of finance leaders who left an International Monetary Fund meeting in protest against Russian involvement.

Bailey joined counterparts from France, Germany and a number of Scandinavian and Baltic countries who left the session in Bangkok when the Russian finance minister, Anton Siluanov, addressed the group in Russian.

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© Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA

© Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA

© Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA

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Bees, Puffins and Owls to Replace Churchill on New Banknotes

✇The Daily Sceptic
By: Will Jones

Bumblebees, puffins, barn owls and hedgehogs will feature on the Bank of England's next series of banknotes, replacing Winston Churchill and other British historic figures after they were deemed "elitist and divisive".

The post Bees, Puffins and Owls to Replace Churchill on New Banknotes appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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