Brain donation urged by Cardiff dementia research centre

This piece of news talks about brain donation. It says that it’s important to donate your brain, when you die, because it can help with dementia research whether your brain is affected or not.

There are still a lot of investigations to make, but there has to be something to work with, so that’s why brain donation is so important.

Personal opinion

I believe it’s very important to give your body to science, because that’s the way scientists are going to discover more things can save lives. Giving your body to science has always been frowned upon, mostly by the church, but nowadays it’s becoming more and more accepted so I’m very glad.

 I always have had a personal battle because on one hand I want to donate my body to science because I believe in it and I think it's important to keep progressing and discovering new solutions to illnesses, but on the other hand I want to have a place where my relatives can “visit me”. So I thought that the best I could do was, donate all my organs to science, bury the remainders and make a tree grow up from them through a Bios Incube, which is a biodegradable urn where you can grow up a tree from the ashes of someone.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-43084710

Transgender woman breastfeeds baby in first recorded case, study says

This news talks about the first transgender woman able to breastfeed her child. It all started because her partner (who was pregnant) didn’t want to do it so, this woman, after taking some health measures could be the one who breastfed the baby.

Before the birth, doctors put her on a course, usually given to women who hadn’t got biological babies, to make her produce artificial milk.

Although the baby had to drink a supplement of milk because the breast milk wasn’t enough, it was quite good, and the baby developed properly.

Personal opinion

I am so glad to read this piece of news, because it means that we are progressing as a society. It’s true that it is a big step in science, but it is a great advance in human rights too. I’ve always thought that everyone should be equal, no one should have more benefits than another, but given that it can’t happen, we should try our bests to make it happen.

This kind of thing couldn’t have happened in another time, because of the old-fashioned thoughts, and the lack of technology and science that we have now. I believe breastfeeding a child could be one of the most wanted and most impossible things at the same time. Now if you are a transgender woman it is actually was possible. So now that we’ve got the science, it’s time to open up our minds and go with the changes.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43071901

International Women's Day: 'Millions' join Spain strike

This piece of news talks about women’s day, on the  8^th of March, when women workers went out  on the streets to protest against gender inequality and sexual discrimination. Unions said that 5.3 million women had joined the strike.

Women who took part of the strike, stopped working for that day, they had to ditch domestic chores too. The thing was to show the world that if women stop, everything else stops, but as Spanish law doesn’t allow for single-gender strikes, men were welcome too, to fight for women’s rights.

There have been public people who did it and some others who didn't.

Personal opinion

I simply have no words for all the images I saw on the TV, I am so proud of what we, as women, are doing. I think it’s so important to protest when you don't agree with something, and that by fighting for what you want ,you are going to get it, despite the time it takes.

Not so many years ago, women were so insignificant to society, they were treated as stupid , as not being able to think at all. They couldn’t work because “they were only useful to be in the kitchen or to take care of children”, they couldn’t have properties, they couldn’t even vote. Nowadays, although there is still a lot of work to do, thanks to some strong women who fought for our rights, we are as we are now, and I couldn’t be more thankful. So that’s what we should keep doing, fight  against sexism to establish an equal society.

It’s true that there is a long way to go, the economic gap is still big, women earn between  13-19% less than men for doing the same job, and there are a lot less women in high positions than men. Every year in Spain, there are at least 100 hundred women murderers carried out by men, and a lot of them had restraining orders, which means that, as a country, is it not controlled enough.

Another thing I want to mentions is that, this news says literally “The ruling centre-right party, the Partido Popular (PP), said the action was "for feminist elites and not real women with everyday problems". Well, I respect everyone’s decision, but I cannot understand their position - everyday problems are the ones that matter. We do a lot of little things that are sexist and we don’t even notice, and besides, who is he or she, to say anything to anyone, everyone has the right of protest about something he or she feels unfair.

I have a lot of things to say about this, but to end it I want to say that I am proud seeing that symbol of unity, 5 million women, fighting together to get their rights

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43324406

Florida shooting: How the attack happened

Last 14^th of February a terrible incident happened in a high school in Florida. An expelled student, Nikolas Cruz, went into his old school wearing a gas mask and carrying a rifle. What he did to kill people was, setting off the alarm so the people came out of the classes and he could shoot more people. Students were led off the campus by police officers while the gunman was fleeing the building. Nikolas Cruz was taken an hour after the attack just a few miles from the attack.

Personal opinion

I am so worried because of the behaviour of these people, I mean; Nikolas Cruz wasn’t born like this, he, somehow turned out to be a violent crazy man. So in my opinion the problem is how did he become like this? Maybe the gunman as a child was unattended at home or he didn’t have many friends, so he is frustrated and angry with life in general. I’m not saying that he isn’t guilty of what he did, because unless he has a several mental illness, he was aware of what he was doing, which makes the gunman a crazy psychopath who is clearly has no empathy at all. I can’t even think what was going through Nikolas mind during the shooting, and worse, preparing the attack. How crazy do you have to be to plan a massive shooting in a school, where there’s people with all life ahead?

When I hear news like this I could not be more sad and angry; because I think about all the families that this maniac has broken and the only thing I wish is that he rots in jail. 

I think that America, as a country should learn from all these mistakes and change the law about wapons, because this might not have happened if America had stricter gun laws.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43071281

Pakistan gang 'stole spinal fluid from women'

This piece of news talks about four people who stole spinal fluid from women to sell it on the black market. This happened in Pakistan, one of the members of the gang was acting like a doctor while he was telling his victims what did they had to do. The impostor told his preys that they had to give their blood samples to qualify to the Punjab government dowry fund. But when they had to extract the blood, the gang didn’t take women to the hospital, they took them into a house to perform the procedure.

Personal opinion

First of all, I have to say that every time I hear news like this one I can avoid thinking what kind of people they have to be, who they think they are? I mean, they aren’t anybody to be cheating people to get profit from them. Why is it so hard for everybody to behave well and be kind to each other? The world would be so much better than it is now.

On the other hand, I think that this kind of things happen when a country is not regulated enough, if this illegality was punished harder or maybe just more investigated there would be far less corruption like this. I know that it must be so difficult to rule a city but I'm sure there is a way to control all this bad incidents and protect more the residents of the country.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43042867

The secret of why we like to eat chocolate

This news was published the 24th of February in the BBC by Dr. Michael Mosley.

It starts saying that he loves chocolate, he can't control how much he eats or when stops eating it. He says that apart from its nice taste, there is something else that makes chocolate so irresistible. 

 

Chocolate is made from the thing that is inside of cocoa beans. This thing is known as baba de cacao and it's sweet, acidic and very sticky. When this baba de cacao ferments it releases some chemical compounds that combined, create some chemical signature that our brain loves. Chocolate also contains a lot of psychoactive chemicals that in our brain feel like the effect of drugs like amphetamines, caffeine or cannabis.

One thing that gives us much pleasure is the fact that it melts when you put it in your mouth. Finally, the thing that makes chocolate irresistible is the amount of sugar and fat that it contains. The doctor matches these amounts of sugar and fats with the sugars that breast milk contains and maybe the brain is just trying to recapture the taste of human breast milk.

 

Personal opinion

I can't really give my opinion because I don't like chocolate, but I like nutella that is the same. I only can say that eating this kind of food is very delightful but very bad for our body. I  wish that some day scientist invent something good for our body and delicious as nutella, chocolate or other sweets.

Ebola vaccine shows promise for gorillas and chimps

This news was published on the 10th of March in the BBC news. It talks about how ebola affects gorillas and what scientists can do to solve this problem.

This news starts talking about how many gorillas have died because of this disease. It says that these animals are endangered because of poaching, so if we can avoid additional deaths from disease why can't do it? So, a group of scientist have created a vaccine to prevent gorillas from ebola.

First of all, the vaccine was tested on 10 gorillas in the University of Lousiana Lafayette and it worked ,so scientists thought that it was the time to give the vaccine to all gorillas. Mr Walsh is looking for a way to put the vaccine in wild gorillas, he says that they can give them the vacine in sweets, or they can put it in a spray.

Lize Macafie, vice chairperson of the International Union for Conservation Nature's said that it will be difficult to provide the vaccine to all the apes because not all of them are used to being with humans, and maybe the vaccine won't work in the same way in all apes. But it has to be done, otherwise, gorillas and apes will be more endangered. 

Personal opinion    

I think that's a really good idea because the animals in danger of extinction are in danger for many causes so, if we can avoid one of these causes, then there will be more animals of this species. On the other hand I think that this would be very difficult because not all the animals are trained to be with humans, and if a man goes and injects something in a gorilla, maybe the gorilla won't be very kind!

 Ebola vaccine shows promise for gorillas and chimps

Global issue news

UN: World facing greatest humanitarian crisis since 1945

This news was published today in the BBC news.

This piece of news talks about the humanitarian crisis that's affecting the world, specifically it talks about 4 countries, Yemen, South Sudan, Nigeria and Somalia. 

This news starts talking about how many people, are starving, 20 million people and 1,4 million children could starve only this year. Mr O'brien told that the UN has received 90 million dollars in 2017 and there were generous pledges.

In Yemen a child dies every ten minutes from a preventable disease and two thirds of Yemen's population is in need of some kind of humanitarian help. The poor government, the lack of rule of law and the under-development create problems for the people that want to help the country.

In the Southern Sudan 40% of the people need food and nutritional assistance, there are the same impediments and in addition the president, Salva Kiir, has been blocking all the aids that are being sent.

In Nigeria the situation is quite similar to the other two, but in Nigeria there is an extremist militant group, Boko Haram, that has killed approximately 15000 people and has forced 2 million people to leave. It's for Boko Haram that a lot of aid agencies can reach the country to help them.

In the last place, there is Somalia that because of the lack of water 6,2 million people are in urgent need of help. The attacks by Islamist militant groups are responsible for the lack of help that is reaching Somalia.

Personal opinion

In my opinion I think that the people who live in these countries are the strongest people in the world. They are constantly fighting with hunger, and extreme conditions. Most of these countries are in the middle of a war and they are losing family and friends and they still have hope and strength to live. I think that if every country could donate some money, food, or some basic needs, conditions in these countries could be better. I truly admire these people and I hope one day everything that makes people suffer ends. 

UN: World facing greatest humanitarian crisis since 1945 - BBC News

North Korean leader's brother Kim Jong-nam killed at Malaysia airport

This news talks about the recent death of Kim Jong-nam, the North Korean leader's brother. He was waiting at the airport in Malaysia when all this happened. The news says that Kim Jong-nam was attacked by a woman covering her  face with a cloth impregnated with some poisonous liquid, but it is still unclear.

" There are no suspects, but there are investigations going on", said Fadzil Ahmat.

South Koren media said that Kim Jong-nam was dead, but Malaysian police said who was dead was Kim Chol, who was born on June the 10th in 1970. But, finally the police confirmed that he was the North Korean brother, Kim Jong-nam, born on May the 10th in 1971. It wasn't the first time that, Kim Jong-nam was travelling using a false passport- he was caught doing this in 2001, in Japan's airport.

Before that, Kim Jong-nam said that his brother's leadership  lacked of qualities, so, there is some people who think that the dictator, Kim Jong-un was involved in his brother's death.

Personal opinion

In my opinion, I think that Kim Jong-nam´s death was prepared, and there is someone behind this , either the dictator, or someone who wanted him dead. Anyway, we will only know that when police find out.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38971655

Brazil prisoners beheaded in riot at Natal prison

Summary
This news talks about some incidents that happened in Alcacuz prison, Brazil. There has been a lot of fights in that prison, and in one of them 10 prisoners have been killed. Everything started when members of one of the most powerful criminal gangs went to the prison to attack their rivals, and three prisoners ended without his head.
There was no escapes from the prison but police says that the number of deaths could increase.
After this riot, the government wants to build safer prisons.
Personal opinion
I think that if the prisons were more safer this wouldn't happened.Also, all the people who has done that should be in jail.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38626821