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TOKYO : Japan's Cosmo Energy Holdings could struggle to win shareholder backing for a revised "poison pill" strategy, its chief executive said on Friday, as the company seeks to defend itself from activist investors pursuing a hostile…

Sex toy tester Deon Black was about to try a new toy with his girlfriend when the device suddenly became very hot and burned him.He escaped with only a few scalded fingers but, after years of testing sex toys for work, the incident led him…

As It Happens4:16The tallest poison ivy in the world is in Ontario, says GuinnessWhen Robert Fedrock first happened upon what is now a Guinness World Record-holding poison ivy, he wasn't quite sure what he was looking at."The vine is so big…

TOKYO : Cosmo Energy Holdings' "poison pill" proposal against a prominent activist investor could have been blocked if the company had not adopted a controversial voting pattern, details of the vote count released on Friday…

Last Updated: June 09, 2023, 11:58 ISTStreets are flooded in Kherson, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 7, 2023 after the walls of the Kakhovka dam collapsed. (Credits: Associated Press)Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said the flood waters…

<!-- -->The rules will go into effect on August 1.Canada's health department has announced that warning labels would soon be printed directly on cigarettes, as per a report in the BBC. Each cigarette in the new package will include a…

The UK should brandish individual cigarettes with health warning labels under reforms to stamp out smoking, experts have said. It would match the step taken by Canada this week, in a world first move, to make it 'virtually impossible' for…

Potatoes can be harmful when reheated.Spinach and other green leafy vegetables contain nitrates that can break down into compounds that are known to cause cancer when reheated.Fresh food has always been a staple of our tradition and is…

The slanging match between Congress and BJP intensified on Friday, a day after the 'poison' word entered the political discourse.BJP and Congress have asked the election commission to ban campaigning by top leaders of the other party for…

<!-- -->The girls were treated after suffering shortness of breath, in Tabriz. (Representational)Tehran: Twenty Iranian schoolgirls were hospitalised on Tuesday after the latest in a mysterious wave of poisoning attacks that have…