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Iceland sees success with 4-day work week

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Iceland sees success with 4-day work week

A study in Icelandic government offices again shows the benefits of a shorter workweek. Productivity rose enough to ensure that all services were still provided as needed. Because of the study’s success, 86 percent of Icelanders now or soon will have the right to a shorter workweek. Having rolled out a major program that reduced the work hours of more than 2,500 workers to four days per week, Iceland is calling the trials “a major success.” “Workers experienced significant increases in wellbeing and work-life balance — all while existing levels…

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Story of a nudist couple experience in world’s largest nudist city of Cap D’Age

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Story of a nudist couple experience in world’s largest nudist city of Cap D’Age

Here is a first hand experience of a nudist couple who love stripping naked and baring all have jetted off to the “largest nudist city in the world” for a naked honeymoon. The stunning seaside town of Cap D’Age on the Mediterranean coast in France allows its residents and visitors to be completely nude in public. Whereas some holiday destinations have a few beaches where tourists and locals can walk around leaving nothing to the imagination, the entire town of Cap D’Age gives people these freedoms. Residents can walk totally…

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25.6% of the world has received a COVID-19 vaccine.Check how your country is doing.

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25.6% of the world has received a COVID-19 vaccine.Check how your country is doing.

The globe reached a couple of Coronavirus milestones this week. One is terribly grim: We passed 4 million deaths due to the virus. The other, offers faint hope: Through July 13, more than a quarter (25.6%) of the world’s population has now received at least one COVID-19 vaccine according to Our World in Data, which collects information from local governments. That’s up 3.2% from two weeks ago; the world is currently administering nearly 30 million vaccines per day. In all, 3.51 billion shots have been given around the globe. That’s…

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Miami Swim Week 2021: Catwalk highlights Inclusivity & Diversity

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Miami Swim Week 2021: Catwalk highlights Inclusivity & Diversity

After missing out on Miami Swim Week last year, the annual swimwear showcase is back and it’s truly a reason to rejoice. Miami Swim Week saw its most inclusive and diverse casting yet with a host of shows that put women of all sizes, shapes and ethnicity on the runway. Now, in the aftermath of the shows, people are praising the brands that made strides in redefining what beauty can look like and are reflecting on what that might mean for younger people watching the shows today. In previous years…

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Banning LGBT Conversion Therapy Part Of UK’s Post-Pandemic Agenda

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Banning LGBT Conversion Therapy Part Of UK’s Post-Pandemic Agenda

Britain will move to ban conversion therapy and provide more support to those in the LGBT community who have undergone the treatment, as part of its post-pandemic government agenda.Boris Johnson’s party has come under increasing pressure on the issue after former leader Theresa May vowed in 2018 to eradicate the conversion therapy. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government said measures would be brought forward to prevent these “abhorrent practices which can cause mental and physical harm”, starting with a consultation on how best to protect people and how to eliminate coercive…

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Which are the Green list countries marked by UK government for travel & tourism this summer

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Which are the Green list countries marked by UK government for travel & tourism this summer

Portugal, Gibraltar and Israel are among the countries and territories people will be able to visit without quarantining on their return to the UK, the government has said. As England goes into the next phase of the roadmap out of lockdown on 17 May, a traffic light system that categorises countries based on their COVID-19 risk levels has been drawn up. What does it mean for travelers? Green List: Travellers returning from a country on that list will not need to quarantine, and will only be required to take one…

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Spain, Greece excluded from UK’s travel ‘green list’ -The Sun

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Spain, Greece excluded from UK’s travel ‘green list’ -The Sun

People from Britain will be able to fly to Gibraltar and Malta but not to Spain and Greece under UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s green light scheme, The Sun newspaper reported on Tuesday. The two tiny Mediterranean sunspots are set to be included on the green list for quarantine-free travel after May 17 due to be announced this Friday, according to the newspaper. The green status for those places would mean that Brits can visit there with just two COVID-19 tests on their return. Spain and Greece will likely have…

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Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine shows 97.6% efficacy

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Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine shows 97.6% efficacy

The Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) have reported that the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine showed a 97.6% efficacy. This was based on the analysis of data on disease infection rate among people receiving both shots of the vaccine. The vaccine, which is based on an established and well-studied platform of human adenoviral vectors, uses two different vectors for the two jabs for vaccination. Data from 3.8 million Russians who received both components of Sputnik V from 5 December last year…

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Sweden’s King Carl XVI Celebrates 75th Birthday Without Pomp

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Sweden’s King Carl XVI Celebrates 75th Birthday Without Pomp

Sweden’s King Carl XVI celebrated his 75th birthday on Friday, but due to the pandemic celebrations were kept to a minimum, without the lavish flair of a royal anniversary. In contrast to the monarch’s 70th birthday when people lined the streets of Stockholm to fete him, the Swedish Royal Court said celebrations would be “limited” because of the pandemic. Instead of playing host to royals from other countries, smaller receptions were planned for the the morning with Prime Minister Stefan Lofven and other senior politicians, and one with representatives from…

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Despite decreasing infections,WHO says threat for Europe ‘remains present’

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Despite decreasing infections,WHO says threat for Europe ‘remains present’

The threat for Europe posed by the coronavirus “remains present,” the World Health Organization said Thursday, despite a recent decline in new cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the region. “It is 462 days since the first Covid-19 cases were reported. Based on numbers of confirmed cases, 5.5% of the entire European population have now had Covid-19, while 7% have completed a full vaccination series,” WHO’s regional director for Europe, Dr. Hans Kluge, said in a press conference on Thursday. “But even as new cases, hospitalizations and deaths decline, the threat…

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