The Daily Populous

Tuesday September 25th, 2018 evening edition

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The Rugby Sevens was happening there, a two-day event, and I drunkenly said in a bar one evening that anybody can streak.

There was a big Chinese football game on two days later and I agreed to go to that.

So I did a big a football game, Liverpool v Everton, and it went down great again.

Streaking among the skinny stewards at Wimbledon must be different than a police state like the Super Bowl.

The biggest fear factor I had was for the Super Bowl and that started before I even left Liverpool.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mark Roberts lets the world see him in all his glory at the Wimbledon men’s singles final.

There’s no precedent, so I just have to put faith in the hands of the police when I get there. »

India launches 'Modicare', world's biggest health scheme

Authored by medicalxpress.com
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The bottom 40 percent of India's 1.25 billion people will be covered under the flagship program, dubbed "Modicare", unveiled in the federal budget earlier this year.

The 100 million lowest-income families will be provided 500,000 rupees ($6,900)—a sizeable sum in India—in annual health insurance to treat serious ailments.

The scheme is expected to cost the central and 29 state governments $1.6 billion per year in total. »

Monsanto's global weedkiller harms honeybees, research finds

Authored by theguardian.com

The world’s most used weedkiller damages the beneficial bacteria in the guts of honeybees and makes them more prone to deadly infections, new research has found.

The findings show glyphosate, the most used agricultural chemical ever, may be contributing to the global decline in bees, along with the loss of habitat.

Other research, from China and published in July, showed that honeybee larvae grew more slowly and died more often when exposed to glyphosate. »