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A mass demonstration on social media has been planned in Chile following the grim discovery of over 40 poisoned stray dogs in Punta Arenas. The so-called 'tweetstorm' is scheduled to take place on Wednesday.

On Sunday hundreds of protesters gathered at the Plaza de Armas Benjamín Muñoz Gamero and marched to the home of Bishop Bernardo Bastres, who called for the eradication of the dogs following an attack. Local media have reported: “God created things to be at the service of humans,” Bastres declared. “This is a principle of the Genesis. Everything is at our service. I don’t want...

The Mall of America in Minnesota will bring a one-of-a-kind experience to visitors from around the world known as "Ice Castles" - a castle that will stand more than 40 feet tall at its peak and span two acres.

The Ice Castle is made of icicles organically grown from 4 million gallons of water and then fused together, joining 50 large ice towers together to create a series of shimmering archways, tunnels, walls and caverns, say the organisers.

The team leader behind the structure is an artist named Brent Christensen from Utah. For the past several years, Christensen has been...

Journalists at one of China's largest newspapers, Southern Weekly , working on the Southern Weekend publication, are currently on strike against government censorship.

On Monday and continuing on Tuesday protesters gathered outside the newspaper's headquarters in Guangzhou. The strike is a rare show of dissent in China against propaganda officials. Chinese media are 'supervised' by so-called propaganda departments that often change content to align it with party thinking.

The publication, considered by many to be China's most respectable newspaper, saw journalists and some...

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Madrid to defend the public health sector against what appears to be government attempts to privatise some services.

Demonstrators are holding banners and waving flags as they move through the capital. At the beginning of November Madrid moved to privatise ten per cent of public health centers as well as the administration of six hospitals – half of the hospitals in the region.

Of the hospitals to be privatised, all were recently built. Spain’s National Health System (SNS), established in 1986, fulfills a mandate included in...