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Apple and Microsoft reportedly block new gun and rifle emoji from next update

Edit Digital Spy 18 Jun 2016
Apple has reportedly blocked two new emoji – both of which feature guns – ahead of next week's proposed Unicode 9.0 update ... Microsoft, also a voting member of Unicode, reportedly agreed with Apple to remove the two emojis from the list. Apple declined to comment, while Unicode president Mark Davis confirmed that ......

Apple reportedly voted against adding a rifle emoji to the internet

Edit Quartz 18 Jun 2016
Apple apparently 🔫 down the prospect of a rifle emoji appearing in the next release of Unicode, according to a report from Buzzfeed on Friday (June 17). During a meeting in May, the Unicode Consortium—the group that oversees the coding standard for text on computers ... Quartz has reached out to the Unicode Consortium and Apple for comment....

Apple and Microsoft block rifle from Rio Olympics emoji update

Edit The Daily Mail 18 Jun 2016
The icon had been set to be included in the Unicode 9.0 release in June to coincide with the Rio Olympics, where rifle shooting will feature ... ....

The rifle emoji is shooting blanks, thanks to Apple and Microsoft

Edit Digital Trends 18 Jun 2016
A joint opposition by Apple and Microsoft to a proposed rifle emoji means your phone won't be getting one anytime soon. The effort was spearheaded by Apple at a recent Unicode Consortium meeting. The post The rifle emoji is shooting blanks, thanks to Apple and Microsoft appeared first on Digital Trends ... ....

Australian traveller Rye Hunt's ashes to arrive home

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 18 Jun 2016
"When mum brought him home from hospital, he was very much mine," Ms Brodribb said ... Now Ms Brodribb is waiting for her brother in Tasmania as he makes his final journey home ... It is a bittersweet time for Ms Brodribb who on Monday welcomed her son into the world.  ... Ms Brodribb said her brother would have doted on his nephew....

People plus food perfect recipe

Edit Otago Daily Times 18 Jun 2016
Ms Goldthorpe and her husband, Alex Drummond, both 28, have brought their food truck, The Wolf You Feed, to Dunedin ... At that stage, Mr Drummond was teaching music at Wellington College and Ms Goldthorpe was writing her PhD thesis. They got thinking about what they liked doing; Ms Goldthorpe spent most of her time cooking for friends and family rather than writing that thesis, she quipped....

SME profile: Dubai mumpreneurs find niche while looking for baby clothes

Edit The National 18 Jun 2016
Seven months after her son was born in 2012, Ms Humphrey, who also ran the Dubai based moving company Easytruck with her husband Chris, decided to set up a new venture ... As a veteran Dubai entrepreneur, Ms Humphrey already knew the ropes for getting a trade licence and was able to use the same local sponsor she had already used for Easytruck ... "I wanted to create a community for mums in Dubai," Ms Humphrey says....

Jo Cox murder: Man due in court over murder of British MP

Edit The Irish Times 18 Jun 2016
Thomas Mair is charged with killing Ms Cox (41) a member of the leftist opposition Labour Party and supporter of Britain staying in the EU, who was shot and stabbed to death in the street in her own electoral district in northern England on Thursday. Ms Cox was targeted in the attack as she prepared to hold a regular session to give advice to constituents....

How suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst became an 'honorary Ethiopian'

Edit BBC News 18 Jun 2016
It depicts Ms Pankhurst in June 1935 walking down a gravel path through a garden in the English city of Bath, accompanied by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie ... In previous years, Ms Pankhurst had gone to study art in Venice, where she witnessed the brutality of the fascist regime ... When Ms Pankhurst felt media and readers were losing interest in Ethiopia's plight, she took matters into her own hands and founded a newspaper....

Mehbooba seeks decisive mandate from voters

Edit Kashmir Observer 18 Jun 2016
Seeking a strong and decisive mandate from the voters of Anantnag, Chief Minister, Ms Mehbooba Mufti today reiterated her party’s resolve to retrieve Jammu and Kashmir from the morass of political and economic uncertainties and usher the State into a era of peace and prosperity ... Ms Mehbooba said the problem of unemployment especially among the educated youth is a matter of grave concern and needs immediate thought....

Jo Cox murder: Man due in court over death of British MP

Edit The Irish Times 18 Jun 2016
Thomas Mair is charged with killing Ms Cox (41) a member of the Labour Party and supporter of Britain staying in the EU, who was shot and stabbed to death in the street in her own electoral district in northern England on Thursday. Ms Cox was targeted in the attack as she prepared to hold a regular session to give advice to constituents....

Australian politicians 'lack guts'

Edit Otago Daily Times 18 Jun 2016
Ms Rinehart said the cost of government was growing rapidly and this issue has been overlooked in the election campaign ... government," Ms Rinehart told the Saturday Telegraph....

Jayalalithaa greets Hillary Clinton for becoming first woman president nominee

Edit Deccan Chronicle 18 Jun 2016
Jayalalithaa on Friday greeted Ms Hillary Clinton for having clinched the Democratic party’s nomination for the upcoming US Presidential election, while recalling their meeting  here in 2011....
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