Colombian rebels sign accord to end war Colombia's government has secured a groundbreaking peace deal with leftist Farc rebels promising to end a war that has lasted 52 years, killing tens of thousands and displacing millions. The Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, announced on Wednesday that a national plebiscite would take place on 2 October for voters to either accept or reject the accord. Iván Márquez, the Farc's top negotiator, said: "We have won the most beautiful of all battles: [the battle] of peace for Colombia." Farc peace deal: rebels and Colombian government sign accord to end war Sanders staff flee legacy project No sooner had Democratic primary runner-up Bernie Sanders announced the Our Revolution grassroots project to "continue the struggle for justice", than key staff began to quit over its leadership and fundraising structure. The departures, including the entire organizing department and the group's digital director, came after Sanders's former campaign manager Jeff Weaver was appointed president of the group. Notwithstanding this setback, Sanders said the project planned to support "progressives at every level".
Fleeing the Bern: half of staff quit Sanders legacy project before it begins Marijuana admitted to Oregon state fair Prize-winning marijuana plants will be included in the state fair's agricultural line-up in a move that cannabis advocates call a monumental step in removing the stigma around a product. The marijuana plants will only be viewable by those 21 and older. And the plants will be guarded by security. "Cannabis is taking its rightful place next to tomatoes and other agriculture," said Don Morse, with the Oregon Cannabis Business Council. Prize-winning pot: top marijuana plants debut at Oregon state fair Sex toys, not machine guns In another first for student democracy, hundreds of undergraduates at the University of Texas at Austin have signaled their opposition to the state's "campus carry" gun law by carrying dildos to an anti-gun demonstration. Under a new law, gun owners aged 21 and older are permitted to carry concealed handguns in most places on public university campuses. "We have crazy laws here but this is by far the craziest, that you can't bring a dildo on to campus legally but you can bring your gun," said Rosie Zander, a 20-year-old history student. Cocks Not Glocks: Texas students carry dildos on campus to protest gun law The speed of melting ice The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing 110,000 Olympic size swimming pools worth of water each year, a new study estimates. The findings, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, used data from the Cryosat 2 satellite to make high-resolution measurement of Greenland. Lead author Malcolm McMillan from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modeling estimates approximately 270 gigatons of ice loss per year for 2011–2014. Global warming is melting the Greenland Ice Sheet, fast Pizza by drone Global pizza giant Dominos will become the first to carry out regular deliveries by drone in New Zealand from late 2016. Speaking after the Domino's test flight this week, the country's transport minister, Simon Bridges, said the country was an "ideal environment" for drone delivery. Don Meij, the chief executive of Domino's Pizza Enterprises, said: "We've always said that it doesn't make sense to have a 2-tonne machine delivering a 2kg order." Domino's planning drone pizza delivery service in New Zealand Hope Solo given six-month ban The goalkeeper was given a six-month suspension for calling Sweden "a bunch of cowards" at the Olympics in Rio for their defensive play against Team USA. Solo also angered fans in Brazil when she posted a photo on social media of herself covered with mosquito netting and armed with insect repellant. Fans chanted "Zika!" each time she kicked downfield. The player, who was previously suspended for 30 days early in 2015 for her conduct, will not be eligible for selection to the national team until February. USA's Hope Solo given six-month ban for calling Sweden 'a bunch of cowards' In case you missed it ... A federal judge in Chicago has ruled that a 40-year-old landscape painting signed "Peter Doige" is not the work of the well-known Scottish painter Peter Doig. Doig had been sued by a former Canadian corrections officer who claimed the artist was falsely denying that he had made the work. "I feel a living artist should be the one who gets to say yea or nay and not be taken to task and forced to go back 40 years in time. It was painstaking to piece this together," he said during the ruling, according to the New York Times.
Artist Peter Doig victorious as court agrees '$10m' painting is not his work
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