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Good News Thursday

  • Editor OGN Daily
  • Sep 7, 2023
  • 3 min read

Updated: Oct 1, 2023

Today's smorgasbord of tasty positive news nuggets to put a spring in your step.


Stoned Again

Following years of speculation, The Rolling Stones have announced that a new album is on the way. Hackney Diamonds will be the British rockers’s first studio album in 18 years. The announcement comes shortly after the band’s teaser campaign, which saw their instantly recognisable tongue logo projected onto iconic structures in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and other major cities around the world. The album's first single - Angry - is being hailed as the band's best in 40 years. Want to hear it (and watch the great retro video)? Click here

 
 

Strange But True

For six of the bravest (or perhaps the most frugal) public transit users, the Austrian government recently offered an unconventional deal: A select few would receive free, unlimited transit tickets for a year - but only if they got a tattoo of the word 'KlimaTicket,' the name of the pass. The KlimaTicket (which means 'climate ticket') is worth €1,000 (roughly $1,080) and can be used on almost all forms of public transportation in Austria. Unsurprisingly, the offer was snapped up pretty quickly. Austria’s Klimaticket launched in 2021 to help fight climate change and has “been praised as a model of subsidizing rail travel that could be emulated by other European states looking to cut carbon emissions,” writes the Telegraph.

 
 

Kindhearted Couple

A kindhearted couple in England who just won £100,000 ($126,000) on the Euromillions are going to spend their winnings on fostering children. Already parents to three children, the couple in their 40s will now convert their garage into extra bedrooms to begin fostering kids in need, a dream they’ve always shared. Kathleen Reece admits she’s often moaned in the past about her husband Mark playing the Euromillions every week, believing they weren’t lucky enough to ever win. “My three kids will be leaving home soon and I have too much love to give. I’ve always wanted to foster, however having enough space has always been an issue.” Kathleen, a full-time teaching assistant said the win was a brilliant way to finish off her summer break.

 
 
Paid to Go to College

The Danes are paid $800 each month in financial support by the Danish government to go to college. They graduate owing nothing because tuition at public universities and most colleges is free, and students are paid to go to school as if it’s a job. The Danish grant system, known as the Statens Uddannelsesstøtte, or SU for short, is available for students for up to six years. The trade-off is that Danes pay for the free education and the SU system through higher taxes. Earlier this summer, the government made some reforms to higher education, shortening or restructuring the length of a third of the country's 500 master’s programs from two-year degrees to one year - reallocating the funds to training for nursing, teaching and social work. But there was no government proposal to get rid of free tuition for undergraduates. Nor did they touch payments that go to students. It's one of the many reason's why Denmark is one of the happiest countries in the world...

 
 


Brush With Power

Indian artist Jagjot Singh Rubal adds the finishing touches to a painting of Joe Biden ahead of a two-day G20 summit in New Delhi that the US president is to attend this weekend. The nation of India could be preparing to change its name, according to rumours that have been fuelled by invitations for the G20 summit that asked people to join the 'President of Bharat' for dinner. Reports across Indian media suggest Narendra Modi’s government may be readying legislation that will change the country’s name during an upcoming “special session” of parliament later this month.

 

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” George Bernard Shaw

 
On this Day

7 September 1936: Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam), on the Colorado River, between Nevada and Arizona, begins operating.

 





 
Mood Booster

Life On Our Planet: Netflix Official Teaser. With Steven Spielberg as executive producer, this promises to be quite a show.



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