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Dear Miss Manners: I got a colonoscopy on Halloween. Most of the staff were in full costume, including the doctors. Think skintight red dresses with Superman capes, Spider-Man bodysuits, etc. I am totally okay seeing adults dressed in costume at their Halloween parties for kids, but at a surgery center?

Noah Lyles may have won the World Athletics award for mens track athlete of the year, but that wont be on his mind for long, as the U.S. sensation eyes Olympic glory and making everlasting change to finally be recognized as one of the sports greats.

Corporate giants including Nike face growing calls to cut ties with suppliers alleged to be using "forced labour" from China's Uighur people. Activists have launched a campaign accusing firms of "bolstering and benefiting" from exploitation of the Muslim minority group.

Chile's constitutional court has voted to approve a bill to ease the country's total ban on abortions. It ruled that terminations are justified after rape, if the mother's life is at risk or if the foetus is not expected to survive the pregnancy.

Sometime after 3 a.m. Tuesday, as an epic 48-mile winter traffic jam on Interstate 95 in Virginia dragged on, a long-haul trucker from Canada heard a knock at the door of his cab. It was one of the hundreds of other motorists stuck in subfreezing temperatures with no food or water.