The Indian government has decided to scrap a controversial 12% tax on the feminine hygiene products, it announced late Saturday, marking a victory for campaigners who have lobbied against the tax for more than a year.
Female cabin crew at Cathay Pacific have won a battle to scrap a rule forcing them to wear skirts.
That colorful little scrap of latex may end up living in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
China's three major telecom carriers announced that they will scrap charges for domestic long-distance calls and roaming starting Oct 1, following Premier Li Keqiang's promise in a government work report.
And since the authorities made the decision to start removing them 18 months ago cutting down an incredible one million padlocks in the process it has been left with 65 tonnes of scrap metal to deal with.
" With Apple struggling to come up with surprise designs and Samsung reeling from having to scrap its flagship phone, Yu said Huawei was at a tipping point.
Samsung later announced its decision to scrap the whole model less than two months after the flagship smartphone's debut.
Scrap cars and home appliances such as fridges and air conditioners also contain these rarer metals, along with base metals, including iron, copper, lead and zinc.
The allegations are the latest torment for the Japanese Olympic organising committee, which has been forced to scrap the late Zaha Hadid's design for the main stadium in Tokyo because the projected costs ran too high, and to tear up the main logo for the games after allegations the design was plagiarised.
The logo dispute came shortly after Tokyodecided to scrap the designs for the main Olympic stadium because of spirallingconstruction costs.
DNA In 1997, scientists found the first scrap of Neanderthal DNA in a fossil.
Mr Toyoda's departure is the latest setback for an organising panel that has been forced, through scandal and public outrage, to tear up plans for a new national stadium, scrap the Tokyo logo over plagiarism claims and abandon the bid pledge of being the "compact games" by hosting some events hundreds of miles from the capital.
I scribbled their names on a scrap of paper towel.
5°C goal as merely "aspirational" while defending the UK government's decision last month to scrap 1bn in funding for carbon capture systems that could hold emissions down.
If you really need to find a particular scrap of paper, you're pretty sure where it's lying in the stack.
I took out some scrap paper and started writing.
The house is made entirely out of scrap timber and recycled materials.
One catch: You pay 15,000 rupiah at the ticket booth to enter, where you are handed a scrap of paper with a number, referring to the house you have been assigned to visit.
Tokyo endured fresh embarrassment over its preparations for the 2020 Olympic Games yesterday when the organising committee said it would scrap the logos it unveiled only a few weeks ago.
Robert Cole, of the Letter Box Study Group enthusiasts' association, told the Daily Telegraph: 'There are people who are after scrap metal, those interested in the contents and those who know the boxes' heritage value.
