A life-sized bronze statue of Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has been installed at Winchester University in the United Kingdom's southeast, sparking a public controversy, with critics branding the move as a "vanity project," media reported

Acclaimed British scientist and writer Richard Dawkins faced a severe backlash on social media after it shared a tweet calling Azaan, the Muslim call to prayer, aggressive.

In a tweet on Tuesday Dawkins termed Allah-o-Akbar as ‘aggressive-sounding’.