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Sexist tea mugs leave a sour taste in China

Sexist tea mugs leave a sour taste in China

-- 2021-02-23 13:09:29

A popular chain of Chinese tea shops has apologised for a range of cups and teabags sporting sexist slogans, after they sparked widespread outrage on the internet, the Shanghai Daily reported on Monda...

The 'Rage Room' opens in Sao Paulo

The 'Rage Room' opens in Sao Paulo

-- 2021-02-21 16:01:06

Feeling frustrated and stressed out? Brazilians now have a place to vent their anger and fury in the newly opened “Rage Room.” Inside a warehouse on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, people are...

Australian carer mothers orphaned kangaroos back to health

Australian carer mothers orphaned kangaroos back to health

REUTERS 2021-02-20 11:08:54

Wearing pink surgical gloves, animal carer Christie Jarrett gently wraps the foot of an orphaned seven-month-old kangaroo with surgical tape at a facility set up at her rural home near the Australian...

Senegal's savannah jockey dreams of international glory

Senegal's savannah jockey dreams of international glory

REUTERS 2021-02-20 10:57:29

A head shorter than his peers, Fallou Diop quickly vanishes into the crowd of jockeys preparing for early morning drills in the western Senegalese village of Niaga. When the racing begins, however, h...

Silver monolith appears in Congo, prompting onlookers to take selfies

Silver monolith appears in Congo, prompting onlookers to take selfies

REUTERS 2021-02-18 11:59:22

The latest in a series of mystery monoliths to capture the imagination of science-fiction fans around the world met a fiery end in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday when it was torched at...

Annual Urs of Hazrat Shah Sufi Khawaja Mainuddin Chisty (RA)

Annual Urs of Hazrat Shah Sufi Khawaja Mainuddin Chisty (RA)

-- 2021-02-17 21:18:06

The annual Urs marking the 809th death anniversary of Hazrat Shah Sufi Khawaja Mainuddin Chisty (RA) will be observed on the premises Of Mia Saheb's Maidan at luxmibazar old city of Dhaka...

An Italian family's photo album of living with Covid-19

An Italian family's photo album of living with Covid-19

-- 2021-02-17 12:32:14

A year ago, Marzio Toniolo led a simple life as a primary school teacher, husband and father in the small northern Italian town of San Fiorano. Then San Fiorano and a cluster of other towns became th...

Egypt uncovers ancient mass production brewery

Egypt uncovers ancient mass production brewery

-- 2021-02-15 10:57:44

Archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year-old brewery that could produce thousands of litres of beer in the ancient Egyptian city of Abydos, Egypt’s tourism and antiquities ministry said. The...

Couples in Thailand tie the knot on elephants on Valentine's Day

Couples in Thailand tie the knot on elephants on Valentine's Day

-- 2021-02-14 17:56:09

Fifty-two couples in Thailand got married while riding elephants on Sunday, in an annual Valentine’s Day mass wedding ceremony at a botanical garden in a province east of Bangkok. Dancers and a...

The price of beauty

The price of beauty

-- 2021-02-14 10:02:32

It is the classic romantic combination: St Valentine’s Day in Paris, the city of love, and a gift of red roses. But some Parisian florists are trying to wean customers off the flowers because of...

17th Sunni Conference at Nabinagar upazila on Sunday

17th Sunni Conference at Nabinagar upazila on Sunday

-- 2021-02-13 20:56:12

The 17th Sunni Conference will be held today (Sunday) at Sat Mora (Puran Bari) village in Nabinagar upazila of Brahmanbaria district. Recitation from the holy Quran, its translation, Naat-e-Rasul (...

Mealworm Valentine treats charm London Zoo's squirrel monkeys

Mealworm Valentine treats charm London Zoo's squirrel monkeys

-- 2021-02-13 11:52:34

Staff at London Zoo have helped the leader of a squirrel monkey family keep his seven partners happy ahead of Valentine’s Day with some special treats: heart-themed hessian bags filled with meal...

Jailed Chinese lawyer wins human rights award

Jailed Chinese lawyer wins human rights award

-- 2021-02-12 14:55:07

A jailed Chinese lawyer who defended other human rights lawyers arrested in a sweeping crackdown against activism has won an international human rights award, the jury said on Thursday. Yu Wensheng w...

Brazilian ballerina born without arms turns into social media star

Brazilian ballerina born without arms turns into social media star

Reuters 2021-02-12 11:56:00

When Vitória Bueno’s mother first dropped her off at ballet class, she worried about her five-year-old fitting in. Born without arms, Bueno’s dream of being a dancer seemed painful...

Is coughing a crime?

Is coughing a crime?

Reuters 2021-02-12 10:43:55

Denmark’s top court will begin an appeal hearing on Thursday in which it will be asked to decide if coughing at someone while shouting “corona” constitutes threatening behaviour. Th...

Getting a haircut can be easier for dogs than their owners!

Getting a haircut can be easier for dogs than their owners!

Reuters 2021-02-11 11:12:46

Austrian hairdressers came out of lockdown this week grappling with coronavirus testing and capacity restrictions - the city’s pampered dogs, however, have long had no trouble getting a trim. D...

12-year-old Egyptian girl teaches neighbours during school closure

12-year-old Egyptian girl teaches neighbours during school closure

REUTERS 2021-02-11 10:33:07

Every day up to 30 children gather for school lessons in a narrow village street in Egypt’s northern Dakahlia province. Their teacher is 12-year-old Reem El-Khouly, who started offering instruc...

Fossil fuel pollution causes one in five premature deaths globally

Fossil fuel pollution causes one in five premature deaths globally

Reuters 2021-02-10 14:20:37

Pollution from fossil fuels causes one in five premature deaths globally, suggesting the health impacts of burning coal, oil and natural gas may be far higher than previously thought, according to a s...

High above Jerusalem's crowds, skating the Old City rooftops

High above Jerusalem's crowds, skating the Old City rooftops

-- 2021-02-10 14:13:18

High above Jerusalem’s narrow medieval alleyways, teenage Palestinians sped across whitewashed roofs and soaked up the light and space denied to them during a six-week Israeli Covid-19 lockdown....

To lift lockdown gloom...

To lift lockdown gloom...

Reuters 2021-02-10 10:31:29

Tired of Covid-19 confinement and seeking both communion and emotional release, some Israelis have taken to group screaming. A record vaccine rollout has done little to ease Israel’s pandemic c...

Valentine's Day: Florists have never seen a February like this one

Valentine's Day: Florists have never seen a February like this one

-- 2021-02-09 10:22:03

Deborah De La Flor has been a florist for over 40 years. She’s never experienced a February like this one. “At a time when someone is sending you an ‘I love you’ card, someone...

Public platform to track, crack down on polluters

Public platform to track, crack down on polluters

Reuters 2021-02-07 11:03:49

China will set up a new information platform to allow the public to track the emissions of polluting enterprises and help authorities prosecute those that break the rules or try to “evade superv...

Village turns red as floods hit batik-manufacturing hub

Village turns red as floods hit batik-manufacturing hub

Reuters 2021-02-07 10:31:30

A surreal, blood-red river inundated the Indonesian village of Jenggot after floods hit a nearby batik factory on Saturday, causing a frenzy on social media. Thousands of users on Twitter shared phot...

South Korea unveils $43b plan for world's largest offshore wind farm

South Korea unveils $43b plan for world's largest offshore wind farm

-- 2021-02-06 13:21:31

South Korea unveiled a 48.5 trillion won ($43.2 billion) plan to build the world’s largest wind power plant by 2030 as part of efforts to foster an environmentally-friendly recovery from the Cov...

French 106-year-old pianist to release sixth album

French 106-year-old pianist to release sixth album

-- 2021-02-06 12:41:30

Colette Maze says she began playing the piano when she was four years old to find in music the warmth absent in her strict upbringing. Today, at the age of 106, her playing still exudes great tendern...

Noise pollution harming sea life, scientists say

Noise pollution harming sea life, scientists say

REUTERS 2021-02-05 16:21:28

Far beneath the ocean surface, a cacophony of industrial noise is disrupting marine animals’ ability to mate, feed and even evade predators, scientists warn. With rumbling ships, hammering oil...

Tokyo 2020 chief Mori makes sexist remarks at Games meeting

Tokyo 2020 chief Mori makes sexist remarks at Games meeting

-- 2021-02-04 13:25:30

The president of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee told a meeting on Wednesday that female directors talked too much, which was “annoying”, according to Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun....

Gaza's car graveyards turn to profit

Gaza's car graveyards turn to profit

-- 2021-02-04 13:05:41

The rusting hulks of thousands of old cars brought into Gaza from Israel decades ago have long been piled up in Mad Max-style wastelands of decaying metal that scar the northern part of the Palestinia...

German sniffer dogs detect Covid-19 with 94pc accuracy

German sniffer dogs detect Covid-19 with 94pc accuracy

-- 2021-02-04 12:43:04

A German veterinary clinic has trained sniffer dogs to detect the novel coronavirus in human saliva samples with 94 per cent accuracy. The dogs are conditioned to scent out the “corona odour&rd...

Diane von Furstenberg's A-Z book of advice on designing success

Diane von Furstenberg's A-Z book of advice on designing success

-- 2021-02-04 12:24:28

Diane von Furstenberg was working on a new book, “Own It: The Secret to Life,” when the pandemic began. Suddenly, the fashion designer’s words of wisdom and advice, due to be publish...