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Thailand, Myanmar protesters borrow from 'Hunger Games

Thailand, Myanmar protesters borrow from 'Hunger Games

-- 2021-02-04 11:51:41

Wearing face masks and red ribbons on their blue protective gowns, the group of Yangon medics raised three-finger salutes in a gesture of support for Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader Aung San Su...

A farewell to bulls?

A farewell to bulls?

-- 2021-02-03 12:17:14

Spain’s San Fermin festival, which attracts tourists from all over the world for the running of the bulls through the streets of Pamplona, will be cancelled for the second year in a row because...

Hitler’s toilet seat looted by US soldier up for auction

Hitler’s toilet seat looted by US soldier up for auction

Hindustan Times 2021-02-02 20:31:29

An unusual relic from World War II, Adolf Hitler’s toilet seat, is up for auction and is expected to fetch around $15,000, with a starting bid of $5,000. The toilet seat is said to have been loo...

Hungarian family outsails Covid-19 nightmare on the sea

Hungarian family outsails Covid-19 nightmare on the sea

Reuters 2021-02-02 10:33:17

While the world was grappling with the pandemic, a Hungarian family of four decided last summer to fulfil their dream: sailing around the globe in a 50-feet boat called “Teatime.” They le...

Covid-19 facemask painted on giant English chalk figure

Covid-19 facemask painted on giant English chalk figure

Reuters 2021-01-31 11:18:08

British police are searching for the vandal or vandals who painted a Covid-19 face mask on the figure of a mysterious giant carved into a hillside in southern England. The Long Man of Wilmington, a 2...

A garbage-filled lake in Serbia to be cleaned up

A garbage-filled lake in Serbia to be cleaned up

Reuters 2021-01-30 12:51:29

Two barges sailed up and down a vast stretch of floating trash on the Potpecko artificial lake in Serbia on Friday, collecting tons of garbage that almost clogged the dam that crosses it. The river L...

Bison rangers for woodland in the Garden of England sought

Bison rangers for woodland in the Garden of England sought

-- 2021-01-29 12:51:32

Conservationists in England are looking for the country’s first-ever rangers to look after European bison, Europe’s largest land mammal, which is being introduced to Kent more than 15,000...

20m year-old petrified tree found in Greece

20m year-old petrified tree found in Greece

-- 2021-01-28 15:09:29

Greek scientists on the volcanic island of Lesbos say they have found a rare fossilised tree whose branches and roots are still intact after 20 million years. The tree was found during roadwork near...

Dinosaur -- Ferocious ones 'born ready' to hunt?

Dinosaur -- Ferocious ones 'born ready' to hunt?

Reuters 2021-01-28 12:48:47

Scientists for the first time have found embryonic remains from the group of ferocious meat-eating dinosaurs that includes T. rex - fossilised jaw and claw bones that show these record-size babies loo...

'Lobster shell patterns make concrete stronger'

'Lobster shell patterns make concrete stronger'

Reuters 2021-01-27 12:48:35

Inspired by the natural, twisting patterns of a lobster shell, Australian researchers say they have found a way, using 3D printing technology, to improve the strength of concrete for use in complex ar...

Winning lottery ticket for $1.0b Mega Millions jackpot sold in Michigan

Winning lottery ticket for $1.0b Mega Millions jackpot sold in Michigan

-- 2021-01-24 10:34:58

A single winning ticket for a Mega Millions lottery jackpot of $1.05 billion, the third-largest lottery jackpot in US history, was sold at a supermarket in a suburb of Detroit, lottery organisers have...

Love in the time of Covid-19?

Love in the time of Covid-19?

Reuters 2021-01-22 10:14:12

Brazil recorded a record number of divorces during the second half of 2020, the national college of notaries said on Thursday, as married couples grew sick of one another after long periods of time co...

Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman makes history offering 'The Hill We Climb'

Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman makes history offering 'The Hill We Climb'

-- 2021-01-21 10:49:31

In one of the inaugurations's most talked about moments, poet Amanda Gorman summoned images dire and triumphant Wednesday as she called out to the world “even as we grieved, we grew." The 22-ye...

Billionaire Joe Ricketts launching news outlet without 'opinion'

Billionaire Joe Ricketts launching news outlet without 'opinion'

Reuters 2021-01-20 12:11:41

America's billionaire businessman and founder of TD Ameritrade Joe Ricketts is launching a new national outlet to deliver news “without opinion or bias,” a spokesperson said on Tuesday. T...

King toppled from throne of card

King toppled from throne of card

-- 2021-01-20 11:34:58

Indy Mellink, a Dutch card fan, was explaining a game to her cousins last summer when she asked herself: why should a king be worth more than a queen? The 23-year-old forensic psychology graduate, en...

Meet Kyuta Kumagai: the 10-year-old, 85-kilo sumo

Meet Kyuta Kumagai: the 10-year-old, 85-kilo sumo

REUTERS 2021-01-19 14:10:13

Among the young sumo wrestlers lifting weights in the ring, 10-year-old Kyuta Kumagai stands out. At 85 kilograms (187 lb), Kyuta is twice the size of the other children his age and is so dominant tha...

Egypt unveils 3000-year-old coffins

Egypt unveils 3000-year-old coffins

Reuters 2021-01-18 12:02:05

Egypt has unveiled a significant new archaeological discovery at the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, including 54 wooden coffins, many of which can be traced back 3000 years to the New Kingdom peri...

Coronavirus found on ice cream in China

Coronavirus found on ice cream in China

Sky News 2021-01-17 18:44:08

Ice cream has been found to have been contaminated with COVID-19 in China after three samples tested positive for the virus. Anti-epidemic authorities in north China's Tianjin Municipality are tracin...

Nepali Sherpas complete 1st winter summit of K2 but Spaniard killed

Nepali Sherpas complete 1st winter summit of K2 but Spaniard killed

Reuters 2021-01-17 11:53:51

A team of climbers from Nepal on Saturday become the first mountaineers to successfully complete a winter attempt on the summit of K2, the world’s second tallest peak. The group of sherpas had...

Magicians mark 100 years of sawing people in half

Magicians mark 100 years of sawing people in half

REUTERS 2021-01-16 10:59:26

He came, he sawed, he conquered. One hundred years ago on Sunday, illusionist P.T. Selbit put a woman in a box on the stage of London’s Finsbury Park Empire and sawed right through the wood, cre...

Tintin painting tipped to fetch over 2m euros

Tintin painting tipped to fetch over 2m euros

-- 2021-01-14 12:01:57

A painting of comic book hero Tintin that for years was kept folded in a drawer is to go on sale at a Paris auction house on Thursday with an estimated sale price of more than 2.0 million euros. The...

What's in a bark, South Korean firm's smart dog collar tells owners

What's in a bark, South Korean firm's smart dog collar tells owners

-- 2021-01-13 11:56:21

A South Korean startup has developed an AI-powered dog collar that can detect five emotions in canines by monitoring their barks using voice recognition technology. The Petpuls collar can tell pet ow...

No picnic for Hungarian teddy bears asleep in pandemic

No picnic for Hungarian teddy bears asleep in pandemic

Reuters 2021-01-13 11:56:12

In a small village in eastern Hungary, more than 20,000 teddy bears are “hibernating” in a warehouse, waiting for the coronavirus pandemic to ease so they can bring joy to children in loca...

Environmentalists iterate call for leaving fossil fuels

Environmentalists iterate call for leaving fossil fuels

Reuters 2021-01-13 11:24:38

Economic, climate and healthcare upheavals point to the need to move toward developing cleaner energy sources, environmentally friendly jobs and healthier communities, participants in a Reuters Next p...

'Science must determine company climate targets'

'Science must determine company climate targets'

Reuters 2021-01-12 10:47:34

Companies must listen to scientists and align their plans to reach net zero targets with a global pact to fight climate change, executives told a Reuters Next conference on Monday. Under the 2015 Par...

Plagiarism allegation leads to exit of Austrian minister

Plagiarism allegation leads to exit of Austrian minister

Reuters 2021-01-11 09:17:16

Austria’s Labour Minister Christine Aschbacher has resigned after allegations that she plagiarised some of her university work, but denied any wrongdoing and said she was stepping down to protec...

Stalin-themed cafe closed after Moscow outcry

Stalin-themed cafe closed after Moscow outcry

-- 2021-01-10 11:02:00

A shawarma shop in Moscow was forced to close a day after it opened following an outcry over its provocative Josef Stalin-themed branding, the shop’s owner told Reuters on Saturday. The Stalin...

Dwarf giraffes discovered in Namibia, Uganda; scientists surprised

Dwarf giraffes discovered in Namibia, Uganda; scientists surprised

-- 2021-01-09 12:03:50

Being tall is the giraffe’s competitive advantage, giving it the pick of leaves from the tallest trees, so scientists were stunned to find two giraffe dwarves on different sides of Africa. &ldq...

Louvre museum visitors fell by three quarters in 2020

Louvre museum visitors fell by three quarters in 2020

Reuters 2021-01-09 09:27:47

The Louvre museum in Paris - home to the Mona Lisa and other world-famous works of art - suffered a 72 per cent drop in visitors in 2020 compared to 2019, as a result of the Covid crisis. The Louvre...

Downward trend in Namibia rhino, elephant poaching

Downward trend in Namibia rhino, elephant poaching

Reuters 2021-01-08 12:28:51

Namibia saw a continued downward trend in rhino and elephant poaching last year after stepping up patrols and sharply increasing fines, the government said on Thursday. Citing intensified intelligenc...