-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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 (...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
-- 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....
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...
-- 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...
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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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....
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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