-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
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...
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