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Saturday, 04 April 2020 05:37

Love in time of coronavirus: Octogenarians meet up daily at international border

Two octogenarian lovers, one living in Denmark and the other in Germany, are determined to keep meeting every day for a picnic and a chat on either side of the border, which has been shut to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. Inga Rasmussen, 85, who lives in Gallehus on the Danish side, met Karsten Tuechsen Hansen, 89, two years ago. Both widowed, they quickly fell in love. Like many lovers around the world in this time of the coronavirus pandemic and restrictions on free movement, they face obstacles in meeting up but they are not easily deterred. Rasmussen…

Friday, 03 April 2020 05:09

Don't nag your husband during lockdown, govt advises women

Malaysia has the largest number of COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia with more than 2,900 and counting. This week, Malaysia's government also had a serious public relations issue after an ill-conceived plan went online. Malaysia's Ministry for Women, Family and Community Development issued a series of online posters on Facebook and Instagram with the hashtag #WomenPreventCOVID19. It advised the nation's women to help with the country's partial lockdown by not nagging their husbands. The ministry also advised women to refrain from being "sarcastic" if they asked for help with household chores. And it urged women working from home to dress…

Wednesday, 25 March 2020 04:35

Parrot joins the chorus, warns the world: 'Coronavirus! Don't go out!'

A talking parrot in Israel has a playful message for a world gripped by the coronavirus crisis: “Don’t go out!” In crystal-clear Hebrew, Luca the parrot squawks “there is corona” and “don’t go out”, repeatedly echoing official health warnings. Israel has ordered people to stay at home to slow the contagion’s spread and billboards reinforce the message in Hebrew and Arabic. The 22-month-old grey parrot began to mimic the words after training with its owners, who like many Israelis have been alarmed by their country’s more than 1,600 cases and one death. Zehava Shabat says she and her husband spent…

Friday, 20 March 2020 05:45

Coronavirus ravages 7 members of a single family, killing 3

Matriarch of the large New Jersey family died Wednesday night without ever knowing that her two oldest children had died before her. Grace Fusco — mother of 11, grandmother of 27 — would sit in the same pew at church each Sunday, surrounded by nearly a dozen members of her sprawling Italian-American family. Sunday dinners drew an even larger crowd to her home in central New Jersey. Now, her close-knit clan is united anew by unspeakable grief: Mrs. Fusco, 73, died on Wednesday night after contracting the coronavirus — hours after her son died from the virus and five days…

Thursday, 12 March 2020 05:44

Best foot forward: Man makes shoes from chicken feet

It sounds like a riddle - what feet can be used to make shoes to put on your feet? Nurman Farieka Ramdhany, a 25-year-old entrepreneur in the Indonesian city of Bandung, thinks he has come up with a cost-effective answer that promotes sustainability: skin taken from the feet of chickens. A rubbery delicacy in many cuisines, including dim sum, chicken feet are covered with skin that has a similar texture and pattern to snake or crocodile skin. Ramdhany’s father had researched these more exotic skins and recommended he try making shoes with chicken feet, which he started doing in 2017.…

Sunday, 08 March 2020 05:08

Why witchcraft is on the rise

Americans’ interest in spell-casting tends to wax as instability rises and trust in establishment ideas plummets. Juliet Diaz said she was having trouble not listening to my thoughts. “Sorry, I kind of read into your head a little bit,” she told me when, for the third time that August afternoon, she answered one of my (admittedly not unpredictable) questions about her witchcraft seconds before I’d had a chance to ask it. She was drinking a homemade “grounding” tea in her apartment in a converted Victorian home in Jersey City, New Jersey, under a dream catcher and within sight of what…

Tuesday, 03 March 2020 05:57

High court judge says he paid for casket for his burial because ‘SSS trailed me for two years’

A newly retired High Court judge in Akwa Ibom State, Mr Ifiok Ukana, said he was trailed by operatives of the Nigerian secret police, State Security Service (SSS), for three years, after he delivered judgment on a particular case. The retired judge said he knows that times are bad in Nigeria and that he has paid for his casket, in case he was killed. Ukana said this on February 25 in Uyo during a valedictory service organised for him by Akwa Ibom state judiciary. Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom, Mr Godwin Abraham, was among dignitaries present at the event. Ukana…

Sunday, 01 March 2020 05:11

The boss who put everyone on $70,000

In 2015, the boss of a card payments company in Seattle introduced a $70,000 minimum salary for all of his 120 staff - and personally took a pay cut of $1m. Five years later he's still on the minimum salary, and says the gamble has paid off. Dan Price was hiking with his friend Valerie in the Cascade mountains that loom majestically over Seattle, when he had an uncomfortable revelation. As they walked, she told him that her life was in chaos, that her landlord had put her monthly rent up by $200 and she was struggling to pay her…

Thursday, 27 February 2020 06:06

Soldier runs mad, shoots four officers dead, kills self in Borno

An unnamed corporal in the Nigerian Army, serving in Borno State, on Wednesday opened fire on four of his colleagues, killing them in the process. He then shot himself dead, spokesman of Nigeria Army, Mr Sagir Musa, said. Musa, a colonel, said the soldier, who also injured two other soldiers, was serving at the theatre command Operation Lafiya Dole, camp 15, located at Malam Fatori, a border community. Musa, who disclosed this in a statement shared to the press, said the soldier “went berserk in early hours of 26 February 2020.” He said the soldier “opened fire killing four of…

Wednesday, 19 February 2020 04:56

Bible prophecy shows coronavirus will be ‘biggest disaster in centuries’

Rabbi Yosef Pinto, an respected Israeli mystic, has claimed the coming of the killer respiratory disease was predicted in the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible A Bible prophecy shows the coronavirus outbreak will plunge the world into its toughest periods for hundreds of years, a Rabbi has claimed. Rabbi Yosef Pinto, an respected Israeli mystic, has claimed the coming of the killer respiratory disease was predicted in the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible. He initially announced to the world he had a vision of a coming global catastrophe back in January. Just days later, the coronavirus…

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Sunday, 16 February 2020 05:24

5 of the world's 'most cursed' places, explained

There are some places on earth that are downright scary – jinxed, inhabited by the devil or simply doomed. Many now are mostly ghost towns, where only the bravest of souls live. And for good reason: They claim bad things still inexplicably happen. Even curious travelers talk of being awed by weird music, apparitions and generally bad vibes. Croatoan In 1587, a group of Englishmen led by Capt. John White settled here. White went back to England for supplies, leaving his family behind. Upon return, he found the fort in ruins and no trace of his family or any of…

Friday, 14 February 2020 06:25

Groom beaten, chased from wedding after first wife turns up

A groom has been chased from his own wedding by an angry crowd - after his first wife arrived to let his new bride know he was already married to not one, but two other women. Asif Rafiq Siddiqi, described as a bearded, hefty man in his mid-30s, was pushed and slapped by the crowd, his shirt torn and his pants ripped in the violence that followed the revelation. The groom, who ended up cowering under a bus, was saved by unknown people. Polygamy is legal in Pakistan. However, while a man can have as many as four wives, he…

Saturday, 08 February 2020 05:14

Someone filled a town's well with alcohol. Now beer is pouring from people's taps

Beer is quite literally on tap for residents of an apartment block in the south Indian state of Kerala, after alcohol seeped into a well and mixed with the water supply for the surrounding area. People living in Solomon's Avenue Apartments were stunned to notice a dark color to their tap water on Monday morning, and raised the issue. "When we switched on the water motor, brown water flowed from our taps," Joshy Maliakkal, who has been a resident of Solomon's Avenue Apartments, in the Chalakudy municipality, for 47 years, told CNN. "When we went to check the tank, we…

Saturday, 01 February 2020 03:05

Couple kicked off flight for having body odour file suit against airline

A Michigan couple is suing American Airlines for discrimination after the airline claimed they smelled bad and kicked them off a flight last year. Yehuda Yosef Adler, Jennie Adler and their then-19-month old daughter were booted from a Jan. 23, 2019, flight from Miami to Detroit by a gate agent who said he knew people of their race and religion, Orthodox Jews, only took baths once a week, according to the lawsuit filed Jan. 28 in federal court in Texas. The Texas-based airline issued a statement Thursday reiterating their claim that several passengers and crew members had complained of a…

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