by admin 1 | Sep 25, 2020 | News
An African giant pouched rat has been awarded a prestigious gold medal for his work detecting land mines. Magawa has sniffed out 39 landmines and 28 unexploded munitions in his career. The UK veterinary charity PDSA has presented him with its Gold Medal for...
by admin 1 | Sep 24, 2020 | News
Four former eBay US employees have agreed to plead guilty to their roles in a campaign of intimidation that included sending live spiders and cockroaches to the home of a US couple who ran an online newsletter critical of the auction site. “Four former employees...
by admin 1 | Sep 24, 2020 | News
A true icon of the French chanson, Juliette Gréco, has died aged 93 after a fabled career that spanned eight decades. Born in 1927, Gréco was imprisoned by the Nazis during World War Two, but afterwards began performing in cellar clubs and cafes. Dressed in black, she...
by admin 1 | Sep 23, 2020 | News
Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed more than two dozen ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of Cairo, an official said Monday. The sarcophagi have remained unopened since they were buried more than 2,500 years ago near the famed Step Pyramid of Djoser in...
by admin 1 | Sep 23, 2020 | News
Russian president Vladimir Putin has offered to provide staff of United Nations with the Sputnik-V vaccine in a speech to this year’s General Assembly marking the body’s 75th birthday. What do you do when Vladimir Putin offers you Russia’s new...
by admin 1 | Sep 23, 2020 | News
Facebook is facing multiple simultaneous controversies in the United States, particularly around disinformation, hate speech and political bias. But those issues are also playing out — sometimes in more sinister ways — around the world, including a country where...
