A pedestrian suspension bridge that is the longest such construction in the world has opened at a mountain resort in the Czech Republic. The 721-meter (2,365-foot) -long bridge is built at an altitude of more than 1,100 meters (3,610 feet) above sea level. It connects two ridges of the mountains… Read More
Vogue magazine rebuffed after insane request
The owner of a rural English pub says he was asked to change the bar’s name by a fashion magazine because of the village where it’s located: Vogue. Mark Graham, who runs the Star Inn at Vogue, said he received a letter from British Vogue publisher Conde Nast, saying the… Read More
Military recruits abused dogs for new mission…
Hungary’s military has found a new mission in life for a talented dog who was rescued from abusive owners, recruiting 2-year-old Logan to serve in counterterrorism operations for an elite bomb squad. The Belgian shepherd is undergoing intensive training as an explosives detection dog for the explosive ordnance disposal and… Read More
UK unveils pudding winner amid Queen’s Jubilee
It’s not just a trifle. It’s history. A 31-year-old copywriter’s seven-layer lemon Swiss roll and amaretti trifle beat 5,000 desserts in a U.K.-wide competition to become the official pudding — or dessert, if you’re not British — of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Sponsored: What eggs do to senior brains Contest… Read More
Kim Jong Un impersonator disrupts election campaign
A man impersonating North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday disrupted the Australian election campaign when he burst into an event that Prime Minister Scott Morrison was attending with lawmaker Gladys Liu. The impersonator, who later identified himself by the stage name Howard X, started talking to gathered media…. Read More
Russia suffers massive loss on destroyed bridge, officials say
Russia suffered heavy losses when Ukrainian forces destroyed the pontoon bridge enemy troops were using to try to cross a river in the east, Ukrainian and British officials said in another sign of Moscow’s struggle to salvage a war gone awry. Ukrainian authorities, meanwhile, opened the first war crimes trial… Read More
Google starts translating more languages; experts skeptical
About 10 million people speak Quechua, but trying to automatically translate emails and text messages into the most widely spoken language family native to the Americas in the Americas was long all but impossible. That changed on Wednesday, when Google added Quechua and a variety of other languages to its… Read More
‘Mysterious peace’: Students bury classroom skeleton
Students at a high school in the western German town of Schleiden on Wednesday buried a longtime member of their community — a classroom skeleton that had served as an educational specimen for generations of pupils. Around 80 students, teachers and town officials took part in the ceremony at Schleiden’s… Read More
Kim orders lockdown amid North Korea’s first confirmed outbreak
North Korea imposed a nationwide lockdown Thursday to control its first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak after holding for more than two years to a widely doubted claim of a perfect record keeping out the virus that has spread to nearly every place in the world. The outbreak forced leader Kim Jong… Read More
EU lifts mask mandate for air travel
The European Union will no longer require masks to be worn at airports and on planes starting next week amid the easing of coronavirus restrictions across the bloc, authorities said Wednesday. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency said it hoped the joint decision, made with the European Centre for Disease… Read More
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