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 warship regiment of the Hungarian […]
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 organizers hope people throughout Britain […]
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. Sponsored: Doctor Explains Surprising Truth […]
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 of the conflict. The defendant, […]
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 digital translation service. Just ½ […]
‘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 Protestant cemetery, where the bones […]
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 Un to wear a mask […]
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 Prevention and Control, would mark […]
Upcoming film addresses fancy public toilets in Japan
Wim Wenders is making a film about high-end public toilets in Japan that will have what the renowned German director calls “social meaning” about people in modern cities. “My first reaction was, I must admit: What? Toilets? Chotto mattene,” he said Wednesday, using the Japanese expression for “wait a minute”. Just ½ Teaspoon Of THIS… […]
Musk agrees to abide by EU speech codes on Twitter
Elon Musk, who is offering to buy Twitter, has given his support to a new European Union law aimed at protecting social media users from harmful content after he met with the bloc’s single market chief. EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he outlined to Musk how the […]
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