WEINBURG, Austria — A dog was rescued by Austrian firefighters after it stuck down a drain chasing a rat in the municipality of Weinburg in the district of Sankt Polten-Land in Lower Austria. The incident took place on the evening of April 5. The fire brigade said they were informed about a dog trapped in the drain after it had entered a pipe in a nearby canal and walked along with it until it narrowed, further along, trapping the dog that was unable to turn round and could not go backward. The incident was reported by the dog’s owner, who was out walking…
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LUXOR, Egypt — Archeologists have discovered a 3,000-year-old city believed to be the largest ever find of the ancient Egyptians and one of the most important discoveries of the empire. The find has been described as “incredible” and the most important since the finding of Tutankhamun’s tomb was made. This new find was made during a mission led by former Minister of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, coordinating with the Zahi Hawass Center for Egyptology, as per an official statement from April 8. “The Egyptian mission under Dr. Zahi Hawass found the city that was lost under the sands,” the archeology team said in…
The April 15, 2019 fire that tore through Notre Dame de Paris was devastating — in artistic, religious and historic terms. The upper part of the famed cathedral was partially destroyed and the cleanup, prior to any restoration work, has been slow and deliberate. “We will rebuild Notre Dame even more beautifully, and I want it to be completed in five years,” French President Emmanuel Macron said in a televised address to the nation a few days after the fire. But that hope may be quixotic. Medieval restoration experts and French officials have called his timeline unrealistic, estimating it could…
SANKT PÖLTEN-LAND DISTRICT, Austria — An animal rights group has exposed a pig farm in Austria where pigs can be kept in their feces and give birth to piglets born into hellish conditions. The gruesome footage was recently shared by the Austrian animal rights group Association Against Animal Factories based in Austria, Vienna. It was filmed at a pig breeding facility in the St Polten-Land district in the state of Lower Austria, where the group has filed an animal cruelty complaint to the public prosecutor’s office. The video shows hundreds of adult female pigs called ‘sows’ in cages barely large enough to hold them…
SOPUERTA, Spain — A creative designer has turned a 16th-century Spanish church into a luxury house to live in the municipality of Sopuerta in the northern Spanish province of Basque Country. The church and surrounding property was bought by Tas Careaga, 36, a creative designer who was born in the Venezuelan capital Caracas but raised in the Spanish city of Bilbao. It is believed to have been built in 1530, although the exact date is unknown. In the 18th century, it underwent major renovation when the sacristy and bell tower were built and more windows were added. “We could only see…
ZHOUKOU, China — A Chinese woman ended up with an odd job after visiting an amusement arcade with her brother and being asked to stand in for a robotic mannequin that was being repaired. Huang Qingjie, 23, has now replaced her robotic rival and is paid just CNY 300 ($ 46) for her three-hour appearances inside the claw machine at videogame city in Zhoukou, a prefecture-level city in China’s eastern Henan province. But she is also on her way to becoming a social media influencer with 356,000 followers, which will probably pay her far more after sharing images of herself inside the…
BREMERHAVEN, Germany — A heavily armed German Imperial Navy ship was sunk by a British Navy ship in the North Sea during World War I could be leaking toxic chemicals into the ocean and harming marine life. The German Maritime Museum (DSM), the Leibniz Institute for Maritime History, and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) are working on the EU-funded North Sea Wrecks (NSW) project examining the environmental impact of the grenades and bombs that went down with the ship. The SMS Mainz was sunk on August 28, 1914, in the North Sea at the bay of Heligoland Bight. The sinking of the Mainz was celebrated in Britain as a…
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — A group of scientists has discovered that animal domestication and crop farming began in Central Asia at least 3,000 years earlier than the previous concept of domestication. New research published in the peer-reviewed journal ‘Nature: Human Behaviour’ claimed that herding was carried on in the Tian Shan and Alay mountain ranges making the region one of the oldest inhabited pastoral landscapes in the world. As per the previous data, sheep, goat, and cattle domestication first took place in the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia roughly 10,000 years ago when wheat and barley were being cultivated, and it spread…
SYDNEY — A report has claimed that international travel for Australians will be restrictive until 2024. Deloitte Access Economics’ quarterly business outlook — printed before the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison government’s vaccination program being thrown into disarray late last week — expects international borders will re-open only gradually. Deloitte economist Chris Richardson anticipates there will be some sort of quarantine remaining for incoming travelers for some time. “That keeps international travel — both inbound and outbound — pretty weak in 2022, and it may not return to pre-pandemic levels until 2024,” Richardson said. Late last week, health authorities recommended that…
Glioblastoma is a particularly aggressive form of brain cancer, accounting for half of all primary brain cancers. It has a 40 percent survival rate after a year and just 5 percent after five years, even after surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered a potential treatment, tested on mice and 3D lab models so far. If it works on humans, glioblastoma could become “chronic but manageable,” said professor Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, director of the university’s Cancer Biology Research Center and Cancer Research and Nanomedicine Laboratory. “It could even cure it completely.” What Satchi-Fainaro and her team discovered…