ARTI, Russia — A reckless teenager riding a pit bike without an authorized driver’s license on snow-covered roads led the officers on a pursuit to stop him after he realized he was in trouble. The suspect was a 17-year-old boy, and his name was not released. The boy was spotted riding around in the village of Arti in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region at about 4.30 PM on March 20. Officers patrolling the area signaled the young man to stop for a check-up, but he refused to comply and sped away, leading them into a pursuit. “Pit bikes are sports equipment and intended…
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MOSCOW — Two Egyptian fruit bat babies, born in July last year at the Moscow Zoo in Russia, are receiving regular health and development check-ups by the zookeepers to monitor their growth. Marsh and Tango, the two bat babies, are already eight months old and growing rapidly. One of their examinations regularly to monitor their development was inside their enclosure at the zoo on March 25. “This is our Tango,” aid the zoologist in the video. “Look how much she has grown! She’s unrecognizable. Measurements show that she is almost mature. She has to gain another 10 grams (0.2 pounds), and she will…
ANTALYA, Turkey — A Turkish mother of two daughters is looking for help to treat her daughters born without a nose. The two sisters – Amine Cetin, 13, and Erva, nine months old – live in the district of Serik in the southern Turkish city of Antalya with their family. “The doctors told us that this is a very rare disease,” said the mother, Naile Kurtulus Cetin. “There are only 13 cases in the world, four of them in Turkey. I gave birth to Erva at a private hospital.” Cetin said Erva’s condition drew a lot of attention. “They did tests on her…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Volunteers at the Mundo Marino Foundation, the largest aquarium in Argentina and a conservation center, released a rare leatherback sea turtle into the ocean four days after recovering from injuries. Tourists walking along the Costa Azul Beach in the Partido of La Costa in the eastern Argentine province of Buenos Aires found the sea turtle on March 18. The tourists contacted the foundation, and volunteers arrived on the scene and found the turtle was dehydrated and underweight. Mundo Marino Foundation Biologist Sergio Rodriguez Heredia said the tourists showed videos of the turtle struggling to enter the sea to volunteers at the scene.…
MOGILEV, Belarus — Russian and Belarussian armies participated in a combined mass assault that formed a joint training exercise culmination on March 25. Russian paratroopers and servicemen of the Special Operations Forces (SOF) of the Republic of Belarus completed the destruction of a mock enemy at the Osipovichsky testing ground near Mogilev City in the Republic of Belarus. “In the course of the drawing of hostilities, the paratroopers of the two countries practiced the retention of the designated defense line, in the area of which they conducted live firing of the consolidated reinforced paratrooper battalion,” said the Ministry of Defense of the Russian…
LINZ, Austria — Austrian doctors removed a patient’s healthy prostate after his tissue samples were mixed up with a cancer patient in an incident recorded in Linz recently. Doctors from the Kepler University Hospital recently performed an unnecessary operation on the man after the mix-up with another man who had cancer. The urological biopsy samples were sent for a check-up to the University Hospital in the German city of Erlangen in November last year. However, there is no official information on whether the mix-up happened then. Urology specialist Frens Steffen Krause from the University Hospital in Linz explained how unpleasant it was to inform the patient…
BADALONA, Spain — Medical researchers in Spain are scrambling to find ways to treat a four-year-old girl who is the only person in the country suffering from an extremely rare neurodegenerative disorder. Abril Merino from Badalona, in the eastern Spanish region of Catalonia, needs urgent help to relieve the symptoms of Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia 52, which include muscle rigidity, neurological degeneration, and communication problems. Still, the search for information and advice is made especially difficult because there are only about 30 children known to suffer the syndrome across the world — and only one in Spain. Abril was born on May…
SALZGITTER, Germany — The German ‘Puzzle King’ who was missing the very last piece to complete a 54,000-piece jigsaw has finally hit his target after the manufacturer sent him the remaining part. The 54,000-piece jigsaw is said to be the world’s most giant puzzle. Peter Schubert, 52, from Hallerndorf, a municipality in the Upper Franconian district of Forchheim in the southern German state of Bavaria, told Zenger News in an exclusive interview that the missing piece from the 18-square-meter puzzle had arrived and is already firmly in place. The enthusiast, who considers himself a true puzzle devotee and a very patient…
VALENCIA, Spain — Researchers have discovered one of the first archaic humans from the Homo antecessor species — who lived in present-day Spain some 800,000 years ago and who was eaten by cannibals — was a girl and not a boy as first thought. The girl, known as ‘H3’, was found with the remains of a man known as ‘H1’ because their discovery led to the naming of Homo Antecessor as a new species. ‘H3’ was once thought to have been a boy, but the new study has revealed that the remains, in fact, belonged to a female. Spanish researchers…
KASHMIR, India — When 1.5 million tulips bloomed in Asia’s largest tulip garden last year, there was no one to appreciate their beauty, and they withered as the world was busy fighting a pandemic. This year, the garden overlooking Kashmir’s iconic Dal (lake in the Kashmiri language) opened on March 25 — and visitors haven’t stopped coming ever since. Estimates put the number of domestic and foreign tourists visiting the garden at 50,000 in the first week of opening — a good number considering tourism in the restive region remained frozen for more than two years. Last year due to the…