PUNE, India — After social media platform Twitter got into hot water in India last month over the Indian government’s request to delete some accounts about the new farm laws, several ministers, bureaucrats, and actors switched to Indian microblogging site Koo. Embellished with the logo of a yellow bird, Koo, which started in March 2020, is India’s answer to Twitter. With six languages including Hindi, English and Tamil, it supports ‘koos’ or short messages of 400 characters where users can upload audio- and video-based posts and use hashtags to generate a conversation. Koo is not the first made-in-India app the politicians joined to…
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BURSA, Turkey – In a Eureka moment, a photographer waiting for the arrival of a famous migratory stork called Yaren, captured a memorable photograph of a Patka duck during sunset in rural Turkey. While waiting for the reunion of a stork called Yaren and fisherman Adem Yilmaz, nature photographer and bird watcher Alper Tuydes clicked the duck. The image was captured by chance at a lake in the village of Eskikaraagac in the western Turkish province of Bursa. The lake at Eskikaraagac is the location of the award-winning documentary called ‘Yaren’, which follows the incredible nine-year friendship between Yaren and…
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia – Toddling with her little cub besides a pool, and making sure it doesn’t stray into it, a caring polar bear mum was video graphed at the Rostov-on-Don Zoo in Russia. The heart-warming moment was shot at the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don in the Rostov Oblast area. The city is not far from Ukraine’s eastern border. “The polar bear Kometa was born in 2012 in the zoo of the Czech city of Brno,” said Rostov-on-Don Zoo Press Officer Ekaterina Kovaleva. “Two years later, she was moved to the Rostov-on-Don zoo.” The footage shows the mother polar bear (Ursus maritimus)…
A butler who claims to have served Prince Charles, Williams, and Harry previously was schooled on Twitter after he posted a table etiquette he dearly believes in. “Ladies and gentlemen, remember we always use a knife and fork or chopsticks to eat rice! We do not use our hands or fingers,” Grant Harrold, a self-described etiquette expert and entertainer, tweeted from his official account that has 32,800 followers. According to this website, Harrold was a butler for the British Royals from 2004-2011 and is “regularly called upon as an advisor to Royals, celebrities and various VIP clients.” Harrold’s tweet was accompanied by an…
MOKOPANE, South Africa – Bound and gagged together, the bodies of a mother-daughter duo were found in the South African province of Limpopo. The husband, a man of Bangladeshi origin, allegedly killed his wife and daughter and was denied bail by a local court before his hearing next week. Now, the mother of the victim has urged maximum punishment for the murderer. “He never said anything and it’s like he has no feelings for what he did,” said Annie Ash, the mother of the lady and grandmother to the infant. “The only feeling I have for him now is hatred.…
SANTA FE, Ecuador – A group of 191 critically endangered Hood Island giant tortoises was released in the Galapagos Islands to replace the species that went extinct 150 years ago because of whale hunters and pirates. The tortoises belong to the Chelonoidis hoodensis species, which are critically endangered according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List. They were released on the 25-square-kilometer (9.6-square-mile) island at Santa Fe in Ecuador. They were bred in captivity at the Fausto Llerena center on the nearby island of Santa Cruz, as part of a program to restore the ecological balance of…
LINZ, Austria – Letters written by Adolf Hitler’s father that were recently discovered in an Austrian attic reveal fascinating insights into the Nazi dictator’s early childhood. It is believed that at the tender age of six, Hitler had over $12,000 in his savings account. “A lady told me she had found letters from Adolf Hitler’s father in her attic that were addressed to her great-great-grandfather Josef Radlegger” said Roman Sandgruber, emeritus professor at the University of Linz in Upper Austria. “It is undoubtedly a lucky coincidence that the letters survived the Nazi era and the [Allied] occupation, and that their…
“I don’t forget my past. I’m not saying there isn’t a conflict. But we’re here to talk and look each other in the eye like human beings.” Around the time the coronavirus crisis erupted, Yair Levi’s grandmother fell ill. A musician, Levi looked for a prayer to recite for her and came across a biblical verse that he quickly composed and sang. The result was “Refa Na,” a soulful healing prayer that went viral. “It came out within a week and it just exploded in a crazy way, with people who don’t know Hebrew singing and praying that Covid should…
Look, up in the sky. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a — blimp filled with tourists? If Gennadiy Verba, CEO of Atlas LTA in Israel has his way, there will be blimps above major tourism sites, blimps ferrying passengers where airplanes cannot land, and blimps bringing large industrial equipment such as wind turbine blades to hard-to-reach inland locations. Just don’t call them blimps, Verba said. They’re “airships” now and, unlike the Hindenburg –which devastated a watching world when it caught on fire in 1937 in a field in New Jersey — modern airships get their lift from helium,…
YANGON, Myanmar — In an effort to control the anti-coup demonstrations, the Myanmar security forces threw tear gas at the protesters on March 3, killing 38. Footage of the military crackdown on protests against the recent Myanmar coup d’etat led to international condemnation. Many believed the coup has pushed back years of progress towards democracy in the country, which has been under military control for five decades, leading to multiple international sanctions. “This is the moment to turn the tables towards justice and end the military’s stranglehold over democracy in Myanmar,” said Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.…