AYLESBURY, Birmingham – A 35-year-old man was arrested by the Birmingham police for selling drugs on the streets of Aylesbury after traveling from Birmingham. The accused reached Aylesbury the same day. The criminal identified as Daniel Anderson was produced before the unanimous jury at Aylesbury Crown Court on Feb. 12 where he was found guilty and was sentenced at the same hearing to eight years’ imprisonment. “Anderson is now a convicted drug dealer,” said Investigating Officer, Detective Constable Andy Hipwell. “Let this be a warning to anyone who thinks they can come to our town and sell drugs. We will…
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BOCAS DEL TORO, Panama — A video of a cop picking up a slow-moving sloth from the middle of the road before safely putting it on nearby grass has been shared by the Panamanian National Police department on Feb. 18 has gained followers. The officer carefully picks up a lazy sloth and makes sure it stays out of the threat of being killed on road in the north-western Panamanian province of Bocas del Toro. The Panamanian National Police shared also a video in a post of the rescue on their official Facebook page. “National Police units rescued in the provinces…
KALININGRAD, Russia – A drunk man was arrested when he lost his temper and ransacked a mini-market after being refused alcohol in the district of Nesterovsky in Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast region. The suspect, 35, whose identity has not been disclosed, went into the store to buy booze at night when there was a curb on the sale of alcohol. When the shop assistant refused to sell any alcohol to him, the man went into a frenzy and started smashing everything in sight and throwing things at the employee. CCTV camera footage shows the man kicking product stands and refrigerators, breaking…
TEL AVIV, Israel — A near tragedy was averted when a pest controls agent, after carrying out a job, left deadly pesticide lying around in a milk powder box in a children’s nursery in Israel. Israeli police confirmed that several people have been arrested and quizzed over the near disaster. The pesticide was reportedly left in an open area of the kindergarten when it was discovered by some children. “This grave matter was almost a disaster, and those who are involved need to answer for what they’ve done,” said Gila Gamliel, the minister of environmental protection. “Pest control is not…
FREILASSING, Germany — A puppy was rescued from a suitcase after an animal trafficker tried to smuggle it into Germany from a Hungarian puppy farm. Reportedly, the animal trafficker was driving through Freilassing, a town of about 16,000 inhabitants in the south-eastern corner of Bavaria in Germany. The trafficker had planned to sell the puppy. However, on his way, he was stopped by the police on the A8 motorway in the area of Walserberg near the German border with Austria. “I don’t want to imagine what the Pomeranian puppy in the suitcase must have endured for hours in the dark…
When Indian emperor Shah Jahan built the original Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his dead wife Mumtaz in the early 17th century, he employed 20,000 workers, and it took them 22 months. But 51-year-old Indian art director Rajeevan Nambiar only has four weeks to recreate the feat. While this may be Nambiar’s most challenging project in his two-decade-long film career, the Taj Mahal is not the only monument he is building. Nambiar’s team is also replicating the Charminar, a 16th-century mosque; the Golconda Fort, a 17th-century fort; and the Red Fort, another 17th-century fort that Shah Jahan built in…
Dijo Augustine remembers how his mother did the lion’s share of housework when he was growing up in Kerala. “When I look back, I feel sorry for her — she did the chores almost all by herself,” said the mental health therapist, who has co-produced “The Great Indian Kitchen”, a Malayalam film released on a streaming platform recently. “She now lives with us in Canada, and we take care of her in every possible way.” “The Great Indian Kitchen,” directed by acclaimed Kerala filmmaker Jeo Baby, revolves around a newly-married woman reeling under the drudgery of domestic chores. She chops…
NEW DELHI — Manya Singh ran away from home at 14. She took a train from Gorakhpur in the eastern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh to Mumbai in Maharashtra — around 1,000 miles away — without a ticket, all by herself. She wanted to, as the India-set Hollywood film “The White Tiger” says, “break out of the coop.” The 20-year-old daughter of an auto-rickshaw (three-wheeled vehicle) driver from Uttar Pradesh is today, a runner-up at the VLCC Femina Miss India 2020 beauty pageant. “Growing up, everything was hard for our family,” Singh told Zenger News. “In our homes, people say families…
PUNE, India — Instant messaging platform WhatsApp will celebrate 12 years on Feb. 25, 2021, with more than 2 billion users each month sending 100 billion messages and connecting to more than 1 billion calls each day. Even as it crosses a milestone, big tech companies Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Twitter have had a rough month in India. For Twitter, it was a refusal to remove some accounts requested by the government. For WhatsApp, it was a new privacy update in early January, that saw the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of India asking for it to be withdrawn before asking WhatsApp to review it.…
BETIM, Brazil — For the past three years, a Brazilian teenager has been lying in a vegetative state in a hospital 20 hours away by boat from his distraught family. They live in the middle of the Amazon rainforest — and their fight to have him returned home has been unsuccessful, due largely to financial straits. Mateus da Silva, now 17, and his siblings were attacked by vampire bats and infected with rabies between 2016 and 2017. Mateus’ siblings, Lucas, 17, and Miriã, 10, died. They were living near the Unini River, close to the cities of Barcelos and Novo Airão…