GUARATINGUETA, Brazil — A Brazilian woman who pretended to be pregnant was actually wearing a hollowed-out half watermelon containing several blocks of cocaine. The unnamed 38-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking in the Brazilian municipality of Guaratingueta on Nov. 29. The woman was on a tour bus heading to Rio de Janeiro when passengers thought her supposed pregnant belly looked suspicious and alerted police. Authorities found the woman had strapped the rind of half a watermelon to her body, which was filled with 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of cocaine paste wrapped in four bricks. The watermelon used to…
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CEBU CITY, Philippines — A 7-year-old girl was overwhelmed after an online food app error resulted in her mistakenly ordering 42 chicken-fillet meals. The food was delivered by 30 separate couriers — all demanding payment. The youngster, who lives in Cebu City, Philippines, placed the order with Food Panda, which resulted in her narrow street becoming choked with delivery riders. More than 30 FoodPanda delivery riders came with the exact same order of chicken fillets to the house of a 7-year old girl in Cebu City, Philippines. (@badch33tah/Newsflash)The girl, trying to help her ill grandmother, used a parent’s smartphone to…
While the grassy lawns at the Margalit Startup City complex in Jerusalem are used to hosting entrepreneurial minds, they recently played home to a unique experience: a hackathon for 20 young Jewish and Arab Jerusalemites to pitch projects that will improve their city. Among the presenters was Yusuf Awada, who drew on his experience as a waiter shocked by the level of food waste and spoke of the need for an app that locates and distributes surplus food to those in need. Participants Gilad Sevitt and Michal Rosen presented an idea for an app to help those who want to…
Next year will mark a century since Albert Einstein accepted his Nobel Prize in physics for the theories that fundamentally changed the way we understand our universe and what we as human beings can accomplish with that understanding. Sixty-five years after his death, Einstein remains the most recognizable scientist in history, not just because of his quirky appearance and life but because he still has lessons to teach us. As we head into the dark tunnel of a Covid-19 winter, guided by the beckoning light of highly promising vaccine prototypes, Einstein’s strong belief in the power and necessity of global…
New Delhi — Losing sleep over the pandemic is a real thing. Many in India are finding it difficult to sleep well because of their altered lifestyle since Covid-19 hit the country. Now health care firms are waking up to an opportunity to create products that help people sleep. “We have seen a growth in all sleep-inducing products and services since the pandemic broke out,” said Vishal Gondal, founder and CEO of GOQii, a fitness technology company based in California with an office in Mumbai. In survey results of 10,000 respondents, GOQii found that during the first 21 days of…
New Delhi — “The Crown,” Netflix’s hit series about the British royal family, has garnered a cult following among Indian viewers, among the 2.8 million Netflix subscribers in the country. Audience demand for the show is 15.3 times greater than for other average television series in India in the last 30 days. Only, 2.7 percent of all shows in the Indian market reach this level of demand. While the show is an entertaining and engaging docu-drama, it distills events of monumental historical significance to how they affected or were influenced by the private life and interests of Queen Elizabeth II. The show…
Some call it a plague. Yoav Motro calls it a war. The enemies are huge armies of desert locusts destroying farm and grazing lands across nine East African countries. In Ethiopia alone, the locusts have conquered three million acres since January. Motro, the vertebrates and locust specialist for Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, captained a successful battle against these winged creatures in Israel in 2013. He works diligently with regional partners to assure they won’t return. When the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations approached Israel for financial support for Ethiopia in fighting these most…
The Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality is proving that romance in the Covid-19 era simply demands a little creativity, a picturesque coastline and a warm Mediterranean climate.The city launched a unique “Saving the Date” project at Tel Aviv-Yafo’s lifeguard towers this week, offering a different and romantic dating solution for fun-loving couples while bars and restaurants are temporarily closed due to the pandemic. Tel Avivian couples are invited to book unique dates at three lifeguard towers that are inactive during the winter months. Dozens of couples have already reserved two-hour dates at lifeguard stations at Bograshov Beach, Hilton Beach and Metzitzim Beach.…
Fancy a visit to the beach – in the midst of winter? When the water is cold and the humidity has gone the way of the summer jellyfish, there’s still lots to do on Israel’s waterfronts without getting your feet sandy. Along the coast are some lovely hikes, including several in national parks. And a stroll along a beach boardwalk is a great way to catch a stellar sunset– guaranteed to help you remain hopeful, even in corona times, that there’s still fun to be had outdoors. Here is ISRAEL21c’s list of the top 10 boardwalks and beach walks in…
New Delhi, India — For the eighth day, tens of thousands of Indian farmers continued their protests against new agriculture laws, disrupting traffic and threatening to block all entry points to the nation’s capital of New Delhi. The protests began Nov. 26 against three farm laws introduced by the government in September 2020, which purportedly aim to break the monopoly of state government-run market places (mandis), allowing farmers to sell directly to private entities. The farmers believe the move will reduce the authority of state governments as their revenues from the mandis will dwindle. A meeting chaired by India’s agricultural minister…