ALTO PARAISO, Brazil — A Brazilian woman has been reunited with her biological family after more than three decades. Neuza de Jesus Oliveira, 36, was recently got reacquainted with her biological mother and siblings in Alto Paraiso, a town in northern Brazil, after finding out that the woman she had called mom was really a kidnapper who had snatched her from her cradle and lied to her about her birth mother’s death. Her birth mother, who is still alive, fell into a chronic depression after years of remorse at the loss of her girl and can now barely walk or talk.…
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CHESHIRE, England – A member of the critically endangered eastern black rhino species has given birth to a female calf in England’s Chester Zoo. The rhinoceros mother, named Ema Elsa, gave birth after a 15-month pregnancy, according to the zoo in the English county of Cheshire. The birth took place Oct. 29, but the zoo did not release news about it until last week. The newborn’s arrival was filmed by the zoo’s CCTV cameras, and the footage shows the calf suckling its mother a few minutes after entering the world. Zoo workers said the calf’s birth will be celebrated around…
The Gilgit Baltistan region in Pakistan has the world’s highest mountain ranges — the Karakoram, the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush — and is home to 18 of the 50 highest peaks in the world. Every year, mountaineers attempt to scale these peaks for fame and glory, or just “because it is there”. However, most of them are male and the women climbers are often not taken as seriously. Last year, when I went for an expedition to the Nanga Parbat base camp (one of the highest mountains in the world at 8126 m), some male mountaineers derisively told me that…
ZIBO, China — Laughter may be the best medicine. Footage of Chinese seniors laughing out loud for 20 minutes as part of their daily lung exercise is going viral. The unusual practice, known as laughter yoga or chuckle yoga, took place at an outdoor fitness field in the city of Zibo in China’s Shandong Province earlier this month. Videos on social media show a group of elderly people practicing the exercise, which involves prolonged voluntary laughter without necessarily finding anything funny. Pensioners improve their lung capacity during Covid by laughing. (@xiaojiuA/Newsflash)The modern yoga method, developed by Indian medical doctor Dr.…
How far would you go to prove a point? Well, the former Sri Lankan Minister of Fisheries, Dilip Wedaarachchi went the whole mile and some more when he took a bite of a raw fish to prove that Covid-19 does not spread from fish to man and is perfectly safe to eat… even uncooked! The former minister channeled his inner Bear Grylls (the British adventurer with a penchant for raw food) at a press conference in Colombo on November 17. “Doctors must promote the consumption of fish because Covid-19 does not spread through fish,” said Wedaarachchi. Saying so, the ex-parliamentarian…
Mexico’s government has chosen the year 2020 to celebrate Leona Vicario for the part she played in Mexico’s independence from Spain. Vicario was born 231 years ago, spent decades helping insurgents and was among the first Mexican women to become working journalists. The letterhead of all federal documents this year bears the legend “2020, Year of Leona Vicario, Meritorious Mother of the Nation.” Who was Vicario? María de la Soledad Leona Camila Vicario Fernández de San Salvador was born into a wealthy family in Mexico City on April 10, 1789. To the north, Thomas Paine was writing to Thomas Jefferson.…
“Jallikattu,” a film in the Malayalam language spoken in certain regions of southern India, has been selected as India’s official entry to the 93rd Academy Awards in the Best International Feature Film category. Directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery, it is the third Malayalam film after “Guru” (1997) and “Adaminte Makan Abu” (2011) to be chosen as the country’s official entry for the Oscars. The film is available on Amazon Prime Video in India. Based on the short story, “Maoist” by writer S. Hareesh, the film features a cast of Antony Varghese, Chemban Vinod Jose, Sabumon Abdusamad and Santhy Balachandran. India…
BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE, Argentina — The massive tooth of an ancestral elephant has been found in an Argentine river during a family fishing trip. The impressive molar was once attached to the jawbone of a stegomastodon (Stegomastodon platensis), a prehistoric ancestor of the modern elephant, which lived in the Pampas region. It disappeared along with other species in the Quaternary period. The tooth was discovered during a fishing trip along the Arrecifes River in the eastern province of Buenos Aires. (Museo Paleontologico San Pedro/Real Press)The tooth was found by Misael Ali, Daniela Martinez and their son, Gustavo Martinez during a trip…
Guwahati, Assam — Several Indian states, especially those ruled by parties opposed to prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), have withdrawn permission from the country’s top federal investigation agency to carry out probes within their borders. While this could hold up several important investigations, it also casts a shadow on the federal structure of the world’s largest democracy. Eight of India’s 29 states have accused the BJP of using the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which works like the US’s Federal Bureau of Investigation, to settle scores against political opponents. This is not the first time that states…
Mumbai — The Indian government’s decision to authorize Ayurveda practitioners to perform surgical procedures has become a major point of contention in the country. Ayurveda is an ancient Indian medicine system, popular in India and across the world. The Association of Ayurvedic Professionals of North America, or AAPNA, was incorporated in 2007 and had 27,842 professionals in 127 countries. Ayurvedic treatment is also provided in various health care centres across the US, especially California which passed the “Health Freedom Law” in 2001. Sale of ayurvedic and herbal products is also a big business. In 2019, India exported ayurvedic products valued…