A red panda cub, whose sex has not been released, was born at the Beekse Bergen safari park in Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands. The park displays about 1,250 animals from over 150 species, varying from small mammals to large birds. The International Union for Conservation of Nature categorizes the red panda as “endangered,” mainly because its natural habitat is being deforested; currently, only about 2,500 red pandas live in the wild. The animal — whose white face markings and bushy tail make it resemble a raccoon — is found in the wild in Nepal, China, Myanmar, India and Bhutan, the IUCN…
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A woman in the Chinese city of Baise got her head stuck between the slats in a fence after she fell sideways off her scooter on July 15. She was attempting to take a shortcut on a side street and found herself on an unfamiliar road. The woman accidentally fell sideways off her scooter while driving down a slope, police said. She was only identified as Lu, and her age was not released. Her motorcycle helmet flew off of her head during the mishap because she failed to fasten it properly, police said. Lu hospitalized in Baise, Guangxi, China, after…
Two hackers helped Chinese intelligence steal secret information from “hundreds” of businesses, according to U.S. Attorney William Hyslop. The hackers allegedly targeted drug makers, manufacturers and defense contractors, starting in 2009, the indictment said, as well as dissidents, preachers and human rights activists in the U.S., China, Hong Kong and elsewhere. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of trade secrets, intellectual property and other confidential information was stolen over the multiyear hacking campaign, FBI special agent Raymond Duda said at a livestream news conference Tuesday. The “sweeping global computer intrusion campaign” more recently targeted firms working on coronavirus vaccines and…
“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” Australian lawmaker Irina Dunn once said, giving the women’s rights activist Gloria Steinem a catch-phrase so clever that leaving it out of any feminist treatise in the 1970s made a writer seem naïve. Fifty years later, fish and bicycles needn’t make cameos in manifestos for women—even those whose broad mandate is that women can get along fine without Y-chromosomes in their lives. Jennifer Palmieri’s “She Proclaims: Our Declaration of Independence from a Man’s World” ably carries Steinem’s torch but loses its flame in grim, humorless prose about women who…
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has ruled the lower chamber of the state legislature for 35 years. Now, thanks to a federal investigation, his power may be coming to an end. Elected officials on both sides of the aisle have called on the Illinois speaker to step down if the accusations are found to be true. In a criminal complaint released Friday, prosecutors alleged the state’s largest utility company, Commonwealth Edison Co., also known as ComEd, paid more than $1.3 million in bribes to allies of Madigan over an eight-year period ending in 2019. Madigan is not named in the…
Lounging on the sofa and eating chips while watching TV may well be a favorite pastime during the current pandemic. Even from an altitude of 6,500 feet. That’s what “couch potato” paraglider Hasan Kaval did earlier this month as he reclined on a red sofa in his “living room,” with a lamp, a bag of chips and a TV for viewing “Tom and Jerry” cartoons. The paraglider is seen in his video drifting high above the Ölüdeniz, Hisaronu and Ovacik resort areas on Turkey’s southwestern Turquoise Coast, in the Fethiye district. The area is one of the most popular spots…
Darth Vader is the crustacean they were looking for. Scientists from Singapore and Indonesia confirmed a species they found in Indonesian waters off the coast of western Java in 2018 had never previously been identified. Initially dubbed “Darth Vader” after the “Star Wars” movie villain, such large isopods are often called “sea cockroaches” because of their resemblance to those land-based pests. The frightening-looking, pale-skinned isopod was discovered at a depth of between 2,952 to 3,937 feet. Jeanice Aw, an environmental scientist and media liaison officer at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, said the newly discovered isopod “exhibits what…
World leaders have their pet projects—and their pets. In the United States, Donald Trump stands out as the first president in 119 years not to own a pet in the White House. Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama had two Portuguese water dogs. George W. Bush had Scottish terriers Barney and Miss Beazley. And Bill Clinton had Buddy, a chocolate Labrador retriever, and a cat named Socks. On the other side of the world, Russian President Vladimir Putin has tigers. One of Putin’s endangered Siberian tigers, this one named Boris, has fathered what experts say are four litters of cubs with different…
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From masks worn to prevent the spread of Covid-19 to Hong Kong protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks during anti-China protests, 2020 is a time of masks. Yet in much of Africa, such face coverings masks have a different meaning and are far more likely to have a connotation of beauty and awe, rather than fear and crisis. They are part of a creative aesthetic that has deep origins in many African cultures being revived by a new wave of artists in the 21st century. In the early 20th century, Fauvist artists like Henri Matisse and Cubists like Pablo Picasso were influenced…