Friday, 3 February 2017 Crown Prince Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck is Bhutan’s youngest royal, who just so happens to be turning 1 on 5 February. To commemorate the occasion, the Bhutanese website Yellow has made the Crown Prince the cover model for the February edition of its desktop calendar. The website …
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Friday, 3 February 2017 A heroic mother died after saving her newborn baby in a house fire in Wyoming, Illinois on Monday morning. Shelby Carter, 21, saved her baby girl by smashing a window, strapping her into a car seat and tossing her out of a second-floor window of her …
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Friday, 3 February 2017 Traffic slowed to a crawl on major highways on Thursday as tens of millions of people returned home after the Spring Festival holiday. About 94.2 million people were expected to travel on Thursday. Traffic was slow on several major highways, including Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway and Shanghai-Chongqing …
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Friday, 3 February 2017 More than 50 tonnes of oil slick has been removed along the coastline in the southern Indian city of Chennai after an oil tanker collided with a cargo vessel on 28 January. The spill has been threatening marine life in the ecosystem as reports suggest that …
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Friday, 3 February 2017 A tourist in his sixties died on Wednesday (1 February) while snorkelling at the Great Barrier Reef. The man is the fifth tourist to die within 3 months while snorkelling at Australia’s popular tourist attraction. Authorities are investigating the death of the unidentified tourist who was …
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Friday, 3 February 2017 India’s first underwater wedding just happened under the Arabian Sea at Kerala’s Grove beach on Thursday, 26 January 2017. The idea of proposing someone underwater has been quite prevalent in the west, but this is India’s first official entry in the list. The wedding took place …
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Friday, 3 February 2017 Tens of thousands of protestors have taken to the streets in Bucharest and across Romania to protest decriminalizing official misconduct. The government moves have also concerned other nations and the EU. Protests attracting tens of thousands in Romania’s capital and across the east European nation took …
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Thursday, 2 February 2017 AMSTERDAM: Passengers at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport faced long waits Wednesday due to a serious computer problem at air traffic control, causing scores of flights to be diverted, cancelled or delayed. Delay times had mounted to more than 60 minutes, three hours after the problem was first …
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If you think you’ve had a stressful 2016, imagine being this iguana pic.twitter.com/vNgp5xq6uJ — Jack Mull (@J4CKMULL) 8 November 2016 Thursday, 2 Feb 2017 : A terrifying chase scene from British naturalist David Attenborough’s new project is getting a lot of love online. The “characters” – a baby iguana and …
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Thursday, 2 Feb 2017 : An extremely rare cross between a tiger and a lion has been born in a travelling zoo in southern Russia, one of only a few dozen of the animals believed to exist. Named Tsar, the 2½-month-old liger cub, is the offspring of a tigress Princess …
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