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Drunk raccoon passes out in US liquor store
New York Times, Published on 04/12/2025
» A raccoon entered a liquor store the other day and drank his fill: rum, moonshine, even peanut butter whiskey. Then it passed out on the floor of the bathroom.
Calls grow for South Korean president to quit
Reuters, Published on 04/12/2024
» SEOUL — South Korean lawmakers on Wednesday proposed impeaching President Yoon Suk Yeol for his sudden decision to declare martial law, which he rescinded after a chaotic standoff between parliament and the army that damaged the country’s standing.
Hong Kong shoplifting up by almost 12%
South China Morning Post, Published on 15/07/2024
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong police have logged a nearly 12% increase in shoplifting offences and said that some offenders could afford to pay but had acted on impulse as a way to deal with psychological problems.
Bottled water contains more plastic particles than thought - study
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/01/2024
» NEW YORK - A typical one-litre (33-ounce) bottle of water contains some 240,000 plastic fragments on average, according to a new study. Many of those fragments have historically gone undetected, the researchers determined, suggesting that health concerns linked to plastic pollution may be dramatically underestimated.
Ukrainian truckers stranded in Poland battle cold
AFP, Published on 06/12/2023
» KORCZOWA, Poland - In a Polish car park near the Ukrainian border, truck drivers stranded by a month-long blockade that has caused disruption and a row with Ukraine shoveled snow off their vehicles.
Record for world's priciest bottle of whisky smashed at London auction
AFP, Published on 19/11/2023
» LONDON (UNITED KINGDOM) - A bottle of The Macallan 1926, described by Sotheby's auction house as the "most valuable whisky in the world", on Saturday went under the hammer for a record pound sterling2.1 million.
The mighty Mississippi, America's water highway, is dangerously low
AFP, Published on 24/10/2023
» MEMPHIS - In the middle of the shrunken Mississippi, a barge drags a giant metal-edged suction head along the riverbed to remove sediment from shipping lanes.
Greek flood victims race to rebuild
AFP, Published on 26/09/2023
» VLOCHOS, Greece - When Storm Daniel this month dumped cataclysmic amounts of rain on his village in central Greece, Nikos Falangas barely had time to flee.
Volvic on front line of France's new water fears
AFP, Published on 21/06/2023
» VOLVIC (FRANCE) - The public fountains in Volvic, the home of one of the world's most famous mineral waters, have been turned off.
Children lost for 40 days in Colombian Amazon found alive
AFP, Published on 10/06/2023
» BOGOTá: The four Indigenous children who had been missing for more than a month in the Colombian Amazon rainforest after a small plane crash have been found alive, President Gustavo Petro announced Friday.