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Italy's 'miracle' of the pizzas spurs Vatican to action
AFP, Published on 20/07/2023
» CIVITAVECCHIA (ITALY) - On the third of every month, hundreds of the faithful gather in a windswept field in a village near Rome where they believe a statue of the Virgin Mary is crying tears of blood.
Courtney Dauwalter: No loneliness for the long-distance runner
AFP, Published on 07/06/2023
» LEADVILLE (UNITED STATES) - Some time during a 200-mile race, maybe when she has been awake all night, ultra runner Courtney Dauwalter will probably start hallucinating.
The flying hospital bringing Ukraine's wounded west
AFP, Published on 29/03/2023
» ON BOARD A BOEING 737 MEDEVAC PLANE (POLAND) - You can see the pain held just in check in the faces of Ukraine's war wounded as they are evacuated in a flying hospital.
Ukraine's stand-up comics lift spirits with wartime laughs
AFP, Published on 03/03/2023
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - A joke about his mother's reaction to air raids gets a laugh of recognition for Anton Boldyrev as the young Ukrainian comedian performs stand-up at a Kyiv club.
Drugs in fruit, fire extinguishers: Traffickers find new ways to evade detection
South China Morning Post, Published on 08/12/2022
» SINGAPORE: Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, drug traffickers are increasingly attempting new ways to smuggle drugs into Singapore, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said.
Pie from the sky: drone delivery lands in America
AFP, Published on 28/09/2022
» FRISCO (UNITED STATES) - The little aircraft appeared out of the blue sky above a Texas home, deposited its payload of a mid-morning snack in the yard and zoomed off, as deliveries by drone start becoming a reality in America.
Swedish prisoners take guards hostage, demand pizza as ransom
AFP, Published on 22/07/2021
» STOCKHOLM: Two Swedish prison guards were held hostage for nine hours on Wednesday by two inmates demanding pizza as ransom, and were released when the food was delivered, a spokeswoman for the penitentiary told AFP.
Unmanned supermarkets to the rescue in Sweden's rural areas
AFP, Published on 23/05/2021
» ENKöPING (SWEDEN) - One after another, grocery stores are shutting down in rural Sweden, leaving villagers to travel miles to buy food. But a new type of shop has sprung up in their wake: unmanned supermarkets in mobile containers.
Pandemic pizza: Malaysian family cooks up solution to virus woes
AFP, Published on 27/11/2020
» JEMAPOH (MALAYSIA) - A Malaysian family have cooked up a tasty solution to their economic woes during the pandemic by opening a backyard pizzeria that has proved a hit in their sleepy village.
For Pennsylvania workers, a changing economy and politics
AFP, Published on 23/01/2020
» CLAIRTON (UNITED STATES) - White plumes of smoke billow into the frigid air above the rolling hills of western Pennsylvania, as scorching ovens bake the coal that rolls in by the trainload along the Monongahela River.