Month: December 2021
From ashes comes art.
Brazilian artist Mundano has used ashes from burned areas of the Amazon rainforest to create a street mural in Sao Paulo…
Travel-starved, sleep-deprived residents in Hong Kong might find a new bus tour to be a snooze. The 76-kilometer, five-hour ride…
Clarence Birdseye loved fish, and that’s why we can buy frozen foods. At first glance, the two parts of that sentence may not seem connected, but they are.
In the early 20th ce…
Brighton might just be the favorite destination for Londoners on a weekend jaunt. Partly, that’s because it’s so close — just a smidgen over an h…
Dubai expo defends worker accident rate
Expo 2020 Dubai, a major world fair that opened Oct. 1, said on Oct. 3 three workers had died and 72 had been seriously…
Continued from Part 1…
While that effort flopped, the band inadvertently gained worldwide attention — even if the achievement took a…
The duo Dreams Come True have charmed millions of listeners across Asia thanks to their breezy funk-indebted pop hits. Yet the pair have also connected with millions more in an un…
At 2 meters 15 centimeters tall, Rumeysa Gelgi has always stood out. In mid-October, Guinness World Records officially said she was the world’s tallest living wom…
NZ drops COVID-19 elimination strategy
New Zealand on Oct. 4 abandoned its long-standing strategy of
Billie Eilish to headline Glastonbury outdoor music festival in UK next year
Grammy Award winner Billie Eilish will perfo…
