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JULY 27 (Reuters) — Known as the Tiger Woods of Scrabble, Nigel Richards showed amazing prowess when he won the championship in French scrabble despite not knowing how to speak French. <em>(Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)</em>
JULY 23 (Reuters) — Despite three failed space rocket launches in the past few months, the next crew scheduled to depart for the International Space Station on Tuesday (July 21) said they’re “ready to go”. “We’re very confident in the rocket at this point. We’re very eager to fly,” said American NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren. “I think from a crew standpoint, the extra two months have given us time for some refresher training and the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News Service, July 13) – Tired of your dull surroundings? Looking for a creative way to lighten up your personal space? Why not try indoor plants? Of course, there are some important things to consider before you start your very own indoor garden. Don’t worry, you don’t have to be a green thumb. You don’t actually need to do much. Just ensure that you get the proper mixture of temperature, light and […]
JULY 6 (Reuters) — Singapore’s Botanic Gardens was named as a cultural site on the World Heritage List on Saturday (July 4), with residents and tourists in the city state welcoming the news. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting in Bonn, Germany, approved the inscription of six new cultural sites in China, Iran, Mongolia and Singapore. Singapore’s Botanic Gardens were the first tropical botanic gardens on the heritage site list and the first in Asia, […]
Waiting for Tuna by Gregg Yan Largest Gathering of Bicolano Tuna Fishers Aims to Conserve Tuna Late afternoon and we’re holed up in a hut along the coast of Tiwi in Albay, trading fish tales and waiting for fishermen to return. Sitting around us are their wives, mending nets and eyeing the swelling crowd of kids cajoling in the surf. It is June, the season for yellowfin tuna. The first of the bancas arrive, unloading […]
JULY 3 — Anime fans in costume play, more commonly referred to as “cosplay,” take over the Los Angeles Convention center for the opening day of the 2015 Anime Expo on Thursday (July 2) morning. The four day event is expected to be a grand gathering of the cosplayers. Fans dressed in costume express their excitement to be among a group of people with same hobby. “I’m a giant nerd. So I mean it’s nice […]
JUNE 30 (Reuters) — UNESCO is expected to announce on Wednesday (July 1) whether it is going to place the Great Barrier Reef, which is larger than the United Kingdom, Holland and Switzerland combined, on a list of endangered World Heritage sites, a move the Australian government wants to avoid at all costs. Australian government ministers have been lobbying hard overseas since a warning by the UN body was released saying the reef risked a […]
JUNE 29 (Reuters) — SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said an investigation into Sunday’s explosion shortly after launch of one of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets will ground the rockets for several months but less than a year. “We’re certainly in an extraordinary position to know what happened, to find what happened, to fix what happened and to get back to flight, given the fact that the majority of this launch vehicle and its components are […]
PALAWAN, Philippines (Eagle News) – Due to its inherent beauty and natural biodiversity, the Tubbataha Reef marine park received a certificate of excellence from a United States travel website, which also recognized the said marine park for its conservation efforts. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, Vince Alvin Villarin) https://youtu.be/1vSojrn5TN4
JUNE 26 (Reuters) — It was a meeting of the smallest and the tallest in Italy’s Milan as thousands of children got together to try and beat the world record for the tallest structure built with Lego bricks. Little ones of all ages joined volunteers at the five-day event outside Milan’s World Expo site to try to break the previous Guinness World record of 34,76 meters. Organizers had prepared some 600,000 Lego bricks for the […]
JUNE 26 (Eagle News) – A group in Africa successfully trained giant African rats to sniff out landmines. But the rats’ act of heroism does not stop there. Said rats were also trained to sniff out tuberculosis infection. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
JUNE 24 (Reuters) — Italian police released a video on Tuesday (June 23) showing a well-preserved ancient Roman ship that was recently discovered in waters off the coast of Sardinia. In the video police officers was seen approaching the shipwreck as fish swam in the clear seas surrounding the Italian island. Italian police said their historical discovery was made in collaboration with the Archaeological Superintendence, the country’s ministerial institute for archaeology. The ship, which measured […]
