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WARSAW, Poland (AFP) — Poland’s culture ministry is expected Thursday to buy a private art collection worth two billion euros that includes Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine”. The 15th-century portrait of a young woman holding a white ermine, a kind of short-tailed weasel, is one of just four known paintings of women by the Renaissance master. Another is the Mona Lisa. After announcing it was in talks to buy the collection earlier this […]
A giant South Korean-built manned robot that walks like a human but makes the ground shake under its weight has taken its first baby steps.
Reuters — Researchers from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) are hoping to bring the futuristic dream of billionaire inventor Elon Musk to reality. In 2013 South-African business magnate Musk unveiled his concept of Hyperloop, a transportation system that would allow passengers to travel at almost the speed of sound inside reduced-pressure tubes. Last year Musk announced a design competition for students and independent engineering teams to build Hyperloop pods and operate them on a […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (Reuters) — A group of students in South Florida have enrolled in 10-week intensive course at Wyncode, an accredited school that aims to transform people with little or no computer coding experience into programmers with enough knowledge to get a job in the growing technology sector. Until now, a job in technology would require a university degree in computer science. Wyncode promises their students that they can teach them enough to […]
PYONGYANG, North Korea (Reuters)– North Korea’s Ministry of Culture and Russia’s embassy in Pyongyang co-hosted a piano recital on Tuesday (December 27) in the run-up to the New Year. In a video provided by the North’s official news agency KCNA, which cannot be independently verified by Reuters, Han Il Yong and Ma Sin A, students of the Pyongyang Music School No.1 of Kim Won Gyun Conservatory, performed a piano solo and concerto. The two students […]
NEW YORK, United States (Reuters) — The iconic Times Square New Year’s Ball Drop is just days away and final preparations were being made to the world famous Waterford crystal ball on Tuesday (December 27). Workers installed the last of the 288 new sparkling Waterford crystal triangles. The new crystal triangles feature a new design for 2017 called the “Gift of Kindness”. Tim Tompkins, the president of the Times Square Alliance explained. “The Waterford theme […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) — Rio de Janeiro is preparing to host millions of revelers who will flock to the city’s beaches to ring in New Year 2017 during its annual New Year’s Eve celebrations on the famed Copacabana Beach and other points throughout the city. Copacabana alone, the heart of New Year’s celebrations in the Marvellous City, is expected to see more than 2 million people turnout for the annual fireworks display which […]
CHIMBOTE, Peru (Reuters) — They really are man’s best friend. After a resident of the central Peruvian coastal city of Chimbote got drunk and hit his head, he needed an ambulance to take him to the area hospital. But a funny thing happened on the way to the trauma room; his two dogs decided to accompany and help their owner. The man, who according to security footage, appeared to be slipping in and out of […]
SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) –Zookeepers at Sydney’s iconic Taronga Zoo welcomed the arrival of a seven-month-old male koala joey on Friday (December 23), who emerged from his mother’s pouch two days before the holiday. The second joey to be born to mother Sydney, the yet-to-be named joey will spend another three to four month with her before going it alone, Taronga Zoo said in a statement. “It’s a bit hot inside that pouch on steamy summer […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Cheetahs are “sprinting” to extinction due to habitat loss and other forms of human impact, according to a new study out this week which called for urgent action to save the world’s fastest land animals. Cheetah numbers in Zimbabwe have plunged by more than 85 percent in 16 years and fewer than 50 individuals survive in Iran, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) warned. The […]
Cocoa arrived in Madagascar in the 1900s and is still a low-volume export yet the country’s cocoa pods are destined to become some of the most expensive chocolate in the world. https://youtu.be/O7rPuK4rBpU
by Anne KAURANEN Agence France-Presse HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — On the crowded morning metro in Helsinki, silence prevails. Everyone is hunched over their smartphone screens, reading the news, checking emails or watching videos. A loud “yeah!” breaks the quiet, along with delighted screech from a toddler whose mother has just handed him her smartphone to calm him down with a video. Finland, once a world leader in mobile telephony with Nokia, is in a class of […]
