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Poachers shot dead a rhinoceros at a wildlife park in northeast India hours after Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate visited the sanctuary, a wildlife official said Friday. Rangers found the dead rhino with its horn missing on Thursday — the day the royal couple left the Kaziranga National Park in Assam state, home to two-thirds of the planet’s remaining one-horned rhinos. “Poachers used AK-47 assault rifles to kill the adult male rhino and after […]
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) – The world’s largest private collection of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia will go up for auction in November, with stage costumes from movies “Some Like it Hot” and “There’s No Business Like Show Business” expected to fetch up to $400,000. Julien’s Auctions said that the collection, owned by Briton David Gainsborough Roberts, is conservatively valued at around $3 million. As well as several costumes and personal wardrobe pieces owned by […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) – The newest form of arcade entertainment may be quite literally shocking for users at a new centre which opens up on Friday (April 15) in Tokyo. Using Virtual Reality equipment, the “VR Zone Project I Can” located in the tourist area of the island of Odaiba is designed to provide all kinds of experiences. With a price range from 700 ($6.4 USD) to 1000 yen ($9.15 USD), the customer can choose […]
LONDON, ENGLAND, UK (Reuters) – From a dress worn by Vivien Leigh to play Lady Macbeth to a “Hamlet” script owned by famous British actors, a new exhibition explores how William Shakespeare became “the Bard” 400 years after his death. “Shakespeare in Ten Acts” looks at 10 key performances of his works, from the first showing “Hamlet” at the Globe theater around 1600 to a contemporary version of that play in the digital age. The […]
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, United States (Reuters) – Curtains and blinds may soon be a design choice as opposed as to a tool for privacy. Windows that can transition between clear and cloudy in a second may soon be a reality thanks to technology under development at Harvard University’s School of Engineering Windows that can change opacity or color already exist but rely on electrochemical reactions that are expensive to manufacture, especially on a commercial scale. “They […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (Reuters) – An international research team has started drilling for core samples nearly 1,500 meters (nearly 5,000 feet) below the seabed of a prehistoric crater left by an asteroid collision in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula that many believe killed the dinosaurs. The samples could yield clues about how life recovered after the cataclysm. They will also look into whether the 110-mile-(180-km-) wide crater itself could have been a home for microbial life. Scientists […]
RAFAH, Gaza (Reuters) – In the Gaza Strip town of Rafah, beekeepers harvest honey as hundreds of bees swirl around them – but the honey isn’t the only thing they’re after. There is a center in Gaza City that treats its patients using bee sting which are said to have healing qualities. “There are (around) 18 or 20 antibiotics in bees. So some doctors opened big centers in the world, some in Germany, some in […]
by Glenn CHAPMAN SAN Francisco, United States (AFP) — Facebook on Tuesday extended its reach beyond online socializing by building artificial-intelligence powered “bots” into its Messenger application to allow businesses to have software engage in lifelike text exchanges. The move announced at the leading online social network’s annual developers conference in San Francisco came as the number of monthly users of Messenger topped 900 million and the Silicon Valley company works to stay in tune […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) – Behind a door bearing the name “Tiger Woods,” 44-year-old Lee Seung-yeop takes a powerful swing of his iron, launching the ball towards a grassy green projected onto a screen in a virtual golf lounge in the Gangnam district of Seoul. “Screen golf is much cheaper than regular golfing when you think of the costs. Sure it might not feel real, but it’s cheap and convenient. That’s why I come here […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — People who smoke may find it harder to get work, and make less money than non-smokers, according to a US study out Monday. The findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine were based on more than 250 unemployed job-seekers in the San Francisco area. About half smoked cigarettes — on average 13 per day — and the other half did not smoke. Researchers checked in with […]
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (Reuters) – The spread and impact of the Zika virus is wider than initially anticipated, U.S. health officials said on Monday (April 11). Dr. Anne Schuchat, a deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters at the White House that the type of mosquito in which the virus is carried is present in more U.S. states than initially thought. U.S. scientists now believe the mosquito is present […]
PENANG, Malaysia (Reuters) – A nearly eight-metre long python was captured in Malaysia a few days ago and it may be the longest snake ever to be caught. The python, which was found last Thursday on a construction site in Penang, could slither its way into the record books. It was caught by Civil Defence Department personnel after workers from the construction site in Paya Terubong spotted it under a tree and called the emergency […]
