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Why you should start drinking with lemon water?

There are plenty of bogus health trends to avoid, but daily lemon water isn’t one of them. You may have seen this one popping up around the Internet for months now. Lemons are vitamin C rich citrus fruits that enhance your beauty, by rejuvenating skin from within and thus, bringing a glow to your face. One of the major health benefits of drinking lemon water is that it paves the way for losing weight faster, […]

Skeletal horse sculpture unveiled at Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth

A giant, skeletal, riderless, horse created by the German-American artist Hans Haacke has been installed on the fourth plinth at London’s Trafalgar Square on Thursday (March 5). Unveiled by the city’s mayor, Boris Johnson, “Gift Horse” was inspired by the equestrian statue of William IV, for which the plinth was originally intended. The horse sculpture is fitted with an electronic ribbon which displays a live ticker of the London Stock Exchange, asserting the place’s significance […]

Latest trailer released for highly anticipated Avengers sequel

“Avengers: Age of Ultron” saw its third full trailer released online on Thursday (March 5) as anticipation over the second installment of the hugely popular and lucrative superhero series builds to a crescendo ahead of the film’s launch at the end of April. In the trailer the villain of the movie, the artificial intelligence Ultron, is seen bringing his robot forces together to battle the team of Marvel’s biggest selling superheroes – themselves with their […]

Korean steel plant turns cow dung into green energy

A steel plant in South Korea has managed to improve energy efficiency and lower fuel cost by turning cow dung into a source of green energy to power its production. Cow dung, traditionally used as a fertilizer, is now being collected and used to produce biofuel that is greener and more efficient than traditional fuels like coal. Seoul-based Hyundai Steel has developed a new method to use cow dung as an auxiliary fuel for steel […]

DFA brings home 77 OFWs from Libya

MANILA, PIA – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported the repatriation of seventy-seven (77) overseas Filipino workers from the strife-torn country of Libya. DFA in a statement said the OFWs left Libya on chartered vehicles and were brought to the Tunisian border from where they took commercial flights back to Manila, where they arrived in separate batches on February 27 and March 01. Representatives from the DFA, the Office of the Vice President, the Overseas […]

Cheery room service robot surprises guest

A hotel guest in Newark, California, was given room service with a difference on Wednesday (March 4) when a robot came to his room. Scott Sigrist opened his door, at the Aloft Silicon Valley Hotel, to find a cheery robot delivering him toothpaste and a fresh towel before making its way back to the lobby. Sigrist, who works for a storage company in Dallas, Texas, posted the video on social network and entertainment website Reddit […]

Philippines assessing discovery of Japanese sunken ship

The Philippines on Thursday (March 5) said it was verifying reports that a sunken World war II Japanese warship was discovered off the coast in the central Philippines. A team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has found the sunken Japanese warship Musashi, one of the largest battleships ever built, where it was sunk during World War Two off the coast of the Philippines, the billionaire said on Wednesday (March 4). Presidential Spokesperson Sonny Coloma […]

Tree planting sa Capiz

Sa kanilang kagustuhan na mapangalagaan ang pinakamalinis na ilog sa Region VI, nagsagawa ng isang Mangrove tree-planting sa Cadimahan River na matatagpuan sa Capiz.