Coughs and lethargy: Lions, tigers at Washington zoo catch Covid
(AFP) Six lions and three tigers at the National Zoo in Washington have tested positive for Covid-19 and are undergoing treatment after falling unwell, the...
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10,000 migrants, many Haitian, packed under Texas bridge
(AFP) More than 10,000 undocumented migrants, many of them Haitians, were being held under a bridge in Texas on Friday, US officials said, posing a...
Google, Apple 'censor' Navalny app as Russian polls open
(AFP) Allies of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny accused Apple and Google of “censorship” on Friday after they removed opposition voting apps at the start...
Austria hears first lawsuit over ski resort Covid outbreak
(AFP) The first civil lawsuit began in a court in Vienna on Friday over a notorious outbreak of coronavirus at a popular ski resort last...
Tall tale: world-beating Dutch are getting shorter
(AFP) The world’s tallest country is shrinking. The generation of Dutch people born in 2001 is shorter than the one born in 1980, a study...
New Zealand call off Pakistan cricket series after security alert
(AFP) New Zealand on Friday pulled out of their cricket series against Pakistan over security concerns just minutes after the first one-day international was due...
UK retailers face supply crunch as Christmas looms
(AFP) UK retailers are facing a double whammy of sliding sales and global supply crunch, making it tough for stores to obtain goods ahead of...
Japan message in a bottle washes up in Hawaii … 37 years later
(AFP) A message in a bottle released 37 years ago by Japanese high school students has been found — around 6,000 kilometres (3,700 miles) away...
'Flying Tiger' ace WW2 pilot dies at 103
(AFP) An ace US fighter pilot and one of the last surviving members of the swashbuckling “Flying Tigers” who fought the Japanese for Nationalist China...
Desolate villages face famine in Madagascar drought
(AFP) Nothing to eat, nothing to plant. The last rain in Ifotaka fell in May, for two hours. Across Madagascar’s vast southern tip, drought has...
