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Hilarious Lost & Found Signs That Would Make Your Day
11Apr By ShpendNo Comments
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Hilarious Lost & Found Signs That Would Make Your Day

His Info With so many communication methods at our disposal these days, most individuals put up signs more as a joke than for any other reason. After all, you don’t actually need them to inquire about a genuine lost item, though it might be useful if you don’t know how else to contact the community. That clearly did not pique his interest. We can’t help but wonder if he provided his true contact information for others to use. Was he simply lonely, or did he want to see how many people would accept it for no apparent reason?
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On Greece’s Santorini, 13 cloistered nuns pray for the world
4Apr By Oqean DemakuNo Comments
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On Greece’s Santorini, 13 cloistered nuns pray for the world

Cruise-ship tourists crowding souvenir shops and couples chasing the perfect Instagram sunset throng the alleyway outside the Monastery of St Catherine, steps from Santorini's world-famous volcanic cliffs. Inside this convent on one of the trendiest islands in Greece, a predominantly Christian Orthodox country, 13 cloistered Catholic nuns devote their lives to praying for those visitors and for the world. It's a crucial if often misunderstood mission within the church, where constant prayer is deemed necessary to support more outwardly engaged ministries. "In such a touristy island, the last thing one thinks about is praying — so we are the ones who do it," Sister Lucía María de Fátima, the prioress, said on a recent morning. She and other sisters spoke in the convent's parlour...
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UK heatwave: Leeds is so hot that Tropical World is closing for the sake of the animals’ welfare
3Apr By Oqean DemakuNo Comments
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UK heatwave: Leeds is so hot that Tropical World is closing for the sake of the animals’ welfare

Tropical World at Roundhay Park is a butterfly house, licensed zoo and exotic plant collection housed in climate-controlled glasshouses. It is run by Leeds City Council. The building's sections all replicate tropical and desert environments from around the world and are home to species such as terrapins, poison dart frogs, clownfish, octopus, stingrays, seahorses, tropical fish, snakes, lizards, iguanas, parrot, bats and armadillos. The butterfly pupae are supplied by farms in Costa Rica and the Philippines. The attraction said in a statement: "Tropical World will be closed today & tomorrow (18 & 19 July) due to the extreme temperatures. This is to ensure the safety of our visitors and Tropical World staff. This will allow our animal keepers to concentrate solely on the a...
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Canada’s Rogers wins historic silver in women’s hammer throw at world championship
3Apr By Oqean DemakuNo Comments
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Canada’s Rogers wins historic silver in women’s hammer throw at world championship

Canada’s Camryn Rogers spun four times in the circle, then unleashed a hammer throw that soared straight into the history books. The 23-year-old from Richmond, B.C., threw 75.52 metres to win silver at the world track and field championships on Sunday, not only Canada’s first world medal in women’s hammer, but the country’s first women’s podium finish in a field event — period. But climbing the medal podium in her world debut didn’t come as a huge surprise. It’s been that kind of season for Rogers. It started when she finished fifth in her Olympic debut last summer. “My coach and I have had a plan coming into this championship for, well, basically since we finished at Tokyo last year … dreaming of the podium and having that image in our mind every single time that I throw, every s...
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Not Shereen Vallabouy’s day at world meet in Oregon
2Apr By Oqean DemakuNo Comments
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Not Shereen Vallabouy’s day at world meet in Oregon

About 150m into the race, Shereen Samson Vallabouy was with the leaders in heat six of the women’s 400m in the world athletics championships in Oregon in the US yesterday. She feared she was out too fast. “So, she backed off and lost the pace, but should have kept her speed up,” said her coach, Mason Rebarchek, in assessing Shereen’s run. “It didn’t go her way, but she knows the tactical error she made in the middle of the race was the difference,” Rebarchek said. “It was a great experience and she has confidence now going into the Commonwealth Games.” Shereen, a wild card entry in her maiden worlds, finished seventh out of the eight runners, two of whom are among the top ten 400m runners in the world. Ranked 229 in the world, she clocked 53.56s, almost a second slower th...
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Interest rates could top 2% in the next year, Bank of England policymaker says
28Mar By Butrint PasjaqaNo Comments
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Interest rates could top 2% in the next year, Bank of England policymaker says

A Bank of England policymaker has said interest rates could reach 2% or higher in the next year in order to tackle inflation. Michael Saunders, a member of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), said he did not think that such forecasts from financial markets were "implausible or unlikely". "Rather than focus on a precise forecast for Bank Rate over the next year, the key point is that the tightening cycle may, in my view, still have some way to go," he said in a speech at the Resolution Foundation think tank. Interest rates are now 1.25% - up from 0.1% in December. They are expected to go up again at the Bank's next policy meeting in August - the last one before Mr Saunders's departure. The economist warned that even though there are signs of ...
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NASA draws back curtain on Webb space telescope’s first full-colour images
20Mar By Butrint PasjaqaNo Comments
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NASA draws back curtain on Webb space telescope’s first full-colour images

NASA has revealed stunning images showing billions of years of cosmic evolution with the inaugural batch of photos from the largest, most powerful observatory ever launched to space, saying the luminous imagery showed the telescope exceeds expectations. The first full-colour, high-resolution pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope, designed to peer further than before with greater clarity to the dawn of the universe, were hailed by NASA as a milestone marking a new era of astronomical exploration. Nearly two decades in the making and built under contract by aerospace giant Northrop Grumman, the $US9 billion ($NZ14.6b) infrared telescope was launched on 25 December, 2021. It reached its destination in solar orbit nearly 1.6 million kilometres from Earth a month later. With Web...
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Australian bikie brothers face deportation to New Zealand after losing court appeal
20Mar By Butrint PasjaqaNo Comments
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Australian bikie brothers face deportation to New Zealand after losing court appeal

Two brothers who co-founded a now-outlawed bikie gang - and helped lead the crusade against South Australia's anti-gang laws - face being deported to New Zealand after losing a bid to stop their visas being cancelled. Tom and Perry Mackie migrated from New Zealand in the 1970s and were founding members of the Descendants - a motorcycle group now outlawed under South Australia's anti-bikie laws. Former home affairs minister Peter Dutton cancelled their visas declaring it was in the national interest. A Federal Court judge threw out the brothers' bid to overturn that decision last year. On Friday the Full Court of the Federal Court dismissed another appeal. While lawyers for the men did not dispute that the brothers did not meet the Migration Act's character test, they argued ...
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UK heatwave: Hottest day on record likely with highs of up to 42C
20Mar By Butrint PasjaqaNo Comments
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UK heatwave: Hottest day on record likely with highs of up to 42C

The UK is set to see its hottest day on record, with temperatures on Tuesday expected to reach up to 42C (107.6F). A high of 38.1C was reached in Suffolk today, just short of the UK record of 38.7C set in 2019. Wales recorded its hottest day on record with 37.1C. The Met Office has issued a red extreme heat warning covering much of central, northern, and south-east England. At least four people are believed to have drowned after attempting to escape the heat in rivers and lakes. Network Rail has issued a "do not travel" warning for Tuesday affecting services travelling through the "red zone" of the Met Office's weather warning. The extreme warning, indicating a threat to life, is in place in an area stretching between London, Manchester and York. Peterborough, Caernarfon ...
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Australia’s environment in ‘shocking’ decline, report finds
19Mar By Butrint PasjaqaNo Comments
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Australia’s environment in ‘shocking’ decline, report finds

Australia's environment is in a "poor and deteriorating state", according to the latest State of the Environment Report. Climate change, mining, pollution, invasive species and habitat loss are outlined in the five-yearly report that has been released on Tuesday, with Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek laying the blame squarely at the feet of the previous Coalition government. "It tells a story of crisis and decline in Australia's environment [and] of a decade of government inaction and wilful ignorance," Plibersek said. The report was handed to the Morrison government in December last year, but former environment minister Sussan Ley did not release it before the election. The lead author of the report, Emma Johnston from the University of Sydney, said the biggest difference ...
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