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April 18, 2019
Bee-wildering! Hives of Notre-Dame in miraculous survival
PARIS — Some 200,000 bees inhabiting hives in Notre-Dame cathedral survived the inferno that engulfed the heritage landmark in a miraculous escape, their beekeeper said Thursday. "The bees are alive. Until this morning, I had had no news," said beekeeper Nicolas Geant who looks after the hives which are kept on top of a sacristry that adjoins the cathedral. "At first I thought that the three hives had burned but I had ...
April 18, 2019
Cannes festival: Loach and Malick top the bill
PARIS — Veteran directors Ken Loach and Terrence Malick head the line-up of a gritty and highly political Cannes film festival next month, its director Thierry Fremaux said Thursday.Despite red-carpet protests last year led by Hollywood star and jury head Cate Blanchett demanding equality, only four of the 19 films competing for the Palme d'Or top prize are directed by women.Fremaux — whose selection committee consisted of four men and ...
April 18, 2019
Need to vent some anger? 'Axe Rage Rooms' opened
AMMAN — In an underground room in Amman, a small group of Jordanians swing giant hammers at an old television, computer and printer, wrecking the machines, and then hit a car windscreen, shattering the glass into tiny pieces.In the "Axe Rage Rooms", people can vent their anger and frustration by demolishing old items as well as smashing plates and glasses."This is simply a place to break things and vent," co-founder ...
April 18, 2019
Into your nightmares comes an ancient and vicious beast
WASHINGTON — When Ohio University integrative biologist Nancy Stevens peered into a drawer in the wooden cabinets on the top floor of a Nairobi museum in 2010, she saw a chunk of rock containing massive teeth and knew she had come across something important.The overlooked fossils stored at the National Museums of Kenya belonged to one of the largest meat-eating mammals ever to walk the Earth, a beast called Simbakubwa ...
April 18, 2019
Bangladesh film star sorry after India poll expulsion
DHAKA — A Bangladesh film star has apologized after he was expelled from India for taking part in election campaigning, but found support in his country's foreign minister who said the giant neighbor had overreacted.Ferdous Ahmad has starred in more than 200 films, and was kicked out of India on Tuesday after campaigning for West Bengal state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, a rival of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.India is ...
April 18, 2019
220mn-year-old dinosaur fossils found in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES — A site containing the 220-million-year-old fossilised remains of nearly a dozen dinosaurs has been discovered in western Argentina, researchers said Wednesday."There are almost ten different individuals, it's a mass of bones, there's practically no sediment," said Argentinian paleontologist Ricardo Martinez."It's very impressive."According to Martinez, of the University of San Juan, the fossils are approximately 220 million years old, belonging to "an era of which we know little"."This ...
April 17, 2019
Botswana unveils rare 20-carat blue diamond
Gaborone, Botswana — Botswana's state-owned Okavango Diamond Company on Wednesday unveiled the biggest blue diamond ever discovered in the Southern Africa country.At 20.46 carats, the gem is one of the rarest stones in the world, and "sits in the very top bracket of all-time historical blue diamond finds", the company said in a statement.The oval-shaped diamond has been named "The Okavango Blue" in honor of the Okavango Delta, the country's ...
April 17, 2019
Don't spoil it: 'Avengers: Endgame' movie directors plead
LOS ANGELES — The directors of "Avengers: Endgame" pleaded with fans on Tuesday not to spoil the movie by giving away storylines after reports that some scenes had leaked online.In an open letter posted on Twitter under the hashtag #DontSpoilTheEndgame, Joe and Anthony Russo said they and the vast cast of the upcoming Marvel superhero movie "have worked tirelessly for the last three years with the sole intention of delivering ...
April 17, 2019
Robot paints its own moonscapes in traditional Chinese style
LONDON — A Hong Kong artist has created an artificial intelligence (AI) robot which creates its own paintings.Victor Wong took three years to build and program the robot called A.I Gemini and teach it artistic techniques.Randomness has been written into its algorithm, meaning Wong does not know what it will paint before it begins.The project is called 'Far Side of the Moon'. The robot's AI was fed NASA 3D images ...
April 17, 2019
Blessed beauties: Laos new year pageant pits 'King's daughters' as rivals
Luang Prabang, Laos — Wearing gold-embroidered silk outfits, faces thick with makeup, a line-up of seven Laotian beauty queens greet a sea of cheering supporters at the annual new year beauty contest in Luang Prabang.But this is no regular pageant: the contestants are stand-ins for the seven blessed daughters of Laos' legendary King Kabinlaphom competing for top honors at the country's most famous beauty contest."Everyone wants to be Miss Laos ...
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