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WELLINGTON — A guilt-ridden neighbor of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern revealed Wednesday that he was responsible for accidentally killing the nation's "First Cat" Paddles while reversing out of his driveway.Paddles died in November 2017, shortly after Ardern won office, but the full circumstances of the death were never publicly revealed, leading to curiosity about who killed the cat.The much-loved feline was a popular member of the prime ministerial household, with a Twitter account set up in her name, @FirstCatofNZ, attracting more than 11,000 followers.US magazine Vanity Fair praised the tech-savvy feline for "helping establish Ardern as the latest hip, cool world leader that America wishes it had".Paddles, who was "polydactyl", with extra...
July 10, 2019
New Zealand PM's neighbor lets the cat out of the bag
July 10, 2019
Making waves: Female round-the-world crew to fight ocean plastic
July 10, 2019
Spain court rules 43-year-old man is son of Julio Iglesias
July 09, 2019
World invited to watch museum restore Rembrandt's 'Night Watch'
July 09, 2019
'Operaholic' Placido Domingo powers into record books
DUBAI — Art Jameel, an organization that supports heritage, education and the arts, announced an open call for proposals to Sabeel 2020, an Expo 2020 Dubai initiative. Designers, architects, artists and other UAE-based creatives, plus international practitioners with a strong connection to the UAE, are invited to submit designs for innovative drinking fountains, inspired by the tradition and spirit of the sabeel.An internationally renowned jury will select a winning design(s), to be mass-produced for the Expo 2020 site and its legacy. A sabeel is a neighborhood kiosk or fountain where water is dispensed to travellers and passers-by, at crossroads, in city squares and outside mosques.Drawing from the Expo 2020 Dubai theme of Connecting Minds, Creating the Future, and its subthemes of...
July 09, 2019
Reimagining the drinking fountain
DVUR KRALOVE NAD LABEM, Czech Republic — Roaring, pouncing and chasing each other, two Barbary lion cubs have made their public debut at a Czech Zoo, adding to a lion subspecies that has long been extinct in the wild and can only be found in captivity.The male and female cubs were born on May 10 at Dvur Kralove Safari Park and Zoo in the Czech Republic. Yet to be named, they join the park's existing Barbary lion pride that includes mum Khalila, dad Bart and his brother Napoleon.With long-haired manes, Barbary lions once inhabited the Atlas Mountains in northern Africa but have been considered extinct in the wild for decades.The last known Barbary Lion was shot in 1942 in Morocco, according to Belfast Zoo, which has its own pride of the animals, and says there are less than 90 Barbary...
July 09, 2019
Rare Barbary lion cubs make their debut at Czech Zoo
July 08, 2019
Heather Mills, others, win settlement over Murdoch group phone hacking
PARIS — By landing on the Moon in 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin arrived at a place which, up until that point, had been the stuff of fantasy.But even after they transformed fantasy into fact, it is a place that continues to capture the imagination of storytellers, as it has for centuries.Literature, novels, cinema... from antiquity to the present, the Moon has been the object of any number of imaginary expeditions.As far back as the second century BC, the satirist Lucian of Samosata, in "True Stories", imagined a voyage to the Moon that saw the author and his fellow travelers find the King of the Moon caught up in a war with the King of the Sun.In the 17th century, French writer Cyrano de Bergerac — the real one, not the character in Edmond Rostand's famous play...
July 08, 2019
How visions of the Moon inspired centuries of storytellers
July 08, 2019
Chinese shadow theater fights against dying of the light
