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Stjepan Biletic, 71, handcrafts man from Central-Bosnian town of Kresevo, nails miniature horseshoe onto an egg, in his workshop. — AFP
In Bosnia, 'master' blacksmith had to shoe an egg
Kresevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina — To be worthy of the title of master, a blacksmith in Kresevo in central Bosnia had to perform a delicate task -- shoe an egg without breaking it.It's an Easter tradition requiring a blacksmith to decorate an egg shell by nailing on it a miniature iron horseshoe.Now Stjepan Biletic wants to have this ancient know-how recognized by UNESCO as part of the world's cultural heritage."That is the most beautiful gift one can offer to a friend, a neighbor, a girlfriend or wife," the 71-year-old craftsman said.As the Easter holiday approaches, people flock to his small workshop in this village -- population around 5,300 -- almost 80 percent of whom are Catholic Croats.But Biletic works all year long. His shod eggs, which sell for 3.0 to 7.5 euros...
April 20, 2019

In Bosnia, 'master' blacksmith had to shoe an egg

This handout picture taken on Oct. 5, 2018 and released by Nagano Children’s hospital on Friday shows Ryusuke Sekiya being treated at Nagano Children’s hospital in Azumino. — AFP
‘World’s smallest baby boy’ set to go home in Japan
TOKYO — The world’s smallest baby boy, who was born in October in Japan weighing as much as an apple, is now ready for the outside world, his doctor said on Friday.Ryusuke Sekiya was delivered via emergency Caesarean section, after 24 weeks and five days of pregnancy as his mother Toshiko experienced hypertension.At 258 grams (9.1 ounces) he was even lighter than the previous record holder, another Japanese boy who weighed just 268 grams when he was born last year. That baby was discharged from a Tokyo hospital in February.When Ryusuke was born on October 1, 2018, he measured 22 centimeters (8.66 inches) tall, and medical staff kept him in a neonatal intensive care unit.They used tubes to feed him, sometimes taking cotton swabs to apply his mother’s milk to his mouth.Nearly seven...
April 19, 2019

‘World’s smallest baby boy’ set to go home in Japan

British actress Emma Thompson, center, gestures as police surround the pink boat being used as a stage by climate change activists as they occupy the road junction at Oxford Circus in central London on Friday during the fifth day of an environmental protest by the Extinction Rebellion group. — AFP
Emma Thompson joins peaceful climate protest in London
LONDON — Film star Emma Thompson joined climate change activists in central London on Friday to read poetry praising Earth’s bounties, part of a series of protests which have caused transport snarl-ups in the British capital.Organizers Extinction Rebellion have called for non-violent civil disobedience to force the British government to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2025 and stop what they call a global climate crisis.The protests did not cause travel disruption on Friday during one of Britain’s main holiday weekends, but police said they have arrested more than 570 people so far this week.Extinction Rebellion has blocked several locations in central London this week after staging a semi-nude protest in parliament earlier this month.“Our planet is in serious...
April 19, 2019

Emma Thompson joins peaceful climate protest in London

A man works on a scaffold at Notre Dame cathedral on Thursday in Paris. France paid a daylong tribute to the Paris firefighters who saved Notre Dame Cathedral from collapse, while construction workers rushed to secure an area above one of the church's famed rose-shaped windows and other vulnerable sections of the fire-damaged landmark. — AFP
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 no information" after Monday's fire, Geant told AFP. "Then I saw from satellite images that this was not the case and then the cathedral spokesman told me that they were going in and out of the hives." Geant said he had been taken aback by calls of support from all corners of the world. He said that this kind of bee does not abandon...
April 18, 2019

Bee-wildering! Hives of Notre-Dame in miraculous survival

Cannes Film festival general delegate Thierry Fremaux and Cannes Film festival president Pierre Lescure attend a news conference to announce the official selection for the 72nd Cannes International Film Festival in Paris, France, Thursday. — Reuters
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 four women — insisted that female talent was coming through in the rest of the official selection, with 13 women directors making the cut overall.But the big news was that there was no place — as yet — for Quentin Tarantino's much-anticipated new movie, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", starring Brad Pitt and Leonardo...
April 18, 2019

Cannes festival: Loach and Malick top the bill

Jordanian people smash items at AXE Rage Room where they can express their anger in an entertaining way in Amman. — Reuters
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 and general manager Ala'din Atari said. "A place where people come when they're looking for a new experience... walking into a room with various items which they can break."So-called rage rooms have opened around the world, drawing visitors who want let their hair down and unleash some anger.At the "Axe Rage Rooms", where the...
April 18, 2019

Need to vent some anger? 'Axe Rage Rooms' opened

Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, a gigantic mammalian carnivore that lived 22 million years ago in Africa and was larger than a polar bear, is seen in this artist's illustration released in Athens, Ohio, US, on Thursday. — Reuters
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 kutokaafrika that stalked Africa 22 million years ago, according to research by Stevens and co-author Matthew Borths published on Thursday.Bigger than any carnivorous land mammal alive today — even a polar bear — Simbakubwa's skull was the size of a rhino's, its eight-inch (20-cm) canine teeth as large as bananas. It weighed about a ton and was 8 feet long...
April 18, 2019

Into your nightmares comes an ancient and vicious beast

Ferdous Ahmad
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 currently voting in a mammoth national ballot being held over several phases, the second of which began on Thursday.Ferdous, 45, said he respects Indian law and that foreigners should not take part in an election in another country."I apologize for my inadvertent mistake. I hope everyone concerned will forgive me," Ferdous said in the statement sent...
April 18, 2019

Bangladesh film star sorry after India poll expulsion

Handout photo released by the Institute and Museum of Natural Sciences (IMCN) of the San Juan University, of a 220-million-year-old fossil at the Ischigualasto National Park in San Juan province, Argentina. — AFP
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 discovery is doubly important because there are at least seven or eight individuals of dicynodonts, the ancestors of mammals, the size of an ox," he said.He said there were also remains of archosaurs, reptiles that could be the ancestors of...
April 18, 2019

220mn-year-old dinosaur fossils found in Argentina

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 wildlife-rich world heritage site."It is incredibly unusual for a stone of this color and nature to have come from Botswana -- a once-in-lifetime find, which is about as rare as a star in the Milky Way," said Okavango Diamond Company managing director Marcus ter Haar."It is little surprise blue diamonds are...
April 17, 2019

Botswana unveils rare 20-carat blue diamond

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