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Oct 8, 2021 421 Wandering dog is Istanbul commuters' best friend

He enjoys travelling on the middle part of a subway carriage, or boji in Turkish - hence the name which officials gave him.
Oct 7, 2021 422 US judge temporarily blocks Texas’ near-total abortion ban in blow to contentious law

Judge excoriates ‘unprecedented scheme’ to deny women abortion right as law faces uncertain future
Oct 7, 2021 423 Please stop singing 'racist' dog-eating songs

Former Manchester United midfielder Park Ji-sung has called on fans of the English Premier League club to stop singing a chant referring to South Koreans eating dogs, saying that he needs to “educate” the fans. “In Korea, things have change…
Oct 7, 2021 424 Autistic boy gets more than 55,000 messages from people around the world.

Daniel Harrison, who has autism, recently wrote down two wishes – and one of them came true. "Daniel, for the first time, was asked at his special needs school to write two things that he'd like to achieve," Daniel's dad, Kevin Harrison, to…
Oct 7, 2021 425 Al Capone's granddaughter hopes auction reveals human side of America's notorious gangster

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the top U.S. Army general that then-President Donald Trump was a “dictator” who “should have been arrested on the spot” after what she called his coup attempt to remain in the White House by inciting the Jan.…
Oct 7, 2021 426 Trump and a top DOJ lawyer attempted to overturn 2020 election

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday released a sweeping report about how former President Donald Trump and a top lawyer in the Justice Department attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election. 1111R Trump directly asked the Ju…
Oct 7, 2021 427 Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness drops after 6 months, study shows

Vaccine effectiveness against the Delta variant was 93 per cent after the first month, declining to 53 per cent after four months. Against other coronavirus variants, efficacy declined to 67 per cent from 97 per cent.
Oct 7, 2021 428 Sweden, Denmark halt Moderna's Covid-19 shot for younger people

According to one United States study that has yet to undergo peer review, young males aged under 20 are up to six times more likely to develop myocarditis after contracting Covid-19 than those who have been vaccinated.
Oct 7, 2021 429 Lucky Dog flies in Singapore Airlines' business class

A rescued dog named Lewis recently flew business class with his owner on Singapore Airlines. 1111r On Sept 30, an Australian charity that rescues former racing greyhounds, shared how one of its "graduates" moved to Italy with his new pawren…
Oct 6, 2021 430 John Lennon John Lennon

The songwriting partnership between John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles was the most successful collaboration ever in history by records sold, with the Beatles and individuals selling nearly 1 billion records globally as of 2004.
Oct 6, 2021 431 Physics Nobel rewards work on complex systems, like climate

The Academy said Manabe, who works at Princeton University in the United States, had laid the foundation in the 1960s for today's understanding of Earth's climate after moving to the United States from Japan to continue his research.
Oct 6, 2021 432 Gaza sculptor exhibits disembodied limbs, inspired by amputees' loss

A leg depicted beside a mirror is a reference to a therapy technique that uses vision to treat pain amputees can feel in their missing limbs.
Oct 6, 2021 433 Sketches by Muhammad Ali sold at half million dollars at New York auction

NEW YORK - A boxing sketch in felt pen by the late Muhammad Ali sold for more than US$425,000 (S$570,000) at an auction in New York on Tuesday (Oct 5) of his little-known art works, some of which went for many times over estimates.
Oct 6, 2021 434 81-year-old man climbs Scottish mountains for his sick wife?

BALLACHULISH - 81-year-old Nick Gardner climbs mountains. He says it's for his wife, primarily. He stops to gaze down from rugged peaks, lochs and valleys visible through the drifting clouds, such as the summit of Buachaille Etive Mor, a Sc…
Oct 3, 2021 435 Alito hits out at ‘intimidation’ in defence of supreme court’s Texas abortion ruling

Alito echoes recent comments by conservative justice in denying court has been ‘capture by a dangerous cabal’
Oct 3, 2021 436 China flies record 38 planes over Taiwan defence zone in national day show of force

Taipei says Chinese jets and bombers crossed zone as Beijing marked the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic
Oct 3, 2021 437 Infowars’ Alex Jones liable for damages in Sandy Hook lawsuits, judge rules

Jury will now consider damages after far-right conspiracy theorist failed to produce documents for the court cases
Oct 2, 2021 438 California becomes first state to require Covid vaccines for all students

Los Angeles county has already mandated vaccines for all students 12 and over. In the nation’s largest school district, daily infections are down by half in the last month, when most kids went back to school.
Oct 2, 2021 439 Princess Mako wedding announcement stirs up media frenzy in Japan

Marriage with non-royal Kei Komuro to take place against backdrop of scandal, tabloid intrusion and public disapproval
Oct 2, 2021 440 Great city projects of nature make living more enjoyable

In crowded Milan’s central business district, two plant-covered skyscrapers provide the same amount of greenery as 30,000 square meters of forest, according to architect Stefano Boeri. The Bosco Verticale complex comprises two towers, 80 an…
Oct 2, 2021 441 Rare one-in-30-million orange lobster rescued from grocery store tank

An extremely rare orange lobster was rescued from certain death, and from the humiliation of spending her last days in a grocery store tank, after the manager noticed that the other lobsters were “bothering” her. 1111R “Obviously he stood o…
Oct 1, 2021 442 YouTube blocks all anti-vaccine content

WASHINGTON - YouTube will block all anti-vaccine content, moving beyond its ban on false information about the Covid vaccines to include content that contains misinformation about other approved vaccines, it said in a blog post on Wednesday…
Oct 1, 2021 443 US to declare 23 species, including ivory-billed woodpecker, officially extinct

The ivory-billed woodpecker, whose last confirmed sighting was nearly 80 years ago, is one of 23 federally protected species that would be officially declared extinct – the most ever at one time – under a US government proposal announced on…
Oct 1, 2021 444 What Italy's famous hermit did next

For nearly 33 years he lived a hermit life on a beautiful island in the Mediterranean, where he was the sole inhabitant. Mauro Morandi, known as Italy's Robinson Crusoe after developing a loyal online following, was caretaker of the Sardini…
Oct 1, 2021 445 Drawings by boxing legend Muhammad Ali up for auction

Other works include America: The Big Jail from 1967, and War in America which has a pre-sale estimate of $25,000 to $35,000.
Oct 1, 2021 446 Russia to host first royal wedding in more than a century

His great-grandfather, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, managed to escape Bolshevik violence during the 1917 revolution to Finland. He and his family later relocated to Western Europe.
Sept 29, 2021 447 Where Do The Richest Americans Live?

Have you checked the newest "Forbes 400: The Full List of The Richest People in America" yet? Surprise, Bill Gates, with a net worth of $81 billion, is ranked No. 1 for the 23rd year running.
Sept 29, 2021 448 Manhunt for Brian Laundrie in Florida wetlands scaled back; FBI collects items for 'DNA matching'

Lee Harvey Oswald left the Paine residence in Irving at about 7:15 a.m. on the morning of November 22, 1963, with Marina Oswald still in bed.145 Mrs. Paine and her were both unaware that he had left the home.146 Beside the Paine home, about…
Sept 29, 2021 449 Meet Grace, the healthcare robot COVID-19 created

Humanoid robot Grace, developed by Hanson Robotics, is seen at the company's lab in Hong Kong
Sept 29, 2021 450 A woman on TikTok wasn't afraid to show her death. In the process, she helped others live.

Like Pierson, many TikTok accounts are offering a raw look at dying, the way its nearness clarifies the preciousness of life. Many encourage followers to take care of their health. Some accounts are intimate, others more humorous.