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World’s largest freestanding cylindrical aquarium bursts in Berlin
BERLIN, Dec 16 (Reuters) – An aquarium in Berlin that was home to around 1,500 exotic fish burst early on Friday, spilling 1 million litres (264,172 gallons) of water and debris onto a major road in the busy Mitte district, emergency services said. Around 100 emergency responders rushed to the scene, a leisure complex that …
Hong Kong questions costs of COVID rules on mental health, livelihoods
HONG KONG, April 14 (Reuters) – To fight COVID, Hong Kong shut schools and businesses, nearly sealed its borders for two years, banned more than two people from gathering and quarantined whole buildings. Still the draconian restrictions were unable to contain the coronavirus, and with more than 8,600 deaths of mostly elderly, unvaccinated people, many …
Harry Potter fans break broom boarding record online
Sept. 4 (UPI) — An international group of Harry Potter fans came together virtually to break the Guinness World Record for the most people to simultaneously board a broom online. Bloomsbury Publishing, which organized the event to celebrate the upcoming Oct. 6 release of Quidditch Through the Ages, by J.K. Rowling with illustrations by Emily …
Kanye West’s Veep Pick Has Odd Take on Mental Health
Exclusive The woman Kanye West has pegged for his Vice President describes herself as a “Biblical life coach,” but she also has a mental health background, and some of her past statements on the subject are … interesting. Michelle Tidball is the “obscure preacher from Wyoming” Kanye named as his running mate in his instantly …
Re-Organizing the NFL Power Rankings After an Odd Sunday – ProFootballTalk
Football needed Week 4. It was getting a little too easy for the Patriots and Chiefs. The Rams, Green Bay, Detroit, Dallas and Buffalo hadn’t lost yet, and you know how the NFL likes to pull the good teams to the middle. There was a lot of pulling this weekend. October’s not even here yet, …
Odd: My World Of Hyatt Account Was Compromised
Major data breaches seem to be pretty commonplace nowadays, to the point that I’m valuing my Social Security number at about five bucks nowadays. Typically these data breaches impact a huge number of people. For example, earlier today I wrote about a Capital One data breach that potentially impacts more than 100 million people. While …
