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by Bojan KAVCIC POSTOJNA, Slovenia (AFP) –The strange, slithery creatures inside Slovenia’s Postojna cave were once considered living proof that dragons existed, prompting locals to give it a wide berth. Now large crowds from all over the world queue up to witness the extremely rare hatching of the mysterious olms — ancient underwater predators, which can live up to 100 years and only breed once in a decade. Found primarily in Balkan cave rivers, the […]
MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) — Male koala “Milo” made his public debut at the Miami Zoo on Tuesday (May 31) and could be seen jumping between branches inside his enclosure. Milo, a five-year-old koala, was brought to the Miami Zoo from the San Diego Zoo earlier this month. Zoo staff have spent the past few weeks helping Milo acclimate to his new home. Zoo officials say they’d like to eventually bring in a female koala to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) –Mars and Earth got unusually cozy Monday night, drawing closer to each other than they have in more than a decade. The two planets passed at 120.7 million kilometers (75 million miles) away from each other, which NASA said will not happen again until July 31, 2018. The average distance between Earth and Mars is 225 million kilometers (140 million miles), with the neighboring planets sometimes reaching distances as far as […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Kalibo International Airport grabbed the 3rd spot as the most busiest gateway of the Philippines for foreign visitors.The airport recorded 52, 903 visitors or 10.4% of the total foreign visitors that went to the Philippines last March. Kalibo is one of the most visited spot in the Philippines due to Boracay. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Food and Drug Administration warned the public against fake hepatitis C medicines which came from Alexandria, Egypt. Any who will be caught selling will be charged with violation of the Food and Drug Act of 2009. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — A diamond-encrusted crocodile-skin Hermes handbag with white gold details has broken the record for the world’s most expensive ever sold at auction, fetching nearly $300,000 at a Hong Kong sale. The rare Himalaya Niloticus Crocodile Diamond Birkin 30 went to an unknown phone bidder late Monday for HK$2.32 million ($298,655), beating a pre-sale estimate of $2 million, the auction house Christie’s said. “It was the world record price for any […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — Those suffering from fear of heights in China have a new location to challenge themselves with the opening of what the owners are calling the world’s largest viewing platform. Jutting out into a valley near Beijing, the Shilingxia (Stone Forest Valley) platform offers views of the surrounding countryside and the villages far below. “The suspended bridge is 32.8 meters, 11 meters longer than the one in the U.S.. At present it’s […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — At least 35 percent of corals in the northern and central regions of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef are dead or dying from a mass bleaching event, scientists said Monday. The assessment was made following months of aerial and underwater surveys after the worst bleaching in recorded history first became evident in March as sea temperatures warm. Terry Hughes, director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at the […]
Miami, United States (AFP) — SpaceX launched an Asian communications satellite into a distant orbit Friday and for the fourth time managed to recover the rocket that did the work. Under blue skies dotted with clouds, the shiny white Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 5:40 pm (2140 GMT) carrying the Thaicom 8 satellite. The rocket returned to Earth about 10 minutes later, firing its engines and maneuvering with its […]
(AFP) The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better know as DARPA, a $3-billion agency shows off some of its projects in the Pentagon’s central courtyard, where scientists set up science-fair-style stalls to showcase their work. https://youtu.be/6k-pBgDjGWg Katie Schubauer / AFPTV / AFP
(AFP) One of the world’s rarest cats — a Lykoi or ‘werewolf cat’ — has been found in public gardens in the centre of Cape Town. The partially hairless animal, name Eyona, is one of only 35 such animals recorded with the natural mutation around the world since 2011, according to animal rescue group Tears. Jenny Goldhawk-Smith / AFPTV / AFP
by Marlowe HOOD BONN, Germany (AFP) — Even after the world sealed a historic climate deal in Paris, the UN’s climate chief is worried humanity won’t be able break its fossil fuel habit in time to avert catastrophe, she told AFP Thursday. “My concern is whether the transformation is going to happen fast enough to avert the worst impacts,” Christiana Figueres said, referring to the global shift from carbon-polluting fossil fuels to green energy. “Greenhouse […]
