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PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico, Oct 11, 2023 (AFP) – Hurricane Lidia slammed into Mexico’s Pacific coast as an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm Tuesday, causing flooding, blocked roads, fallen trees and at least one death, officials said. Ahead of its arrival, the government deployed around 6,000 members of the armed forces to help residents, according to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. “You must take refuge in safe places — stay away from low areas, streams, rivers […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) — Argentina’s iconic bookstore Ateneo Grand Splendid has just been named the “world’s most beautiful bookstore” by travel magazine National Geographic.
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Salty water just below the surface of Mars could hold enough oxygen to support the kind of microbial life that emerged and flourished on Earth billions of years ago, researchers reported Monday. In some locations, the amount of oxygen available could even keep alive a primitive, multicellular animal such as a sponge, they reported in the journal Nature Geosciences. “We discovered that brines” — water […]
KUNMING, Yunnan, China (AFP) — Three playful white Bengal tiger cubs are charming visitors as they clamber around their enclosure at a zoo in China. The rare, blue-eyed triplets were born nearly three months ago at the Yunnan Wildlife Zoo in Kunming, and made their public debut in early October. “The oldest one — the largest — is very naughty and has a real appetite. He’s the naughtiest. The youngest is like a baby, she’s […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse Messing with the natural rhythm of one’s internal clock may boost the risk of developing mood problems ranging from garden-variety loneliness to severe depression and bipolar disorder, researchers said Wednesday. The largest study of its kind, involving more than 91,000 people, also linked interference with the body’s “circadian rhythm” to a decline in cognitive functions such as memory and attention span. The brain’s hard-wired circadian timekeeper governs day-night cycles, influencing […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization chief Wednesday said a deadly plague epidemic appeared to have been brought under control in Madagascar, but warned the next outbreak would likely be stronger. “The next transmission could be more pronounced or stronger,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva, insisting that “the issue is serious.” An outbreak of both bubonic plague, which is spread by infected rats via flea bites, and pneumonic plague, […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Stifling a sneeze can rupture your throat, burst an ear drum, or pop a blood vessel in your brain, researchers warned Tuesday. Many people — when they feel a sneeze coming on — block all the exits, essentially swallowing the sneeze’s explosive force. Just how dangerous this can be was illustrated when a 34-year-old man showed up at the emergency service of a hospital in Leicester, England recently, with a swollen […]
(Eagle News) — Itinuturing na isang problema ng iba ang paglitaw ng mga water lily sa ilog. Pero hindi ito ang nangyayari sa Paraguay. Nagmistulang isang tourist spot ang isang ilog doon dahil sa mga water lily. Hindi kasi pangkaraniwan ang sukat ng mga water lily na nagsisulputan doon. Ang giant water lily ay lumilitaw lamang sa nasabing ilog kada apat na taon tuwing summer. Kilala rin ang giant lily sa healing properties nito laban […]
(Eagle News) — Sa panahong ito na napakarami na ang mapagpipiliang klase ng timpla ng instant coffee, marami pa rin ang naghahanap ng tradisyunal na timpla ng kape. Sa Iloilo City, mayroon na silang mapupuntahan. Sinong mag-aakalang ang maliit na pwestong ito ni Romeo Dela Cruz ay dinarayo tuwing umaga ng mga kilalang tao sa lipunan para lamang magkape. Ang RJ’s Capehan ay sinimulan pa ng ama ni Dela Cruz noong 1954. Isa itong maliit na […]
LA PAZ, Mexico (AFP) — They may be called whale sharks but there’s nothing to fear encountering one of these giant fish in the ocean — so much so that tourists in northwestern Mexico can swim alongside them on organized tours. “These are tropical animals, very gentle, that you can swim with, and which go along at a maximum eight kilometers (five miles) an hour,” explained Fabricio Mujica, who handles these up-close sessions in La […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — Nepali authorities have rescued the country’s last known “dancing bears”, officials said Sunday, ending the medieval tradition of abuse of the beasts for entertainment. The Himalayan nation banned performing bears back in 1973 but the illegal practice — a traditional occupation for some street performer communities — lingered on in parts of its southern region. Police and animal charities said they spent more than a year hunting the captors of the […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Jim Nabors, who created the beloved comic TV character Gomer Pyle and used his surprisingly rich baritone voice on several hit records, died Thursday at the age of 87, his assistant Charisse Gines told AFP. “He passed away this morning at his home in Hawaii” of multiple causes, she said, speaking from the actor’s Honolulu-based entertainment company Naborly Productions. “He’d been ill for a while.” Nabors’ husband, Stan Cadwallader, […]
