The video, posted on the Facebook page of the Toronto Zoo, shows how the giant panda named Da Mao plays with, or rather disassembles a snowman that his keepers made for him. Da Mao lives in the Canadian zoo since ...
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Japanese airport introduces toilet paper for smartphones in bathrooms
Recent studies show that smartphone screens contain more germs than toilet seats. So, NTT Docomo, a Japanese telecom company behind the initiative, introduced the extra rolls that now are hanging next to the “normal” toilet paper in all toilets at ...
Read More »Bana Alabed, Aleppo’s tweeting girl, meets Turkey’s President Erdogan
Bana and her little brother have been pictured sitting on Mr Erdogan’s knee in the presidential complex in Ankara, the BBC reports. President Erdogan sent a special representative to Syria to collect Bana and her family after they fled east ...
Read More »Five killed in cargo plane crash on takeoff in Columbia
The cargo aircraft was going to the Colombian capital Bogota. It crashed at the takeoff from the German Olano airport in Colombia, near the Venezuelan border, as it overshot the runway and smashed into a fence. It happened last night ...
Read More »The Emoji Movie first teaser released
When you heard about “The Emoji Movie,” you probably did not think it would be a film with the strongest plot. But frankly, the teaser of Emoji makes us suspect that there is more. Gene, the emoji below has a ...
Read More »Mexico fireworks market explosions killed at least 31, over 70 injured
More than 70 others were injured as the blast hit the San Pablito fireworks market in Tultepec, about 32km (20 miles) outside the city, the BBC reports. Video from the scene showed a large number of fireworks rocketing into the ...
Read More »Massive 16-rotor drone lifts snowboarder into the sky – video
Neistat says in the clip that he could not find where to buy a drone big enough to lift a human being, so his team partnered with Samsung to create such a powerful machine. In the video Neistat wowed tourists ...
Read More »South Korea company develops 13-foot high walking robot
Seoul-based robotics company ‘Korea Future Technology’ has completed the first tests of its giant human-like robot, called METHOD-1 – a 13-foot tall robot that walks like a human, making the ground around it shake, the Daily Mail reports. ‘I’m excited ...
Read More »Donald Trump wins Electoral College vote
Trump surpassed the 270 electoral votes needed from 538 electors casting their ballots, in a day of normally ceremonial voting that drew attention amid intense social media pressure and protests in state capitols, as USA Today reports. Despite a last-minute ...
Read More »Ukraine’s Antonov Corporation presented new AN-132D cargo aicraft
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko attended the ceremony and congratulated the team on this important achievement. President also wished great future and good fortune to the aircraft. “Today is the birthday of the new AN-132D. The plane was built in a ...
Read More »China returns seized underwater drone to US
“After friendly consultations between China and the United States, the transfer of the US underwater drone was smoothly completed,” a statement from the Chinese Ministry of Defense said, according to CNN. The Pentagon said the United States would continue to ...
Read More »Watch Keanu Reeves back in action in new “John Wick 2” trailer
The official synopsis for John Wick 2 says: A legendary hitman John Wick who is forced to back out of retirement by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath ...
Read More »Blade Runner 2049 first trailer released
According to Warner Bros. Pictures, the film picks up thirty years after the events of the first film. A new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of ...
Read More »This space cluster looks like ‘winter’ wonderland
NGC 6357 is a “cluster of clusters,” containing at least three clusters of young stars, including many hot, massive, luminous stars. The space between stars contains bubbles, or cavities, that have been created by radiation and material blowing away from ...
Read More »Ghost shark caught on film for first time – video
A pointy-nosed blue chimaera, which sports a retractable penis on its head, was also spotted in the Northern Hemisphere for the first time, Joinfo.com reports with reference to the National Geographic magazine. In 2009, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute ...
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