Only in New YorkNew York’s 311 non-emergency hotline is there to log complaints about noise or rats, but it also has to field some pretty bizarre requests like “Can you check if my boyfriend is married?”, and “Please transfer me to a UFO – ologist .”One caller asked to be talked through “the steps for boiling a live chicken” while another wondered if they could claim their dog on their taxes.One desperate New Yorker even ranks to find out who won the TV talent show “American Idol.”But some of the strangest calls were about animals, like the woman who rang…
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The building of Huanan seafood market, where the second floor remains open for optics stores, and where coronavirus believed to have first surfaced, almost a year after the start of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China December 8, 2020. Photo by Reuters/Aly Song New sequences of the SARS-CoV-2 virus as well as additional genomic data based on samples taken from a live animal market in Wuhan, China in 2020 were briefly uploaded to the GISAID database by Chinese scientists earlier this year, allowing them to be viewed by researchers in other countries, according to the statement…
By AFP  March 19, 2023 | 07:24am GMT+7 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (L) shakes hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a meeting at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo on March 18, 2023. Photo by AFP/David Mareuil Japan and Germany pledged closer defense ties and cooperation on diversifying supply chains as Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met in Tokyo Saturday. Scholz is on his second trip to Japan in less than a year, and came with six ministers for government-to-government talks as Berlin works to boost its profile in the Asia-Pacific region, and ahead…
A spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has been investigating a$130,000payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels, declined to comment.No US president – while in office or afterward – has faced criminal charges. Trump is seeking the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2024. He has said he will continue campaigning even if he is charged with a crime.”Illegal leaks from a corrupt & highly political Manhattan district attorney’s office … indicate that, with no crime being able to be proven … the far & away leading Republican candidate & former president of the United States of America, will…
Puteri Rafasya fell on the metal legs of a tripod on Feb 22 when another child pulled away a chair the girl was supposed to sit on. Photo by Puteri Rafasya Instagram A Malaysian child actress is now unable to walk and has to wear diapers following a nasty prank while filming a drama series in late February. On Feb 22, Puteri Rafasya, 12, was about to sit on a chair during rehearsals when another child pulled the chair away.Puteri fell and landed on the metal legs of a tripod. She fractured her hip bone and is currently experiencing numbness…
Singer Hoa Minzy with the concept for her song “Thi Mau”. Photo courtesy of Hoa Minzy Hoa Minzy’s new viral music video “Thi Mau” has prompted TikTok trends in which users play the song in their videos and recreate the main character’s look. The song “Thi Mau” is based on a female character of the same name in the narrative poem “Quan Am Thi Kinh”, a popular work of Vietnamese literature. She is depicted as a bold and beautiful, yet unfortunate woman.After releasing the music video for “Thi Mau” on YouTube on Mar. 5, Hoa Minzy uploaded a short clip…
By Reuters  March 18, 2023 | 12:10 p.m. GMT+7 Headquarters of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, is pictured in Beijing, China, September 28, 2018. Photo by Reuters/Jason Lee China’s central bank made a “timely” move by pumping liquidity into the banking system to respond to rising pressures in the domestic banking industry and growing risks abroad, a state-owned Chinese newspaper said on Saturday. The central bank on Friday reduced the amount of cash banks must hold as reserves for the first time this year to support a nascent recovery in the world’s second-biggest economy. The cut…
A screenshot of the owner’s Instagram showing Fifi bedding down in business class A Hong Kong dog has become an online sensation after a video of the pampered pooch on a business class flight from Hong Kong to Istanbul went viral. In the video, the miniature long-haired dachshund named Fifi is seen snuggled under blankets.British owner Helen Rosalie, who adopted the miniature long-haired dachshund in Hong Kong when the dog was one year old, she’s now four, said Fifi was “calm and collected” throughout the 11-hour flight, according to the South China Morning Post.While Fifi looked comfortable, many online observers…
By AFP  March 18, 2023 | 07:28am GMT+7 Jewelry from the Angkor period during a ceremony held to unveil a collection of stolen Angkorian artifacts at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh. Photo by Kok Ky/Cambodia’s Government Cabinet/Handout via AFP Cambodian leader Hun Sen unveiled a collection of stolen Angkor crown jewelry on Friday which was recently returned to the kingdom after decades in Britain, pleading for other long-lost treasures to be handed back. Gold crowns, necklaces and amulets were among the trove of treasures from the Angkor period, which ran from the ninth to 14th centuries AD when the…
“I’M BACK,” Trump exclaimed, alongside a 12-second video clip that appeared to show him giving his victory speech after winning the 2016 election saying: “Sorry to keep you waiting — complicated business.”The 76-year-old Republican leader — who is running for president again — has been unable to post any content for his 34 million Facebook followers and 2.6 million YouTube subscribers.The platforms benched Trump days after the January 6, 2021 insurrection, when a mob of his supporters seeking to halt the certification of his election defeat to Joe Biden stormed the US Capitol in Washington.He was sanctioned for posting content…