Energetic dachshund really wants to play tag with Sphynx cat
Bigs the Sphynx and Luna the dachshund love teasing each other. Watch as Luna runs circles around Bigs in hopes that he'll chase her. Awesome!
Bigs the Sphynx and Luna the dachshund love teasing each other. Watch as Luna runs circles around Bigs in hopes that he'll chase her. Awesome!
GEORGE TOWN, Jan 20 — Penang will be restructuring its Covid-19 technical committee to ensure its efficiency in managing the pandemic, said Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow. The Penang lawmaker said he...
Doris Hobday's family are urging people to take up the coronavirus vaccine: 'If you are offered the vaccine, please take it, do not refuse it. Doris didn’t get this choice.'
Police in Miami Beach, Florida, paused their work at 5.30 pm on January 19 to observe a moment of silence for the 4,500 Miami-Dade residents who have died from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.Footage released by Miami Beach Police Department shows a number of police ATVs flashing their lights as they come to a stop along a beach.“Tonight, at 5:30 pm, officers across Miami Beach activated their emergency lights to honor the more than 4,500 Miami-Dade residents who lost their lives due to COVID-19,” police said.To date, more than 24,000 people have died in Florida from the virus, with the highest amount of deaths in the state occurring in Miami-Dade county. Credit: Miami Beach Police Department via Storyful
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 20 — The Health Ministry reported 4,008 more Covid-19 cases today, bringing the total number of cases in Malaysia to 169,379. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham...
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 20 — Malaysia’s courts will give priority to public interest cases such as corruption cases when the courts resume hearing criminal trials from January 27, the chief justice...
China's central bank proposed stepping up anti-trust measures to rein in payment firms such as Ant Group's Alipay and Tencent's WeChat Pay, which dominate the non-bank payment industry. Under draft rules proposed on Wednesday, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) can advise the state council's antitrust committee to stop companies abusing their dominant position or even break up a non-bank institution, if it "severely hinders the healthy development of the payment service market".
The Dutch government is set to add the first nationwide curfew since World War II to its already broad lockdown on Wednesday in a bid to limit the spread of new coronavirus mutations in the Netherlands, broadcaster RTL said. The curfew would allow only people with pressing needs to leave their homes between 8:30 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. local time as of Friday night, RTL said, citing government sources. This lockdown will remain in place until at least Feb. 9, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said last week.
While Succession's Brian Cox played him first, Sir Anthony Hopkins immortalised the cannibalistic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter in the Oscar-trawling Silence of the Lambs in 1991.
Aggreko, the world’s largest supplier of temporary power, has released a short trading update saying that it expects pre-tax profits for 2020 will be “slightly ahead” of the top end of the firm’s previous guidance range of £80 million to £100 million. The FTSE 250 firm provides generators, temperature control systems and energy storage to large-scale events including Glastonbury, as well as to a range of industrial sectors. It comes after the company revealed earlier this month that it had signed contract revisions with the Tokyo Organising Committee.
More than a dozen stores closed in Tokyo's high-end Ginza Six mall this week as the coronavirus pandemic kept big-spending foreign tourists and other luxury shoppers away from an upscale shopping district famous for brand-name boutiques. Until the pandemic closed Japan off to most foreign visitors last year, the retail complex, which opened in 2017 with around 240 stores, was a symbol of Ginza's revival as a popular destination for tourists, especially those from China descending on stores by the busload. Ginza Six said on Wednesday that around 15 stores, including Italian fashion house Moschino, cosmetics brands Shiseido and Shu Uemura, as well as Salon des Parfums selling Annick Goutal and other fragrance brands, have shut in the past few days.
Jeanne Becart, mayor of the Paris suburb of Garches, said public health officials told her to get ready to administer 1,200 COVID-19 vaccines a week. "I am a bit angry," Becart said inside the vaccination hub off the town square, where over the course of Monday the 15 volunteers, nurses and doctors on duty between them vaccinated 90 patients. She had a plea for France's leader Emmanuel Macron.
European Union countries need to synchronise the roll-out of vaccine measures and may need additional restrictions, but should not simply close their borders to keep COVID-19 cases down, the bloc's chief executive said on Wednesday. "The blanket closures of borders in this situation makes no sense," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a speech to the European Parliament.
The government in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat has decided to change the name of dragon fruit as it feels the original name is associated with China, drawing derision from the country's opposition on Wednesday. The lotus, or kamal as it is called in Hindi, is the symbol of Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Robert Rodriguez tells SFX Magazine that he's developing an animated version of From Dusk till Dawn
We stand on a raised bank on Hickling Broad, clapping hands and stamping feet against the December chill. A blackbird sounds its excitable pre-bedtime “chink, chink” alarm. After a day of mist and drizzle, the winter light is fast draining into dusk. Time to be heading home, you might think. But the day’s defining performance is still to come. First, a dark shape appears, drifting low over the marsh. Our binoculars reveal the signature shallow-V flight profile of a marsh harrier, returning to its communal roost. No sooner have we picked out three more, straining the limits of our vision, than a clarion bugling diverts our gaze to a line of larger birds emerging from the south. Deep wingbeats and outstretched necks identify these as cranes, Hickling’s speciality. Their high, rolling calls bring a brief blast of northern taiga before they, too, drop down into the reeds. Even now, the show isn’t over. With the landscape reduced to silhouette, a murmur rises in the north, quickly swelling in volume, like a distant advancing mob. “Pink-feet,” says Mike. “Look up.” And here they come: a straggling army of pink-footed geese materialising in waves against the last of the light. The thin etch-a-sketch skeins thicken, converging overhead in a milling canopy of birds thousands-strong, their individual voices lost in one overwhelming clamour. We stare up in awe as they pass, then they’re gone. With the sky silent, but our ears still ringing, we turn back towards the car park.
India exported its first batch of locally produced coronavirus shots Wednesday, officials said, as the world's biggest vaccine manufacturer scrambled to meet requests from other countries desperate to protect their populations.
Biden plans to immediately propose an immigration bill, officials told reporters on Tuesday. The proposal will also offer permanent protection for young migrants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, known as "Dreamers." Started by former President Barack Obama, the program provides deportation protection and other benefits to approximately 645,000 people.
Pope Francis on Wednesday urged more nations to join a U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons, saying their prohibition is badly needed to promote peace today. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect on Friday and has been signed by 86 states, according to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. "I strongly encourage all states and all people to work with determination to promote the conditions necessary for a world without nuclear weapons, thus contributing to the advancement of peace and multilateral cooperation, which humanity needs so very much today," Francis said, mentioning the treaty during his weekly general audience.
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