Category: International

Elephants escape Russian circus to play in snow. https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/01/24/Elephants-escape-circus-in-Russia-to-play-in-the-snow/9711579880916/  (Photo courtesy of Seattle Times)

Cookies are first food baked in space by astronauts. Chocolate chip cookies were the ones made. After baking, they were sealed in bags, then sent…

Switzerland mints world’s smallest gold coin. https://hosted.ap.org/summitdaily/article/911b9ab38691e43f5a431975a7ab336d/switzerland-mints-worlds-smallest-gold-coin (Photo courtesy of AP)

Meet Vyom, India’s first astronaut robot. India’s space agency has unveiled a robot that will travel to space later this year as part of an…

Australia is being hit with issues of Biblical proportion. Fires, rains, and now showers of venomous spiders. Australians are encountering an influx of funnel-web arachnids, which…

The heat from Mt Vesuvius eruption was so extreme, it turned one man’s brain into glass. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/extreme-heat-from-vesuvius-eruption-turned-one-victims-brain-to-glass/ (Photo courtesy of Getty Images)

Mutant goat born in India has human-like face. Being worshipped as avatar god. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7912291/Mutant-goat-worshipped-avatar-god-born-human-like-eyes-India.html (Photo courtesy of News Panda)

Tokyo man arrested for deliberately leaving father’s cremated remains in subway station’s restroom. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/21/asia/japan-arrest-father-remains-intl-hnk/index.html (Photo courtesy of cnn.com)

Government officials in Suzhou in Anhui province released pictures of seven people wearing their nightwear, calling it “uncivilised behaviour”. Residents were angered their pics were…