Jun 13: Wonder Woman, the muscular feminist superhero from Warner Bros. and DC Comics, stayed strong over the weekend, easily holding onto the top spot in North American theaters while leaving newcomer The Mummy in the dust. With $57.2 million in ticket sales for the three-day weekend, according to industry estimates, Wonder Woman has taken […]
Jun 13: The Bloodhound supersonic car will run for the first time on 26 October. It is going to conduct a series of “slow speed” trials on the runway at Newquay airport in Cornwall. Engineers want to shake down the vehicle’s systems before heading out to South Africa next year to try to break the […]
Jun 13: A team of scientists had to abandon an expedition through Hudson Bay because of hazardous ice conditions off the coast of Newfoundland caused by climate change. About 40 scientists from five Canadian universities were scheduled to use the icebreaker CCGS Amundsen for the first leg of a 133-day expedition across the Arctic. It’s […]
Jun 13: Mayflies live a day, humans live a century, if we’re lucky, but what is the oldest living organism on the planet? For scientists, accurately proving the age of any long-lived species is a hard task. Under the boughs of a 300-year-old sweet chestnut tree in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, Tony Kirkham, […]
Jun 13: A young taekwondo master was recorded performing an unusual stunt — using a front-flip technique to break 90 concrete slabs with his head in 25 seconds. The video, filmed Saturday in Bosnia, shows Kerim Ahmedspahic using a series of front-flips to break multiple stacks of concrete blocks laid out in two lines. Ahmedspahic, […]
Jun 13: A seemingly friendly raccoon approaching tourists in Costa Rica betrayed one of its new friends and stole her lunch right out of her hand. Trevor Higgins posted a video to YouTube showing the “vicious” raccoon approaching a group of tourists last week in Quepos. The raccoon weaves through the crowd of curious onlookers […]
Jun 13: A man driving on a Georgia highway started recording when he was faced with a sight out of a horror film: a massive snake slithering up the hood of his car. Ryan McMurphy captured video when he was driving June 1 on Interstate 85 in Buford and the huge snake appeared at the […]
Jun 13: A Colorado couple who won $500,000 on a scratch-off ticket revealed they previously won lottery jackpots for $5 million and $4,000. The Colorado Lottery said the couple, whose names were not released, purchased 4 Brilliant Bucks Scratch tickets recently and discovered one of them was a $500,000 winner. The couple told officials the […]
Kathmandu / Jun 11: The Election Commission (EC) has clarified that the voter education materials published in various local languages to effectively educate voters from different castes and communities is done in a good faith. According respect to all the indigenous nationalities, the EC has stated that it is sensitive towards all mother languages spoken […]
Kathmandu / Jun 11: President Bidya Devi Bhandari has said that all should join hands together to curb violence against women. At a program organized to honour women and to release the Sahana Pradhan Special Publication on the occasion of 25th anniversary of Women Security Pressure Group Nepal in the capital city Sunday, the President […]