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How to teach people not to litter (VIDEO)
A small piece of litter you have in your hand today could amount to billions of litters at the end of the year. Billions of money is spent just to clean up the litter that many people have thoughtlessly tossed out on the streets and other public spaces. But if each of us try a bit more of discipline and application of...
‘Alien civilizations’ may be found on ‘megastructures’ near Milky Way star, scientists say
A crazy “swarm of megastructures” around a distant star in the Milky Way galaxy may be home to alien civilizations, according to scientists. “We’d never seen anything like this star,” Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University, told The Atlantic. “It was really weird. We...
Huge blaze at construction market in Moscow suburb (PHOTOS)
A huge fire has broken out at a big construction market in a Moscow suburb, emergency services said, adding that helicopters will be deployed to extinguish the blaze. The incident took place in a town of Nemchinovka, just outside the Russian capital. Now at least five pavilions are on fire and the area of the blaze has already...
Turkey downs «unidentified aircraft» on Syria border: BBC
Turkey says its warplanes have shot down an unidentified aircraft which intruded into its airspace near the border with Syria, according to the BBC News. Media reports quote officials as saying the aircraft was a drone. There are no further details so far, BBC News reported. The Turkish military said the unknown aircraft...
Blue-eyed blonde made 10 plastic surgeries to become a Korean (PHOTO)
A white Brazilian man with blonde hair and blue eyes has taken the extraordinary step of undergoing surgery to look like an Asian. Xiahn, 25, has a love for 'K-pop' and Korean dramas and became obsessed with looking like the locals during his time as an exchange student in the country. A year at...
Earth just had its warmest September on record — by a long shot
It's virtually certain that in January 2016, the planet will set a new record for the warmest calendar year on record. A key data set that tracks global average surface temperatures, which comes from the Japan Meteorological Agency, shows a huge jump in temperatures in September as compared to average. Related data compiled...
Malaysia to push for international court on MH17
Malaysia is committed to working with the MH17 joint investigation team (JIT) members to push for an independent international court to prosecute those responsible for the downing of the plane, says Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, according to The Star. "The technical investigations revealed by the Dutch...
Britain wants Russia to explain how come Pinocchio flamethrower recorded in militant-held area of Donbas
The British delegation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) demands from the Russian delegation to explain how a sophisticated Russian-manufactured heavy flamethrower appeared on a militant-controlled territory of Donbas. “We are requesting the delegation of the Russian Federation to explain...
Iran airs unseen footage of secret underground missile base (VIDEO)
For the first time ever, Iranian television has broadcast footage of a secret underground tunnel, stocked with missile and launcher units. Officials have said it is one of several such bases in the Islamic republic. Located at a depth of 500 meters under the mountains, the footage shows a very long tunnel which appears to be...
Vladimir Putin condemns US for refusing to share Syria terror targets
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has issued a caustic defence of his country's bombing raids in Syria, accusing the West of stonewalling requests for help on terrorist targets and failing to grasp the basic facts on the ground. "We asked them to give us the information on the targets that they believe to be 100 percent...
Ukraine started to receive defensive non-lethal weapons from foreign partners, — Poroshenko
President Petro Poroshenko thanked foreign partners for providing non-lethal defensive weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. "…we are grateful for the defensive non-lethal weapons that has finally started to arrive," Poroshenko said Wednesday morning when opening the exhibit of modern weapons and equipment at...