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Spanish woman who 'died' of COVID returned 10 days later -newspaper

Reuters
Jan 25 06:47 AM

An 85-year-old woman believed by her family to have died from the coronavirus surprised her relatives by returning to her care home nine days after they were told she had been buried, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Read more »

Sri Lankan health minister who took magic potion vs COVID-19 tests positive for disease

Agence France-Presse
Jan 24 10:21 AM

Sri Lanka's health minister, who publicly endorsed sorcery and magic potions to stop surging coronavirus infections in the island, has tested positive and will self-isolate, officials said Saturday. Read more »

Butas-butas na kalsada sa QC, ginawang pansamantalang garden

ABS-CBN News
Jan 21 06:21 PM

Ang magtanim ay 'di biro, lalo na kung ang tataniman ay mga iniwang butas sa hindi natapos na road construction. Ito ang ginawa ni plantito Glenn Infante sa mga butas sa kalsadang iniwang nakatengga sa kanilang lugar sa Quezon City.   Read more »

Foreigners without face masks punished with push-ups in Bali

Agence France-Presse
Jan 20 09:59 PM

Bali authorities made wearing a face mask in public mandatory last year as Indonesia battled a raging COVID-19 outbreak.   Read more »

49-year-old university exam-taker arrested over refusal to leave toilet in Japan

Kyodo News
Jan 19 02:35 PM | Updated Jan 19 03:02 PM

A 49-year-old man who was ejected from Japan's standardized university entrance exams over the weekend for not covering his nose with a face mask was arrested hours later for refusing to vacate a toilet cubicle at the same venue, police said Tuesday. Read more »

Hong Kong police launch probe after video of two men having sex on MTR train goes viral

Christy Leung, South China Morning Post
Jan 17 11:25 AM

Hong Kong police are investigating after viral videos emerged showing two men having sex and masturbating on an MTR train.   Read more »

Thailand serves up cannabis cuisine to happy customers

Juarawee Kittisilpa, Reuters
Jan 15 10:12 PM

"Giggling bread" and "joyfully dancing salad" aren't the usual dishes on a menu in Thailand, but one eatery is hoping its cannabis-infused cuisine can lure foreign tourists and take the taboo out of the recently legalized herb. Read more »

Doctor who declared Trump 'healthiest' president ever dies

Agence France-Presse
Jan 15 12:39 AM

NEW YORK - President Donald Trump's former personal doctor -- who claimed Trump had dictated a letter insisting he would be the "healthiest" president ever -- has died, reports said Thursday. Read more »

Nancy Pelosi's stolen lectern back at the Capitol

Agence France-Presse
Jan 14 07:19 AM

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's lectern was back in its rightful spot at the Capitol Wednesday, a week after it was stolen during the violent incursion of the building by a mob of Trump supporters.  Read more »

Canadian tries to dodge curfew by walking leashed man

Agence France-Presse
Jan 12 09:06 AM

MONTREAL - Canadian police have fined a woman whose dogged determination to dodge a strict new curfew saw her taking a man for a walk -- on a leash. Read more »

'Human remains' find turned out to be a potato: UK police

Agence France-Presse
Jan 09 05:44 AM

LONDRES - A dog walker in northeast England sparked a large-scale police search after reporting suspected human remains in a muddy field.  Read more »

Bangkay ng lalaki sa India, kinarga ng kapitbahay sa bangko para mag-withdraw

ABS-CBN News
Jan 08 03:00 PM

Dala-dala ang passbook, at ang bangkay ni Yadav, sumugod sa bangko ang magkapitbahay at iginiit na hindi sila aalis hangga't ibigay ng branch manager ang pera. Read more »

Jamiroquai frontman denies he's US Capitol Hill rioter

Agence France-Presse
Jan 08 12:46 PM | Updated Jan 08 12:48 PM

Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay has been keeping a low profile of late, and assures the world he definitely wasn't in Washington as part of the mob of Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol. Read more »

Naked fugitive found in croc-infested northern Australia waters

Agence France-Presse
Jan 06 05:48 PM

A naked fugitive hiding out in trees above crocodile-infested waters has been discovered by a pair of fishermen, after spending days surviving on snails in swampy mangroves in Australia's far north.   Read more »

Giant vulva statue fuels gender debate in Brazil

Agence France-Presse
Jan 06 09:53 AM

SAO PAULO - An enormous bright-red vagina sculpture on a mountain in northeast Brazil is intended to inspire intercourse -- not the sexual kind but rather a dialogue on gender issues, particularly poignant under the conservative government of President Jair Bolsonaro. Read more »

Mystery monolith makes appearance in Canada

Agence France-Presse
Jan 02 07:28 PM

A mysterious monolith — similar to ones that have appeared briefly in the Utah desert, on a heath in the Netherlands, in Warsaw and on a Romanian hilltop — has now popped up in Toronto. Read more »

Woolly rhino remains found in melting Siberian permafrost

ABS-CBN News
Jan 02 12:35 PM | Updated Jan 02 01:01 PM

Russian scientists are poring over the well-preserved remains of a woolly rhinoceros that likely roamed the Siberian hinterland more than 12,000 years ago after it was found in the diamond-producing region of Yakutia. Read more »

Nakatikim ka na ba ng 'golden hamburger'?

ABS-CBN News
Jan 01 04:27 PM

Nababalutan ng 24 karat na edible gold leaves ang hamburger. Read more »

'Snake massage' patok sa isang spa sa Egypt

ABS-CBN News
Dec 30 08:47 PM

Isang spa sa Cairo ang nago-offer ng kakaibang masahe.  Read more »

Swan Late: mourning bird holds up German trains

Agence France-Presse
Dec 30 01:34 PM

BERLIN, Germany - A swan mourning the death of its companion on a German railway track held up 23 trains for almost an hour and had to be removed by firefighters using special equipment, police said. Read more »

Colombian taxi driver and canine co-pilot spread Christmas cheer

Herbert Villarraga, Reuters
Dec 25 06:59 AM

BOGOTA - People looking for a bit of Christmas merriment in the Colombian capital might find it in an unexpected place: the front seat of a taxi, in the form of a costumed canine co-pilot. Read more »

Santa rides elephants to Thai town, bearing gifts of face masks

Jiraporn Kuhakan, Reuters
Dec 23 04:24 PM | Updated Dec 23 10:54 PM

Santa Claus gave his sleigh and reindeer a break on Wednesday and rode elephants in Thailand during a special Christmas visit aimed at raising awareness about the threat of the coronavirus.   Read more »

Ho ho ho and 'good to go': Fauci gives Santa virus vaccine

Agence France-Presse
Dec 20 08:10 AM

WASHINGTON - Santa Claus can safely deliver gifts to good girls and boys on Christmas, after a special visitor went all the way to the North Pole to deliver a coronavirus vaccine. Read more »

Paano kung maging buwaya ka? Bolsonaro ng Brazil may duda sa COVID vaccine

Agence France-Presse
Dec 19 05:35 AM

Kahit pa nagpositibo siya sa COVID-19, iginiit ni Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro na hinding-hindi siya magpapabakuna.    Read more »

Santa ‘immune’ to COVID? WHO says he can still make Christmas rounds

Agence France-Presse
Dec 19 04:41 AM

The pandemic need not deter Santa from traveling the world and handing out gifts this coming Christmas. Read more »