Dorothy Hoffner, 104, of Chicago, tandem skydived with an instructor on Sunday. She is the oldest person to accomplish such a feat, the ABC network portal reported.more
Krakow joins the UNICEF "Child-friendly City" program, thus becoming an official candidate for this title. The mayor of the city has already signed an agreement on this matter with the UNICEF authorities.more
Health officials in the UK have launched a consultation on increasing the concentration of alcohol in soft drinks. The Ministry of Health hopes that this move will encourage more people to switch to "alcohol-free" drinks.more
The British television station ITV will soon start producing the series "Ruth", which will tell the story of Ruth Ellis. She was the last woman in Britain to be executed by hanging.more
With Donkey as your host, the property – owned, operated by and located on Ardverikie Estate – is the absolute spit of the iconic swamp home we all know and love from the films.
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24 bottles of 190-year-old Scotch whiskey, probably the oldest in the world, which were found in the cellars of one of the castles, will be auctioned. It is expected that the price of a single bottle should reach 10,000 pounds.more
Consumer group Which? warned that the same food product can cost up to 9 times more if it is branded. Supermarkets have therefore been urged to ensure that budget lines are available at all points of sale - and in sufficient quantities.more
The National Commission for State Language Standards of Ukraine has decided that it is permissible to write the words "Russia", "Moscow", "Russian Federation", etc. in Ukrainian in lowercase in unofficial texts.more
The U.S. Department of State has divided the languages that diplomats learn into four categories based on the average time it takes to master them. It is easiest to learn European languages - reports the British weekly "Economist".more
If anyone would like to work remotely from home in a picturesque village in sunny Sardinia, they can do so without worrying about the price of rent. The Ollolai town council has just offered premises for a symbolic amount - one euro per month.more
Interactive dinosaur models based on those in Crystal Palace Park are now available to view online for the first time.
The popular original models are roughly 170 years old and require restoration, something the digital scans should aid with.more
Fire ants, one of the world's most invasive and destructive species, have reached Europe, according to a study recently published in the journal Current Biology. Scientists found 88 nests of these insects near Syracuse, Sicily.more
Belonging to Britain's Princess Diana, a famous red jumper with a single black sheep between rows of white, found after years, was sold at auction in New York for $1.14 million, British media reported today.more
A 3D-made equestrian statue of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel did not even survive two years in the Upper Palatinate town of Etsdorf, writes the dpa agency. According to the artist Wilhelm Koch, the 2.70-metre-high sculpture collapsed on the night between Wednesday and Thursday.more
19 hours and 41 minutes. That's how long it took Oly Rush to swim around the Greek island of Ithaca. The activist's goal was to draw attention to the problem of plastic pollution in the seas and raise funds for coastal cleanup.more
California Forever - this is the name of the city of the future that a group of Silicon Valley businessmen wants to build. A consortium of billionaires has already secretly bought up huge tracts of land for this purpose. To turn the land into a city, however, they need the approval of local authorities and residents.more
A U.S. Delta airlines plane en route to Barcelona had to turn back to Atlanta due to, as the pilot put it, "a biohazard problem." According to the media, one of the passengers was suffering from diarrhea, the BBC News website reported.more
Australians collecting edible but wild plants were horrified to learn that a live parasite had been removed from the brain of a New South Wales resident. Scientists suspect that a woman collecting plants in a python-inhabited wetland had eaten the eggs of the parasite ophidascaris robertsi, most likely expelled by a host snake, 'The Guardian' daily reported.more
Researchers from the Chepstow Archaeological Society have managed to locate the remains of a wooden bridge structure over the River Wye 2,000 years ago. The archaeologists had just two hours to find it in the muddy ground and needed the assistance of rescuers.more
The Mose system of flood barriers installed and already in place in Venice will protect the city and lagoon for the next 100 years, have ruled the scientists who carried out the study commissioned by the commissioner in charge of the multi-billion dollar investment. The aim of the experts' work was to establish the sustainability of the 80 water barriers.more
More than 20,000 people, both foreign tourists and Spanish residents, took part yesterday in the annual tomato battle, known as Tomatina, organised in the town of Bunol, in the east of the country.more
The district of New York - Manhattan, ranks first in the United States in terms of the cost of living. Two more occupy Hawaiian Honolulu and San Francisco, California.more
The search for the legendary Loch Ness monster conducted throughout the past weekend has not conclusively settled the question of its existence or not. A group of volunteers heard four unexplained sounds, only to find that their sound recorder was not plugged in.more
Ten collector's stamps are included in a special series issued by the Royal Mail on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the publication of Michael Bond's book "A Bear Called Paddington". It was the first of many publications for this beloved British bear, which is why its release date is considered to be Paddington's birthday.more
