The post further details how the caretakers are able to determine the flirty nature of the African grey parrot named Larry. “How can you tell when an African grey parrot is being flirty?” this is how a Facebook post by Zoo Atlanta begins and as you read the post, or […]
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The Catholic leader of the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party, Hume was seen as the principal architect of Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace agreement. John Hume, the visionary politician who won a Nobel Peace Prize for fashioning the agreement that ended violence in his native Northern Ireland, has died at […]
Taylor Swift’s surprise eighth album, Folklore, has broken several chart records in its first week on sale. The record was written and recorded during the coronavirus lockdown, and swerves away from the pop sound that’s dominated her last three albums. On Spotify, it achieved 80.6m streams in a single day, […]
LONDON: Millions of COVID-19 tests able to detect the virus within 90 minutes will be rolled out to British hospitals, care homes and laboratories to boost capacity in the coming months, the country’s health minister said on Monday (Aug 3). They will comprise 5.8 million tests using DNA and 450,000 […]
NEW YORK: James Murdoch has resigned from News Corp’s board, citing disagreements over certain editorial content published by the company’s media outlets, the news publisher disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday (Jul 31). While tendering the resignation, Murdoch also cited differences over certain strategic decisions of the company. The […]
SANTIAGO: Chilean police are training sniffer dogs to detect the coronavirus in people’s sweat at an early stage, after a similar trial in the UK showed encouraging results. Four dogs have been selected for the initial training, a mix of labradors and golden retrievers who sport green “biodetector” jackets for […]
New Zealand has to decide how best to open air travel including whether it should be restricted to certain types of travellers like foreign students, say two observers. DUNEDIN, New Zealand: Having successfully eliminated COVID-19, New Zealand now faces the option of sitting tight or exploring various ways of loosening […]
A £500 million scheme aimed at kick-starting UK film and TV production has been announced. Culture secretary Oliver Dowden said on Wednesday the fund will help companies unable to get coronavirus insurance. The scheme will be used to cover the costs of projects being delayed or abandoned due to issues […]
LOS ANGELES: Gone With the Wind star Olivia de Havilland, considered the last surviving actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood, died on Sunday (Jul 26) at the age of 104, the Hollywood Reporter said. She died of natural causes at her home in Paris, where she had lived for […]
Johnny Depp is “generous” and “loving” when sober but the “other side of him was a monster”, actress Amber Heard has told the High Court in London. Ms Heard said she had been “so in love” with her former husband and had “always held out hope” he would get clean. […]