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Need help planning your social calendar? Here are the best spring events of 2019.

Locals and tourists cooled off in the fountains in London's famous Trafalgar Square today (July 25th) on the second hottest UK day on record. Temperatures in Trafalgar Square hit over 36C.

Skin-crawling footage filmed at a home in Pangasinan, the Philippines shows a large queen termite wriggling around. The filmer told Newsflare: "My father was cleaning our backyard and when he started cleaning the pile of logs where he noticed termites on it. "Upon cleaning the last remaining logs, he found a colony of termites, there he accidentally saw the queen termite was there also." This footage was filmed in August 2016.

Police officers broke a toilet to rescue a pangolin trapped inside in southern China. In the clip, captured in Jixi county in Jiangxi province on July 19, police officers tore down the whole toilet and brought it out of the house. They then used a hammer to break the back of the toilet to free the trapped pangolin. According to local reports, the railway workers heard some noises from their toilet and found a pangolin got stuck at the back of the toilet, so they called the police for help. Finally... Читать дальше...

New video by The Heliconia Press: Jim Sammons continues his kayak fishing adventure on a number of secret lakes in Ontario, Canada with Roberto Briones, Scott Barton and James McBeath as they search for pike and bass. ____________________________ Enjoyed this episode of Kayak Fishing Tales? Please LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT. ____________________________ CHECK OUT the Power-Pole Micro Anchor: http://www.power-pole.com/ SUBSCRIBE to Kayak Fishing Tales WebTV: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_...

Back-seat safety in cars is stuck in the '90s.

Back seat belts and airbags lag front-seat safety by a wide margin.

Reducing dietary fat can help people reach or maintain a healthy weight. It also reduces the risk of heart disease. Learn more about low fat foods here.

The passing of Ngāti Rangi's claims settlement bill - Rukutia Te Mana - was a momentous occasion for the iwi, lead negotiator Che Wilson says. "He rā whakahirahira tēnei mō mātou ...

If you're someone who considers getting bangs at least once a year, you likely abandon that notion by the time June rolls around. It's hot, you're sweaty: Who wants bangs when you're already more overheated than an iPhone on the beach?

Khalid al-Falih, the energy minister of the world’s largest crude oil exporter and OPEC’s biggest producer, Saudi Arabia, urged on Thursday countries buying crude oil to secure the free navigation of tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.   The Strait of Hormuz near Iran is the most important oil chokepoint in the world with daily oil flows averaging 21 million bpd, or the equivalent of 21 percent of global petroleum liquids consumption. Several high-profile incidents in recent weeks and months have raised... Читать дальше...

China has issued the third batch of 2019 quotas for ordinary-trade refined oil export, permitting six million mt of exports, according to an industry source. Sinopec obtained quotas for 2.78 million mt, followed by PetroChina with 2.02 million mt, Sinochem with 600,000 mt and China National Offshore Oil Corporation with 600,000 mt. Hengli Petrochemical didn’t get any quotas under this batch. The separate quotas for different products are not known yet. China has released quotas for a total of 56... Читать дальше...

The residence ZB is located in the city of Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The terrain with great inclination has a total area of approximately 1,400 m2. The request of the owners included a large, comfortable, modern house and different house that made good use of the city's landscape. Although the terrain was very rugged, it already had a natural plateau which was chosen for the implantation of the residence. That portion of the lot is 6 meters high in relation to the street level, which... Читать дальше...

Some skills will open doors that your credit card or bank account never could.

Anti-capitalists long ago lost the argument about whether or not capitalism is the most effective way to increase standards of living. Thanks to the spread of a largely-capitalistic marketplace, global poverty rates have fallen precipitously, life expectancy has risen, and standards of living continue to rise. The greatest gains have been in the so-called "developing world."

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iOS/Android/Desktop: Default calculator apps suck. They work like a traditional handheld calculator, which only displays one value at a time and can only do basic math. If you want to do anything more than calculate a tip, you’re better off with these free and cheap calculator apps.

Azerbaijan`s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has met with outgoing Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the country Carole Crofts. The sides exchanged views on the current state of bilateral relations between the two countries

A start-up Kiwi insurance company has attracted investment from a New York stock exchange-listed re-insurer as part of a $2 million capital raising. Cove Insurance was launched in September 2018 and ...

Lying on the backseat of a car with contractions coming closer together Natalie Pitt knew her birthing plan was out the window - an emergency plan was needed. Pitt was being driven by husband Matthew ...

COMMENT: Guess what, Phil Goff? When the once and would-be future mayor John Banks said if he was re-elected he would make himself chair of Auckland Transport it was a Good Idea. A decisive move to ...

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The Sounders have dominated their last two opponents, but have lacked the efficiency needed to be great.

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Look underneath the surface of UFC 240’s televised prelims, featuring a women’s flyweight contest where potential star Viviane Araujo looks to make a name for herself against tough vet, Alexis Davis.

Katee Sackhoff is an awfully compelling actor. She’s got a talent for taking good material and elevating it into great performances—or, as anyone who saw her on the short-lived reboot of Bionic Woman can attest, injecting something watchable into lumpen disasters. Her career-making turn in Battlestar Galactica remains…