Heritage Malta lecture on food, drink and carnival floats
Monday, 20 February 2017, 13:42
Last update: about 11 years ago
Heritage Malta is organising a lecture to explore the messages associated with a number of food-related carnival floats whose form and shape have been crystallised in a handful of...
To declaw cats or not? New Jersey could be first with ban
Sunday, 19 February 2017, 16:19
Last update: about 11 years ago
Cats would keep their claws under a bill that would make New Jersey the first state to prohibit declawing. The measure, which cleared the lower chamber of the Legislature last month, bans...
Electrical tape-bikinis and sun for perfect tan lines in Rio
Sunday, 19 February 2017, 16:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Welcome to the latest fashion fad in beauty-obsessed Rio de Janeiro, where some women are sun-baking in bikinis made of black tape in search of tan lines so perfect that they practically...
UN: China moves to stop taking organs from prisoners
Saturday, 18 February 2017, 16:18
Last update: about 11 years ago
The World Health Organization says China has taken steps to end its once-widespread practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners but that it's impossible to know what is happening across the...
Study finds new bacterial strain can contaminate shellfish
Friday, 17 February 2017, 16:18
Last update: about 11 years ago
Scientists studying oysters along the Atlantic Coast have discovered a critical clue to understanding why more seafood lovers are getting sick from eating shellfish. Researchers at the University...
Raf Simons salutes New York, talks politics at Fashion Week
Friday, 17 February 2017, 15:59
Last update: about 11 years ago
It's the little brother to women's Fashion Week - the very little brother. But men's Fashion Week has its fans, and it's a lot less frenetic: You can actually find a taxi! Here are...