- www.smithsonianmag.com Leftover Ramen Broth Is Causing Problems on South Korea's Mount Halla
Visitors are dumping the salty liquid on the ground, and authorities are concerned about its impact on plants and animals
- www.telegraph.co.uk Thief told police ‘once you pop you can’t stop’ after stealing 17 tubes of Pringles
Adam Spencer was arrested and ordered to pay £200 in compensation and complete a six-month drug rehabilitation requirement programme
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A Nigerian woman reviewed some tomato puree online. Now she faces jail
edition.cnn.com A Nigerian woman reviewed some tomato puree online. Now she faces jail | CNNA Nigerian woman who wrote an online review of a can of tomato puree is facing imprisonment after its manufacturer accused her of making a “malicious allegation” that damaged its business.
- www.theguardian.com North Korea accused of sending balloons carrying excrement into the South
South Korea has warned residents to be alert after the military released photos showing inflated balloons with plastic bags tethered to them
- 7news.com.au Uproar after Sydney bakery shares photo of four-year-old’s Hamas-themed birthday cake
‘No place for this in Australia.’
- nypost.com The Gouda, bad and ugly: NYC law student addicted to cheese went to nearly $6K-per-week rehab
Adela Cojab said cravings began during her junior year at NYU, in spring 2018, when she binged almost daily on the “cheapest” bricks cheese she could find.
- www.thetimes.co.uk ‘I like sushi’ remark to Japanese colleague was not racist, judge rules
Professor says her manager would have not told a German co-worker ‘I like sausage’, but employment tribunal dismisses prejudice claim
- www.bbc.co.uk North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
A North Yorkshire resident says the punctuation changes risk "everything going downhill".
- www.usatoday.com The 2025 Real ID deadline for new licenses is really real this time, DHS says
You might have heard about the Real ID deadline before but this time, DHS says it's legit: You'll need a Real ID license by May 7, 2025.
- www.404media.co Pokémon Go Players Invent Fake Beaches on Real Maps to Catch Rare Wigletts
Volunteer maintainers of the widely used OpenStreetMap are battling Pokémon Go players who are vandalizing the map with fake data in order to cheat in the game.
- www.bbc.com A little girl said monsters were in her bedroom. It was 60,000 bees
Saylor Class had complained of "monsters in the wall" of her room at their farmhouse in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- www.theguardian.com Irish basketball teams ordered to replay final 0.3 seconds of playoff match
Unusual order came about after Portlaoise Panthers complained that free throws were awarded to Limerick Sport Eagles after the final buzzer
- www.theguardian.com Alan Titchmarsh’s jeans blurred by North Korean TV censors
Footage of green-fingered BBC presenter obscured from waist down to hide ‘symbol of US imperialism’
- montreal.ctvnews.ca Montreal man returns from vacation, gets letter from Quebec government saying he's dead
After returning home from an extended vacation in Costa Rica, a Montreal man got the surprise of the lifetime in the mail — the Quebec government thinks he's dead.
- www.engadget.com Japan will no longer require floppy disks for submitting some official documents
Japan will no longer force businesses to put data on floppy disks when they submit certain official documents.
- www.foxnews.com Canadian police warn that posting videos of alleged package thieves could be ‘violation' of their privacy
A provincial police officer, Lt. Benoit Richard warned Canadian citizens against posting video footage of alleged porch thefts, because it could violate the thieves' privacy.
- scrippsnews.com Poison expert indicted on murder charges in his wife's fatal poisoning
A Minnesota doctor and poison specialist faces upgraded murder charges in the death of his wife, who authorities say died after being poisoned by a drug her husband had recently researched.
- www.foxnews.com TSA director arrested by US Customs and Border Protection
A high-ranking officer of the Transportation Security Administration was arrested last month in an Atlanta airport on an outstanding warrant from Port St. Lucie, Florida.
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Francophone Belgian couple caught in bureaucratic struggle to prove they speak French
www.cnn.com Francophone Belgian couple caught in bureaucratic struggle to prove they speak French | CNNA couple from the French-speaking part of Belgium wanted to become naturalizedFrench citizens but found themselves with the most French of problems – a bureaucratic struggle to prove to the French state that they do speak French their ...
- asia.nikkei.com Vietnam fines TikToker $300 for saying Angkor Wat is in Thailand
Online influencer accused of distorting Cambodia's culture for clickbait
- www.theguardian.com Chief executive of collapsed crypto fund HyperVerse does not appear to exist
Steven Reece Lewis was introduced to investors with an impressive list of qualifications and achievements, but no organisation cited can find any record of him
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Vietnam Pledges Human Rights Reform by Year 2099
www.newsweek.com Vietnam pledges human rights reform by year 2099Freedom House gave Vietnam a score of 19 out of 100 in the 2023 edition of its Freedom in the World report.
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Robbers' getaway car stolen as they're robbing Colorado check chasing store, police say
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- www.theguardian.com Paraguay official resigns after signing agreement with fictional country
Arnaldo Chamorro replaced after he signed ‘proclamation’ with representatives of fugitive Indian guru’s fake country
- www.foxnews.com Man shocked to discover source of headaches for 5 months is pair of chopsticks inside his skull
A man in Vietnam was surprised to find that the cause of his severe headaches for five months was a pair of chopsticks lodged inside his skull.
- arstechnica.com FDA warns chemical company not to mix brake cleaner into hand sanitizer
It's not the first time the regulatory agency chided the chemical company for this.
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These magnificent purple and green lights aren’t auroras. This is Steve
www.cnn.com These magnificent purple and green lights aren’t auroras. This is Steve | CNNResearch of the phenomenon called Steve has been driven by citizen photographers. As the solar maximum approaches, there could be even more opportunities to spot it.
- www.cnn.com Baseball great Ichiro Suzuki throws shutout against a high school girls’ team in Japan | CNN
He may have retired from professional baseball four years ago, but Ichiro Suzuki certainly hasn’t lost his appetite for the game.
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Biden admin plan to release 7 grizzly bears annually near rural communities faces widespread backlash
nypost.com Biden admin plan to release 7 grizzly bears annually near rural communities faces widespread backlash: ‘Broad diet means they can harm anyone’A wide range of advocacy groups are opposing a Biden administration plan to release grizzly bears in a Washington forest area near rural communities.
- abc7.com Fights erupt outside Museum of Tolerance after screening of film on Hamas
Police had to break up multiple fights that erupted outside LA's Museum of Tolerance after the screening of a film depicting the Hamas attack on Israel.
- www.bbc.com Australian farmer Colin Deveraux survives crocodile attack by biting back
Colin Deveraux has spent a month in an Australian hospital and admits he is lucky to be alive.
- nypost.com Tourist accidentally sparks bomb scare with wrong translation for ‘pomegranate’
A tourist accidentally sparked a bomb scare at a restaurant by mistranslating the local word for “pomegranate.”
- www.theguardian.com Cardiff students’ union bans chinos and blue shirts after violence
Incident at university clubbing night leads to preppy staples being barred from union premises
- www.livenowfox.com Man arrested for faking heart attack 20 times at restaurants to avoid paying bill, reports say
Most recently, the man tried the ruse after ordering a seafood paella and two whiskeys at a restaurant in Spain, according to local news outlets, citing police.
- www.theregister.com How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie
Advise turning off and never using remote desktop protocol, prohibiting private VPNs, not trusting recruiters’ due diligence