Snowflakes dance in the massive spotlights at a public ice hockey rink in the Finnish city of Oulu, against the echoing sound of pucks bouncing during a precious practice session for a local youth team.. After rising costs made it too expensive to open their home arena, one of Oulu's local teams -- named Ahmat, which means The Wolverines in Finnish -- has been forced to hold practices at outdoor public rinks this season.
In a faded hall with tattered carpets, young acrobats launch off their partners' feet high into the air with a spin, as others perform juggling feats, somersaults or twist into contortions.. You can be a high performer, but without discipline, it is nothing.
China said Wednesday that not a single person had died of Covid-19 the previous day, after changing the criteria for recording virus deaths to mean most are no longer counted.. Previously, people who died of an illness while infected with the virus were counted as a Covid death.
US President Joe Biden signed a bill on Tuesday banning private ownership of tigers and other big cats and "cub petting" highlighted in the Netflix smash hit documentary "Tiger King.". The bill prohibits direct contact between the public and big cats such as that seen in "Tiger King," which featured the exploits of a flamboyant private zoo owner named Joe Exotic.
The United States on Tuesday offered to share vaccines with China to stem soaring Covid cases, saying containing the outbreak was in the interest of the world.. It is unlikely that China would accept the offer from the United States, its frequent adversary, after Beijing invested heavily in Covid diplomacy that included shipping its homegrown vaccines around the world.
US law enforcement seized more than enough fentanyl to kill all Americans in 2022, the Drug Enforcement Administration said Tuesday, underscoring the deep threat of the deadly man-made opioid.. "It is a highly addictive man-made opioid that is 50 times more potent than heroin.
Europe has been gripped by its "most devastating" ever outbreak of bird flu in the past year, European health authorities said on Tuesday as experts study the feasibility of vaccinations.. Health authorities are studying the possibility of using vaccinations to arrest the spread of the virus.
The Taliban authorities on Tuesday ordered a nationwide ban on university education for females, as the hardline Islamists continue to crush Afghan women’s right to education and freedom.. "You all are informed to immediately implement the mentioned order of suspending education of females until further notice," said a letter issued to all government and private universities, signed by the Minister for Higher Education, Neda Mohammad Nadeem.
Norway's Queen Sonja on Tuesday said King Harald V was doing "very, very well", a day after her 85-year-old husband was admitted to hospital following an infection.. The king will probably return home in a few days," Sonja said during a visit to another hospital.
Italian police used a specially adapted Lamborghini supercar to deliver two kidneys to donor patients on Tuesday hundreds of kilometres apart, they announced.. "Thanks to the State Police's special Father Christmas, two people have received the gift of a kidney."
