Britain's palace has unveiled a special vegetarian "quiche" to mark King Charles III's coronation on Saturday, but purists in France say the festive dish has been mislabelled.. The palace last month posted the recipe for Coronation Quiche, which in line with the new monarch's environmental concerns contains no meat, instead featuring spinach, broad beans and tarragon.
Plagues of locusts that darken the skies and devastate all things that grow have been recorded since Biblical times, and today threaten the food security of millions of people across Asia and Africa.. Most of the time, they exist in a "solitary" phase keeping to themselves and eating comparatively little, like timid grasshoppers.
Lion cubs, rhino calves and other baby animals joined Nelson Mandela on new ecology-themed banknotes unveiled by South Africa's central bank on Thursday.. On the back of the notes are drawings of the "Big Five" game animals -- elephant, rhino, lion, leopard and buffalo -- depicted with their cubs and calves.
Spinnr, a video-based friendship app, aims to combat the loneliness epidemic and friendship recession in America by connecting people through shared interests and hobbies.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday launched a new attack against Turkey's LGBTQ community as he played up his conservative credentials ahead of a crucial May 14 vote.. "We are against the LGBT," Erdogan told a rally in the Black Sea city of Giresun on Thursday.
They are the knitting and crocheting enthusiasts who secretly craft themed decorations for British royal weddings and jubilees, then put them out in public places under the cover of darkness. . In the towns of Hertford and Ware, just north of London, a group of knitters and crochet enthusiasts calling themselves the Secret Society of Hertford Crafters have just finished decorating 37 postboxes for Saturday's coronation.
King Charles III will dress in heavy, shimmering golden robes worn by his ancestors during his coronation on Saturday, inspired by priestly outfits and intended to evoke the divine nature of kingship.. King Charles will arrive at the abbey in King George VI's crimson velvet Robe of State.
At the end of a back alley surrounded by dilapidated buildings, the pitter-patter of ping-pong balls echoes around a cavernous warehouse in a Chinese town north of Shanghai.. "If elderly people come here and play ping-pong, they feel it's good for them, then they stop playing cards," said Fu, a 56-year-old Rudong woman who opened the club in 2011.
Married off by her parents at 14, Indian mother-of-seven Jaimala Devi kept having children because her husband insisted she could only stop once she had given birth to two sons.. "Having more children is still considered a way to get more earning members for the family," Parimal Chandra, the state head of the non-profit Population Foundation of India (PFI), told AFP. - 'Respect and pride' - The insistence by many men on having sons reflects cultural expectations that they will support their parents even after marrying and having their own children.
Television and film writers, on strike over the "existential crisis" of a Hollywood dream factory that mistreats the source of its stories, are fed up with seeing their profession become more precarious in the age of streaming.. The powerful union represents 11,500 screenwriters and ordered a strike this week after talks with Hollywood studios and streaming services over better pay and conditions collapsed.
