This year is already shaping up to be another bad one for glaciers in the Swiss Alps, with the snowpack covering them around 30 percent below the 10-year average, according to the scientist tracking their decline.. "There are even regions with a deficit of up to 50 percent" below the 10-year average for the depth of snowpack covering the surface of the glaciers.
In a clamorous bazaar, hot-blooded Pakistani men seek a cold-blooded cure for their sexual ills -- freshly rendered lizard fat, marinated in scorpion oil and garnished with filaments of a fiery red spice.. He says the unction is infused with saffron -- an exorbitantly expensive spice -- but given the oil sells for between 600 and 1,200 rupees ($2 to $4) that seems unlikely.
With bills targeting transgender youth multiplying at an alarming rate, Mary knew it was time to leave Texas -- and fast. . Mary considers herself lucky: She, her husband, and Jasper had the means to leave Texas.
Climate activists attacked a famous Degas sculpture in a Washington museum Thursday, smearing its Plexiglas enclosure with paint.. "We need our leaders to take serious action to tell the truth about what is happening to the climate," says an activist in her 50s sitting at the foot of the small statue, her hands covered in the red paint used on the glass and the base of the work of Edgar Degas, in a video published by The Washington Post.
Spanish lawmakers on Thursday approved a housing bill aimed at capping soaring rents and addressing dire social housing shortages as the government seeks to bolster the right to affordable homes. . The government says the legislation aims to meet the needs of those struggling to afford housing while limiting property speculation.
At four in the morning outside a Yangon monastery, Shwe Lei and her team were wrestling 30 writhing pythons into old rice sacks and loading them into a van.. Stuffed into the sacks were three months' worth of work, rescued from homes and apartments around Yangon and cared for at the monastery until they are fit for release to the wild.
Guiding her brown mare around the arena at breakneck speed, 16-year-old Morissa Hall is extremely focused as she takes on the barrel racing course in the eastern US state of Maryland.. The pair practice regularly with Hall on the Jackson family farm in Upper Marlboro, a small, leafy Maryland town less than an hour southeast of the nation's capital.
New Yorkers and tourists will once stroll between the rings and diamonds of the jeweler Tiffany & Co. on Fifth Avenue, which officially reopened for business on Wednesday after extensive renovations under new owners, French luxury giant LVMH. On Wednesday, the iconic Manhattan jewelry store -- immortalized by the 1961 film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" -- was officially reopened following the remodelling, which the luxury jeweler hopes will help fuel the brand's momentum under its new ownership. . - Beyonce and Nike - Tiffany was founded in New York in 1837, and has become best known for its diamonds, silver jewelry and engagement rings sold in the brand's iconic robin's egg blue boxes.
Disney on Wednesday sued Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, alleging his administration's takeover of its theme park district in the state is part of "a targeted campaign of government retaliation" for exercising its constitutionally protected right to free speech.. "A targeted campaign of government retaliation -- orchestrated at every step by Governor DeSantis as punishment for Disney's protected speech -- now threatens Disney's business operations, jeopardizes its economic future in the region, and violates its constitutional rights," it says.
Outside a morgue, Bethy Kahindi wailed for her missing sister, certain she was the victim of a Kenyan cult believed to have brainwashed dozens of followers into starving to death.. "This man is a monster, he killed my sister and her kids," she said, expressing anger that her sister was "brainwashed" despite Nthenge being on the radar of law enforcement for years.
