Though some fans have began participating in what they call the Bird Box challenge, Netflix has asked fans not not to hurt themselves in the process. The Bird Box challenge involves people blindfolding themselves as characters do in Netflix’s popular thriller while they attempt common tasks. A quick Twitter search of #BirdBoxChallenge shows fans mostly…
Italian parents are being warned not to send their kids to school without vaccinations, or face a €500 fine, while children under six can be turned away altogether. Following months of debate over the issue of mandatory vaccines in Italy, the deadline has been reached for parents to prove their children have received mandatory immunisations…
Even by the bloody standards of the ancient Romans, it was a particularly grisly way to die. The Tarpeian Rock is a precipitous cliff in the heart of Rome from where, during Roman times, traitors, perjurors and larcenous slaves were hurled to their deaths. Now, in an unlikely marriage between the worlds of high fashion…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Sweeping through its first Lone Star Conference series, West Texas A&M tightened its grip on the No. 1 ranking in this week’s NFCA Division II Top 25 Coaches Poll, announced by the Association on Wednesday morning. With the sweep of then-No. 20 Tarleton State, the Lady Buffs (20-0) gained three more first-place votes…
A pilot on the Ethiopian Airlines flight which crashed three weeks ago was heard saying “pitch up, pitch up” just moments before the disaster, the Wall St Journal has reported. The conversation happened when the plane was just 450ft (137m) off the ground as the aircraft begun to point downwards, according to the paper. The plane’s…
Ahead of bilateral talks in Moscow, Karin Kneissl has recalled having smoked a cigarette together with her Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, saying she smokes rarely, only when feeling especially comfortable. The Austrian FM is visiting Moscow on March 11-12 and is expected to talk with her colleague Sergey Lavrov, the Foreign Ministry spokesperson confirmed. In…
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s first DLC fighter features Persona 5’s protagonist, Joker. “This gives you a flavor of how we’re approaching the DLC,” Reggie Fils-Aime said at The Game Awards. “There’s going to be five characters. Each character will come with a stage [and] it’ll come with a collection of music. These are characters that are…
This weekend, the other “royal” wedding of 2018, that of Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, is set to turn the world’s attention to the sumptuous Umaid Bhawan Palace, in Jodhpur, India, where the A-list couple will say their “I dos.” Built over 15 years in the mid-20th century, the palace has all the markings that…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – In a poll that saw a lot of shuffling, Florida remained one of the few constants as it used a dominant 7-0 week to secure the unanimous No. 1 ranking in the USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 Coaches Poll for games played Feb. 15-21. In remaining undefeated, the Gators (11-0)…
Milan’s prestigious La Scala opera house is under fire over negotiations to add none other than Saudi Arabia’s culture minister as a new board member, in a plan that was slammed as being financially motivated and “unscrupulous.” The prospect of a member of the Saudi royal family sitting on the board of directors of one…