On Friday, Unite, which represents around 2,000 tanker drivers, announced that it would rule out industrial action over the Easter weekend after the British government’s bungled response to a potential fuel...
Cleaning the Cobra Pit Like a Boss: a Day in the Life of a Badass Next time you're about to complain about your job, consider the guy who is tasked with cleaning a cobra pit. Not only are cobras fast and deadly, but...
Women in India’s Maharashtra state get a rare chance to play and dance – normally considered a social taboo – on the occasion of snake festival , locally known as Nag Panchami. Normally a festival in...
Don’t worry; I was just kicking her tires. She sits there in a handicapped parking spot, but I know the driver is playing tennis. Go figure. Anyhow, she’s alone with me lying in the grass next her. I am all...
What would you do, if a 13' hungry python wrapped itself around you, then literally dragged you up a tree? This is exactly what happened to Kenyan farm worker Ben Nyaumbe, living in the Malindi area of Kenya....
" A reflection in a stock market display in Tokyo. Image Credit: 2005 - Katsumi KasaharaFrom Lost Decade To Lost GenerationBarack Obama, in his first news conference of his tenure as the 44th president of the...
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The Northern Philippine Cobra (Naja philippinensis) is a stocky, very toxic snake native to the Philippines. They are found on the Luzon, Mindoro, Catanduanes and Masbate islands. Its average length is 1,70 m....
The Turkish military is claiming it has killed 35 Kuridish rebels in an attack on Friday. The rebels were allegedly trying to infiltrate Turkey from a base in Northern Iraq."Turkey's military intercepted...
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Since its creation some five decades ago, the reggae industry has seen many female star lights. From its very first, being Millie Small to its current reigning queen, Marcia Griffiths, the Jamaican soundscape has...
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"Some bright spark wanting the freedom to go off and ski the red runs, leaving his less able companions on the nursery slopes, wanted a way to communicate where to meet up later for apres ski beers. So he made these walkie talkies and gave them to all his pals, no line...
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Opinion
Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor
What I would like to know is, what the hell was this "Brainless Twit" thinking having a Pet Cobra? How was it allowed in Canada? Media do not state if it is meant for...
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I've got to say, considering how well Transformers turned out, I can't wait for this movie to come out. "The "G.I. Joe" brigade is growing larger. Rachel Nichols ("P2"), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ("Lost") and Said...
Update: LONDON — A powerful
storm in the North Sea kicked up surging waters that forced the
Netherlands to close floodgates at Europe's largest port and Britain to
evacuate residents in...
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Britain is facing another round of heavy flooding, expected by early morning tomorrow, and it looks like it could be devastating. A tidal surge on the magnitude of 3m(10ft) is expected. "Flooding 'may put lives at risk'
Severe flood warnings are in place on parts of the east...
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Dhaka (ANTARA News) - Bangladeshi "snake king" Tota Miah, who became a
national celebrity after starting the country's first commercial snake
farm, has died after failing to charm two cobras, police said Monday.
"He was bitten on his hands by two cobras on Saturday as he was...
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