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Continued from Part 1…With high-adrenaline acrobatics akin to those seen on the snow, skateboarding promises to wow and hook both existing and untapped Olympic audiences.For its Olympic debut, skateboarding has a custom-built park on the shores of Tokyo Bay to play with.The 40 men and 40 women will be chasing medals in two events — park, where they…

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For skateboarding, a sport where the No. 1 rule is that there are no rules, the straitjacket of the Olympic Games, with its dense thickets of tradition and regulation, may not be a natural or immediate fit.So at the Tokyo Games, freewheelin’ skaters and Olympic officials are going to learn a lot about each other. Could be quite a ride. Both have pl…

Queen Elizabeth II visited the set of Coronation Street in London on July 8 to mark the 60th birthday of the TV soap opera.The monarch was all smiles as she walked along the cobbled street. She also visited a studio. Inside the studio, the crew and cast film the interior of the Rovers Return pub.It was the second time the queen, 95, has visited the…

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UK’s ‘Freedom Day’ marred by soaring casesBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “Freedom Day,” ending more than a year of lockdown restrictions in England, was marred July 19 by surging infections, warnings of supermarket shortages and his own forced self-isolation.Johnson’s bet — that he can get one of Europe’s largest economies firing again beca…

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A COVID-19 inoculation site for young people in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward got off to a rocky start Aug. 27 after the capital dramatically underestimated the size of the crowd that would turn up.Registration was supposed to begin at 11:50 a.m., but a line had formed by sunrise and every slot was filled by 7:30 a.m. According to officials, around 15 peopl…

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Harrison Ford injures shoulder on set of new Indiana Jones movieActor Harrison Ford injured his shoulder while rehearsing a fight scene for a new Indiana Jones movie, Walt Disney Co. said on June 23.Production of the fifth Indiana Jones film will continue while “the appropriate course of treatment is evaluated” for the 78-year-old actor, Disney sai…

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Last year on Dec. 8, two elderly British people were the first to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The vaccine they received was made by German biotech company BioNTech and U.S. pharmaceuticals company Pfizer.The vaccine uses mRNA — messenger RNA — to protect against the COVID-19 disease.Ever since, people have called it simply “the Pfizer shot.” B…

Continued from Part 1… For many years, French-speaking Montreal was the economic engine of Canada, only to be surpassed by English-speaking Toronto in the final decades of the 20th century. Today, Toronto is a major center for commerce and finance. Montreal, on the other hand, is widely touted for its culture, cuisine and architecture. If Toronto i…

You may not have heard about it on the news, but Canada has just been through an intense fight.Representatives from the English and French parts of the country faced off in May, exchanging shots and hits and even engaging in hand-to-hand combat.Casualties were limited to minor injuries, but all were left with bumps and bruises and those watching th…

Smartphones are getting bigger, more expensive and packed with more high-tech features. But if you want a simpler digital lifestyle, they might be too much.You could try a feature phone. Today’s feature phones can do a lot of things, but not very well. They’re mainly just for calling people.But maybe you want something in-between. Something like th…

In a stunning political setback for Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on his home turf, opposition party-backed Takeharu Yamanaka defeated seven other candidates in the race to become Yokohama mayor.The victory by Yamanaka, 48, who was endorsed by the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and received the support of other major opposition parties, w…

Iran’s hard-line judiciary chief won a landslide victory in the country’s presidential election, a vote that propelled the supreme leader’s protege into Tehran’s highest civilian position, but saw the lowest turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history.The election of Ebrahim Raisi, already sanctioned by the U.S. in part over his involvement in the ma…

Britney Spears says she doesn’t know whether she’ll ever perform againBritney Spears says she has no idea whether she will ever perform again.Spears, who has not performed in public since late 2018 and is under a court-ordered conservatorship, made the statement in a video post on her Instagram page where she answered three questions that she said …

HK pro-democracy Apple Daily closesThe pro-democracy Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily closed for good June 23 following police raids and the arrest of executives — a move that critics say undermines the city’s status as a free and open society.The jewel in Lau’s Next Digital media business, Apple Daily is a popular tabloid founded 26 years ago that …

Continued from Part 1...Asian elephants are loyal to their home ranges unless there have been disturbances, loss of resources or development, in which case they may move out, according to Nilanga Jayasinghe, manager for Asian species conservation at Worldwide Fund for Nature.“In this case, we don’t really know why they left their home range, but do…

Already famous at home, China’s wandering elephants are now becoming international stars.Major global media are chronicling the herd’s more than yearlong, 500-kilometer trek from their home in a wildlife reserve in mountainous southwest Yunnan province to the outskirts of the provincial capital of Kunming.Twitter and YouTube are full of clips of th…

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Ever hear of the phrase “putting your money where your mouth is”? It means to act in a way that matches what you say. If you say you believe in helping people but in reality you don’t, then your money and your mouth are not on good terms. When a bank in upstate New York celebrated its 170th anniversary with 170 acts of kindness, it showed the world…

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Plastic has been with us for so long that we forget how much it has changed the world, mostly for the better. But the first completely artificial plastic wasn’t called plastic: It was called Bakelite.Before Bakelite, people used rubber, making it into useful shapes. But in the 19th century, people started making new materials from plants and milk. …

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Geneva baker serves up ‘Peace Cake’ for 1st summit between Biden and PutinA Swiss baker has invented a “Peace Cake” to mark the first Biden-Putin presidential summit. She said it was inspired by U.S. and Russian culinary traditions.The cake shows the words “Peace of Cake” next to flags and symbols from the two countries: a doll and samovar for Russ…

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Fred Flintstone fought the law — and he won.Technically, the owner of the fanciful Flintstone house in a posh San Francisco suburb settled a lawsuit with the suburb, the town of Hillsborough. But the agreement will allow Fred and his friends to remain.In a dispute that pitted property rights against government rules, and played out in international…

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Exxon loses board seats to activist hedge fundA tiny hedge fund dealt a major blow to Exxon Mobil Corp. on May 26, unseating at least two board members in a bid to force the company’s leadership to reckon with the risk of failing to adjust its business strategy to match global efforts to combat climate change.The success by hedge fund Engine No. 1 …

Continued from Part 1… At other times, the settings feel natural, like the gay nightclub Blur or a tour of the colorful WhimzeyLand “bowling ball house” in an episode featuring a scavenger hunt. Even the countless gratuitous beach shots mostly feel believable.“I’m watching something and I’m drawn into the show because of the storyline, but also the…

Remember that longing you felt after an episode of Sex and the City to shop at the characters’ favorite New York haunts and drink cosmopolitans at the same bars? Or that sense of wanderlust for the seaside cliffs of Ireland after watching Game of Thrones?Hollywood’s flattering spotlight has put small towns on the map, like Wilmington, North Carolin…

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Keeping up with T. rex was easy: researchersUnlike its popular movie incarnations, Tyrannosaurus rex — the giant meat-eating dinosaur from the Cretaceous period — walked slower than previously thought, most likely ambling around at human walking speed, new Dutch research has found.Working with a three-dimensional computer model of “Trix,” a female …

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More than 3,600 years ago, the mighty Hittite Empire ruled the Western Asian land of Anatolia. Its capital, Hattusa, flourished for around 500 years in what is now central Turkey. Today, the ruins of Hattusa attract the curious from around the world.The closest town is tiny Bogazkale, about 200 km east of Ankara. It’s a handy place to stay for a ni…

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Israel’s parliament narrowly approved a new coalition government June 13, ending the historic 12-year rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and sending the polarizing leader into the opposition.Naftali Bennett, a former ally of Netanyahu turned rival, became prime minister after the 60-59 vote. Promising to try to heal a divided nation, Bennett…

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Facebook to launch Clubhouse-style roomsFacebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on April 19 the company planned to launch several audio services, including Clubhouse-style live audio rooms and a way for users to find and play podcasts.Facebook’s incursion into the audio market comes as the sudden explosion of interest in Clubhouse could be waning. D…

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A pet dog who vanished for two days after being ejected from a vehicle during an accident has been found apparently doing the job it was bred to do — herding sheep.Linda Oswald’s family and their dog, Tilly, were driving along Idaho State Highway 41 on June 6 when they crashed into another car, launching the dog through the rear window, The Spokesm…

Continued from Part 1… “For the longer term, stenophylla provides us with an important resource for breeding a new generation of climate-resilient coffee crop plants, given that it possesses a great flavor and heat tolerance. If the historic reports of resistance to coffee leaf rust and drought tolerance are found to be correct, this would represen…

In dense tropical forests in Sierra Leone, scientists have rediscovered a coffee species not seen in the wild in decades — a plant they say may help secure the future of a valuable commodity that has been imperiled by climate change.The researchers said that the species, called Coffea stenophylla, possesses greater tolerance for higher temperatures…

A small town in Florida accidentally sold its water tower in a blundered real estate transaction.A businessman purchased a municipal building underneath the city of Brooksville’s water tower last April for $55,000 (¥6 million) with the goal of converting it into a gym. However, when Bobby Read went to the county to get an address for his new busine…

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Search-and-rescue teams pulled two more sets of remains from the concrete-and-steel rubble of a partially collapsed Florida condominium tower June 28, bringing the death toll to 11, with 150 people still listed as missing four days after the disaster.Pouring rain and slabs of cement hampered efforts to pick through debris left from the unexplained …

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Last month, Eric Carle, the beloved children’s book writer and illustrator, died. His most famous book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar — about a caterpillar that ate different things each day and turned into a butterfly — has been translated into at least 66 languages, including Japanese.It’s a reminder of how easily many books for kids travel the wor…