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How Ayia Napa has long struggled to shake off its hedonistic reputation

It was the late Nineties that Ayia Napa became the new Ibiza, attracting hundreds of thousands of British revellers every summer to a corner of Cyprus previously more or less left alone by tourists. The boom of low-cost airlines and cheap package deals fused…

bubmagDecember 30, 2019

Yellow Vests

US ambassador forced to defend moustache after South Koreans criticise ‘disrespectful’ facial hair

The US ambassador to South Korea has defended his facial hair after suggestions his moustache was disrespectful to some people in the east Asian country. Harry Harris, the US ambassador since July 2018, has said he grew a moustache to make a break between hi…

bubmagDecember 30, 2019

Exoskeleton

To grab nectar, moths rely on split-second timing

To extract nectar from flowers dancing in the wind, moths depend on precise, millisecond timing between their brain and muscles, researchers report. Researchers captured and analyzed nearly all of the brain signals sent to the wing muscles of hawk moths (Man…

bubmagDecember 30, 2019

Scotland

Vanessa Hudgens continues her holiday vacation in Switzerland

Vanessa Hudgens has made her mark on Broadway and the Disney Channel. And now, she has her sights set on Vals, Switzerland as she continues to spend her holiday vacation surrounded by the Swiss landscape. The 31-year-old took to her Instagram on Monday mo…

bubmagDecember 30, 2019

Electric Car

Volkswagen wants robots to find your EV and charge it autonomously – Roadshow

Fill 'er up. Volkswagen Electric car charging stations remain a major hurdle for EV adoption, but maybe, just maybe, robots could help overcome that. Volkswagen last week revealed its concept for a totally autonomous EV charging robot. Essentially, this li…

bubmagDecember 30, 2019

Virtual Reality

Jan Kounen Discusses Virtual Reality Experience ‘Ayahuasca’

Jan Kounen, the Netherlands-born French film filmmaker whose best-known credits are “Dobermann‎” and “Blueberry,” has delivered his most personal work so far with “Ayahuasca,” a virtual reality experience exploring shamanic medicine from the Peruvian jungle. …

bubmagDecember 30, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

10 Events that changed Europe in the last decade

The murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia (Malta, 2017) Daphne Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist, was murdered in 2017 and two years on the scandal has seen three senior cabinet ministers stand down and the country’s prime minister, Joseph Muscat, prom…

bubmagDecember 30, 2019

Panda

2019: The year that Brexit beckoned, protests proliferated and Greenland was not for sale

World / 30 December 2019, 7:00pm / DPA US President Donald Trump cancelled a state visit to Denmark after it refused point-blank to sell him Greenland. File picture: Andrew Harnik/AP Berlin - A look at the year that was 2019. January January 3: China's "C…

bubmagDecember 30, 2019

Christianity

Trump Shares Meme Claiming He’s ‘Heaven Sent’ and He ‘Invited’ Jesus Back into the White House

On Friday, President Donald Trump continued his tweet-fest from the Mar-a-Lago resort, where he retweeted a two-year-old meme showing a picture of Jesus. The picture claims Trump is “heaven sent” and says Jesus was “kicked out” of President Barack Obama White…

bubmagDecember 30, 2019

Air Pollution

Australia fires: A visual guide to the bushfires and extreme heat

Australia is grappling with massive bushfires fuelled by record-breaking temperatures and months of severe drought. In the worst-affected state, New South Wales, fires have burned more than 4 million hectares (9.9m acres) destroying more than 900 houses. …

bubmagDecember 30, 2019

How Ayia Napa has long struggled to shake off its hedonistic reputation

US ambassador forced to defend moustache after South Koreans criticise ‘disrespectful’ facial hair

To grab nectar, moths rely on split-second timing

Vanessa Hudgens continues her holiday vacation in Switzerland

Volkswagen wants robots to find your EV and charge it autonomously – Roadshow

Jan Kounen Discusses Virtual Reality Experience ‘Ayahuasca’

10 Events that changed Europe in the last decade

2019: The year that Brexit beckoned, protests proliferated and Greenland was not for sale

Trump Shares Meme Claiming He’s ‘Heaven Sent’ and He ‘Invited’ Jesus Back into the White House

Australia fires: A visual guide to the bushfires and extreme heat

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