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Classical listens surge, outperforms rest of industry

January 12th, 2019 The number of plays of classical music increased by more than 10 per cent in 2018, with the genre growing faster than the UK music industry at large. Across...

Offbeat

Photoshop gaffe embarrasses Australian prime minister with two left feet

January 9th, 2019 SYDNEY, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was left red-faced on Wednesday after a family photograph, doctored by his staff,...

Americas

Judge knocks down New York's nunchuck ban

December 18th, 2018 A federal judge knocked down a New York state law banning nunchucks that dated to the 1970s, when martial arts star Bruce Lee popularized them in his movies by...

Europe

Thousands dressed as Santa Claus race through Madrid for charity

December 9th, 2018 More than 7,000 people dressed as Santa Claus ran through central Madrid on Sunday in a charity race to raise money for cancer care. Many children dressed...

Offbeat

Get Up, Stand Up! Unesco declares reggae a global cultural treasure

November 29th, 2018 Unesco has declared reggae, the Jamaican music that spread across the world with its calls for social justice, peace and love, to be a global treasure that...

Offbeat

London restaurant closes toilet ahead of World Toilet Day

November 16th, 2018 "So he's allowed to go to the toilet and I'm not?" an angry customer argues at a London restaurant. "It's our basic human right." With one in three people...

Videos

Man who tried to sell stolen John Lennon diaries charged in Germany

November 12th, 2018 A 59-year-old man was charged in Germany on Monday on suspicion of trying to sell stolen diaries and other items that had belonged to the late Beatle John...

Offbeat

A vomit bag for every guest at the Disgusting Food Museum

November 5th, 2018 The dead mouse in the Chinese wine sure looks nasty, and the maggots in the cheese tend to put people off. But nothing is more horrible to an unaccustomed...

Offbeat

Woman survives six days in Arizona desert after crash

November 1st, 2018 A 53-year-old woman survived six days in the Arizona desert on grass and water after crashing her car, before being rescued by a rancher and highway workers...

Offbeat

Monkey snatches cobra from snake charmer

October 31st, 2018 This was the bizarre moment a monkey snatched a cobra from a snake charmer and fled. The snake charmer desperately pursued the monkey to get his snake...

Offbeat

Soviet-era moon fragments could reach $1m at NY auction

October 30th, 2018 Wealthy space buffs will have the chance to own three small particles of lunar matter when what Sotheby's describes as the only known documented "moonrocks" to...

Offbeat

At 106, tireless French cyclist hops back in the saddle

October 26th, 2018 Centenarian cyclist Robert Marchand donned his lycra shorts again on Friday and rode cautiously around France's indoor Velodrome National, becoming by far...

World

Sydney's same-sex penguins become parents (V)

October 26th, 2018 Two male penguins entrusted with the care of a fostered egg have welcomed a tiny sub-Antarctic Gentoo chick into the world, Sydney's Sea Life Aquarium said on...

Offbeat

Gullible robbers arrested after retailer tells them to return later

October 24th, 2018 A Belgian store owner foiled an armed robbery on Saturday by telling the would-be thieves to return later when there would be more money in the till. The...

World

Same-sex penguin couple incubate egg at Sydney aquarium

October 15th, 2018 Two male penguins who built a nest together from ice pebbles at Sydney's Sea Life Aquarium are now fostering an egg given them by aquarium staff who suspected...

Offbeat

Russian town hires cat chief to attend to strays, the purrfect job

October 11th, 2018 It was an unusual job advert. Wanted: Cat chief. Location: Zelenogradsk, Russia: Duties: Tending to the town's approximately 70 stray cats. Some 80...

Offbeat

Paddle your own pumpkin: German racers swap boats for vegetables (V)

October 5th, 2018 With a look of apprehension, a blond woman clad in a wetsuit wobbles her way onto a lake in western Germany in a huge, hollowed-out vegetable. Paddle held...

Offbeat

Houston officials block brothel from featuring sex dolls

October 4th, 2018 The Houston City Council on Wednesday prevented what was billed as the first brothel in the United States equipped with sex dolls from opening in the Texas...

Offbeat

Dubai jeweller puts gem-studded $17m shoes on sale

September 27th, 2018 By Hadeel Al Sayegh That's one way to lose those walking blues: a pair of shoes encrusted with diamonds has gone on sale in Dubai with a price tag of $17...

Offbeat

Swedish TV satire on Chinese tourists sparks Beijing protest

September 26th, 2018 China complained to Sweden on Monday over a satirical news show on Swedish state television that advised Chinese tourists how to avoid culture clashes in a way...

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