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Killing the Himalayas slowly: Human urine is melting a glacier on Mount Everest

A South Korean startup has developed an AI-powered dog collar that can detect five emotions in canines by monitoring their barks using voice recognition technology.

South Korean smart dog collar tells owner what's in a bark

Riding an old-fashioned horse-driven cart, Dr Viktoria Mahnych trots country roads to attend to her patients in several villages nestled in the Carpathian Mountains in western Ukraine. Mahnych, 30, now fears that the long holidays, during which Ukrainians frequented restaurants and other entertainment venues, as well as festive parties and crowded church services, will trigger a surge in new coronavirus infections and make her job even more difficult. The country of 42 million has recorded more than 1.1 million confirmed COVID-19 infections and nearly 20,000 deaths. #COVID19 #Ukraine #Doctor

A village doctor's struggle to keep up with rising COVID-19 cases in Ukraine

From her workshop in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, Erendira Guerrero makes teddy bears for the family and friends of COVID-19 victims in order to console them. Using old clothes from loved ones, she stitches together the teddy bears to help people cope with losing loved ones during the pandemic.

From grief to comfort: Mexican seamstress fills in void left by COVID-19 victims

Despite Brazil's pandemic and the cancellation by city authorities of the annual Carnival, in Rio de Janeiro, one man has been determined to celebrate. Dressed in carnival costume, with a boombox on his neck blaring music and handing out flowers to residents, he represents a welcome relief for residents of Santa Teresa seeking a little relief from the gloomy daily news about rising COVID infections and a faltering economy.

One man determined to keep Rio Carnival spirit alive

Losing a leg did not stop Gui Yuna from achieving her dreams. The 35-year-old former Paralympian has now chosen to take on competitive bodybuilding, and has gone viral on Chinese social media for her positive attitude and inspiring story.

Female bodybuilder with one leg captures hearts in China | Inspirational story gone viral

Sitting in her room for hours finishing her makeup, Alaa Bliha is not preparing for a night out but instead to transform into famous figures and celebrities. The 27-year-old art graduate says she has been attracted to this kind of art since childhood when she used to paint mustaches on her face to imitate characters from a Syrian TV show. Watch how this Jordanian artist uses makeup to transform into celebrities.

Watch how this Jordanian artist uses makeup to transform into celebrities

In a ritual to purify their souls and pray for an end of the COVID-19 pandemic, a handful of people braved the cold and stepped into an ice bath at a shrine in Tokyo on Sunday (January 10).

Pilgrims in Tokyo plunge into icy bath for Shinto ritual, pray for end of the pandemic

Four people died in Spain as Storm Filomena caused travel chaos across the country, but those who were more fortunate in the Spanish capital Madrid put on their skis and snowshoes to enjoy the city's biggest snowfall in decades. Advice from emergency services was to stay home, but people were seen skiing and sledding down the slope across Madrid's Prado Museum on Saturday (January 9).

Snowed under! Madrid residents enjoy biggest snowfall in decades

After a years-long effort to remove landmines near where Christians believe Jesus was baptized, Fransciscan friars marked the Epiphany holiday on Sunday (January 10) by visiting a Jordan River shrine that had been marooned for over 50 years.

Mine-free River Jordan shrine ends 50 year wait for Epiphany

A Madrid resident saw the lighter side of a snowstorm in the Spanish capital on Saturday (January 9) by donning a T-Rex dinosaur costume to play in the streets.

Rexy the 'dinosaur' makes snow angels in Madrid

Animals at Berlin Zoo enjoyed a belated Christmas feast on Thursday (7 JANUARY 2021). Elephants and bison at the German capital's famous zoo chomped down on discarded Christmas trees, donated from tree suppliers.

Animals at Berlin Zoo enjoy Christmas leftovers

South Korean researchers say they have designed an inexpensive, inflatable negative pressure ward for isolating and treating patients with infectious diseases like COVID-19, after the pandemic exposed shortages of beds around the world.

S.Korea unveils inflatable isolation ward for COVID-19 patients

Every day since December, about sixty children make their way to a school in a makeshift tent at the site of the Indian farmers' protest against agricultural reforms. The protesters started this for kids who don't go to school or haven't been able to attend classes due to the virus lockdown.

School established for slum children at Indian farmers' protest site

Staff at the UK's largest zoo kicked off the biggest task of the year in the snow Thursday (7 JANUARY 2021): their annual stocktake. The keepers at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo near Dunstable in Bedfordshire, England, must count every invertebrate, bird, fish, mammal, reptile and amphibian, as required as part of the zoo's license.

UK's largest zoo pauses for stocktake; highlights the positives of conservation efforts during pandemic lockdown

As Tokyo entered its second state of emergency on Friday (January 8), less than 200 days before the start of the postponed Olympics, many believe it will be difficult, perhaps impossible, to host the Games safely.

"It's impossible" - Japanese concerned over prospects of hosting Games

For almost two decades scientists have teamed up with divers for a bone hunt on the outskirts of the town of Kurgan, Russia. The search takes place three metres under water as the air temperatures drop to minus 20-25 degrees Celsius. The area used to be covered by the West Siberian Glacial Lake formed approximately 80,000 years ago. It explains why teeth and bones of ancient fish are among divers' usual findings. Divers also discover bones and skulls of ancients bulls, horses and lions as well as tools which were likely used by early humans.

Hunt for ancient bones in frozen river; Russian divers search at minus 20-25 degrees Celsius

Hundreds of Orthodox Christian worshippers in eastern Romania celebrated an ancient Epiphany tradition on Wednesday. But the event - in the village of Facaieni - was cut back because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Epiphany tradition on Danube cut short by restrictions

Carrying figurines of baby Jesus, Bolivian Catholics flocked to church on Wednesday (January 6), to celebrate the feast of the Epiphany with a traditional blessing.

Bolivians take baby Jesus figurines for blessing on Three Kings Day

A skating rink owner in the Polish city of Szczecin believes he has found a way to keep his business open despite coronavirus restrictions - operate as a flower shop instead.

On thin ice? Poles get creative to skate round coronavirus rules

Japanese cheerleaders danced and cheered on commuters outside a Tokyo rail station on Thursday (January 7) in a bid to lift spirits with the capital heading into another state of emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rah! Japanese cheerleaders lift commuters' spirits amid pandemic

Cricket fans attending the Australian Indian test match at the Sydney Cricket Ground went to various lengths to follow a mandatory mask order on Thursday (January 7).

Cricket fans in Sydney mask up in style

The densely-populated Gaza Strip has long lacked sufficient drinking water, but a new project helps ease the shortage with a solar-powered process to extract potable water straight from the air.

Extracting potable water from air | This Israeli firm in Gaza is turning air into drinking water

Dozens of palm-sized baby turtles flipped and flopped on a beach as they made their way towards the crashing waves of the Indian Ocean, under the watchful gaze of conservationists at a national park in Indonesia.

Indonesia's baby sea turtles make a break for freedom

The Three Wise Men arrived in Madrid on Tuesday (January 5) at a show with no audience on a year without traditional street parades on the eve of the Epiphany.

No audience to receive the Three Kings in Madrid due to COVID-19

Hong Kong residents on Wednesday (January 6) expressed shock over police arrests of dozens of leading democratic activists on suspicion of violating the city's controversial security law.

Hong Kong residents shocked by mass arrests

Drone view on Wednesday (January 6) showed Bethlehem, known as the birthplace of Jesus, waking up to a near-deserted Manger Square at dawn on Orthodox Christmas Eve.

Drone over Nativity Church on Orthodox Christmas

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