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Japan foreign minister puzzles followers with bizarre 'bacon' tweet
Bemused followers of Foreign Minister Taro Kono were left scratching their heads Tuesday after a bizarre tweet about bacon, sparking tongue-in-cheek speculation he could be tweeting classified information in code. "Ah, bacon is in fact ^%£$+*.!%...." Kono tweeted in Japanese from his verified account to ...
Until recently, a Pakistani waiter working in a small cafe in the city of Rawalpindi knew nothing about the TV series "Game of Thrones" — or its antihero character played by U.S. actor Peter Dinklage. But now, 26-year-old Rozi Khan has customers asking to have ...
New Japanese era name a boon for Australian property website
What links the Japanese Imperial family and the property market in Western Australia? Until Monday's announcement of the forthcoming Reiwa Era, not much. The Real Estate Institute of Western Australia said it had an unexpected surge in traffic to its website — Reiwa.com — after ...
'We could have had chefs': Trump serves up fast food to visiting athletes at White House again
President Donald Trump didn't have to change the menu Monday for his second hosting of college athletes at the White House this year: it was time to pile the table with fast food again. Trump greeted the players of the North Dakota State Bison football ...
Fake Kim goes as real Kim comes: Vietnam expels North Korean leader lookalike
An Australian comedian who impersonates North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Monday authorities were deporting him from Vietnam, some 24 hours before the real Kim was due to arrive for a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump. The Kim lookalike, who goes by ...
Trump, Kim impersonators held for questioning by Hanoi police
Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump impersonators were held for questioning by Vietnamese police after they appeared in Hanoi, where the U.S. and North Korean leaders will meet next week for a second summit. Kim impersonator Howard X and Donald Trump lookalike Russell White staged ...
Fish sperm sacs, maggot cheese or virgin boy eggs — bon appetit at the Disgusting Food Museum
Care for some fish sperm sacs, maggot cheese, fried tarantula or a bat? Or how about fried locusts, grasshoppers or virgin boy eggs? These delicacies are among some 80 items featured at the Disgusting Food Museum that opened in Los Angeles on Sunday, aiming to ...
Taiwan grandpa catches 'em all playing 'Pokemon Go' on 15 phones
Chen San-yuan turns heads as he cycles through a suburb of Taipei, Taiwan's capital. The reason why? Attached to the front of his bicycle are 15 mobile phones which Chen, 70, uses to simultaneously play the augmented-reality game "Pokemon Go." The smartphone-based game requires players to "catch" ...
Fantasy painting of Trump with ex-Republican presidents mocked online
It could be any Republican president's fantasy: hanging out at a bar with fellow conservative American leaders of years, decades, and even centuries past. For U.S. President Donald Trump, that fictional "happy hour" exists, in the form of a painting hanging at the White House ...
Girl, 8, dubbed 'Queen of Sweden' after drawing ancient pre-Viking-era sword from lake
Her name conjures up Old Nordic tales about heroic accomplishments — and that is exactly what Saga this summer did when she stumbled on a pre-Viking-era sword in a lake in southern Sweden. Saga Vanecek, 8, was helping her father with his boat in Lake ...
Hitler runs for mayor despite threat from Lennin in Peruvian Andes
Hitler hopes to return to power in a small Peruvian town in the Andes, despite a threat from a detractor named Lennin. Campaign slogans reading, "Hitler returns" and "Hitler with the people" have appeared around the highland town of Yungar, where Hitler Alba is seeking ...
South Korea students gain weight 'to dodge military service'
Twelve inventive South Korean college students deliberately made themselves overweight to dodge mandatory military service, a branch of the armed forces in Seoul has said. The students — all classical music majors at the same university in the capital — took protein powder and drank ...
