Posts Tagged ‘bottle’

From Greece, message in bottle reaches besieged Gaza

A message in bottle travelled about 500 miles across Mediterranean Sea to reach hands of Palestinian fisherman as first ever mail he had. “Hello! Thank you for picking up this bottle!” began the letter in neat black handwriting. “We are currently on holiday in Rhodes and would love to know how far this bottle got […]

Plastic Bottle Apocalypse

Plastic Bottle Apocalypse June 28th, 2017 Via: Guardian: New figures obtained by the Guardian reveal the surge in usage of plastic bottles, more than half a trillion of which will be sold annually by the end of the decade. The demand, equivalent to about […]

Marvels of modern architecture: New building in China looks like a toilet

     This is a newly constructed building at the North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power in Heinan, China. It looks like a giant crapper. Allegedly the resemblance is unintentional, although I find that near impossible to believe. Nobody could have looked at the blueprints for this thing and not thought, ‘Oh yeah, […]

Floods In Chile Leave Four Million People Without Drinking Water

Four million people in central Chile were left without drinking water as torrential rain in the Andean foothills, since Friday, triggered landslides into the Maipo and Mapocho rivers. This led to the fouling of the city’s water supply and forced the closure of the world largest underground copper mine, El Teniente. The capital, Santiago was […]

Imperial rights: Netanyahu says Golan will remain "forever" in Israel’s greedy paws

     Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tel Aviv will never withdraw from the Golan Heights, a strategic area captured from Syria in 1967, claiming it has been in Israeli hands “since antiquity.” Comment: Funny, since Israel didn’t exist before 1949. While the UN-led peace talks on the future of war-torn Syria take place in Geneva, […]

McDonald’s Just Came Out with a “Healthy” Kale Salad, But there’s just one Problem

Though McDonald’s remains a powerful force in the global fast food marketplace, its recent PR disasters, from its ‘19 ingredients in the french fries’ fiasco to its use of abused poultry, have motivated the company to rebrand itself. McDonald’s has made not only an appeal to increasingly bizarre snacks, such as the chocolate-laced fries it recently […]

From camels to car crevices: Saudi Arabia captures not-so-cunning customs evaders

One of the most popular items uncovered by officials is alcohol ‒ which is completely banned in Saudi Arabia ‒ with some smugglers being a little more subtle than others in how they hide their liquor. You certainly couldn’t describe this woman’s efforts as being in any way ‘subtle’: She simply shoved five bottles into […]

Woman dead, man fighting for life after gas bottle explosion

A gas bottle has exploded inside a unit on the state’s mid-north coast, killing a woman, 32, and injuring a man. Do you know more? Message 0424 SMS SMH (+61 424 767 764), email us or message us on Twitter @smh with information or images. Police said the explosion and fire was caused when a […]

Four men wanted over bottle bashing in Clayton

UPDATE 10.45am: A VICIOUS assault on a man who was smashed with a beer bottle then bashed on the ground appears to be random, police say. The 30-year-old man was walking along Haughton Rd, Clayton, about 10.45pm on Sunday when he was hit from behind with the empty bottle. After he turned around, four men […]

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