Image copyright fake pictures Screenshot Activists have long campaigned for an end to the sale of dog meat The Indian state of Nagaland has banned the import, trade and sale of dog meat, in a move by animal rights activists. The Northeast state government announced the ban after a sustained …

Here’s one: don’t microwave your books to get rid of the coronavirus. That’s the word from the employees of the Kent District Library in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A few days ago, the library received a book that appears to have been burned in a microwave. Elizabeth Guarino-Kozlowicz, regional manager for …

About 730 light years away, around a star that closely resembles our Sun, astronomers have found a really strange exoplanet. It is only slightly smaller than Neptune, which could indicate a gaseous planet … but it is more than twice as massive as Neptune, with a density comparable to Earth …

The famous statue of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, one of the biggest tourist attractions in Copenhagen, has been smashed with the text “racist fish”. The words were tagged on the stone on which the 1.65-meter (5.4-foot) high-attack bronze sits at the entrance to the port of Copenhagen. …

Thousands of people flocked to Jersey Shore beaches and amusement parks for the weekend of July 4, just after Governor Phil Murphy increased the limit of people allowed in outdoor gatherings from 250 to 500. Still, Murphy called on residents to continue using face covers and social distance. COVID-19 tweeted …