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EPAThe tourist bus came off the road in the early hours of Sunday morningTwelve people were killed and dozens more injured when a Polish tourist bus veered off a Hungarian motorway and into a ditch.Police said the bus overturned after coming off the M3 motorway, which connects Hungary’s capital Budapest with the north-eastern city of Nyíregyháza, at around 01:00 local time on Sunday (23:00 GMT on Saturday).Officers believe the driver fell asleep at the wheel. He has been taken into custody.Thirty-five out of the 57 passengers and two drivers onboard have been rescued by firefighters so far, state media reports.Hungary’s…
BBCThe group will be the first women’s team to try the greasy pole challenge since the 90s When Bex Campbell bumps into people she knows in the street these days, they all say the same thing.”People keep stopping me in the street and going ‘are you mad, are you actually doing the greasy pole this year?’,” the 37-year-old says with a laugh.Bex is one of a five-strong all female team tackling one of Irvine’s more unique challenges – scaling a 25ft (7.6m) wooden pole covered in grease, and trying to claim the prize at the top – a ham.The women…
Tayane DalazenA nurse shark bit Tayane Dalazen while she was diving off the Brazilian coast”I knew something was different because the sharks were on the surface,” says Tayane Dalazen, a 37-year old Brazilian lawyer and social media personality.”There were a lot of them,” she says. “Later, I discovered [the tour organisers] were feeding the sharks so that they would interact with the tourists.”Dalazen, from Sao Paulo, was on a shark-diving trip on the Brazilian coast in April when she suddenly felt “strong pressure” on her leg.”When the shark bit me, the pain was very strong,” she says. “I stayed calm…
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Sleepy Boy GamesPlayers in the prime minister simulator No 10: Full Confidence must balance the moods of factions including their cabinet and the mediaA mobile game made by a developer in Manchester has recently beaten the global phenomenon Minecraft to top Apple’s paid games chart.Its success is perhaps even more surprising given its subject matter – UK politics.No 10: Full Confidence by Benjamin Brewis sees players take on the role of prime minister, making decisions through a wave of parliamentary scenarios and trying to remain in power for as long as possible.The success of Brewis’s app, and the creation of…
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Getty ImagesWhite House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez have both spoken in recent days about balancing their careers with motherhoodLast summer, Representative Sara Jacobs would run up to her office to give herself injections of hormones before rushing back to Congress for a session with her fellow lawmakers.The shots were for the second round of freezing her eggs, a medical procedure that can give women more time to have children.”It was an empowering decision that gave me more agency,” the 37-year-old said, adding that the process was challenging.”Your body hurts. Your hormones are crazy. It’s kind of…
Getty ImagesMourners placed tributes after 15 people were murdered near Bondi Beach Australia’s most populous state will launch a gun buyback scheme later this year, becoming the first to offer cash in exchange for firearms in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack.Gun owners in New South Wales (NSW) will be offered up to AUS$1,000 (£523) to hand over eligible handguns, shotguns and rifles from 2 November.Australian authorities had pledged sweeping firearm law reforms after 15 people were shot dead at a Jewish festival on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, which is located in NSW, last December.The state’s premier Chris Minns…
Charlotte Touzalin was still a young teenager when she began struggling with weight gain, abnormal periods and unwanted facial hair — the same puzzling symptoms that plagued her mom for decades and that no doctor could piece together.“I’d go home and I’d cry,” said Touzalin, an 18-year-old college student from Colorado. “I didn’t understand why all this weight was coming back or why my friends didn’t have to shave their faces and I had to.”Touzalin and her mom, Anne Schultz, were finally diagnosed with polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, a hormonal condition affecting 1 in 8 women worldwide. But unlike her…