Lifestyle
Interactive border wall mural tells stories of deported
Tijuana, Aug 10 (AP/UNB) — Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana returned Friday to the Mexican beach where her father entered the U.S. illegally before she was born, this time to put final touches on a mural of adults who came to the U.S. illegally as young children and were deported. Visitors who hold up their phones to the painted faces are taken to a website that voices first-person narratives.
All hands on duck!
Biddeford, Aug 10 (AP/UNB) — Dozens of ducklings have made a bid to create the world's cutest traffic jam in a Maine city.
Bear falls on Northern California patrol car
Hoopa, Aug 10 (AP/UNB) — They probably don't train people for this at the Sheriff's Academy.
SM Sultan’s 95th birth anniversary today
Dhaka, Aug 10 (UNB) – The 95th birth anniversary of renowned artist Sheikh Mohammed Sultan (SM Sultan) is being observed in a befitting manner on Saturday.
Foods to eat (and avoid) if you have dengue fever
Dhaka, Aug 9 (UNB) - Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne tropical disease caused by the dengue virus. Symptoms typically begin three to 14 days after the infection, and may include a high fever, headache, vomiting, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic skin rash. When a mosquito bites a person infected with a dengue virus, the virus enters the mosquito. When the infected mosquito then bites another person, the virus enters that person’s bloodstream, reports The Indian Express.
Drinking three cups of coffee a day may increase migraine risk, says study
Dhaka, Aug 9 (UNB) - Drinking three or more cups of coffee daily may be associated with a higher risk of migraine, according to a study published Thursday, reports The Indian Express.
441-year-old stone tablet discovered in north China
Shijiazhuang, Aug 8 (Xinhua/UNB) -- A stone tablet dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1384-1644) has been discovered in northern China's Hebei Province, according to local authorities.
Giant emoji painted on house roil California community
Manhattan Beach, Aug 8 (AP/UNB) — A Southern California seaside community is in an uproar after a home was given a new paint job featuring two huge emoji on a bright pink background.
Toni Morrison was a 'literary mother' to countless writers
New York, Aug 7 (AP/UNB) — When author Angela Flournoy was asked to dress as her favorite literary character for a magazine shoot four years ago, she knew how to look the part: a wide and "severe hat," a fur stole and the kind of stare that dares you to stare back.
Boom in overdose-reversing drug is tied to fewer drug deaths
New York , Aug 7(AP/UNB) — Prescriptions of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone are soaring, and experts say that could be a reason overdose deaths have stopped rising for the first time in nearly three decades.