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🌏 Article 🌏 A new supermarket has opened in New Zealand and everything inside is free. The supermarket is run by Wellington City Mission, a charity in the New Zealand capital that usually gives food packages to those in need. However, it's now trying something different.   On March 16, the charity opened its Social Supermarket. Instead of getting a package of food, people who need support c...

🌏 Article 🌏 Comedy series The Office was the most streamed show in the US in 2020 according to a report by Nielsen. The company recently released lists of the top 10 most popular movies, original series and acquired series — shows that a streaming service has bought from another company — on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ and Hulu. The report looked at the total number of minutes shows wer...

🌏 Article 🌏 Australian airline Qantas has announced a series of new flights to destinations in Australia — but passengers won't know where they're going until the plane starts to land. The airline is offering three "mystery flights" — one from Brisbane in March, one from Sydney in April and one from Melbourne in May. Each flight will have 120 passengers, and will be about two hours long.  ...

🌏 Article 🌏 Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away is being made into a new play that will open in Tokyo in February 2022. The 2001 Studio Ghibli film is being adapted into a play by English writer and theater director John Caird. The main character, Chihiro, will be played by two actresses: Kanna Hashimoto and Mone Kamishiraishi. Hashimoto has been in a number of films and TV shows, but this will be he...

🌏 Article 🌏 Juventus player Cristiano Ronaldo has played his 600th league game and also broken a scoring record. Ronaldo is now the first player to have scored at least 20 goals a season for 12 consecutive seasons in one of Europe's top five leagues. The 36-year-old Portuguese soccer player scored the record-breaking goal in a 3–0 win over Spezia in the Italian League, Serie A.   Born in 19...

🌏 Article 🌏 A flying car built by Klein Vision successfully completed its first test flight at Piestany Airport in Slovakia in late October. The Slovakian company released a video showing its vehicle, called the AirCar, changing from a car to an aircraft and flying from the airport, which is 90 kilometers northeast of the capital, Bratislava. It was part of 50 hours of flight tests planned for t...

🌏 Article 🌏 DrawBo is a robot that can teach children how to draw hundreds of pictures using step-by-step instructions. The 220 gram robot can be used on any size whiteboard or even just a piece of paper on a wall. The robot is hung from two hooks attached to the board or paper using cords that allow it to move around and draw. It can hold any normal whiteboard or drawing pen. DrawBo comes with...

🌏 Article 🌏 Google has released its list of top searches for 2020, and called it "the year we asked 'why?'" In 2020, people used Google to ask "why" questions more than ever before. These questions included "Why is it called COVID-19?", "Why is mental health important?" and "Why is Mars red?"   Google says the world also searched "how to help" more than ever in 2020. The top "how to help" s...

🌏 Article Thomas Panek had always loved running. But he started losing his eyesight at age 8, and by his early 20s he was blind. Later in life, he started running with other people or a guide dog to help him, but he didn't like feeling dependent on others. So at a Google event in September 2019, Panek asked a group of experts whether they could create something to help blind people run alone. The...

🌏 Article A Tennessee man was able to find his missing $1 million winning lottery ticket in a parking lot. It had stayed there, even though he dropped it on a windy afternoon. Nick Slatten, who lives in the city of Sparta, Tennessee, learned on March 11 that he won the lottery with a ticket worth almost $1.2 million, the Tennessee Education Lottery said.   "I couldn’t believe it," said Slatt...

🌏 Article 🌏 With restaurants and bars closed around the country, a German brewery found itself with 6,000 liters of its "Altbier" beer unsold and nearing its expiry date. But it has an interesting solution. Fuechschen Brewery in Duesseldorf has started working with bakers to make loaves of "Treberbrot," or "Spent Grain Bread."   "It would have been such a shame to just toss out such a tasty...

🌏 Article 🌏 A Banksy painting honoring Britain’s health workers has sold for a record $23.2 million. Proceeds from the sale will go to health organizations and charities across the UK, according to Christie's, the auction house that sold the painting. The work by the mystery street artist, which is called Game Changer, first appeared on a wall at Southampton General Hospital in southern England...

❄❄ Article ❄❄ A "polar bear hotel" has opened in China that gives guests 24/7 views of polar bears from their rooms.  The hotel opened on March 12 in the city of Harbin, as part of the Harbin Polarland theme park. Rooms in the hotel — which cost between $290 and $350 per night — are built around an enclosure that lets guests look at the animals through their windows.   "Whether you're ea...

🌊🌊🌊 Article A 52-year-old man who spent 14 hours floating in the Pacific Ocean survived thanks to a "piece of sea rubbish." Vidam Perevertilov, from Lithuania, fell overboard on February 16 at around 4 a.m. He was working on the Silver Supporter, which was on its way from New Zealand to the Pitcairn Islands.   Vidam later told his son, Marat, that he wasn't feeling well, so he went outside...

🌞 Article 🌞 After changing to solar power, a school district in Arkansas is now saving enough money to increase how much it pays its teachers.   On average, teachers in the Batesville School District now get between $2,000 and $3,000 more a year than they used to, with some getting up to $15,000 more.   The Batesville School District used to spend more than $600,000 on utility bills ev...

🍍🍍 Article 🍍🍍 Following a trade dispute with China, people across Taiwan are finding new ways to include pineapples in traditional dishes in an attempt to support the country's farmers. China banned the import of Taiwanese pineapples on March 1, saying it was concerned about pests. So Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen asked citizens on social media to "Eat Taiwan's pineapples until you burst,"...

🍎🍞🍛 Article Throwing food scraps in the trash is a daily activity for many, but what if those scraps could be made into a meal? IKEA Canada has released a cookbook to help people do exactly that. The book, called The ScrapsBook, has 50 recipes using food people usually throw in the trash such as stale bread, brown bananas, the tops of strawberries and even sour milk. "In Canada, research tells...

🔥 Article Kane Tanaka, the world's oldest living person, will carry the Olympic torch for the Tokyo Games in May, 2021. Tanaka, who celebrated her 118th birthday in January this year, will become the oldest person ever to carry the Olympic torch. She will take the torch as it passes through the town of Shime, in the prefecture of Fukuoka, where she has lived her entire life. She even has a new pa...

🌏 Article The Blue Estate Group is planning to build the world's first floating city in the Caribbean. Just a short trip away from Miami and the Bahamas, the Blue Estate will offer its residents more than 340 sunny days per year. The man-made island will be 1,500 meters long and 1,000 meters wide, and will have space for more than 15,000 people to live. It will also have a school, a hospital, par...

✋ Article Some of the UK's iconic red phone boxes are up for sale, giving communities a chance to turn them into something new. BT, the company that owns the phone boxes, has been running its Adopt a Kiosk program since 2008. Phone boxes that are no longer in use are sold for about $1 to town councils or charities, which can turn them into anything they want, including coffee shops, information c...

Article Brazil, South America's largest country, has lots to see and do. Although it's not possible to travel right now, you may want to consider visiting these places when things return to normal. Manaus Manaus is the capital city of the state of Amazonas. In the city itself, visitors can see the Teatro Amazonas, a 19th-century theater. About 10 kilometers outside the city is the "Meeting of Wate...

🧑‍🚀 Article Can't find any destinations on Earth for your next holiday? Lucky for you, one Californian company wants to make it possible to take a vacation in space by building a hotel in orbit. The Orbital Assembly Corporation hopes to start building Voyager Station, a space station that includes rooms for tourists, in 2026, and open it in 2027. It will be able to carry up to 440 people. The st...

🙋‍♂️🙋 Article A teenage boy and his father have invented a new video game console that they believe will change the way children play and learn. They call it the WOWCube: a digital Rubik's Cube for the 21st century. Savva Osipov suggested the idea for the console in 2016, and his father Ilya Osipov designed it in spring of the following year. The WOWCube looks similar to a Rubik's Cube. It has 6...

🐵 Article A zoo in the Czech Republic is trying out a new way to entertain its bored chimpanzees during the country's coronavirus lockdown by giving them screen time with other chimps. The zoo in the northern town of Dvur Kralove has put a large screen into the chimpanzee enclosure to show them a video of what the chimpanzees are doing on the other side of the country at a zoo in the city of Brno...

✋ Article K-pop group BTS has been named the best-selling musical artist of 2020 by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Taylor Swift was number two, and Drake was number three. The top artist is decided using the total sales, downloads and streams of all their music around the world. BTS is the first South Korean artist to be world number one, and also the first top...