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🏠 Article 🏠 With its roof on the ground and its floor in the air, an upside-down house in South Africa is attracting tourists who want to see the world in a different way. Located near Hartbeespoort, about 75 kilometers north of Johannesburg, the house is upside down both outside and inside. It is based on the idea that the world around us "might sometimes feel upside down." Visitors can take pi...

✈ Article ✈✈ Food, drinks and reading materials other than safety information cards have been banned on domestic flights in Thailand as the country tries to stop the coronavirus. Thailand had also banned food and drink on flights between April 26 and August 31 last year. The new ban started on December 31. Chula Sukmanop, Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT), told CN...

🚗 Article 🚗 Road trips allow you to see a lot more than people traveling by plane or train, but they also require a lot more planning. Here are three pieces of advice for planning the perfect road trip. Decide on a route Plan a route by looking at a map or searching online for interesting places to visit. It's also a great idea to talk to friends or family who have been to an area before to help...

❄ Article ❄ Sweden's Icehotel — the world's first hotel made entirely from snow and ice — has opened 12 new art suites, where guests can stay during the winter, and six new rooms that will be available throughout the year. While part of the hotel has been open year-round since 2016, special suites and art projects are built each winter, and last until spring. Each of this year's winter suites has...

✋ Article The Turkish city of Kilis has given free bicycles to more than 9,500 children. To get a bike, children must do well at school, agree to ride it for at least an hour each day, and get a relative to quit smoking.   According to the Mayor of Kilis, Hasan Kara, the city plans to give a total of 15,000 bikes to local children.   According to data from 2015, more than 39 percent of...

✋ Article A kayaker who found a message in a bottle in a Delaware river has returned the letter to the woman who wrote it 35 years ago. Brad Wachsmuth thought the bottle in the Broadkill River was just trash when he saw it on August 8, WBOC-TV reported. "As we usually do as kayakers, we try to pick up trash out of the water when we can," he told the station. But Wachsmuth's friend saw there was s...

✋ Article A study from the University of Oxford has found that people who spend more time playing video games may be happier and have a better feeling of well-being than those who play less. The study looked at 3,274 people, all of whom were over 18 years old, who played Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Electronic Arts' Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville. The study found tha...

✋ Article French car company Citroën has created an electric car so small that, in some countries, teenagers will be able to drive it without a license. The two-seat Ami is 2.4 meters long, 1.4 meters wide, 1.5 meters high, and can only drive up to 45 kilometers per hour. However, it can be charged in just three hours using a power outlet at home, and can drive about 70 kilometers per charge. It...

✋ Article Think your dog should get dessert? So does Ben & Jerry's. The Vermont ice cream company is releasing frozen dog treats, which will go on sale in US supermarkets and pet stores later this month. Doggie Desserts will come in 110-gram cups, which cost $2.99 each, or $4.99 for four. The treats come in two flavors: pumpkin with cookies and peanut butter with pretzels. They're made from t...

✋ Article South Korea's population has fallen for the first time in the country's modern history. According to government data, South Korea's population at the end of December 2020 was 51.8 million, a decrease of about 20,840 from 2019. The data, reported by the Yonhap News Agency, showed 275,815 births in South Korea in 2020, and 307,764 deaths. South Korea's population has risen every year for...

✋ Article As a PhD student, Felix Böck had been trying to do something about wood waste from buildings in Vancouver, but with little success. However, while eating sushi, the woman who is now his fiancée gave him a different idea. "She said: 'Felix, maybe you just have to start with something small,'" Böck told The Guardian. "And maybe it's the chopstick." The next day, Böck began working on a wa...

✋ Article Sweden's Göteborg Film Festival wants to send one movie fan to a remote island for seven days to watch 60 movies alone. The Göteborg Film Festival usually takes place in the city of Gothenburg, on the southwest coast of Sweden, for 11 days from late January to February. The festival normally gets about 160,000 visitors and shows about 450 films. However, the 2021 festival will be onli...

✋ Article @realDonaldTrump, the Twitter account of President Donald Trump, was shut down on January 8, after more than 57,000 tweets. Trump used some of his final tweets to talk about the violent crowd of protesters that entered the halls of Congress on January 6, protesting against Joe Biden's election win. Twitter announced that it shut down Trump's account because he could use it to encourage...

✋ Article The days of pets flying with their owners free of charge are coming to an end. Bringing animals on planes became popular several years ago, with many passengers traveling with their pets for free by saying they need them for emotional support. Airlines say that because any animal could be brought on a plane, passengers were no longer just bringing service animals. Some passengers had br...

✋ Article Every year, chemical company Kuraray asks first-grade elementary school students across Japan what they would like to be when they grow up. 4,000 young students shared their dream jobs between July and December 2019 for the 2020 report. Since the first survey in 1999, the number one job every year for girls has been baker, and it was chosen by 26% of girls in the 2020 report. For boys,...

✋ Article A 2017 study at an English high school found that students who started school at 10 a.m. instead of 8:50 a.m. had better health and school results. For the first year of the study, the students started school at 8:50 a.m. For the second and third years, their start time changed to 10 a.m. Then, for the fourth year, the students went back to starting at 8:50 a.m. The researchers looked a...

✋ Article The Finnish capital city of Helsinki has been named the happiest city in the world by the United Nations World Happiness Report. Finland has also been named the happiest country for the third time in a row by the same report. This is the first time the report has ranked cities as well as countries. It used data from surveys of adults in 186 cities done between 2014 and 2018, asking how...

✋ Article With family and pets around, working from home can be very difficult. That's why the German hotel group BHW has started renting its rooms as offices in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Each of the rooms has a desk, high speed internet and a coffee machine – and of course, a bed if the worker needs to take a nap. Manager of a Frankfurt Best Western hotel that is offering the rooms,...

✋ Article "We have this joke that if you are scared of something, eat it." This is the advice of Hoang Tung, a chef in Hanoi, Vietnam, who has started selling a burger that looks like the coronavirus. The bun of the burger is given a green color by adding things like katuk leaves, also known as sweet leaves. It is also made to have the same shape as the coronavirus. "We try to make this Coronabur...

✋ Article Traveling around Europe can be very expensive. But with a little planning, you can visit these four world-famous art museums for free! Prado – Madrid The collections of Spanish kings and queens can be found at the Prado Museum in Madrid, which had its 200th birthday in November 2019. Painters like Velázquez, Goya, Titian and Raphael can all be seen here. And it's free to enter the main...

✋ Article With much of the entertainment industry on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, websites like Cameo, which let people pay to receive personal messages from celebrities, have seen an increase in business. Started in 2017, Cameo lets users choose from over 30,000 celebrities to receive a video message from. When a user has chosen a celebrity, they have up to 250 characters to describe wha...

✋ Article Israeli scientists recently finished an experiment where they practiced living on Mars. The team of researchers created a Martian environment in the Negev Desert, according to Israel’s Science and Technology Ministry. Over a period of four days, six participants investigated conditions such as the psychological effects of isolation and how to measure radiation. They also searched for si...

✋ Article No, it's not a movie: actor George Clooney actually gave 14 of his friends $1 million each — all in cash. The world learned about the gifts in a 2017 interview with Clooney's friend Rande Gerber. At the time, nobody was sure if the story was true. However, Clooney recently confirmed it while talking to the magazine GQ. In 2013, Clooney's movie Gravity made $723 million at cinemas around...

✋ Article A British man has started a group for men to meet and walk dogs together, making it easier for them to talk about their feelings. Rob Osman from Bristol started Dudes and Dogs because he has had problems with depression and anxiety in the past. Walking his dog Mali helped him feel better. On the Dudes and Dogs website, Osman writes that walking and playing with his dog is "the best ther...

✋ Article A Hong Kong businessman has sold a parking space in the city for $969,000, making it the most expensive parking space in the world. The space is in The Center, one of the tallest buildings in Hong Kong. It was sold by Johnny Cheung Shun-yee, one of 10 people who bought the building for $5 billion in 2018. He did not say who had bought the parking space, but told the South China Morning...