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A giant straw goat that has become an annual highlight in the Swedish city of Gavle has been burned by an arsonist.
A man in his 40s was arrested after the structure was set alight in the early hours of Friday.
The goat has been attacked many times before but survived every festive period since 2016 under 24-hour security.
Spokeswoman Rebecca Steiner said she was devastated by the attack on the seasonal institution.
A University of Minnesota scholar has raised eyebrows with her study into how policing affects ‘birthing people’ in different parts of Minneapolis.
Rachel Hardeman, director of the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity at the university, published her findings on December 8 in the medical journal JAMA.
Hardeman found that all mothers living in intensely-policed parts of Minneapolis were significantly more likely to give birth prematurely – defined as birth before 37 weeks of gestation.
AKRON, Ohio (WJW) — Akron police have investigated the theft of all kinds of valuables over the years, but for the first time in anyone’s memory, detectives are trying to find out who stole a bridge.
At one time, the pedestrian bridge was along the Little Cuyahoga River in Middlebury Run Park, which sits in the shadow of Goodyear World Headquarters on Akron’s East End.
Before I left Yorkdale Mall, I decided to walk the entire length of the line for #COVID rapid tests. It took three minutes to walk from the back to the front (at a very brisk pace).
Here’s a sped-up video: pic.twitter.com/LGqePiM0mv
— Jennifer Yang (@jyangstar) December 16, 2021
Man seeks help from NASA experts over lost bitcoins
A UK programmer has been desperately trying for eight years to recover his old hard drive containing a password to a digital wallet. He is now in talks with a company that helped NASA recover data from an exploded space shuttle.
James Howells from South Wales mined bitcoins at the time when it cost almost nothing and the cryptocurrency was known only in narrow tech circles. He managed to accumulate some 7,500 bitcoins – now worth more than $350 million.
A special cryptographic private key for getting access to bitcoins was kept on a hard drive, which was accidentally thrown into the Docksway landfill site near Newport, Wales, in 2013. The man thought the device from his old computer contained nothing but rubbish.
Kim Jong-un’s firing squads have publicly executed at least seven North Koreans in the last ten years for watching or sharing K-pop, rights group claims
North Korea has executed at least seven people by firing squad in the last ten years for sharing or watching South Korean K-pop, a rights group has claimed.
Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s dictator, has previously described the genre as a ‘vicious cancer’, with the executions coming as part of a crackdown on the music.
Seoul-based Transitional Justice Working Group conducted interviews with 683 North Korean defectors over six years – since 2015 – to map places where North Koreans were killed and buried in state-sanctioned public executions.
Jack Letts’ message to the Canadian government official was simple: “Please get me out of this place.”
In fact, the alleged former ISIL follower and Canadian citizen said in the recorded phone conversation he’d rather be imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, Siberia or a Canadian penitentiary than continue to be held by Kurdish forces in northern Syria.
He is not an alleged ISIS member: I volunteered for a suicide bombing, Jihadi Jack admits
Jack Letts has told how he wanted to be a suicide bomber for Islamic State as he admitted fighting with the terrorists.
“I know I was definitely an enemy of Britain,” he told the BBC in an interview recorded in October and released yesterday. “I did what I did. I made a big mistake and that’s what happened. I thought I was leaving something behind and going to something better.”
Why do they always look like this? pic.twitter.com/lTlm3eagwa
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) December 15, 2021
South Korea’s biggest dairy brand has been forced to apologise over an advert depicting women as cows.
The video by Seoul Milk shows a man secretly filming a group of women in a field, who later turn into cows.
After facing a public backlash, the company removed the promo from YouTube, but it has since gone viral after being re-uploaded by internet users.
A spokesperson for Denver Public Schools said that Centennial Elementary school leaders met with “some of the Black families whose children attend” Denver Public Schools (DPS) and they requested a separate, segregated space to meet one another.
An Ohio chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization fires its leader, Romin Iqbal, for ethical and professional breaches that it says include a years-long secret association with an anti-Muslim group.
The probe found “conclusive evidence that Iqbal had spent years recording CAIR network meetings and passing information regarding CAIR’s national advocacy work to a known anti-Muslim hate group,” a release says.
During a briefing, spokesperson Whitney Siddiqi identifies the group as the Investigative Project on Terrorism, led by Steve Emerson.
Minneapolis Instacart driver DESTROYS elderly couple’s groceries over pro-police sign in their front yard and leaves message branding them ‘racist’ and saying ‘f*** the police’
A Minneapolis Instacart driver ran over an elderly couple’s groceries after seeing a pro-police sign in their front yard and wrote a crude message on a receipt branding them as ‘racist’ and saying ‘f*** the police.’
A 36-year-old driver from Coon Rapids, Minnesota, who only went by Tara on the app, reportedly ran over $50 worth of groceries in an angry fit over a sign the couple had in their driveway.
Words are literal violence pic.twitter.com/ToWlXt6Dvk
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) December 13, 2021
Atlantic opinion columnist David Frum is sick and tired of this pandemic and all of the disruptions it’s causing for everyone. That’s a position that most sensible people could agree with, I’m sure. He just wants things to get back to normal. But with these new variants cropping up and government mandates still being issued, how do we go about that? Frum offered up what he clearly saw as a “reasonable” list of options this weekend, leading to some rather swift blowback on social media.
