NYPD bodycam footage shows moment Empire State Building daredevil lovebirds get busted after climbing landmark

NYPD bodycam footage shows moment Empire State Building daredevil lovebirds get busted after climbing landmark

Shocking bodycam footage captured the moment two attention-hungry twerps who made out on the Empire State Building’s antenna — and then got engaged — were caught scaling the landmark.

Video shows officers reaching the antenna and promptly taking Angela Nikolau, 33, and Ivan Kuznetsov, 32, into custody shortly after he popped the question while more than 1,000 feet in the air.

How it all began

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Invasive wild pigs in Ontario are being tracked down by drones with thermal cameras. Here’s why

Invasive wild pigs in Ontario are being tracked down by drones with thermal cameras. Here’s why

Ontario is bringing home the bacon, or at least trying to by deploying drones with thermal cameras to track down invasive wild pigs before they wreak havoc to the local ecosystem.

The province uses Remotely Piloted Aircrafts Systems (RPAS) equipped with thermal imaging to ease their search on reported wild pig sightings, as these drones can detect feral hogs in thick brush.


There’s good reason to make wild pigs a protected species in the war against invasive species.

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Canada to compete in Eurovision for first time in 2027

Canada to compete in Eurovision for first time in 2027

CALGARY — Canada will officially join the world’s biggest televised music competition in 2027, marking the country’s first appearance in the Eurovision Song Contest and making it the first new participant since Australia joined more than a decade ago.

The announcement was made Tuesday by CBC/Radio-Canada and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), just days after CBC secured full membership in the organization that oversees the annual event.

Ugh.

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UN Special Rapporteur for HEALTH leaves role after angering with accusations of being pro-Hamas and pro-prostitution

UN Special Rapporteur for HEALTH leaves role after angering with accusations of being pro-Hamas and pro-prostitution

A South African doctor who served as the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health left her role after a tenure riddled with controversy.

Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council in July 2020 and completed the maximum term of six years in the role.

On June 17, Mofokeng delivered her final report and called on countries to adopt ‘anti-racist’ and ‘anti-colonial’ health policies.

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