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In Video| The city in the north Indian state of Punjab has some 800,000 inhabitants. The big cat was loose in the city for more than twelve hours before it was caught. Police inspector Jeevan Singh confirmed to Sputnik that the leopard was first sighted at 1.30 pm on Thursday …

The J-Queen durian fruit costs the equivalent of £750 which is more than three times the average monthly salary in Indonesia. A rare type of durian fruit, known for its pungent aroma, has gone on sale in Indonesia three times the average monthly salary. The J-Queen variety of the smelly …

Bitter Wheat, which is billed as a play about a “depraved Hollywood mogul”, will have its world premiere in London’s West End. John Malkovich is to star in a new play about a “depraved Hollywood mogul” inspired by the scandal surrounding disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein. Bitter Wheat, the actor’s first …

For more than 500 years, Swiss Guards have protected the Pope at the Vatican wearing metal helmets which scorched their skin in the hot Roman sun — but those days are over for the 120 members of the Holy See’s private army. The old metal helmet has been replaced by …

Several Tunisian activists speculated that the pro-polygamy protests could be an attempt to distort the image of the Ennahda Movement, a Muslim democratic political party, ahead of the upcoming elections in the country. With polygamy outlawed in Tunisia, a group of local women took to social media to call for …

Lamia Al-Gailani Werr, who as one of Iraq’s first female archaeologists helped her country’s national museum recover from the looting of its antiquities at the outset of the Iraq war, died on Jan. 18 in Amman, Jordan. She was 80. Her daughter Noorah Al-Gailani said the cause was a stroke. …

Fake ‘supermoon’ video gets 16M views.  A Facebook Live video purportedly showing a live view of a “supermoon” over Greece but which in fact was a still image with wind sounds added was viewed more than 16 million times over four hours on Wednesday, apparently going undetected by the company.  …