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An order of priests monks at Grimbergen Abbey in Belgium, where the Grimbergen beers were first brewed by monks, are starting to brew beer again after a 220 year hiatus.
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Hong Kong pro-democracy activist, Agnes Chow, has been released from prison after serving more than six months for taking part in an unauthorized protest in 2019.
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This golden retriever in Turkey couldn’t get on the ambulance with its owner so it chased it all the way to the hospital and waited outside.
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The notorious Australian serial con artist Samantha Azzopardi has been sentenced to two years in jail in Melbourne, Australia, for a string of child stealing, obtaining property by deception and theft.
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El Salvador has become the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender.
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Cardinal Reinhard Marx, a top Catholic official in Germany, has offered to resign to share responsibility for the “catastrophe of sexual abuse” by church officials.
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Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has given birth to a daughter, her second child with husband Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex.
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Belarus authorities have released an interview with Roman Protasevich, the journalist who they arrested after “hijacking” a plane he was on and forcing it to land in Minsk, showing him confessing to organizing anti-government protests and praising president Alexander Lukashenko.
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Magawa, a rat that was awarded a gold medal for his job detecting mines in Cambodia, is retiring after a five year career.
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Benediktas Gylys, an artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania, has created a “portal” connecting Vilinus to Lubin, a city in Poland that allows people to see the other city in real time.
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