Author: Amanda Erickson
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Daylight Saving Time is super unpopular. Here are the countries trying to ditch it.
Anyone trying to make an international call this weekend would be forgiven for getting a little mixed up. Daylight Saving Time ends in the United States on Sunday, bumping the clocks back an hour. The change happened in Europe a week earlier, meaning the time difference between the continents was momentarily smaller. It’s another confusing…
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It’s so hot in Australia that bats’ brains are frying
It has been a weird few weeks of weather. In North America, Canadians and Floridians alike shivered through freezing temperatures, a bomb cyclone and a polar vortex. (It got so cold that iguanas froze and fell out of trees.) Meanwhile, over in Australia, where it is summer now, it has been especially hot. Sweltering, really. In Sydney, temperatures…
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A giant oil tanker is on fire and could explode in the East China Sea
Beating rains, fire and 10-foot waves are making it impossible for rescue crew to reach the Sanchi, an oil tanker on fire in the East China Sea. Three days after it collided with another ship off the coast of Shanghai, the tanker is still ablaze. At least 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshi citizens were aboard…
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Muslims assimilate well in Germany, even though many Germans don’t like them, a new study finds
Muslim immigrants in Germany have an easier time finding a job and building a community than those in Switzerland, Austria, France and Britain. That’s according to a new study from the Bertelsmann Foundation. The researchers spoke to more than 10,000 Muslims who were either born in Europe or arrived before 2010, which means they did…
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This man is accused of kidnapping a 20-year-old British model and then trying to sell her on the Internet
It sounded like a good opportunity for a 20-year-old British model. Come to Milan for a photo shoot. It was set up by her U.K. modeling agency, allegedly for an ad campaign. What happened next, though, is out of a horror movie. According to Italian investigators, when the woman (who has not been named to…
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A new road will make getting to Stonehenge easier. It may also ruin Stonehenge.
Historians estimate that Stonehenge is at least 4,000 years old. It can take about as long to reach the site by car. The route to the ancient stone circles in Wiltshire, England, is frequently jammed with traffic. (Which makes sense. The World Heritage Site, among Britain’s top tourist attractions, pulls in more than 1.3 million visitors annually.) The…