The first ever olympic Games in esports will be held in Saudi Arabia in 2025 and will be organized by the International Olympic Committee, the IOC Esports Commission has developed a program that will address the interest of the esports community but at the same time respect what they believe to be the Olympic values such as which games must be included as well as the promotion of gender equality
Former British footballer Joey Barton is being taken to court for criticizing the TV appearance of black female footballer Eni Alukoby by questioning how she even can talk about men's football when she can't even kick a ball properly, calling her the Fred and Rose West of football commentators, two serial killer, and writing that she can be compared to Josef Stalin for murdering the ears of hundreds of thousands of fans, Barton wonders if the police don't have enough on their hands
Adopted 61-year-old John Portmann from the US receives Irish citizenship after DNA test showing 100 percent Irish ancestry as proof that his biological parents came from there
Tadej Pogačar wins a third Tour de France by over six minutes, first rider since Marco Pantani 1998 to bring home Giro d'Italia and the Tour the same year, was also victorious in six stages
47-year-old Clinton associate Huma Abedin and 38-year-old Alexander Soros, son of George Soros, get engaged, source describes the relationship as effortless and that Huma is now relaxed, happy and in love after many tumultuous years
Norwegian cyclist André Drege dies following an accident during the Tour of Austria on Saturday, the 25-year-old Coop–Repsol rider was fatally injured on the descent of the Großglockner, Austria's highest mountain
The moon landings were real according to the CEO of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, on the grounds that Soviet scientists confirmed that lunar soil samples brought by the Americans did indeed come from the moon
The AI-composed techno song Je Partira Pas with a pro-deportation message is going viral in France, the title refers to older clip of immigrant screaming that he won’t leave while being forced to board a plane
The Danish toy company Lego publishes a commercial on the theme of Pride with, among other things, drag queens and furries, has already a product called "Everyone is Awesome" in rainbow colors and a product explicitely inspired by the gay series Queer Eye
Bao Zi becomes the world's fastest cat on a skateboard when the record 12.85 seconds for 10 meters is achieved and his owner Li Jingtao says he began to realize that the cat had talents other than catching mice when he showed an interest in skateboards which he then began to encourage
Court of Arbitration for Sport dismisses American transgender swimmer Lia Thomas' challenge against rules where men who have been through male puberty are banned from competing in women's races, World Aquatics comments that it welcomes the decision and considers it a major step forward in the efforts to protect women's sport
The Netflix documentary series Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial came about because of the millennial generation's ignorance of the Holocaust according to director Joe Berlinger, who says that the ignorance is so great that it used to be Holocaust denial, but now it’s moved into Holocaust affirmation, like Hitler was right
The cost of launching cremated remains into space is between 3,500 and 13,000 USD and since 1997 the company Celestis has, among others, launched the remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, physicist Gerard K. O'Neill and lunar astronaut Philip Chapman
France's plan for air-conditioning free Olympics thwarted as more than 3,000 athletes are expected to bring own portable units, all countries replying to Washington Post's survey say they will use ACs, Greece comments that they will bring units as the athletes need support while Uganda expresses funding concerns, IOC thus far has declined to respond to the Post's request for a comment regarding potential questions about fairness between richer and poorer countries
The restaurant Disfrutar in Barcelona in Spain with a focus on molecular gastronomy is named the world's best restaurant in 2024 according to The World's 50 Best Restaurants, the Danish Alchemist in eighth place is the best Nordic while the best in Sweden, Frantzén, ends up in place 35
Five 500-year-old Eskimo mummies are returning to Greenland after 100 years at Harvard University in the USA via Copenhagen, where on behalf of the Greenland National Museum they are being taken care for now as the necessary equipment is not available in the home country, among other things they have been used to study how their diet affects blood flow
18 percent of the 628 professional male footballers in Great Britain and 22 percent of the female who responded to a survey use snus and nearly half of the men but only nine percent of the women wish to stop, the product is banned for sale in the country but not for use
84-year-old British Iris Jones, who married 37-year-old Egyptian Mohamed Ibriham after they got to know each other through Facebook, warns others about online dating and calls for awareness that they are only interested in getting their filthy paws on your money and will sweet-talk you for months in order to achieve their goal
Kabosu, the Shiba Inu dog that became the Doge meme and inspiration for Dogecoin, dies at about 18 years old, its owner Atsuko Sato thanks for all the love and support for Kabuso over the years and will arrange a farewell party on May 26
The Vatican State is revising its process from 1978 for when they have to investigate whether a miracle has happened or not and the events will be assessed on a six-point credibility scale instead of being given a binary judgement, so far fewer than 20 apparitions have been approved by the Vatican in its entire history according to Michael O' Neill, who runs the online apparition resource The Miracle Hunter
First official painting of King Charles III unveiled showing the king in red uniform and red background with a butterfly on his right shoulder and Baphomet can be seen if the painting is mirrored and put side by side and the lighting manipulated
On his 74th birthday, Stevie Wonder is granted citizenship in Ghana by President Nana Akufo-Add after in 1975 expressing his desire to quit music and move to the country where he believed he could trace his ancestral lineage from, in 1990 expressing his desire to set up a home there and in 2021 saying he intends to move there to escape racial injustice in the United States
Since the 1950s, the United States has been maintaining a barrier against the screwworm, which kills livestock, by dropping 14.7 million sterile males from airplanes into the rainforest between Panama and Colombia every week, since the female only mates once, the sterilization is done with radiation and a facility in Panama breeds 20 million per week
High levels of lead as well as arsenic and mercury are detected in Ludwig van Beethoven's locks which are believed to have contributed to his ailments such as hearing loss, gastrointestinal problems, jaundice and liver disease, the composer's DNA has been sequenced and is publicly available
The last privately owned land in the Arctic, 14,830 hectares in Svalbard, is up for sale as the owner, the Norwegian limited company Kulspids, which has owned it for over a hundred years and had plans to establish an asbestos mine, is on the market for EUR 300 million
Skeletons without hands and feet belonging to five people, three adults, a teenager and a newborn, are found under Hermann Göring's residence at the former Nazi command center Wolfsschanze in Gierłoż in present-day northeastern Poland, the identities and age is still unknown and it is unclear whether Göring knew to the fact that the bodies were there during the time he lived there
Author Paul Auster dead at 77, had breakthrough with trilogy of detective novels set in his home city of New York, said that the core of his philosophy was the impact of the unexpected and that "once you are born you are destined to die and pretty much everything in between is up for grabs"
Russell Brand turns to Christianity and is baptized after months of public wrestling with religion, says he is desperate and needs God to cope in this world
2005 report still the benchmark in research around showers and it is unclear whether daily showers are healthy, traditionally man has cleaned himself by bathing and the culture around this is rich and according to Dale Southerton, professor of consumer sociology at the University of Bristol, we have in the last 100 years started washing our bodies so much more than before
German-American businessman Karl-Erivan Haub was declared dead in 2021 after disappearing in the Swiss Alps in 2018 but is now suspected to be alive and his brother is being investigated for perjury at the death declaration after journalist says the disappearance may be linked to a Russian mistress and that there are photographs of him in Moscow from 2022
American philosopher Daniel Dennett dies at age 82, one of the so-called Four Horsemen of New Atheism alongside Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris and his 2003 TED talk "The Illusion of Consciousness" has been viewed more than four million times
The British pub Lower Red Lion in St Albans is being noticed for its sign that says animals are welcome but children not, after a photograph by a guest spreads online, owner David Worcester says they have had the policy for eleven years, that one child is enough to disturb the peace of customers and that all other pubs in the city are child-friendly
Brazilian MMA fighter Renato Moicano says after winning a fight that, among other things, he is a huge advocate of the First Amendment, that he wants to fucking carry all the fucking guns, loves private property and that if one care about ones country one should read Ludwig von Mises and his six lessons of the Austrian economic school
Chef Gordon Ramsey's York & Albany pub in central London is occupied by six professional squatters who barricaded themselves with kitchen equipment in connection with the temporary closure due to an upcoming change of partnership and put up a legal notice on the front door stating they have the right to stay
Former American football star O.J. Simpson, who became world famous after being charged with the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her new boyfriend and the subsequent trial 1995 in which he was acquitted, dies of cancer at the age of 76
The book "Gender Queer" by Maia Kobabe, banned in schools in Florida and Texas, tops the American Library Association's list of most challenged books for the third year in a row, followed by the books "All Boys Aren't Blue" and "This Book is Gay"
27-year-old Briton Russell "Hardest Geezer" Cook runs across Africa from south to north in 352 days, starts urinating blood on day 43, is subjected to armed robbery on day 64, captured by Congolese villagers with machetes for money on day 102 and says after the finish line that he is pretty tired
The food museum in Rome, Museo della Cucina, exhibits more than 400 historical meals such as the lunch on the Titanic the day she sank, Fidel Castro's flight lunch during round trip to Mexico in 1960, the meal Hitler and Mussolini ate in Venice 1934 during their first meeting ever and Queen Victoria and emperor Alexander II meal in 1874 during their first meeting in 35 years
Chloe Cole, who through surgery and hormone therapy tried to change gender to boy at 16 and then regretted it, takes the floor at Disney's annual general meeting by saying, among other things, that "Disney has become the Ursula that is stealing the voices of thousands of little Ariel’s" and that the company during CEO Bob Iger runs a gender ideological agenda
111-year-old John Tinniswood from Merseyside in the UK the world's oldest living man after 114-year-old Venezuelan Juan Vicente Pérez Mora passed away on Tuesday, born in 1912, married in 1942, retired in 1972 and was widowed in 1986, the world's oldest person is 117-year-old Spanish woman Maria Branyas Morera
First indie-produced video game from Cuba, Saviorless, is launched by the studio Empty Head Games, a hand-drawn platform game in 2D and initiator Josuhe Pagliery says that the country has always been fortunate culturally and has produced top-tier artists in nearly every art form and that the rich five-century-old cultural heritage has given motivation to fuel their dreams
Australian billionaire Clive Palmer says about his project to build a replica of the Titanic that it would be a beacon of hope in the midst of wars, bring people together after the lockdowns, be an antidote to "woke" and an environment free of covid vaccines but clarifies that vaccinated are welcome as he means that we have got to extend our hand in love and friendship for them despite the side effects
Harvard removes the binding of human skin to 19th-century book Des Destinées de l'Ame due to the book's ethically charged origin and subsequent history, the binding is said to have been made by the author's friend, Dr. Ludovic Bouland, who made it of a female patient who had died of natural causes
Increasingly popular to experiment with drugs at work, Elon Musk says his ketamine use has benefited his companies and Journeymen Collective which offers luxury guided magic mushroom retreats in Vancouver from USD 15,000 per person increased their bookings by 183 percent between 2022 and 2023
American science fiction author Vernor Vinge passes away on March 20 at the age of 79, the 1981 short story True Names is often credited as the first to present a full concept of cyberspace and in 2020 he received the Heinlein Award from the Heinlein Society
80 year old Arthur Schubarth from Montana, pleads guilty to trying for nearly a decade to genetically engineer large sheep hybrids to sell to hunting facilities, imported parts of the world's largest sheep species, the Marco Polo argali, from Kyrgyzstan and had lab create cloned embryo he then implanted in female sheep on his ranch that produced an offspring he named Montana Mountain King
Pope Francis says that to erase differences is erase humanity, during conference in the Vatican, regarding the gender ideology that he believes is the worst danger today, he says he asked for studies on the subject that he calls the ugly ideology of our time
Humpback whale sex is photographed for the first time and is said to have taken place between two males in Hawaii in January 2022 according to a study published in the journal Marine Mammal Science, one of the males were weak and sick and the other strong and healthy
British-Jewish financier Lord Jacob Rothschild dies aged 87 and being succeeded as chairman of the Rothschild Foundation by 61-year-old daughter Hannah, was among other things former president of what is now called Jewish Policy Research, co-founded financial firm St James's Place and was active in the art world
The world's tallest human, the 2.51 meter tall Turk Sultan Kösen, and the world's shortest human, the 63 centimeter tall Indian Jyoti Amge, have breakfast together in Irvine, California, is the second time in six years that they have met as last time were 2018 in Egypt and posed in front of the Sphinx of Giza
The production of camembert is threatened as production since 1902 has been done by means of asexual reproduction of a single strain of the fungus penicillium camemberti which does not receive new genetic material and accumulates mutations over time, according to researchers at France's national research center CRNS, research leader Tatiana Giraud assures that the threat is long-term and that Camembert production is not threatened in five to ten years' time
Elon Musk writes on X that hormonal birth control makes women fat, doubles the risk of depression and triples the risk of suicide, the post has been viewed 37 million times and leads to testimonies from women about their negative experiences with birth control
Americans between the ages of 15 and 34 have incrementally slept more and more over the past decade according to data from American Time Use, sleeping an average of nine hours and twelve minutes per night according to research by the company Sleep Number, on Tiktok "ASMR sleep" videos have trended and listening to jazz is becoming popular again
Charlotte Nichols, UK Labor MP, proposes posthumous gender reassignment, following a petition last year signed by 14,000 people calling for a similar change to the law after the murder of transgender teenager Brianna Ghey
Unvaccinated dating site Unjected launches and founder Shelby Hosana says that the spike protein is a concern but the altering of DNA is the most concerning thing and that they believe it's possible the spike protein is sexually transmitted
Indian police release pigeon that was first suspected of being a Chinese spy when it was found with Chinese words attached to its legs but turned out to be an escaped racing bird from Taiwan, in 2016 pigeon was found with note threatening Prime Minister Modi and in 2020 a bird belonging to Pakistani fisherman was released after it was ruled out that it was a spy who flew across the border
24-year-old Sasha and 63-year-old Marie-Juliette from the French group Riposte Alimentaire throw pumpkin soup at the painting Mona Lisa in the Louvre museum in Paris, saying the agricultural system is sick, that healthy and sustainable food is more important than art and that farmers are dying at work, the painting is undamaged according the museum which is forced to close for an hour to clean
Humanity's relationship with beds is long, it is believed that for most of our existence beds consisted of piles of leaves with pest resistant leaves on top, bed frames that began to appear 5,000 years ago can be seen at the ruins of the village of Skara Brae on the Orkey Islands, in Tutankhamun's tomb were six beds found, the Romans called them differently depending on the use case and the coil spring mattress was patented by a German man at the end of the 19th century
Icelanders are asked by the organization BirdLife Iceland to count birds for one hour between Friday and Sunday when the annual bird count takes place, only birds that land should be counted to avoid double counting and those who do not have a garden are asked to go to a public park
Mark Epstein does not believe his brother Jeffrey Epstein killed himself and wants a new investigation into his death on the grounds that if you look at all the evidence, including the autopsy, the photographs of his body and the DOJ report, you would never come up with the conclusion that this was a suicide
Indian New Delhi-based restaurant Moti Mahal is suing competitor Daryaganj alleging that they falsely claim to have invented the Butter chicken dish, Moti Mahal CEO Monish Gujral says you cannot take away somebody’s legacy and that the dish was invented when their grandfather was in Pakistan
13-year-old Willis Gibson of Oklahoma becomes the first person to reach Tetris' kill screen when he reaches level 157 and the game crashes, exclaiming "oh my god" and then saying he's going to pass out and that he can't feel his fingers, it was long thought the game's limit was level 29
Frenchman Jacques Delors, president of the European Commission between 1984 and 1995 and one of the architects behind the EU's internal market, dies at the age of 98
Austrian Gaston Glock, who founded and developed the Glock pistol, dies at the age of 94, the handgun was revolutionary when it hit the market, he was the target of an assassination attempt when business partner Charles Ewert hired a professional wrestler to kill the then 70-year-old Glock, who escaped by knocking the assassin
German politician Wolfgang Schaeuble dies at the age of 81, was involved in the reunification of Germany, was finance minister under Angela Merkel for eight years and was shot in 1990 in an election rally in 1990 and has been in a wheelchair ever since
Italian left-wing philosopher Antonio Negri dies at the age of 90 in Paris, co-author of the book Empire with Michael Hardt and inspired generations of left-wing academics and activists, argued in 2015 that democracy is governed by a political class that is very weak and incompetent
The Pope says he allows priests to bless same-sex couples but it should not be conferred at the same time as a civil union or even with the clothing and gestures that belong in a wedding, according to a newly published document which, however, confirms that marriage is a lifelong commitment between a man and a woman but that people seeking a transcendent relationship with God should not be subject to a exhaustive moral analysis
The median age of marriage in the United States is for 2023 30.2 for men and 28.4 for women, while the lowest median age was in the 50s with 22.5 years for men and 20.1 years for women, according to new statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau
The Satanic Temple is currently hosting a 14-day exhibit showcasing a Baphomet statue at the Iowa Statehouse whose administration emphasizes that the same rules applies for all exhibitors, the organization has recently opened up, according to its own statement, the world's first religious abortion clinic known as Samuel Alito's Mom's Satanic Abort Clinic
19-year-old Callum Grubb in Kirkcaldy in Fife, Scotland, lives as if he lived in the 1940s, drives a car from 1938, only uses phones from the 1940s and a bicycle from 1952, does not own a mobile phone and says he had to use a computer in college and hated it
Franciscans gather in the Lateran Basilica in Rome to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the rules of the Franciscan order, regula bullata, which was drawn up by St. Francis of Assisi and approved on November 29, 1223 by Pope Honorius III and the current Pope in a letter calls on the Franciscans to go out into the world and mission
The hacker group SiegedSec, which describes itself as gay furries, hacks into the computer system of the largest US nuclear research center Idaho National Laboratory and steals data on thousands of employees and offers to delete the stolen data if research on human-cat hybrids commences
Catholic Saint Mary's College for women only in Notre Dame, Indiana, accepts applications from men who identify as women after changing their policy, school president Katie Conby writes that practices are still being determined as a result of the decision
The number of women in England who gave birth at the age of 50 or older has increased by 15 percent in recent years, between 2019 and 2021 seven women over 60 gave birth and two of whom were over 65
Elon Musk agrees, on X, with user who write that Jewish groups engage in the same dialectical hatred of whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them, Musk writes that it is not just limited to the ADL and that the anti-white racism that some groups conduct must stop
Peter Thiel thinks it doesn't matter who wins the next election and has lost interest in democracy, agrees to the interview to make it easier for him to stand firm that he will not support any politician in the upcoming presidential election, he thinks Curtis Yarvin is an interesting and powerful historian and refuses to comment on the information that he is an informant for the FBI
Mike Tyson visiting pigeon breeder in the village of Piątnica in Poland with a population of 1,800 and allegedly bought 100 pigeons but the seller has refused to comment, the American boxer has often spoken of his love for pigeons which he says was a way for him to escape his bullies as a child and he is said to have given his first punch to someone who tore the head off his beloved pigeon
Repeated exposure to explosions such as firing heavy weapons can cause brain damage and symptoms similar to PTSD, something that American soldiers who have never been close to the enemy but have fired cannons have experienced, among other things according to a report published in 2019 by the Marine Corps, which has since left no comment about the results
The Catholic Church releases the 42-page report "A Synodal Church in Mission" during the conference Synod on Synodality in the Vatican without any mention of LGBTQ+ which was included in the draft while the possibility for women to become deacons is kept open, during a new meeting in October 2024 the final recommendations are expected
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling writes she happily spend two years in prison if the alternative is compelled speech and forced denial of the reality and importance of sex, has previously said she truly believes we are witnessing one of the worst medical scandals in a century regarding surgeries of minors' genitalia
Oppenheimer actress Emily Blunt apologizes for referring to a Louisiana restaurant waitress as gigantic in a now-viral clip from 11 years ago that led her to now being called fatphobic, says she is appalled that she said something so insensitive, hurtful and unrelated to the story she was trying to tell
40-year-old tourist from the United States smashes two Roman statues from the 2nd century in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem as he believes they symbolize idolatry and that they are in conflict with the Torah, his lawyer claims the man suffered from Jerusalem syndrome, which means that religious pilgrims get say they are a biblical person
Mike Jack from Ontario, Canada sets the world record for eating 50 of the world's strongest chili peppers, Carolina Reapers, in the shortest time when he does it in six minutes and 49 seconds, he goes on to eat a total of 135 in one hour and 8 minutes
Contemporary Latin translation of Christopher Columbus' letter from 1493, sent to inform Europe's elite of his discovery, will be auctioned by Christie's, the explorer did not know he was the first European since the Vikings to reach North America and thought he was close to Japan
52-year-old Madeline-Michelle Carthen was wrongly declared dead by US authorities in 2007 and since then has not managed to get the decision changed, has over the years been denied a mortgage, lost her job and the right to vote, 10,000 people affected by the mistake every year
Zoologist and crocodile expert Adam Britton pleads guilty to having sex with, torturing and killing over 40 dogs, has worked for the BBC and National Geographic and collaborated with David Attenborough, the 51-year-old is said to have had a container at home for the purpose and said he has a sadistic sexual interest especially in dogs
US cyclist Sepp Kuss wins la Vuelta a Espana, making Jumbo-Visma first team to win all three Grand Tours in a single year, after second placed Jonas Vingegaard's win at the Tour de France and third placed Primož Roglič's triumph at the Giro d'Italia earlier this year, both with Kuss as a domestique
26-year-old Sicilian guitar virtuoso Matteo Mancuso releases debut album The Journey, the guitarist has been hailed by Steve Vai and Al Di Meola and has played with Tommy Emmanuel, says when asked why he thinks many great guitar players are Italian that Itait could be the food
Niall Ferguson: Elon Musk, my friend for a decade, is the Napoleon of our time, like legendary general has superhuman intuition, leads from the front lines, has thoroughly warlike attitude to life and many children with his mistresses
McDonald's ends the option for customers to fill their own drinks in the US, says the the decision is intended to create a consistent experience for both customers and crew across all ordering points
The competition to be the laziest resident takes place in Brezna, Montenegro with EUR 1,000 in the prize pool for the winner, the person who has been lying down on a mattress the longest wins, last year's record was 117 hours
The dogs Cookie, Sophus and Sica perform Mozart together with the Danish Chamber Orchestra, it has been chief conductor Adam Fischer's desire to perform this piece for several years because he can then have dogs perform
All known rock carvings in Sweden are collected in a database by the Swedish Rock Carvings Research Archive (SHFA) in collaboration with the University of Gothenburg and shall contain, among other things, high-resolution images, search functions with maps and 3D models
The man believed to be the first to raise the alarm about the Great Fire of London in 1666 has been identified as Thomas Dagger, the fire in Thomas Farringer's bakery was the starting point and the research started in connection with the London Museum's new exhibition about the fire
The Egyptian Mohamed Al Fayed, the former owner of Harrods and the father of Dodi, who died in the same car accident as Princess Diana, dies at the age of 94, was also among other things the owner of the British football club Fulham and the Ritz hotel in Paris
The environmental issue increasingly important to the far right in Hungary and Poland according to the author of the book Far-Right Ecologism, Balsa Lubarda, who believes that there is something fundamentally ideological about the need to associate environmental protection with the nation's collective well-being and to compare immigrants with an invasive species that threatens the garden of the nation
Carlos Santana says during concert that a woman is a woman and a man is a man and the guitarist apologizes on Facebook but then deletes the post and replaces it with "the energy of consciousness generates its own kind, hate begets hate, love begets love"
Egg has a place in art history, references have been found in ancient Egypt and they were painted by Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Paul Cézanne, the editor of the book "The Gourmand's Egg - A Collection of Stories & Recipes", David Lane, mean they represent birth, new beginnings but also death
Billionaire Christer Gardell says that Swedish politicians have limited power, that it is inevitable to consider the Wallenberg family to have the most power and that American politicians and authorities have established a legal apparatus that gives them the power to put anyone who deals in dollars
International Chess Federation FIDE bans men who identify as women from competing in women's classes pending investigation and final decision, lobby group The National Center for Transgender Equality considers it degrading to what they call cis women and trans men and to the game itself, no reporting on how many people affected