South Korea: After growing up on the streets, center founder feeds hungry seniors
In the basement of an old, unnamed building in central Seoul, about 70 seniors line up for free lunch. A man wearing a green apron brings meal to them one by one. This has been the daily routine for Kim Jong-eun, 78, president of Hangil Volunteer Community, for the past 10 years. Kim, now a garment firm owner, was a street beggar himself following his blind mother in Buyeo, South Chungcheong Province. “I still vividly remember the days my mom and I suffered from hunger on the streets. Have you ever experienced it? Nothing is more important than food when you are starving to death,” he said in an interview with The Korea Herald. “I needed no other reason when I started this free meal service.” …
Korea Herald
France: Twelve French delicacies Anglos can’t stomach
Even the most adventurous of Anglos will have grimaced at some point at the sight or thought of some of the dishes served up in French restaurants. Here’s a list of twelve French ‘delicacies’ we Anglos might find disgusting, while French chef Iman Bogen tells us why we should embrace them.
Even after many years in France, there are some French dishes that Anglos just wouldn’t touch with a fork the length of a barge pole.
For example, whereas most foreigners won’t go beyond a rump steak or a hamburger when it comes to eating beef, the French will pretty much eat every part of a cow, bar the hide, and what’s more they’ll call it a delicacy. …
The Local
United Kingdom: Walking with dinosaurs. Giant steps of the 40-metre-long Argentinosaurus are simulated using virtual reality
Computer simulation reconstructs how biggest animal to walk the planet moved.
A massive dinosaur has proven it can walk the walk after scientists digitally reconstructed the 40-metre long fossil, allowing it to stroll about for the first time in 94 million years.
Scientists from the University of Manchester joined colleagues from Argentina to laser scan the skeleton of Argentinosaurus in order to build a computer model of how it must have walked.
They managed not only to recreate its walking movements but also how it moved when it broke into a run. …
Daily Mail
Zimbabwe: Man claims second Mr Ugly title
A Zimbabwe man has won his second consecutive Mr. Ugly title.
William Masvinu beat off competition from 11 others to take the trophy as the most aesthetically challenge man in Harare and win a year’s worth of school fees for one of his kids.
He told Allafrica.com: “My ugliness comes naturally to me and although I did a bit to prepare for the show, I let them do the rest.” …
The Nation
Bangladesh: Palm growers frustrated as fruits remain unsold
Palm growers in the district are frustrated as the ripe fruits have remained unsold in absence of any arrangement for producing edible oil from it. In 2009, NGO Green Bangladesh motivated farmers for palm cultivation in different areas of seven upazilas under Gaibandha district, assuring them to purchase the fruits for producing palm oil, said farmers.
Another organisation Palli Unnayan Sangstha also collaborated with the programme. The trees in many palm gardens are now adorned with fruits. But many farmers are now uprooting their palm trees for using the land for other agricultural items as blocking of the lands for the last three years added with the cost of palm farming has already made them incur huge losses. …
The Daily Star
Finland: Strong Alcohol Must Pass ‘Strength Test’ Under New Finnish Customs Rule
A new solution kicks in tomorow to address concerns that some Finnish ferry passengers are bringing too much lower-cost alcohol back from Estonia.
Starting Friday, foot passengers disembarking in Helsinki can only bring across as much alcohol as they can carry. In the past, some of the quantities have been high enough to lead customs to suspect they are for resale, Helsingin Sanomat reported.
But the new law doesn’t affect vehicles. …
ERR
Florida: Cellphone saves Florida gas station clerk from robber’s bullet
Police say a cellphone saved a Florida gas station clerk from a robber’s bullet.
Winter Garden Police said in an email that a clerk had just minor injuries after a robber fired a bullet at his abdomen. Police say his cellphone stopped it.
The close call happened Monday at 4:45 a.m. in Winter Garden, a suburb of Orlando. …
CBS
