International

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  PM Johnson wants to go back to pounds and ounces

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is weighing a possible return to imperial units of measurement in a post-Brexit move to fully part with the remaining vestiges of the European alliance, it was reported in London. He had already pledged to take this path during his 2019 campaign.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  Pie thrown at Mona Lisa by fake old woman

  

  A deranged young male visitor disguised as an old lady in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at Leonardo Da Vicini's Mona Lisa painting at Paris' Louvre Museum

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:09 UTC

  House of Commons Speaker and Minister Milling at Goose Green Liberation ceremony

  

  On Sunday, marking the 40th Anniversary of the Liberation of Goose Green, East Falkland, and despite a brisk wind blowing snow across the monument, a service of commemoration was held to remember those who gave their lives in the battle.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:05 UTC

  British Antarctic Survey field season has finished; RRS Sir Attenborough returns to UK after seven months 

  

  RRS Sir David Attenborough departed Rothera Research Station for the final time earlier in May and is now making its way back to the UK, marking the end of the BAS Antarctic summer field season.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Yuck! Singaporean brewery launches top-notch unique product

  

  A brewery in Singapore has made the headlines worldwide for launching NEWbrew, which -it has been reported- looks and tastes like usual beer despite being made with Newater, or high-quality water recycled from sewage and human urine.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 07:47 UTC

  Royal Navy and Air Force will support Qatar during the World Cup

  

  The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense has announced it will support Qatar with military capabilities to counter terrorism and other threats to the international football tournament.

• Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  FTA with China would not make Uruguay dependent, Lacalle tells BBC

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou said in an interview with the BBC that in case or reaching a Free Trade Agreement with China, it would not generate dependence, because in his country politics and economics were separate issues.

• Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  China forecasted to reduce soy oil consumption because of the lockdowns

  

  Plunging demand for soy oil in China is expected to cut consumption of the oilseed in the world’s biggest user as lockdowns to prevent the spread of COVID have shuttered restaurants and canteens, according to traders and analysts. China is the world’s top consumer of edible oils, with millions of restaurants guzzling about half of the country’s roughly 17 million tons of soy oil, made from crushing soybeans.

• Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:05 UTC

  Buddies getting together not a Summit, LatAm leaders agree

  

  Bolivian President Luis Arce Catacora said Friday in Havana that buddies getting together was hardly a Summit, in reference to the US Government's decision not to invite Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba to the regional gathering of heads of state next month in Los Angeles.

• Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:04 UTC

  House of Commons Speaker will attend Goose Green Liberation service Sunday

  

  Sir Lindsay Hoyle Speaker of the House of Commons, currently on a visit to the Falkland Islands announced he will attend Sunday's Goose Green Liberation commemoration, called on the Falklands Legislative to take advantage of his chairmanship to promote initiatives for the benefit of the Islands, and underlined that Islanders can only decide Islanders' self-determination and future.