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Montevideo, November 5th 2024 - 08:39 UTC

Tag: Entertainment

  • Monday, April 22nd 2019 - 08:06 UTC

    UK pub numbers dropped from 54.000 to 43.000 in seven years

    About 76 pubs a month vanished last year, but this was down from 138 a month during the previous seven years, said Alex Probyn, of Altus Group

    Nearly 1,000 UK pubs shut last year, although the rate of closures is slowing, new research claims. About 76 pubs a month “vanished” from the communities they served in 2018, as people spent less on going out and pubs faced cost pressures, said property firm Altus Group.

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

    Armando, a Belgian star racing pigeon, auctioned for 1.25 million Euros

    Armando had been expected to break the previous record of 376,000 Euros paid for a pigeon called Nadine -- but not by such a wide margin.

    A star racing pigeon named Armando has fetched a record 1.25 million Euros in an online auction, Belgian media reported. The prized bird -- Belgian's best long-distance racer of all time according to those in the know -- was snapped up by a Chinese buyer for a princely sum that caused a flutter of excitement among fanciers.

  • Wednesday, January 16th 2019 - 09:21 UTC

    The Bolsonaro family soap-opera which defeats Brazilian traditional media

    Several times a day Bolsonaro communicates with posts on his social media channels or those of his three eldest sons, all of whom are politically active

    The Bolsonaro family is using social media to present their life as a reality soap opera. The carefully crafted, highly-watched presidential telenovela (soap-opera) is setting the narrative and circumventing traditional media. On the sixth day, the Messia[s] reclines barefoot on the sofa of the Granja do Torto presidential residence. Next to him sits the faithful family dog, Beretta. His glasses casually perched upon his nose, the master browses social media on his smartphone.