Tag: selfie

• Monday, October 21st 2019 - 09:01 UTC

  Cruise passengers removed and banned for life because of reckless selfies

  

  A photograph taken last week on a Caribbean cruise ship quickly gained widespread attention, but it was not of a pink-sand beach, a zip-lining adventure or an onboard sky-diving simulator. It was of a woman standing on a balcony railing of her stateroom on one of the world's largest cruise ships - posing for a selfie.

• Tuesday, April 23rd 2019 - 08:38 UTC

  “Cheeky” gorillas share a selfie with park rangers that rescued them as babies

  

  A pair of “cheeky” gorillas in a national park at the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been photographed posing for a selfie with park rangers who helped to rescue them as babies. 

• Wednesday, November 19th 2014 - 04:07 UTC

  E-cigarettes make “Vape” word of the year, says Oxford English Dictionary

  

  Oxford English Dictionary named “vape” - the word used for drawing on an electronic cigarette instead of a burning stick of tobacco – as its 2014 word of the year.“You are thirty times more likely to come across the word 'vape' than you were two years ago, and usage has more than doubled in the past year,” staff editors have said.