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‘Betterment Burnout’ Is Making Us Miserable – Having Fun Is Crucial Too – You’ve cut out booze, switched up your diet and are going on a daily run – but somehow you are feeling bluer than ever? Why doing everything ‘right’ can have the opposite effect. [independent]
Travel Agent’s R460 000 Ticket ‘Bungle’ Leaves SA U20 Ice Hockey Team Scrambling – The SA Ice Hockey Federation made a last-minute save to secure air tickets for the South African Under-20 ice hockey men’s team’s overseas tour after an alleged R460 000 ticket “bungle” by a travel agent. [news24]
You’ll Have To Wait 43 Years To Get A Box Of These Frozen Kobe Beef Croquettes – The Japanese butcher shop Asahiya sells the patties at a loss, in the hopes of turning more people on to its local meat. [robbreport]
Delta Boeing 757 Airplane Loses Tire Moments Before Takeoff In Atlanta: ‘Sounds Like We Got A Problem’ – A Boeing 757 lost its front tire as the aircraft was preparing to depart for an international flight over the weekend, the latest mechanical mishap to plague the beleaguered jet line. [nypost]
Cape Town Met At Kenilworth Hit Hard By Late AHS Withdrawals – In a blow for the connections and Cape Town Met organisers, five raceday runners have been withdrawn as a result of AHS travel restrictions. [sapeople]
NASA Loses Contact With Its Mini-Helicopter On Mars – The agency’s engineers are attempting to re-establish communications, which ended abruptly on Thursday as the craft was making its descent from a test flight, NASA said late Friday. [enca]
‘Oppenheimer’ Leads Oscar Contenders With 13 Nominations – Nominations for the 96th Academy Awards were revealed on Tuesday. As expected, the Christopher Nolan film “Oppenheimer” had a strong showing, leading Oscar contenders with 13 nominations. The fantasy film “Poor Things,” starring Emma Stone, followed with 11, while the Martin Scorsese drama “Killers of the Flower Moon” got 10 nominations. [cnn]
Meet the Gen Z Hothead Burning Up Pro Bowling – As bowling pushes closer to cultural relevance, 27-year-old Anthony Simonsen’s dynamic personality and record-shattering talent are tailor-made for him to take the PBA to the next level and become its new face — whether he likes it or not. [rollingstone]
Bad News for DStv As Netflix Bets Big On Live-Streamed Events — R95-Billion Big – Netflix Inc. has acquired the exclusive rights to Raw as well as other programming from World Wrestling Entertainment, marking the streaming service’s first big move into live events. [mybroadband]
Inside Indonesia’s Hellhole Prison Where Coke–Smuggling Brit Gran Awaits Death By Firing Squad – British gran Lindsay Sandiford, 67, was sentenced to death 11 years ago after she was found with £1.6million of cocaine in her suitcase in Indonesia, and is been awaiting her execution in Bali’s infamous Kerobokan Prison. [dailystar]
No Urgency From Prasa As Railway Line Support Along Fish Hoek Route Deteriorates – “It worries me that they acknowledge receipt of complain and then you see no further action taken,” says Fish Hoek Subcouncil. [capetalk]
From London To New York: Can Quitting Cars Be Popular? – Cities around the world reveal surprising truths about getting the public on board with cutting car-use. [bbc]
Vatican Sentences Priest And Ex-Altar Server To Prison For Sexual Abuse In First-Of-Its-Kind Case – A Vatican court on Tuesday sentenced a priest to prison for sexually abusing a fellow student while attending a youth seminary whose members worked as altar servers for the pope, multiple news outlets reported, marking Vatican City’s first sexual abuse criminal trial of this kind—amid global scrutiny over the Catholic Church’s handling of abuse cases. [forbes]
BMW Sells More Motorcycles Than Ever Before In 2023 – BMW Motorrad sold 209,257 motorcycles and scooters worldwide in 2023, a 3.1% rise over the previous year and the highest sales volume in the company’s history. [sowetan]
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