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Marie Kondo may have admitted defeat, but a new generation of "cleanfluencers" is taking social media by storm, with millions watching them scour filthy homes and dole out cleaning hacks.

Digging through a mountain of trash, Auri Kananen uncovered a rotten piece of pizza on the floor of a Helsinki flat, with insects devouring it.

Several died and were injured after an suspected terror attack in Kongsberg center in connection with a person who has been observed with a bow and arrow. The alleged perpetrator has been taken into custody, a police spokesman added, Reuters reported.

Aslan Şükür, who changed the purple outfit of the American comic strip "Phantom" to red and changed its name to "Kızıl Maske" (Red Mask), has been drawing the covers of comics for 25 years and has now started drawing for collectors.

Şükür is the creator of the "Red Mask," one of the first series that comes to mind when comic strips are mentioned in Turkey.

The unlicensed construction of a chapel in a forested area of Mt Hymettus in southeastern Athens has triggered legal action from irate local authorities.

The chapel is being built around an older one and work began last summer despite a law suspending construction on the mountain.

He likes to describe himself as a "comics artist and beast wrangler." It makes sense if you know that he lives with six cats (only partly because his mother is an animal rights activist): "Shiro, which means white in Japanese, Oliver Twist, whom I rescued from a gutter, Easy, a gentle giant, Shadow, always hiding in the shadows, Scampy, the lady of the house, and Little Miss Scrumptious Swagger

The Washington-based Library of Congress will on February 15 organize a discussion about Milena Trobozic Garfield's book Mali Saveti za Bolji Zivot.

Sweden-based Scandidos AB said on Monday it received an order for Delta4 Phantom+ equipment to Greece.

Deliveries of therapy systems will be done separately for each hospital over an 18-month period.

The Delta4 Phantom+ system will be delivered during Scandidos's fourth quarter.

[Reuters]

BELGRADE - The 14th International Comics Festival opened at Belgrade's Student Cultural Centre on Thursday, featuring 292 entries by 325 authors from 33 countries.

This year's guests are Mary and Brian Talbot (UK), Petar Meseldzija (Serbia/The Netherlands) and Helena Klakocar (Croatia), with particular attention to be devoted to the Croatian comics scene.

A female badger was recovering at a Polish animal shelter on July 29, two days after the party animal was found passed out on a beach from having too much to drink.

Seventy years. It’s been this long since May 8th, 1945, when the Red Army closed in from the east, struck in the heart of Nazi Germany, Berlin, and raised the Red Army flag, signaling the fall of European fascism.

It had taken more than 6 years for the war to end, since the Nazis started annexing and invading lands, following a madman’s nightmarish dream.