Some veterans of the Australian Defence Force have criticized a new study testing the effectiveness of antimalarial medication as a COVID-19 prophylaxis, which uses soldiers as test subjects. A small selection of soldiers from the ADF will be given a range of doses of the antimalarial drug chloroquine to see whether it can really stop, … Read more
So sweetie! Off duty police officers share hilarious ‘Haribo challenge’ video using Percy Pigs as props while their voices are dubbed by children to lift the spirits of their community PCs Knellar and Watford, of Tooting in south London, filmed video while off duty Pair claim they were challenged by many of their Twitter followers … Read more
People who suffer catastrophic brain injuries may recover their social skills quicker by stroking guinea pigs, research suggests. Traumatic brain injuries often affect a patient’s ability to feel empathy and express their emotions. But a study found allowing patients to stroke ‘cute animals’ – such as micro pigs, rabbits and donkeys – during rehabilitation sessions … Read more
1919 The world’s first flight from London to Australia touches down in Darwin. It took 28 days. Hudson Fysh, one of the men who would go on to found Qantas was first to meet it – he’d just built the airfield, and with Paul McGinness had plotted an air route across Queensland and the Northern … Read more
Firefighters save pig’s bacon after it ate another swine’s pedometer – and caught fire when it came out the other end Firefighters were called to the pigpen in Bramham, West Yorkshire, on Sunday Blaze had been caused by copper from the device’s batteries reacting with hay Pedometer had clearly been mistaken by a pig as … Read more