Odd News Roundup: Australian carer mothers orphaned kangaroos back to health; Israelis offered drinks on the house with their vaccine and more
Shots bar: Israelis offered drinks on the house with their vaccine An Israeli bar doubled as a COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Thursday, with free drinks given to those who got the shots.
Following is a summary of current odd news briefs.
Denmark man gets four months in prison for coughing at police
Denmark's Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced a man to four months' imprisonment for coughing at two police officers while shouting "corona" during a routine traffic stop in March last year. The incident, which took place when the country was under full coronavirus lockdown, led to the defendant being arrested on charges of threatening behaviour, although he later tested negative for COVID-19.
Australian carer mothers orphaned kangaroos back to health
Wearing pink surgical gloves, animal carer Christie Jarrett gently wraps the foot of an orphaned seven-month-old kangaroo with surgical tape at a facility set up at her rural home near the Australian city of Bathurst in New South Wales (NSW). Attacked by crows after losing his mother, the joey, an eastern grey named Andy, now stays in a cloth pouch in Jarrett's home, where he will remain until he is strong enough to be released back into the plains.
Landmark decision: Soviet secret policeman or medieval prince for Moscow statue?
Moscow residents are to be asked to resolve a politically sensitive riddle that has frustrated Russian authorities for three decades - what statue to erect on an empty spot where the likeness of an infamous Soviet secret policeman once stood. Voters will be asked if they want to reinstate the original statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, one oft the defunct communist state's most feared secret policemen, three decades after it was torn down in the twilight of the Soviet Union.
Shots bar: Israelis offered drinks on the house with their vaccine
An Israeli bar doubled as a COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Thursday, with free drinks given to those who got the shots. More than 43% percent of Israel's 9 million population have received at least one dose of Pfizer Inc's vaccine, the Health Ministry says. But officials worry that turnout may wane and hold back Israeli plans to begin reopening the economy.
(With inputs from agencies.)
ALSO READ
EXCLUSIVE-Chinese buyers cancel or postpone 1 million metric tons of Australian wheat, sources say
Soccer-Australian top flight's newest club to be called Auckland FC
EXCLUSIVE-Chinese buyers cancel or postpone 1 million metric tons of Australian wheat, sources say
EXCLUSIVE-Chinese buyers cancel or postpone Australian wheat buys amid global oversupply
EXCLUSIVE-Chinese buyers cancel or postpone Australian wheat buys amid global oversupply