Odd News Roundup: Motor racing-F1 driver Bottas raises $150,000 with Bottass nude calendar; Kyrgyzstan moves to rid national flag of likeness to 'fickle' sunflower

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Kyrgyzstan moves to rid national flag of likeness to 'fickle' sunflower

Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted on Wednesday to tweak the design of the national flag after critics, including President Sadyr Japarov, said its central element looked like a sunflower which in the local culture symbolises fickleness and servility. The Central Asian nation's flag, adopted in 1992 after it gained independence from the Soviet Union, depicts a yellow sun - which doubles as the pinnacle of a traditional Kyrgyz yurt tent - with 40 rays on a red background.

Motor racing-F1 driver Bottas raises $150,000 with Bottass nude calendar

Formula One driver Valtteri Bottas has raised $150,000 for men's health charity Movember after a 'Bottass 2024' calendar featuring photographs of him baring his backside sped off the shelves. An initial run of 10,000, with five euros ($5.46) from each going to prostate cancer research, swiftly sold out with more printed.

(With inputs from agencies.)