Lesley Lanir
Digital Journalist based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Israel.
Joined on Nov 8, 2011
Expertise in
Travel,
Books,
Education,
Entertainment,
Movies
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Guangan -
A 28-year-old man has arrived back home 23 years after being abducted whilst on his way to kindergarten as a boy. He used Google Maps to help him find his way.
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Tokyo -
A Japanese design team has created pictures of chairs using an elasticated fabric that you can prop up against a wall and use to sit in.
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Djursholm -
A Swedish man posted information on his professional networking LinkedIn account that has led him to receive a five-million kronor ($750,000) additional tax bill.
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Huffman -
A desperate Texas mom offered up her three-year-old son for adoption on the classifieds website Craigslist. The woman has apparently been suffering from depression and anxiety.
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Windsor -
A City of Windsor resident saves two baby ducklings trapped in a sewer by downloading and playing a duck call app on his Blackberry Z10.
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Angelina Jolie has announced she has had a preventive double mastectomy because doctors estimated that she had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer.
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Chicago -
A unique umbrella, Brolly, has been developed with a special grip that allows for texting and emailing in the wind and rain and gives added comfort for those suffering from arthritis or carpal tunnel syndrome. You can now multi-task in the rain.
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Los Angeles -
An American Airlines flight on its way to to New York from Los Angeles was forced to land in Kansas City when a female passenger refused to stop singing Whitney Houston songs.
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Atlanta -
An experiment shows what happens when two monkeys receive unequal rewards for their efforts. Further experiments show that monkeys understand how to cooperate at the same levels as humans as long as language skills are not involved.
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Warwick -
How many umbrellas do you buy a year? Stephen Collier has created the Rainshader, a waterproof dome that can withstand Gale Force 7 winds up to 40 miles per hour. It's the revolutionary brolly to beat all brollies and possibly the last one you have to buy
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Chicago -
Maureen Oleskiewicz, a 28-year-old teacher and huge sports fan, died after choking on a hot dog while at the Chicago Cubs game last Sunday.
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Sydney -
A couple is reported to have fallen overboard off the coast of Australia while on a luxury Carnival Spirit cruise. A major sea and air search off Australia's New South Wales mid-north coast has been launched.
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Tel Aviv -
Have problems finding your way? Facebook may buy award winning Waze, the advanced and accurate Israeli crowd-sourcing traffic and navigation app. The cost? Around $1 billion.
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Storrs Mansfield -
Dopamine is well-known as the pleasure hormone. One scientist who has researched its effects for decades says this isn't so; it's a "story" and says the claims that dopamine directly increases pleasure are untrue if literature is examined closely.
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Facebook has launched 'Media on Facebook,' a portal that lists guides and best practices, for journalists, media companies and news outlets.
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Queens Village -
A thief pretending to be a delivery driver took off with about $153,000 worth of high-end detoxifying juice drinks from the $20 million enterprise, BluePrintCleanse.
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Oldham -
A police-dog brought to a home in Werneth, Oldham, Greater Manchester for a drug bust, knocked over the suspect's pet hamster cage, chased the hamster, caught it and ate it. A bald pet parrot was also discovered in the raid.
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Jerusalem -
After Israel carried out attacks close to Damascus last night, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad warns that Israeli airstrikes are a “declaration of war.” Israel has deployed two Iron Dome missile defense batteries in the north.
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What are the most popular and trendiest names for kittens and cats? How are people choosing their kitten's name? Is your cat's name on the popular name or trending list? Would you choose a trendy name for your cat or kitten or just select a popular one?
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Tel Aviv -
Tragedies and horrific events such as the Boston Marathon bombings, the murder of 20 children in Sandy Hook, or 9/11 seem to create "a cottage industry" of conspiracies claiming that Jews or Israelis are behind these terrible incidents.
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