January 16, 2018 4:04 AM EST
Authorities in the central Japanese city of Gamagori activated an emergency warning system Tuesday in a bid to prevent residents eating parts of potentially deadly pufferfish that were mistakenly placed on supermarket shelves.
Pufferfish, or fugu, is an expensive delicacy often served in the form of paper-thin sashimi slices. But the fish’s skin, intestines, ovaries, and liver contain the poison tetrodotoxin, which is 1,200 times deadlier than cyanide. Read More...
October 6, 2014 3:54 PM EDT
Controversial fashion designer John Galliano has a new job as creative director of Maison Martin Margiela, a Paris-based fashion house.
Galliano had been out of commission ever since he was ousted from Christian Dior in 2011 after his arrest and subsequent conviction in France for uttering anti-Semitic remarks, which are illegal there.
But his most recent move appears to signal that he may be finding his way back into the fashion world. Read More...
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde on Thursday declared that what Nigeria needs to move forward is leaders with conscience. The Governor made the submission when he received the report of a seven-man reconciliation committee of the south-west Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), led by a former Governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola.
Makinde while praising the committee for a job weldone however lamented that some PDP politicians including Governors and lawmakers had defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) between the time the committe was inaugurated and when it completed its job. Read More...
