While busy delivering the best international journalism, the Worldcrunch team also stumbles on a fair deal of downright strange stuff happening around the world, reported in every language.
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While busy delivering the best international journalism, the Worldcrunch team also stumbles on a fair deal of downright strange stuff happening around the world, reported in every language.
While busy delivering the best international journalism, the Worldcrunch team also stumbles on a fair deal of downright strange stuff happening around the world, reported in every language. Here’s our weekly collection of this weird, weird world.
While busy delivering the best international journalism, the Worldcrunch team also stumbles on a fair deal of downright strange stuff happening around the world, reported in every language. Here’s our weekly collection of this weird, weird world.
A not-so-neighborly Italian saga that extends from the porcelain depths of our most basic needs to the altar of European justice.
Tales of odds and ends from deep inside the world’s newspapers…. Starsky And Hutch Busted In France For Driving Under Influence Yes, they are both French. Yes, those are their real names. No, they weren’t driving a Ford Gran Torino. — WORLDCRUNCH Skiing Across Sweden-Norway Border To Slip Past COVID Lockdown There was only one problem: the […]
Icy roads, electricity outages, whiny city folk … There’s only one solution to ending winter chaos.
In recent months, governments and companies around the world have used a variety of incentives to boost vaccination rates — from cash to free beer to a live cow. But in Switzerland, a startup CEO chose to do the exact opposite, encouraging his staff not to get vaccinated — and rewarding them with a big […]
Eric Piedoie, a French master forger known as “the art pirate,” has died after being mugged in Cannes over his luxury watch — which (like his own work) was a fake. French daily Le Parisien highlighted the irony, calling his death Sunday from heart failure after the attack “one last snub” from a man who […]
“He loves me and I love him. Why would you take that away?”
Switzerland is famous for its fondue, a national specialty that is eaten by dipping bread into melted cheese, using uniquely shaped long-stemmed forks. Now a 60-year old Swiss man has found a rather unexpected use for his fondue fork, reaching with the length of the utensil and its sharp prongs to steal envelopes containing condolence […]