Taiwan

Passengers hold oxygen masks to their faces after their plane dropped 26,900ft.

Watch: Flight drops 26,900ft forcing passengers to wear oxygen masks

A restaurant in Taiwan has introduced crocodile ramen to its menu but you have to be on a waiting list to try it. (Photo by Fernando Camino/Cover/Getty Images)

Restaurant in Taiwan offers crocodile ramen

Peloton issues urgent recall of 2 million bikes over seat safety issue

Doomsday Clock: What is it, how close is it to midnight, and what time are scientists due to set it in 2023? (Photo: EVA HAMBACH/AFP via Getty Images)

Doomsday Clock 2023: What is it, current time & new announcement

A Taiwan habu snake, which scientists used to collect venom for research into the theory that venom glands evolved from early salivary glands (Photo: OIST/Steven Aird/PA Media)

Scientists researching snakes say ‘toxic people’ may become a reality if humans ...

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Letters - Saturday January 23, 2021

The majority of people in the UK are willing to use privacy-encroaching tracking technology

UK public supports tracking technology and immunity passports, study finds

UCLan's professor Niki Alsford has won a prestigious US grant to help with his research into the part whales play in helping the indigenous people of Taiwan learn about their heritage

Here's how a Preston man is studying whales to help uncover the history of lit...

Garmin is yet to confirm what has caused the issue (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s why Garmin isn’t working and what services have been affected

The vouchers would be valid in sectors that have been hardest hit by the UK lockdown (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here's how the proposed £500 voucher scheme to save the UK high street could wor...

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Author from Fleetwood publishes eco friendly book

Dog meat could be outlawed in this Chinese city for the first time

Hundreds of same-sex couples in Taiwan are rushing to the household registration office on the first day that a landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage has taken effect.

Hundreds tie knot as same-sex marriage becomes legal in Taiwan

The small insects were discovered living under her eyelids where they were feasting on her tears (Photo: Shutterstock)

Doctors discovered live bees feeding on tears inside a woman's eye

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Blackpool endurance athlete to open hi-tech training centre

Harrison and Wayne Ormerod of Whisky Online Auctions with their record breaking bottles of whisky.

Raise a glass to the Â£65k whisky
The new owner of this bottle of whisky must have needed a stiff drink when they realised how much it had cost them.
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