Welcome to Ask Doctor Zac, a weekly column from news.com.au. This week, Dr Zac Turner explores why it seems that people fart more on planes. QUESTION: Hi Dr Zac, I just returned home from London after a 24-hour flight and I swear everyone around me was doing really stinky silent farts that were next-level rank. Is it because … Read more
An award-winning Ukrainian journalist was stabbed and electrocuted before her death in Russian prison, a new investigation found. Victoria Roshchyna was declared dead in September in a letter from the Russian Ministry of Defense. The 27-year-old’s body is still not returned to her family, and the events surrounding her death remain unclear. Victoria Roshchyna traveled … Read more
Gambling content 21+. The New York Post may receive an affiliate commission if you sign up through our links. Read our editorial standards for more information. Sunday’s rivalry game in East Lansing features two college basketball teams headed in very different directions. No. 17 ranked Michigan will hit the road to take on No. 8 … Read more
They’ve got the beet. A touring orchestra using instruments entirely of vegetables just earned itself a world record. The Vegetable Orchestra, which only plays instruments that are carved out of vegetables, earned a Guinness World Record for the most concerts by a vegetable orchestra. The 11-piece orchestra, formed in Vienna, Austria, in 1998, has performed a … Read more
North Korea revealed Saturday it is building a nuclear-powered submarine — a weapon that experts say would be “absolutely threatening to [South Korea] and the US.” Images showed Kim Jong Un touring a navy shipyard to see the massive warship, which state media called “a nuclear-powered strategic guided missile submarine” — and may have been … Read more
The Buffalo Bills have released veteran linebacker Von Miller in a strategic move to create salary cap space, as reported by NFL Network Insiders Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero. Miller’s release frees $8.4 million against the cap, though they will incur $15.4 million in dead cap. There’s also a reported interest in Miller returning to … Read more
They’re a 10 overseas but a dud on home soil. The term “losers back home” has entered the vernacular following the season three premiere of HBO’s “The White Lotus,” in which the term is used to refer to the proliferation of “bald, white guys” in Thailand. Defined as a “stereotype of the older, rich, bald … Read more
Dead cats have been discovered on the streets of Israeli cities in what animal rights activists believe could be a sick string of mass poisonings. Bodies of dead strays were found across four blocks in western Tel Aviv on Friday, according to the nonprofit Noah, the Israeli Association of Animal Protection Organizations. It comes just … Read more
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Yankees will have to find pitchers who can pitch this season. In the wake of a lat strain that has knocked Luis Gil out for months and the elbow concerns that Gerrit Cole himself called “alarming,” two spots have opened in the Yankees rotation. “That’s two big, big parts … Read more
All through the 1950s and 1960s, as I grew up in Fair Lawn, my beloved hometown in northern New Jersey, almost every one of our immediate neighbors, the dozens of families around our block and those nearby, was, like us, Jewish. Over here, likewise housed in split-level colonials on quarter-acre plots, lived the Fishmans, the … Read more