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By ISAAC SCHARF Associated Press MOTZA, Israel (AP) — An Israeli jewelry company is making what it says is the world’s most expensive coronavirus face mask — a $1.5 million gold face covering encrusted with 3,600 diamonds. The custom-ordered mask will be fitted with an N99 filter and

Alligator traps residents in elevator in Southwest Florida

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — It has been a bad week for Mexican tourism promotion, after “anything goes” tourism ads were pulled and Mexico was slapped with a U.S. “do not travel” advisory. It got worse Friday when the English language version of

By ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — An unusually high number of pink flamingos have amassed in the wetlands of southern France along with their offspring. The elegant, long-legged birds have long been a tourist attraction in an area of the Camargue region that have served as

LONDON (AP) — Time spent in lockdown was just superb for Palmerston, the chief mouser at the U.K. Foreign Office. It was so good, in fact, that he’s decided to leave sorting out international affairs to the human diplomats and retire to the country after four long, hard years on the job.

BERLIN (AP) — A German nudist has had the last laugh after giving chase to a wild boar that ran off with a bag containing his laptop. Pictures posted on social media show the naked man running after a sow and her two piglets to the mirth of fellow bathers at Berlin’s Teufelssee. Adele