The clay figurine was found in a stream where a prehistoric riverside colony had settled between the 8th and 6th centuries BC. Archaeologists believe the 19-centimeter (7-inch) clay figure had been left in a natural niche in a rock formation as an offering. Its creators - from the Hallstatt culture in Schweinfurt district, Bavaria - could have worshipped it as a goddess, they say. Experts believe that it could have been thought to have magical powers....

TikTok user Georgina shared a video of the book and its pages to the app on October 7, dubbing it the “worst book” she had ever purchased from the retail giant. Inside the book, which was advertised as a low-calorie vegetarian one, featured various classic recipes using meat, including beef and chicken. Georgina flipped through the pages showing the camera what recipes it detailed—crab salad, vegetable soup with beef, chicory and ham stew and chicken goulash all made the cut....

Hermes, Fed-Ex and DPD staff often have to contend with our four-legged friends when making drop offs, which has ended badly for some packages, not to mention ankles. Justin Ston Naumann shared a clip to his TikTok account, @youngstony23, as he filmed the dog from afar, unsure as to whether to approach. “You think he’s a good boy,” he says to the camera, as he zooms in on the canine at the end of a driveway, which appears to have clipped ears....

The company said Monday that the “Prime Early Access Sale,” will take place October 11 to October 12, and will feature “hundreds of thousands” of deals just in time for the holiday season. More and more retailers have announced promotions well ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday in a bid to boost sales ahead of the national sales. Retail giant Target recently announced the dates for its second Deal Days 2022 event, which are set for October 6 to 8, with internet retailer Overstock announcing its Overstock Day event for October 2....

Costa, meanwhile, retweeted criticism from Cunningham, while also offering to match donations up to $500 for warehouse workers “while they struggle to get consistent, sufficient protections and procedures from our employer.” Both Cunningham and Costa told The Post they believed they were fired because their warnings were making their way to the public. Newsweek has contacted the fired workers for comment. “We are following all guidelines from local health officials and are taking extreme measures to ensure the safety of employees at our site,” Lighty said....

On Thursday, Canadian truck drivers will enter their third full day of protest at the bridge, demanding the federal government revoke its vaccine mandate for cross-border truck drivers, which went into effect on January 15. The Ambassador Bridge connects Detroit, Michigan with Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and is a crucial supply chain path that facilitates trade between the two nations. “It is estimated that 10,000 commercial vehicles cross the bridge each day to deliver $325 million of goods, with approximately $50 million worth of automotive parts,” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s office told Newsweek....

The Aquaman star has been a target of endless scrutiny in recent months during her court battle with ex-husband Johnny Depp, and one list from outlet The Top Tens lists Heard as more hated than the Russian president who waged war on Ukraine earlier this year. The list made it to Reddit where it has sparked a conversation about Heard’s treatment on social media. “Sorry, but this made me cry....

China has built a massive semiconductor industry with massive government spending. It is about to send another $200 billion to its semiconductor sector through 2025. The U.S. Senate, in a fit of bipartisanship, just approved spending up to about $250 billion for science research, subsidizing computer chip makers here and expanding the National Science Foundation. Europe is also spending big. Why is this so important? Semiconductors are the little brains that now run appliances, airplanes, mobile phones and cars....

Doug Henning lent a hippie-ish flair to the sometimes somber world of magic. Spinning tricky illusions in a tie-dye shirt, mop of hair and goofy grin, Henning brought levity to levitation. In recent years he became more devoted to Transcendental Meditation; his dream was to build a spiritual theme park near Niagara Falls. He died of liver cancer at 52. Latino rapper Christopher Rios (a.k.a. Big Pun) weighed nearly 700 pounds, but his high-speed rhymes flowed with tiptoe agility....

Analysis shared by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEFA), based on data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), said the finding marks a major “milestone” in an energy transition that is now underway. The move away from coal for electricity generation in the U.S. accelerated in 2020 due to lower gas prices, warmer weather and a “significant amount” of new renewable capacity being connected to the grid late last year, the report suggested....

Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, 60, who allegedly disabled a navigation system on a flight from Miami International Airport, was denied bond during his court appearance earlier today, according to ABC 10 News. Alani admitted to sabotaging the flight in mid-July, according to a federal criminal complaint, before its scheduled takeoff to Nassau, Bahamas. The accused claimed he was motivated by frustrations over stalled union contract discussions. However, the plane never made it into the air....

And then, all of a sudden, there was Beyonce Knowles doing a concert at the grave of President Ulysses S. Grant! For Scaturro, who has spent his adult life protecting the 18th president’s final resting place on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, this was an amazing thing. Finally, Grant’s tomb was back in the public consciousness! But then Knowles started dancing. And when I say “dancing,” I don’t mean dancing at all, but “thrusting,” “gyrating,” “bumping,” “grinding” and “selling lots of Pepsi products....

That’s not the case, though, for the Undecideds, a group of 2-million to 20-million Americans who, despite a two-year-long campaign, millions of dollars in campaign ads, tens of thousands of news stories and dozens of Top 10 Lists on Letterman, still haven’t quite figured outwhat they think of the president or his challenger. Now, if you don’t yet have an opinion, I’m not here to persuade you to take one side or another....

I was particularly struck by footage of Afghani citizens lining up outside a newly reopened Kabul movie theater to see a long-banned 1995 film called “Uruj” (“Ascension”). The excitement about seeing the movie was so intense, in fact, that dozens were injured in the melee for seats. As a former correspondent for the French film magazine Cahiers du Merde, I knew that any movie that caused more civilian injuries than a month of American bombing was something I had to see....

That’s not only strange bedfellows – it’s miscegenation! The issue, of course, is that the Presidential test has always been an incorruptible assessment of the physical fitness of our nation’s youth. Even today, to get the cherished “Presidential” medal, an 11-year-old boy has to do 47 sit-ups in a minute, complete six pull-ups, stretch his fingers four inches beyond his toes from a sitting position, run a mile in an astonishing 7:32, and complete something called a “shuttle run”–sprint 30 feet in one direction, pick up a small block, run back, release the block, run back, pick up another block, race back to the starting line–in just 10 seconds....

Tough life. But in the wake of some recent news stories-including the revelation that Sony had been quoting a fake film critic in advertisements and another bombshell that Sony employees posed as real moviegoers in TV ads-I couldn’t help but begin to see film critics for what they really are: America’s newest oppressed group. In the case of Sony’s fake critic, I sympathized with real film reviewers not merely because Sony invented a guy named David Manning to gush over its lamest summer movies, but because no one noticed for months that he was even fake!...

For the next 60 hours, Safran stood at the game, zapping alien ships, pulverizing asteroids and sparingly using his “Hyperspace” button en route to ringing up a new world record score: 41,336,440. To put that score in perspective, imagine Barry Bonds hitting 90 home runs this season, breaking his own record by 17. Imagine Takeru Kobayashi eating 75 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes on July 4 in the Nathan’s contest in Coney Island, besting his prior mark by 25....

By daybreak, 26 people were dead, almost all from the al-Ameri family, including Fateem, a mother shot in the back as she ran for safety clutching her 18-month-old child, and Abdullah, a grandfather gunned down as he tried in vain to save his son and three grandchildren. The attack was not a one-off. The U.S. government has had the al-Ameris in its sights for eight years now. A drone strike on Abdullah Mabkhout al-Ameri’s wedding in 2013 killed a dozen people....

“It was like something out of a horror movie,” the mother of the family wrote on Facebook on Friday. The Facebook post has since been liked by about 50,000 people. Matt Rispoli, Elisa Rispoli and their two young boys were camping in Banff National Park in Alberta on August 8 when a wolf attacked them in the middle of the night. Elisa recounted the terrifying incident on Facebook: “Matt literally threw his body in front of me and the boys, and fought the Wolf as it ripped apart our tent and his arms and hands,” she wrote....

Lauren Kennedy Brady told WNCN-TV, a Raleigh-based television news station, that she, her mother, daughter and niece traveled to Africa to achieve one of her “bucket list” goals after the COVID-19 pandemic stalled her original plans. After several countries announced travel restrictions on South Africa—where the Omicron variant was first discovered—and its neighboring countries, Brady said her family has not been able to find a connecting flight back to Raleigh, WNCN reported....