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Bubbles come to Brussels – welcome to the city’s newest attraction

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

Fancy escaping from the mundane realities of life?If so, a brand new attraction in Brussels could be right up your street.It is called the “Bubble Planet Experience” and this is something that will appeal to both the young and old.Visitors are immersed in a “festive and colourful world” and, no, this is not Christmas come early but a “journey” into the world of…bubbles.The innovative and novel attraction, spread across several ultra-modern themed rooms, immerses participants with giant ball pools along with a hot air balloon flight simulator and various digital devices.One room is called “Bubble Ocean” while another is the “Infinity Room” whose mirrors create an illusion of an infinite space. The “Cloud Room”, one of 11 in the complex, is a relaxation area where you can chill on cosy inflatable clouds.The “Bubble Getaway”, meanwhile, is a sensory playground featuring an innovative robot capable of producing a multitude of bubbles of different sizes and shapes.Visitors can also ...

Motorcyclist arrested after high-speed pursuit in Los Angeles County

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

Authorities arrested a motorcyclist in Los Angeles County following a dangerous, high-speed pursuit on Thursday night.The suspect was wanted for speeding out of Baldwin Park, according to the California Highway Patrol. The biker was seen hitting speeds up to 120 miles per hour while erratically weaving through highway traffic and surface streets.The suspect eventually exited in the Long Beach area and pulls into a neighborhood where he narrowly misses crashing into a patrol car.Authorities arrested a motorcyclist in Los Angeles County following a dangerous, high-speed pursuit on August 3, 2023. (KTLA)Authorities arrested a motorcyclist in Los Angeles County following a dangerous, high-speed pursuit on August 3, 2023. (KTLA)Authorities arrested a motorcyclist in Los Angeles County following a dangerous, high-speed pursuit on August 3, 2023. (KTLA)Authorities arrested a motorcyclist in Los Angeles County following a dangerous, high-speed pursuit on August 3, 2023. (KTLA)Authorities ar...

In-N-Out owner to release book on iconic burger joint

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

In-N-Out, the popular fast-food restaurant company, has been around since 1948.Founded by Harry and Esther Snyder in Baldwin Park, California, the chain is known for its sought-after "animal-style" burgers and old-fashioned milkshakes.Lynsi Snyder, the granddaughter of late In-N-Out Burger co-founder Esther Snyder, is the president and CEO of the family-run business. She recently wrote a book, titled "The Ins-N-Outs of In-N-Out Burger," about the iconic burger joint.The book's description on the book's publisher Thomas Nelson's website details "how three generations have created a thriving, family-owned company, why its fans are so wildly loyal, and what led to its explosive growth and evolution into an iconic part of American culture." 2 San Diego spots among best mom-and-pop shops in US: Yelp Lynsi shared on Instagram that she is excited about the release of her book."I collaborated with several retired In-N-Out family members to share stories that happened during the 75 years o...

Gardener's truck and tools stolen in Berkeley

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

BERKELEY, Calif. (KRON) – An East Bay family is asking for the community's assistance to help their dad get back on his feet. Someone stole his truck and all of his work tools in Berkeley last week.Javier Quezada runs Quezada Garden Service. He says he was in Berkeley last week when in mere minutes, someone took off with his truck carrying all of his tools worth more than $150,000."Everything is gone,” he said. “Blower, lawnmower, weedeater, hedge trimmer, chainsaw, all the equipment that the garden needed."A surveillance camera captured some of the theft from around 7 a.m. last Thursday. A black car pulls up close to Quezada's truck, and then the truck drives away. Quezada says he called police, but he is not holding his breath. Boy paralyzed after shot on Oakland freeway "I know the tools never come back. People sell it for something cheap," he told KRON4.The theft couldn't have happened at a worse time for Quezada. He had also kept his passport and documents in his truck becaus...

Shohei Ohtani hits 40th homer after leaving mound early with cramps in Seattle’s 5-3 win over Angels

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani left the mound after only four scoreless innings due to cramping in his pitching hand and fingers, but then hit his major league-leading 40th homer before his Los Angeles Angels blew a two-run lead in the ninth inning of a 5-3 loss to the Seattle Mariners on Thursday night.Ohtani said he wasn’t sure whether the cramping, which was largely in his right middle finger, would force him to miss a mound start. Ohtani also had problems with cramps during the Angels’ just-completed trip, leaving consecutive games early with lower-body cramping.“It’s not just my finger,” Ohtani said through his translator. “I’ve been kind of getting cramps all over the place. I felt like maybe I could have gone another inning or two, but I’m trying to feel out how my hand feels, and it’s a 0-0 game. I couldn’t give up any runs, and I felt like it was better for the team to stop pitching there.”Rookie Cade Marlowe hit his first career grand slam in the ninth for the ...

Cardi B no será acusada por el incidente del micrófono lanzado desde el escenario, dice la Policía

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

(CNN) — Cardi B no enfrentará cargos vinculados a haber lanzado su micrófono a la multitud en un concierto en Las Vegas el fin de semana pasado, según la policía.“Después de una revisión exhaustiva de este caso y en consulta con la Oficina del Fiscal del Distrito del Condado de Clark, este caso se ha cerrado por no tener pruebas suficientes. No se presentarán cargos en relación con este caso”, informó el jueves la Policía Metropolitana de Las Vegas en un comunicado enviado CNN.“En nombre de Cardi, apreciamos la diligente y rápida resolución de este asunto por parte del Departamento de Policía Metropolitana de Las Vegas”, dijeron Drew Findling, David Chesnoff y Richard Schonfeld, los abogados que representan a Cardi B, en un comunicado el jueves por la tarde.El lunes, un asistente al concierto presentó una denuncia ante la policía de Las Vegas tras haber sido “golpeado por un objeto lanzado desde el escenario”, según informó la policía a CNN ...

Freeman has 3 hits to lead Dodgers to 8-2 victory and 3-game sweep of Athletics

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Freddie Freeman had three hits, Miguel Rojas and Amed Rosario both drove in two runs, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Oakland Athletics 8-2 Thursday night to complete a three-game sweep.Zack Gelof and Tyler Soderstrom homered for the Athletics, who have dropped four straight and seven of their last nine.Freeman, second in the majors with a .341 batting average, has gone 32 for 63 (.508) at the plate since July 17. He hit two doubles, extending his major league-lead to 40, before leading off the eighth with a solo shot to right field for his 22nd homer of the season.Julio Urías (8-6) bounced back with five scoreless innings after allowing 11 runs in 11 innings in his previous two starts. Emmet Sheehan went the last four innings for his first major-league save.Los Angeles outscored Oakland 25-6 and had 20 extra-base hits in the series, including six doubles in the finale.JP Sears (2-8) took the loss after allowing two runs in five innings.Rojas drove in the fir...

High tides causes coastal flooding issues

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Warming temperatures are having unintended consequences.The surf is bigger and coastal erosion is speeding up with the new energy in the water.It’s a fact that is impossible to ignore the temperatures across the globe are rising and climate change is altering things everywhere, according to oceanographers from Scripps.The surf has been getting bigger since the 1970s and big wave events are now twice as more common then four decades ago.“More heat within the earth's system, more heat in the atmosphere, more heat in the ocean, that’s energy and that energy makes things stronger, faster, higher and that’s what we are experiencing,” said Dr. Pat Abbott from San Diego State University.Abbott says as carbon emissions continue creating hotter temperatures, a series of cycles are speeding up. Climber who died on El Cajon Mountain remembered as loving husband, teacher “As waves and water are coming farther onshore, they are going to do even more cutting of the sea cliffs and i...

3 years after Beirut port blast, intrigue foils an investigation and even the death toll is disputed

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

BEIRUT (AP) — Three years after Beirut’s massive port blast, attempts to prosecute those responsible are mired in political intrigue, the final death toll remains disputed and many Lebanese have less faith than ever in their disintegrating state institutions.As the country marks the anniversary Friday, relatives of some of those killed are still struggling to get their loved ones recognized as blast victims, reflecting the ongoing chaos since the Aug. 4, 2020 explosion. The blast killed at least 218 people, according to an Associated Press count, wounded more than 6,000, devastated large swaths of Beirut and caused billions of dollars in damages.Among those not recognized as a blast victim is a five-month-old boy, Qusai Ramadan, a child of Syrian refugees. His parents say he was killed when the explosion toppled the ceiling and a cupboard in his hospital room, crushing him. The parents have been unable to get the infant added to the official death list, a move that could have made t...

Mutinous soldiers in Niger sever military ties with France while president says he’s a hostage

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:14:24 GMT

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger’s military junta says it is severing military agreements with France, its former colonial ruler, firing some of the previous government’s key ambassadors and warning citizens of the West African nation to watch for foreign armies and spies.The announcement on state television late Thursday deepens the post-coup isolation for what had been the United States’ and allies’ last major security partner in the Sahel, the vast region south of the Sahara Desert that various Islamic extremist groups have turned into the global center of terrorism.With two days remaining before a deadline set by the West African regional bloc to release and reinstate President Mohamed Bazoum or face possible force, Bazoum in a plea published in a Washington Post opinion piece said, “I write this as a hostage.”Niger’s mutinous soldiers face a Sunday deadline set by the regional bloc known as ECOWAS, whose envoys arrived at the airport in the capital, Niamey, on Thursday for talk...