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August 8, organized by the Bosnian town of Capljina traditional festival, "Summer Carnival", with more than 1500 residents and tourists took part in Carnival celebrations.

Freitag Shop in Zurich looks different then any other shops. It is built of containers and sells bags, made of recycle material.

Underwater rugby is pretty simple, teams of 12 (of which 6 can be in the water at a time) battle to get a ball into two metal baskets, set at opposite sides of the pool.

The ball is filled with a saline solution, which makes it heavier than normal water and slowly sinks instead of rising to the surface. This allows strong players to throw and pass it for a few meters, despite the drag of the water. There aren’t many rules in this sport, players have to stop opponents from scoring, at any costs. It’s even permitted to sit in the basket to block a player from scoring, but if you can’t hold your breath long enough, you’ll have to go up for air and leave the “goal” exposed.

Check out the short video at the bottom, to get an idea of how underwater rugby is played.

Doctor Fish spas and skin treatment facilities are becoming more and more popular in countries like Japan, China, Turkey and across Europe. They use an amazing species of fish known as Garra rufa as a cosmetic beautifying treatment and as a cure for a variety of skin diseases. Garra rufa can be found in river basins around the Northern and Central Middle East, in countries like Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, but it is now artificially bred in outdoor pools specifically for the spas.

The so-called Doctor Fish spas first appeared in Turkey, where people suffering from a terrible skin disease called psoriasis, from all around the world started coming for treatment. Psoriasis sufferers develop raised red patches on their body covered by grey, scaly skin, which is sore or very itchy. Fortunately the Garra rufa love to nibble on dead and diseased skin and as soon as the patients insert their limbs in the water, an army of these little guys start eating away the skin that’s been softened by the warm water. Doctor Fish can survive in waters as hot as 43 degrees Celsius, but nutrients can’t and their not fed either, so when somebody dips their feet in their pool, it’s a real treat.


















Source: People.com.cn

In a shocking development, FIA raided, and sealed, Zarco Exchange Company outlets across Pakistan. The 727 outlets of Zarco, a leading money transfer company in Pakistan, were closed on money laundering allegations.

Zarco Exhcange Company, with its corporate headoffice in Lahore, is the oldest Western Union Money Transfer Agent in Pakistan. It has its branches and franchises across Pakistan and used to provide good customer service. However, recently things started to turn nasty and customers started complaining about the agents being short of funds or not making deliveries on time.

The Nation reported on August 02 that Civil Lines police in Lahore unearthed financial scam of Rs 1.25 billion and arrested nine employees of Zarco Exchange company for their involvement in the embezzlement of the money.

Interestingly, it was reported that the Police registered an FIR under sections 420,468,471,408/34 of PPC on the complaint of the ZARCO Exchange Company’s Chief Executive Lakhte Husnain. He in the application alleged that his company’s employees embezzled money of his company through ‘dummy accounts’.

Modus operandi of the arrested employees was that they used to misappropriate money through fictitious consumers by showing their fake NICs being sent from abroad. He said that they had also misused the money sent by a Western company through ZARCO.
Apparently the FIA got interested and sealed all offices of Zarco, perhaps to be on the safe side.

This is another high profile raid by the government since the closure Khanani and Kalia International, nine months back. While claims of hard evidence were made at that time, government is yet unable to make significant progress in that case. The directors of Khanani and Kalia are still in jail, with their franchises sealed across country and their employees eventually jobless. Does same fate follow Zarco Exchange? Only time will tell.

Royal Kensington and Chelsea district commissioned Heatherwick Studio to develop a draft Newsstand. Prior to that, newspapers and magazines in Kensington and Chelsea were sold boring boxes machines. These machines are now widely substitute for, behold such fun thing, steel-plated, with the seller within.