The cast of a yodelling musical have denied responsibility for one of Europe’s worst Covid-19 outbreaks. After performances in Schwyz, Switzerland, were attended by 600 fans at the end of September, cases there have more than doubled to 1,238 since the middle of that month. But a cast member says safety measures were enforced and the suggestion the singers are to blame for the outbreak is “pure slander”.
White ‘UFO’ spotted near Area 51
A video purporting to show a UFO moving slowly near Area 51 has caused excitement online. The footage shows a flat white object floating mid-air above a highway. UFO enthusiast Scott C. Waring said: “The eyewitness at first believes it to be a cloud and then soon realised it was probably a UFO.”
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