MELK, Austria (Reuters) - An Austrian on Saturday kept his cool and set a new world record for standing in a box full of ice cubes, lasting a teeth-chattering two hours, 30 minutes and 57 seconds.

Wearing only a pair of swimming trunks, 42-

The two series of the final round of single-elimination playoff competition in the Overwatch League’s APAC region on Saturday did not disappoint. One was an exciting back-and-forth affair while the other was a rout.

The first match of the day saw the third-seeded New York Excelsior (16-8) outlast the sixth-seeded Chengdu Hunters (8-14) in a 3-2 series win. Both teams played well around each other, adapting with composition and occasional roster changes

LONDON (Reuters) - A suspicious package found on a bus in Manchester, northwest England, on Saturday has been declared safe, police said.

“Officers have assessed the item and it has been confirmed that the item is safe and there is no risk to the public,” Greater Manchester Police said.

A cordon and road closures will be lifted shortly

WARSAW (Reuters) - Belarusian opposition activist Olga Kovalkova arrived in the Polish capital Warsaw on Saturday, saying she had been forced by authorities in her homeland to leave the country.

Kovalkova, a senior figure in the Belarusian opposition Coordination Council, was sentenced to 10 days in jail on Aug. 25.

She said on

LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom recorded 1,813 new daily confirmed cases of COVID-19, versus 1,940 on Friday, health officials said on Saturday.

Daily case numbers were about 1,000 a day for most of August, but have started to increase in recent days. Britain’

WINDHOEK, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Dozens of hippopotamuses are stuck in a shrinking pool of mud and water in a game reserve in Namibia and are at risk of dying of hunger and thirst, the Daily News online publication reported on Saturday.

The pool, in the Wuparo Conservancy about 900 km (600 miles)northeast of the capital Windhoek, was fed from a nearby river but a prolonged drought has dried up the source, the News said, quoting the manager of the nearby Livingstone wildlife camp

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ROME, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Italian media group Mediaset could join the single national broadband network the government wants to see created, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Saturday, adding that rules on telecoms ownership in Italy might have to be revised.

“Why not?” Conte said, when asked by a journalist if Mediaset, controlled by the family of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, could also take part in the broadband project.

The comments came just days after an EU

MOSTAR, Bosnia (Reuters) - A Bosnian fan of both Ford trucks and Elon Musk’s Tesla could not just sit on his hands waiting for the electric carmaker to release its Cybertruck, expected from late 2021. Instead he came up with his own version of the futuristic vehicle.

(Reuters) - The soldier who died this week after collapsing during a physical training exercise at the Fort Hood U.S. Army base in Texas has been identified as Private Corlton Chee, 25, of Pinehill, New Mexico.

Chee collapsed during a morning run with his platoon on the base Aug. 28 and was rushed to a hospital in nearby Temple, Texas, where he died Wednesday, surrounded by his family, the Army said in a release on Friday.

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