The video of an 800-year-old object that appears to resemble a mobile phone, and discovered by archaeologists during a dig in Austria, has gone up viral on social media. The object is believed to be a clay copy of the mobile phone with a Sumerian writing style on its keys. Sumerian was an ancient language spoken in around 2000 BC but was forgotten by the 19th century. On the other […]

Austrian Conchita Wurst has arrived home to a heroine’s welcome after the bearded drag queen won the Eurovision Song Contest Sporting high heels, butterfly eyelashes and a full beard, Wurst – whose birth name is Tom Neuwirth – swept to victory with her Rise Like a Phoenix ballad before a global television audience of about 180 million people in 45 countries “I share the opinion that this was not a […]