BRAZIL
New yr, new world document. Rio de Janeiro now holds the title of host of the biggest New Yr’s Eve celebration on this planet by Guinness World Data. The certificates was introduced to Mayor Eduardo Paes on stage in Copacabana earlier than town’s annual Reveillon after it was verified that roughly 2.5 million individuals gathered on Copacabana Seashore to ring in 2025.
JAPAN
A soy sauce producer put in two huge wood barrels in an effort to supply a extra mellow taste of its signature condiment. It is a departure from the trendy chrome steel barrels, and a return to a extra conventional getting old technique for the fermented soybeans, which presently solely accounts for about 1% of whole manufacturing. Yuasa Soy Sauce Ltd. put within the over 18-foot excessive and 11-foot huge buildings — among the many largest within the nation — in Yuasa, Wakayama Prefecture, thought-about the birthplace of Japanese soy sauce.
MEXICO
Monterrey is prepping to host 4 World Cup matches by getting a facelift forward of the June event. The northeastern Mexican metropolis, which is the capital of Nuevo León, is anticipating a document variety of guests, as its Rayados stadium holds 53,500 individuals and hundreds of thousands extra will flock to town’s Fundidora Park for the FIFA Fan Pageant. In anticipation of the large crowds, the state authorities has invested hundreds of thousands in its stadium and worldwide airport in addition to in new highways, metro strains, and bus fleets.
IRELAND
The Temple Bar is making an attempt to rid itself of its rowdy fame after a string of assaults has given it a foul title. In 2024, a choose deemed it a “violent post-apocalyptic place,” after sentencing a person who attacked an harmless patron there with a cider can. In 2025, two different assaults on the Dublin watering gap made headlines. Pittsburgh Steelers’ Skylar Thompson was reportedly jumped and robbed on the bar and an English vacationer was critically injured. In an try and offset its nefarious historical past, the house owners are actually selling its location as “Dublin’s cultural quarter,” noting the various artwork galleries, espresso outlets, classic outfitters and lodges that encompass it. “The period of huge consuming – it’s not that now. Temple Bar is a wholly completely different place. It’s the entrance room of Dublin metropolis,” Martin Harte, CEO of the Temple Bar Firm, instructed The Guardian.
AUSTRALIA
The nation’s iconic pink and yellow seaside flags, that are imagined to denote a protected place to enter the water, are below fireplace for dangerously complicated vacationers. The nation is contemplating a change to the flag system, launched within the Thirties, as drowning charges rise, with a big portion of the deaths being vacationers. The flags mark the most secure space to swim, the place lifeguards are on patrol and situations are chosen to keep away from rip currents. Nonetheless, in line with analysis, non-native swimmers typically misread the flags, and suppose they imply the world they mark off is harmful.
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