The wood turtle came to live at the Museum of Natural History in Halifax last September.

Unlike most turtles, Root is missing his right front foot.

"Because one leg is essentially shorter than the other one, we found that he was kind of clunking his shell down," McKinnon says. "There was some wear on the shell and we didn't want it to get worse, so he needed something to lift him up."

The first incarnation used medical adhesive tape and a bandage to attach some wheels, but staff didn't want to have to stick something to his shell every time he went out for his constitutional. So Biesterfeld came up with the idea of using a removable dog harness along with the Lego platform and wheels.

"Now when I snap his harness on, it's like when he hears that snap, he's ready to go," says Biesterfeld.

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In trials, in 708 women, when combined with hormone therapy, the drug doubled the time the cancer took to grow, from 3.6 months to 7.3 months, and shrank tumours in 23% of patients.

An unreleased song by the late Taiwanese pop singer Teresa Teng, who took East Asia by storm from the 1970s to 1990s, has been discovered in Japan and will be released in June, a source familiar with the matter said Thursday.

The light pop song, likely recorded in the mid-1980s, was a joint work of composer Takashi Miki and lyricist Toyohisa Araki, the duo behind Teng's hits in Japan, including "Toki no Nagare ni Mi wo Makase" (Give yourself to the flow of time).

File photo taken in February 1984 shows Taiwanese pop singer Teresa Teng. (Kyodo)

The song, with a tone different from Teng's dramatic Japanese melodies, such as "Tsugunai" (Atonement), will be included in a three-CD album of Miki's compositions to be released on June 25, according to the source.

An official of Universal Music LLC found the song recorded on a tape stored in a warehouse in Tokyo several years ago while trying to sort past recordings.

As the song was untitled, Araki named it "Love Song wa Yogiri ga Osuki," which translates as "Love songs like fog at night."

It is rare for an unreleased recording to survive on tape for recordings were expensive at the time and tapes were repeatedly reused, with pieces often recorded over previous recordings.

Hideto Hanabata, president of Soramusic Inc., which manages songs composed by Miki, said he is "deeply moved" by the fact that a newly discovered song will be a part of the new album, whose release this year coincides with the 80th anniversary year of his birth. Miki died in 2009.

Teng was a singer in Taiwan and Hong Kong before debuting in Japan in 1974. She was also popular in China and Southeast Asia but died at age 42 due to ill health while staying in Thailand in May 1995.

To date, 5,282 hens have been distributed to residents, and not only have the residents received a plentiful supply of free eggs, but food waste has also been averted from landfill as chickens are fed kitchen scraps which would otherwise be thrown away.

In Maharashtra’s parched landscapes, former IRS officer Ujjwal Kumar Chavan initiated a transformative water conservation project. Inspired to combat drought, he constructed reservoirs and check dams, increasing water storage across 204 villages. His efforts boosted farmers’ incomes, rejuvenated rivers, and fostered community resilience, demonstrating the power of collective action.

The Europol-supported operation led to 79 arrests and 1.400 identifications

Kidflix, one of the largest paedophile platforms in the world, has been shut down in an international operation against child sexual exploitation. The investigation was supported by Europol and led by the State Criminal Police of Bavaria (Bayerisches Landeskriminalamt) and the Bavarian Central Office for the Prosecution of Cybercrime (ZCB). Over 35 countries worldwide participated in the operation.

A total of 1.8 million users worldwide logged on to the platform between April 2022 and March 2025. On 11 March 2025, the server, which contained around 72 000 videos at the time, was seized by German and Dutch authorities.

The investigation resulted in the identification of almost 1 400 suspects worldwide. So far, 79 of these individuals have been arrested for sharing and distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Some of those arrested not only uploaded and watched videos but also abused children. The investigation is ongoing.