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A statue of "boy in watermelon" erected by the Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality recently at the city's entrance caught the attention of social media users and has become a subject of online trolling.

Mocking the statue, people compared it to "Chucky," a killer doll character in a famous Hollywood horror movie.

Visitors to Romania's forbidding Bran Castle, widely known as the inspiration for the lair of Dracula, are being jabbed with needles rather than vampiric fangs this weekend in a coronavirus vaccination drive.

"I came to visit the castle with my family and when I saw the poster I gathered up my courage and agreed to get the injection," said 39-year-old engineer Liviu Necula.

A former star choreographer for Britain's famed Royal Ballet Company has died aged 35, his family announced on April 17, a day after Denmark's Royal Theatre pulled his show over claims of "offensive behavior".

With a goal to remind people about the value of the world and life itself, a Turkish artist has been turning waste materials such as stone, glass, bone and metal into "post-apocalyptic" artworks to express the importance of life through his works.

The Minister of Health, Vlad Voiculescu, was fined by the Bucharest Police with the sum of 1,500 RON for not wearing a protective mask, according to the current legislation. "The General Police of Bucharest Municipality informs you that, for not respecting the provisions of Law nr.

Fantasy writer George R.R. Martin has signed a five-year deal with HBO, the studio said on March 29, raising hopes among "Game of Thrones" fans for countless more adventures set among the dragons and warring families of Westeros.

A wand used by Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter is among the showbiz-related items going up for auction in California next month.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first film in the series, the wand - which was used in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire in 2005 - is expected to fetch up to $10,000 (£7,100).

Waiting all you “Indiana Jones” out there to discover them…

The six great challenges that Joe Biden listed as the "cascading crises of our era," saying that his administration would be judged on the basis of how it handled them, are important not only for the United States but for the whole world. And so America's decisive return to a leading role on the international stage can only have positive results.

The move forms part of the country’s efforts to stop the spread of the more contagious mutant strain