CATCH-UP NEWS: stories that didn’t make it to the feed last week (clockwise):

1. A New Zealand man of Asian descent had his passport photo rejected because his eyes were ‘closed’ according to the facial recognition software!
2. German is a hard language! Need proof? Easy. Austria’s word of the year is: Bundespraesidentenstichwahlwiederholungsverschiebung,” which means “postponement of the repeat of the runoff of the presidential election – in honour of the record time it took to elect Austria’s President this year.
3.  Parents directed their anger at Fisher Price when they saw an ad for a ‘Baby Bar Playset’, complete with fake liquor bottles & kids drinking around a bar, but it was just a well Photoshopped hoax!
4. San Francisco airport has introduced a tutu-wearing therapy pig named LiLou to help calm anxious travellers

Read more:

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/zealand-passport-robot-tells-applicant-asian-descent-open-084812732.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/whats-bundespraesidentenstichwahlwiederholungsverschiebung-095322441.html

https://www.cnet.com/au/news/fisher-price-baby-bar-playset-is-fake-but-fools-some-parents/

http://www.today.com/kindness/san-francisco-airport-uses-adorable-therapy-pig-calm-anxious-travelers-t105800

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