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China: Cat Frozen as Owner Swings It Back and Forth in Jiangsu

On October 4, 2025, in Jiangsu province, a vendor was seen playfully holding his cat by its front paws and gently swinging it back and forth like a pendulum. The slim cat remained motionless, seemingly frozen by confusion or mild fear, as the man repeated the motion. The owner claimed he was “training” the cat, though commenters urged caution.

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Threats made to schools of Tallinn

10.11.2025. Tallinn Threats made against Tallinn schools on social media are believed to be part of an information operation aimed at sowing confusion and creating fear. Nearly a dozen schools in Tallinn received letters threatening them with violence on Sunday. Press conference with ISS director Harrys Puusepp, the PPA's Northern Prefect Ats KÃ¼barsepp, behaviour expert at the Estonian Police and Border Guard PÃ¤rtel Preinvalts. Photo: Tairo Lutter, Postimees

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Threats made to schools of Tallinn

10.11.2025. Tallinn Threats made against Tallinn schools on social media are believed to be part of an information operation aimed at sowing confusion and creating fear. Nearly a dozen schools in Tallinn received letters threatening them with violence on Sunday. Press conference with ISS director Harrys Puusepp, the PPA's Northern Prefect Ats KÃ¼barsepp, behaviour expert at the Estonian Police and Border Guard PÃ¤rtel Preinvalts. Photo: Tairo Lutter, Postimees

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Threats made to schools of Tallinn

10.11.2025. Tallinn Threats made against Tallinn schools on social media are believed to be part of an information operation aimed at sowing confusion and creating fear. Nearly a dozen schools in Tallinn received letters threatening them with violence on Sunday. Press conference with ISS director Harrys Puusepp, the PPA's Northern Prefect Ats KÃ¼barsepp, behaviour expert at the Estonian Police and Border Guard PÃ¤rtel Preinvalts. Photo: Tairo Lutter, Postimees

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Weapon-like object at the Polytechnic School

10.11.2025. Tallinn Threats made against Tallinn schools on social media are believed to be part of an information operation aimed at sowing confusion and creating fear. There was an incident at the Polytechnic School and police received a report that a student had been seen handing over a possible weapon-like object to another student. The two young men were detained, identified and questioned. Photo: Rasmus Rebase, Postimees

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Weapon-like object at the Polytechnic School

10.11.2025. Tallinn Threats made against Tallinn schools on social media are believed to be part of an information operation aimed at sowing confusion and creating fear. There was an incident at the Polytechnic School and police received a report that a student had been seen handing over a possible weapon-like object to another student. The two young men were detained, identified and questioned. Photo: Rasmus Rebase, Postimees

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Weapon-like object at the Polytechnic School

10.11.2025. Tallinn Threats made against Tallinn schools on social media are believed to be part of an information operation aimed at sowing confusion and creating fear. There was an incident at the Polytechnic School and police received a report that a student had been seen handing over a possible weapon-like object to another student. The two young men were detained, identified and questioned. Photo: Rasmus Rebase, Postimees

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Weapon-like object at the Polytechnic School

10.11.2025. Tallinn Threats made against Tallinn schools on social media are believed to be part of an information operation aimed at sowing confusion and creating fear. There was an incident at the Polytechnic School and police received a report that a student had been seen handing over a possible weapon-like object to another student. The two young men were detained, identified and questioned. Photo: Rasmus Rebase, Postimees

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Weapon-like object at the Polytechnic School

10.11.2025. Tallinn Threats made against Tallinn schools on social media are believed to be part of an information operation aimed at sowing confusion and creating fear. There was an incident at the Polytechnic School and police received a report that a student had been seen handing over a possible weapon-like object to another student. The two young men were detained, identified and questioned. Photo: Rasmus Rebase, Postimees

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Weapon-like object at the Polytechnic School

10.11.2025. Tallinn Threats made against Tallinn schools on social media are believed to be part of an information operation aimed at sowing confusion and creating fear. There was an incident at the Polytechnic School and police received a report that a student had been seen handing over a possible weapon-like object to another student. The two young men were detained, identified and questioned. Photo: Rasmus Rebase, Postimees

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Weapon-like object at the Polytechnic School

10.11.2025. Tallinn Threats made against Tallinn schools on social media are believed to be part of an information operation aimed at sowing confusion and creating fear. There was an incident at the Polytechnic School and police received a report that a student had been seen handing over a possible weapon-like object to another student. The two young men were detained, identified and questioned. Photo: Rasmus Rebase, Postimees

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China: Mysterious Vertical Lights Appear Over Hainan Night Sky

This is the eerie moment that a series of glowing needle-like beams appeared vertically in the night sky, resembling glowing needles suspended from above, on June 16, 2025, in Hainan, China. The phenomenon baffled residents and lit up social media. According to eyewitnesses, the lights remained visible for about 30 minutes and appeared in vibrant, shifting colors. People nearby paused to watch the spectacle and discuss what it might be, expressing both awe and confusion.

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UK: Fire Alarm Prompts Evacuation At London Gatwick Airport

The South Terminal of London Gatwick Airport was evacuated on Thursday morning, May 9 after a fire alarm went off. Videos posted on social media show passengers exiting and waiting outside the building.

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Portuguese Cup: Sporting vs Benfica

Lisbon, 02/29/2024 - Sporting Clube de Portugal hosted this evening at the José Alvalade XXI Stadium in Lisbon, Sport Lisboa and Benfica in the 1st Leg of the Semi-Finals of the Taça de Portugal Placard 2023/24. Confusion (Gerardo Santos / Global Imagens)

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Taca Portugal: Benfica vs Famalicao

Lisbon, 25/11/2023 - SL Benfica hosted Famalicao at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon this evening, in a game counting for the fourth round of the Taca de Portugal of the 2023/2024 season. Confusion on the bench (Álvaro Isidoro / Global Imagens)

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I Liga: FC Arouca vs SC Braga

Arouca, 11/12/2023 - Futebol Clube de Arouca hosted Sporting Clube de Braga this evening at the Arouca Municipal Stadium, in a game counting for the 11th round of the I League 2023/24. Confusion at the end of the match, Daniel Ramos; João Gonçalves; Artur Jorge (Tony Dias/Global Imagens)

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Chinese film opens 2023 Asian Film Festival Barcelona

STORY: Chinese film opens 2023 Asian Film Festival Barcelona DATELINE: Oct. 27, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:42 LOCATION: BARCELONA, Spain CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of posters of the Chinese film "Yangzi's Confusion" 2. various of the 2023 Asian Film Festival Barcelona 3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): MENENE GRAS, Director of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona STORYLINE: The 2023 Chinese film "Yangzi's Confusion" by debutant filmmaker Li Jue opened the 11th edition of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona (AFFBCN) on Wednesday. The inaugural film tells the story of the ten-year-old Yangzi, who discovered that her mother gave up the custody of Yangzi after divorce, causing tension between the two. Running until Nov. 5, the festival boasts over a hundred films from 25 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between China and Spain, some 22 films in this year's festival are from China, five more than in 2022. Twelve of the Chinese films are feature-leng

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Few foreign tourists seen in Egyptian marketplace

CAIRO, Egypt - Foreign tourists are rarely seen in the Khan Al-Khalili market, a tourist spot in Cairo, on May 28, 2014, as political confusion continues in Egypt.

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Cairo craftsman works on copper product

CAIRO, Egypt - An Egyptian craftsman works on a copper product at his shop in Cairo on May 28, 2014, amid continued political confusion in the Arab nation.

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Obokata's supervisor holds press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, holds a press conference in Tokyo on April 16, 2014. Sasai, a veteran scientist who supervised the writing by Haruko Obokata of two controversial papers on STAP cells, apologized for the confusion, concern and sense of mistrust caused by the papers but expressed confidence about the existence of the STAP phenomenon.

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Obokata's supervisor holds press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, holds a press conference in Tokyo on April 16, 2014. Sasai, a veteran scientist who supervised the writing by Haruko Obokata of two controversial papers on STAP cells, apologized for the confusion, concern and sense of mistrust caused by the papers but expressed confidence about the existence of the STAP phenomenon.

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Obokata's supervisor holds press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows reporters during a press conference in Tokyo by Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, on April 16, 2014. Sasai, a veteran scientist who supervised the writing by Haruko Obokata of two controversial papers on STAP cells, apologized for the confusion, concern and sense of mistrust caused by the papers but expressed confidence about the existence of the STAP phenomenon.

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Obokata's supervisor holds press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, holds a press conference in Tokyo on April 16, 2014, wearing a pin of the Japanese government-funded Riken institute. Sasai, a veteran scientist who supervised the writing by Haruko Obokata of two controversial papers on STAP cells, apologized for the confusion, concern and sense of mistrust caused by the papers but expressed confidence about the existence of the STAP phenomenon.

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Obokata's supervisor holds press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, apologizes at the start of a press conference in Tokyo on April 16, 2014, wearing a pin of the Japanese government-funded Riken institute. Sasai, a veteran scientist who supervised the writing by Haruko Obokata of two controversial papers on STAP cells, apologized for the confusion, concern and sense of mistrust caused by the papers but expressed confidence about the existence of the STAP phenomenon.

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Obokata's supervisor holds press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, drinks water during a press conference in Tokyo on April 16, 2014. Sasai, a veteran scientist who supervised the writing by Haruko Obokata of two controversial papers on STAP cells, apologized for the confusion, concern and sense of mistrust caused by the papers but expressed confidence about the existence of the STAP phenomenon.

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Obokata's supervisor holds press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Haruko Obokata, a researcher with the government-funded Riken institute, during a press conference in Osaka on April 9, 2014. Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, who supervised the writing by Obokata of two controversial papers on STAP cells, held a press conference in Tokyo on April 16 to apologize for the confusion, concern and sense of mistrust caused by the papers but expressed confidence about the existence of the STAP phenomenon.

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Obokata's supervisor holds press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, is pictured during a press conference in Tokyo on April 16, 2014. Sasai, a veteran scientist who supervised the writing by Haruko Obokata of two controversial papers on STAP cells, apologized for the confusion, concern and sense of mistrust caused by the papers but expressed confidence about the existence of the STAP phenomenon.

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Obokata's supervisor holds press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, is pictured during a press conference in Tokyo on April 16, 2014. Sasai, a veteran scientist who supervised the writing by Haruko Obokata of two controversial papers on STAP cells, apologized for the confusion, concern and sense of mistrust caused by the papers but expressed confidence about the existence of the STAP phenomenon.

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Obokata's supervisor holds press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, is pictured during a press conference in Tokyo on April 16, 2014. Sasai, a veteran scientist who supervised the writing by Haruko Obokata of two controversial papers on STAP cells, apologized for the confusion, concern and sense of mistrust caused by the papers but expressed confidence about the existence of the STAP phenomenon.

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Obokata's supervisor holds press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on April 16, 2014. Sasai, a veteran scientist who supervised the writing by Haruko Obokata of two controversial papers on STAP cells, apologized for the confusion, concern and sense of mistrust caused by the papers but expressed confidence about the existence of the STAP phenomenon.

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Obokata's supervisor holds press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on April 16, 2014. Sasai, a veteran scientist who supervised the writing by Haruko Obokata of two controversial papers on STAP cells, apologized for the confusion, concern and sense of mistrust caused by the papers but expressed confidence about the existence of the STAP phenomenon.

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Obokata's supervisor holds press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, apologizes at the start of a press conference in Tokyo on April 16, 2014. Sasai, a veteran scientist who supervised the writing by Haruko Obokata of two controversial papers on STAP cells, apologized for the confusion, concern and sense of mistrust caused by the papers but expressed confidence about the existence of the STAP phenomenon.

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Obokata's supervisor holds press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, apologizes at the start of a press conference in Tokyo on April 16, 2014. Sasai, a veteran scientist who supervised the writing by Haruko Obokata of two controversial papers on STAP cells, apologized for the confusion, concern and sense of mistrust caused by the papers but expressed confidence about the existence of the STAP phenomenon.

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Anniversary of Great Kanto Earthquake

TOKYO, Japan - People observe a moment of silence in Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2013, at a ceremony to commemorate the Koreans who were killed after false rumors spread that they had rioted in the confusion following the Great Kanto Earthquake that struck the capital and surrounding areas on Sept. 1, 1923.

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Anniversary of Great Kanto Earthquake

TOKYO, Japan - Dancer Kim Soon Ja, a Korean resident of Japan, performs in Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2013, at a ceremony to commemorate the Koreans who were killed after false rumors spread that they had rioted in the confusion following the Great Kanto Earthquake that struck the capital and surrounding areas on Sept. 1, 1923.

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Japan, N. Korea Red Cross officials meet in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Osamu Tasaka (L), head of the International Relations Department at the Japanese Red Cross Society, and Ri Ho Rim, secretary general of North Korea's Red Cross Society, shake hands after their talks in Beijing on Aug. 10, 2012. They wrapped up a two-day meeting on possible retrieval of remains of Japanese who died in what is now North Korea during the final phase of World War II and in the confusion following it.

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Japan, N. Korea Red Cross officials meet in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Osamu Tasaka (L), head of the International Relations Department at the Japanese Red Cross Society, and Ri Ho Rim, secretary general of North Korea's Red Cross Society, shake hands after their talks in Beijing on Aug. 10, 2012. They wrapped up a two-day meeting on the possible retrieval of remains of Japanese who died in what is now North Korea during World War II and in the confusion following it.

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Japan, N. Korea Red Cross officials meet in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Osamu Tasaka (L), head of the International Relations Department at the Japanese Red Cross Society, and Ri Ho Rim, secretary general of North Korea's Red Cross Society, shake hands after their talks in Beijing on Aug. 10, 2012. They wrapped up a two-day meeting on the possible retrieval of remains of Japanese who died in what is now North Korea during World War II and in the confusion following it.

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N. Korea calls for Japanese response on remains issue

BEIJING, China - Jo Hui Sung, director of North Korea's Institute of History at the Academy of Social Sciences, answers reporters' questions in Pyongyang on June 24, 2012. Jo spoke after North Korea urged Japan to respond to its claim that it has found the remains of Japanese soldiers, military officials and civilians who died in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula during the final phase of World War II and in the confusion following it.

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N. Korea calls for Japanese response on remains issue

BEIJING, China - Jo Hui Sung, director of North Korea's Institute of History at the Academy of Social Sciences, answers reporters' questions in Pyongyang on June 24, 2012. Jo spoke after North Korea urged Japan to respond to its claim that it has found the remains of Japanese soldiers, military officials and civilians who died in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula during the final phase of World War II and in the confusion following it.

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N. Korea calls for Japanese response on remains issue

BEIJING, China - Jo Hui Sung, director of North Korea's Institute of History at the Academy of Social Sciences, shows Samhap-ri Cemetery in the vicinity of Pyongyang on June 22, 2012. North Korea has urged Japan to respond to its claim that it has found the remains of Japanese soldiers, military officials and civilians who died in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula during the final phase of World War II and in the confusion following it. Samhap-ri is one of two burial sites.

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N. Korea shows sites it says accommodate remains of Japanese

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Japanese journalists visit a site in the vicinity of Pyongyang, which North Korea says accommodates the remains of Japanese soldiers, military officials and civilians, on June 21, 2012. The Japanese are believed to have died in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula during the final phase of World War II and in the confusion that followed the war.

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N. Korea shows sites it says accommodate remains of Japanese

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows a site in the vicinity of Pyongyang, which North Korea says accommodates the remains of Japanese soldiers, military officials and civilians, shown to Japanese journalists on June 21, 2012. The Japanese are believed to have died in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula during the final phase of World War II and in the confusion that followed the war.

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Yellow card for golf

NANJO, Japan - Yoko Ema, Japan LPGA Tour official in charge of rules and scoring, holds a soccer-like yellow card during a press conference in Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 1, 2012. The tour has decided to use the cards for slow play to avoid confusion caused by verbal warnings.

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Unrest in Tunisia

TUNIS, Tunisia - People set up a checkpoint using a burnt car and other objects near Tunis, Tunisia, on Jan. 16, 2011, to prevent suspicious vehicles and people entering a village. People looted shops and inmates staged a mass jailbreak during social and political confusion after President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and his family fled the North African country.

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Unrest in Tunisia

TUNIS, Tunisia - Young men set up a checkpoint near Tunis, Tunisia, on Jan. 16, 2011, to prevent suspicious vehicles and people entering a village. People looted shops and inmates staged a mass jailbreak during social and political confusion after President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and his family fled the North African country.

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Unrest in Tunisia

TUNIS, Tunisia - A man walks past a vandalized shop in a suburb of Tunis, Tunisia, on Jan. 16, 2011. People looted shops and inmates staged a mass jailbreak during social and political confusion after President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and his family fled the North African country.

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Ivory Coast confusion

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Armored trucks of the U.N. peacekeeping forces are deployed at the entrance of a hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, where the country's former prime minister and presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara has been staying, on Jan. 5, 2011. The West African country has been in upheaval since a disputed presidential election in November 2010 that both Ouattara and incumbent Laurent Gbagbo claim to have won.

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Ivory Coast confusion

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Supporters of Alassane Ouattara, former prime minister of Ivory Coast and the country's presidential claimant, gather in front of a hotel in Abidjan, where Ouattara's temporary office is located, in protest against incumbent Laurent Gbagbo. The West African country has been in upheaval since a disputed presidential election in November 2010 that both men claim to have won.

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Ivory Coast confusion

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Alassane Ouattara, former prime minister of Ivory Coast and the country's presidential claimant, waves to his supporters at a hotel in Abidjan, where he has been staying, on Jan. 3, 2011. The West African country has been in upheaval since a disputed presidential election in November 2010 that both Ouattara and incumbent Laurent Gbagbo claim to have won.