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Crackling fireplace edges out new series of Squid Game as streaming service’s most watched Boxing Day show in UK

It pays the world’s biggest stars and utilises the most cutting-edge special effects to entice families away from terrestrial TV over the festive period.

But Netflix viewers this year were instead drawn to one of humanity’s oldest sources of fascination: fire.

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28.12.24 06:55

by theguardian.com

Beaches, beer and a rare suspended lake … why can’t Nigeria attract more tourist...

Visitor numbers to the African country lag far behind its neighbours due to lack of infrastructure and national planning. Now some are starting to demand changes

At the top of the Ado-Awaye hills lies a lake suspended 433 metres above sea level. Local people say the lake is named Iyake (Yoruba for “crying woman”) after a weeping, barren woman who fell in the water hundreds of years ago, conferring on it powers of fertility.

This belief in the divine is evident in the foothills, where a huge boulder is emblazoned with the words, written in golden letters: “Here we come: African Jerusalem.”

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