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World's largest indoor ice, snow theme park opens in China 07 Jul 2024 - 03:52 pm
Visitors on July 6, 2024. (Xinhua/Xie Jianfei)
51,000-year-old cave painting may be earliest scene depicted through art 04 Jul 2024 - 06:43 pm
This handout image released by Griffith University on July 3, 2024, shows a 51,000-year-old artwork which was first spotted in a cave on Indonesia's Sulawesi island in 2017. (Photo by Griffith University / AFP) 
Barbie that went to space to go on display in London 01 Jul 2024 - 02:37 pm
A gallery assistant looks at a Barbie doll taken to space by European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and Europe's first female commander of the International Space Station Samantha Cristoforetti (top R) at The Design Museum in London on July 1, 2024. (Photo by Benjamin Cremel / AFP)
Toothless dog named Wild Thang just won World’s Ugliest Dog contest 29 Jun 2024 - 08:22 am
Wild Thang, an 8-year-old Pekingese who was just crowned the world's ugliest dog. Picture: Will Bucquoy for the Sonoma-Marin Fair
How does heat kill? It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart. 21 Jun 2024 - 05:48 pm
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Global humanitarian aid faces $40.8 billion funding shortfall: rights chief 18 Jun 2024 - 01:00 pm
People line up to receive food at a UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) school in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in the northern Gaza Strip on June 17, 2024. (Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)
As Art Basel opens, buyers confront a 'cooling' but still very active market 12 Jun 2024 - 05:06 pm
Visitors walk pass by
Short on curbside chargers, New York EV drivers are improvising 02 Jun 2024 - 07:49 pm
An internal-combustion Toyota Camry blocks a FLO EV charger near Stephanie Doba’s home in Park Slope. MUST CREDIT: Alicia Clanton/Bloomberg
Hunting for edible plants with London's urban foragers 02 Jun 2024 - 07:34 pm
People taking part in a plant foraging tour run by Forage London are shown how to identify various edible plants by tour guide and park ranger Kenneth Greenway at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, in London, May 18, 2024. Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP
Whistles at dawn: birdsong duels enthral Afghans 01 Jun 2024 - 11:13 am
In this photograph taken on May 3, 2024 an Afghan man watches goldfinches compete in a birdsong duel early morning at a basketball court in Kabul. (Photo by Ahmad Sahel Arman / AFP)
The Who bassist's guitar up for auction in France 23 May 2024 - 11:25 am
Auctioneer Etienne De Baecque holds the Warwick 4-string Buzzard bass guitar designed by John Entwistle, bassist of famous rock band The Who in a room of De Baecke auction house, in Lyon, on May 22, 2024 as people examine music instruments on the eve of the auction. (Photo by Jeff Pachoud / AFP) /
How cockroaches spread around the globe to become the pest we know today 20 May 2024 - 11:52 pm
Representative image: erik-karits-2093459/Freepik
'Haikyu!!': Comic heroes fuel Japan Olympic volleyball manga mania 20 May 2024 - 04:15 pm
This photo taken on April 13, 2024 shows young players reading the Japanese comic, or manga,
Forever fad: Rubik says his cube 'reminds us why we have hands' 20 May 2024 - 09:34 am
Hungarian inventor Erno Rubik sits next to several Rubik's Cubes during an interview with AFP in Budapest on April 29, 2024. (Photo by Attila Kisbenedek / AFP)
Filipino farmers struggle as drought and heatwave hits 29 Apr 2024 - 06:54 pm
In this photo taken on April 25, 2024 Filipino farmer Daniel Velasco walks along the drought-stricken crops at a farm in San Antonio, Nueva Ecija. Photo by JAM STA ROSA / AFP
Cicada-palooza! Billions of bugs to blanket America 27 Apr 2024 - 03:39 pm
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Palestinian American poet Fady Joudah receives $100,000 prize 18 Apr 2024 - 08:07 pm
Image: Fady Joudah / The Yale Review
Berlin zoo celebrates the 67th birthday of Fatou, believed to be the world's oldest gorilla 12 Apr 2024 - 05:22 pm
Fatou, known to be the world's oldest female gorilla, feeds on a kiwi she picked out of a basket that she was given in her outdoor enclosure one day ahead of her 67th birthday at the Berlin Zoological Gardens, Berlin, Germany, on April 12, 2024. (Photo by John MacDougall / AFP)