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Moroccan whistle language strives for survival
AFP, Published on 25/09/2025
» TILOUGUIT, Morocco - In the High Atlas mountains of Morocco, shepherds Hammou Amraoui and his son hardly need words to speak. Across peaks, they whistle at each other in a centuries-old language, now jeopardised by rural flight.
Ryder Cup captains play upon emotions as practice begins
AFP, Published on 23/09/2025
» FARMINGDALE (UNITED STATES) - The final countdown to the Ryder Cup got under way on Monday with US golfers sharing a quiet moment on Bethpage Black's first tee as Europe's players donned salmon-colored outfits in a nostalgic nod to their first win on American soil.
Small parcels in limbo as Trump moves to end US tariff exemption
AFP, Published on 28/08/2025
» WASHINGTON - An approaching US deadline to end tariff exemptions on small parcels has tripped up global deliveries to the world's biggest economy, with businesses halting shipments to American consumers and mulling price hikes.
Australian woman found guilty of toxic-mushroom murders
AFP, Published on 07/07/2025
» MORWELL, Australia - An Australian woman murdered her husband's parents and aunt by lacing their beef Wellington lunch with toxic mushrooms a jury found on Monday at the end of trial watched around the world.
Black truffle production booms in Spain
AFP, Published on 15/12/2023
» SARRIóN (SPAIN) - When Jose Soriano was a child, the hills near the village of Sarrion in Spain's remote and sparsely populated eastern province of Teruel were mostly uncultivated, covered in brush and rocks.
Macron: Notre Dame to reopen on time
AFP, Published on 08/12/2023
» PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron promised on Friday that the restoration of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, badly damaged by fire in 2019, would be completed in time for its planned reopening next December.
Record for world's priciest bottle of whisky smashed at London auction
AFP, Published on 19/11/2023
» LONDON (UNITED KINGDOM) - A bottle of The Macallan 1926, described by Sotheby's auction house as the "most valuable whisky in the world", on Saturday went under the hammer for a record pound sterling2.1 million.
Archaeologists uncover Europe's oldest stilt village
AFP, Published on 11/08/2023
» LIN (ALBANIA) - Beneath the turquoise waters of Lake Ohrid, the "Pearl of the Balkans", scientists have uncovered what may be one of Europe's earliest sedentary communities, and are trying to solve the mystery of why it sheltered behind a fortress of defensive spikes.
Got weeds? US environmentalists call in the G.O.A.T.s
AFP, Published on 28/06/2023
» SAN ANTONIO - The landscaping squad of Mocha, Wynonna, Nelson and Beckham yank out weeds at a Texas park. They don't carry chainsaws or use herbicides. They are goats, and this environmentally friendly initiative is, for them, merely lunch.
Rahm, Koepka seek to keep US Open focus amid merger turmoil
AFP, Published on 14/06/2023
» LOS ANGELES: Jon Rahm says the merger of the PGA Tour and LIV Golf's Saudi backers has left golfers in limbo, but Brooks Koepka is not daunted by a little "chaos" at this week's US Open.