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'Noble to attend': Budapest prepares for 'banned' Pride march
AFP, Published on 23/06/2025
» BUDAPEST - Defiant about potential fines after police declared a ban, organisers and volunteers are working to ensure Saturday's Budapest Pride march is the largest Hungary has ever seen.
World's oldest beauty adviser sitting pretty
AFP, Published on 21/11/2023
» FUKUSHIMA (JAPAN) - Tomoko Horino's neighbours gossiped when she first went out to work in patriarchal 1960s Japan, but now, at age 100, the world's oldest beauty adviser is having the last laugh.
Australian surfs for 40 hours to smash world record
AFP, Published on 17/03/2023
» SYDNEY - Australian Blake Johnston on Friday shredded the world record for the longest surfing session, dodging swarms of jellyfish to ride hundreds of waves across 40 punishing hours.
With drones and bananas, China coaxes wayward elephants home
AFP, Published on 04/08/2021
» DAQIAO, China: First the entire village is shooed indoors, its power supply is cut, and finally bananas and other elephant treats are dumped on the opposite side of town to coax the uninvited guests to pass through.
Woman uses drone to look for son's body in Mexico's killing fields
AFP, Published on 06/03/2020
» SALINAS VICTORIA (MEXICO) - Leticia Hidalgo smears her face with sunscreen and walks steadily across the weedy wasteland she has come to know as one of Mexico's killing fields.
Palau bans 'reef-toxic' sunscreen
AFP, Published on 01/01/2020
» KOROR, Palau: Palau's pioneering ban on "reef-toxic" sunscreens took effect Wednesday as the tiny Pacific island nation introduced strict environmental measures that also include one of the world's largest marine sanctuaries.
Antarctica tourism: the quest for Earth's vulnerable extremes
AFP, Published on 29/11/2019
» HALF MOON ISLAND (ANTARCTICA) - The swimsuit-clad tourists leap into the icy water, gasping at the shock, and startling a gaggle of penguins.
Tel Aviv beaches fall foul in Israel's passion for plastic
AFP, Published on 22/08/2019
» TEL AVIV - In the early morning, when the only sound on Tel Aviv beach is the waves, Yosef Salman and his team pick up plastic debris left by bathers or cast up by the sea.
Sweltering Europe braces for peak of record heatwave
AFP, Published on 27/06/2019
» PARIS - Europeans braced Thursday for the expected peak of a sweltering heatwave that has sent temperatures soaring above 40 degrees Celsius, with schools in France closing and wildfires in Spain spinning out of control.
Palau plans sunscreen ban to save coral
AFP, Published on 01/11/2018
» KOROR, Palau: The tiny Pacific island nation of Palau will ban "reef-toxic" sunscreens from 2020 in what it claims is a world-first initiative to stop chemical pollution killing its famed corals.