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‘Prison bakery’ found in ancient Pompeii
AFP, Published on 09/12/2023
» ROME - Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a "prison bakery" where slaves and blindfolded donkeys were kept locked up underground to grind grain for bread, officials said this week.
Oil, gas firms use Ukraine war to resist climate efforts: report
AFP, Published on 25/05/2022
» PARIS - US oil and gas firms took advantage of energy worries over the Ukraine war to push their fossil fuel products and resist climate change regulatory measures, an analysis showed on Wednesday.
Fact check: Climate change myths
AFP, Published on 28/10/2021
» PARIS: As world leaders prepare for the COP26 climate summit from Oct 31, AFP Fact Check examines some common claims that question the existence of global heating caused by humans.
World Wide Web source code NFT sells for $5.4m
AFP, Published on 01/07/2021
» NEW YORK: Tim Berners-Lee's source code for the World Wide Web sold Wednesday for $5.4 million in the form of non-fungible token (NFT).
'Their voice is vital' - Thai celebs break silence on democracy protests
AFP, Published on 18/10/2020
» A K-pop superstar, beauty queens and TV personalities are among a growing wave of celebrities backing Thailand's pro-democracy movement, sending out messages of support to millions of followers on social media.
Peru's Machu Picchu reopens for one tourist
AFP, Published on 13/10/2020
» LIMA: Peru's best-known tourist site Machu Picchu has opened after months of coronavirus closure, but for just a single visitor — a Japanese man stranded in the country by the pandemic.
Tiny dancer: Scientists decode meanings of bee waggle-dance
AFP, Published on 13/02/2020
» WASHINGTON: We've long known honey bees shake their behinds to communicate the location of high-value flower patches to one another, a form of signaling that scientists refer to as "waggle dances".
At Instagram hotspot, LOLs trump likes
AFP, Published on 26/11/2019
» COLOGNE, Germany: Crammed into a supermarket trolley, Kiki Malliora squealed with laughter as she rolled past her sister at Cologne's pop-up selfie museum, where visitors said having fun outweighs the hunt for "likes" in a changing social media landscape.
Yale in academic censorship row in Singapore
AFP, Published on 28/10/2019
» SINGAPORE: Yale's Singapore college has become embroiled in a row about academic freedom after axing a course on dissent, with the controversy fuelling a wider debate on whether universities are compromising their values to expand abroad.
Another huge rally in Hong Kong as public anger boils
AFP, Published on 16/06/2019
» HONG KONG: Tens of thousands of people rallied in central Hong Kong on Sunday as public anger seethed following unprecedented clashes between protesters and police over an extradition law, despite a climbdown by the city's embattled leader.