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When 'retiring' means more work
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 29/01/2023
» All Yoshihito Oonami wants to do is retire and give his worn body a rest.
New war memorial riddled with errors
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 29/01/2023
» An arc of gleaming black granite slabs etched with 36,634 names was unveiled on the National Mall over the summer, built to honour American service members who died fighting in the Korean War.
US media rocked by layoffs amid economic gloom
AFP, Published on 22/01/2023
» NEW YORK: From CNN to the Washington Post, US media are facing tough times, as a series of outlets have announced layoffs this winter amid fears of an economic downturn.
Churches turn into 'tools of war'
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 22/01/2023
» Andriy Pavlenko, an Orthodox church abbot in eastern Ukraine, seemed to be on a selfless spiritual mission. When war came, he remained with his flock and even visited a hospital to pray with wounded soldiers.
Crime scene sits on Nord Stream seabed
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 15/01/2023
» More than 15 years ago, when the Nord Stream gas pipeline between Russia and Germany was little more than an idea, a Swedish government study warned of the risks inherent in running a critical piece of energy infrastructure along the Baltic Sea floor.
Old negatives reveal master snapper
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 08/01/2023
» He died nearly three decades ago in a tiny village at the bottom of the valley, unheralded and quickly forgotten, except by a few old-timers who still marvel at how Zaharia Cusnir, a poor farmhand with four children to raise, put so much time into taking photographs with a clunky Soviet camera.
Secret society fights for its home
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 08/01/2023
» On a brisk morning in November, bright yellow leaves from a huge ginkgo tree scattered onto the front yard of 87 MacDonough St. Under peeling paint and missing cornices, Essie Gregory stood on the steps of the huge, ramshackle mansion in the heart of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood of Brooklyn with a small group of visitors.
Anti-migrant town has change of heart
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 08/01/2023
» For years, the small town of Herouxville in rural Quebec was the embodiment in the province of deep, nativist hostility towards immigrants.
Did a fourth-grader write this, or Chatbot?
Published on 04/01/2023
» NEW YORK: It’s hard to fully grasp the enormous potential of ChatGPT, a recently released artificial intelligence chatbot. The bot doesn’t just search and summarize information that already exists. It creates new content, tailored to your request, often with a startling degree of nuance, humor and creativity.
A Russian muralist wages his own war
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 01/01/2023
» An 84-year-old artist was standing in front of one of the many murals he has painted in his provincial hometown one recent day when a group of young women passed by. They had travelled some 96 kilometres from Moscow just to see his latest work, and they tittered at the encounter.