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German neo-Nazi heads for women's jail after gender change
AFP, Published on 29/08/2025
» BERLIN - A fierce debate has erupted in Germany around a neo-Nazi who is set to begin a jail term in a women's prison on Friday after legally changing gender.
The hitchhiker’s guide to the hummingbird
Douglas Main of The New York Times, Published on 28/01/2025
» NEW YORK - Flower mites spend their lives slurping nectar and nibbling pollen in flowers throughout the tropics. To travel from one blossom to another, these tiny, eight-legged creatures hitch rides on the beaks of hummingbirds, taking shelter in the birds’ nostrils during flight.
Tajikistan launches crackdown on 'witchcraft' and fortune-telling
AFP, Published on 24/01/2025
» DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — In a block of flats in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe, a turbaned woman cautiously opened the door of her apartment a chink, letting out a waft of incense.
US police investigate ‘Wanted’ posters of executives
Bloomberg News, Published on 12/12/2024
» The New York Police Department is investigating a number of “Wanted” posters featuring senior executives that have been displayed in parts of Manhattan.
'Weird puking bird' tops New Zealand's avian beauty contest
AFP, Published on 15/11/2023
» WELLINGTON - A "weird puking bird" with a bizarre mating dance has won New Zealand's annual avian beauty contest, triumphing after British comedian John Oliver launched an unlikely global campaign.
'Time bomb': Tree-killing bugs threaten France's lush forests
AFP, Published on 26/10/2023
» LA TESTE-DE-BUCH (FRANCE) - Last year, ferocious wildfires destroyed thousands of hectares of one of France's most picturesque forests.
Live worm found in Australian woman's brain
AFP, Published on 29/08/2023
» SYDNEY: A parasitic roundworm typically found in snakes was pulled "alive and wriggling" from a woman's brain in a stomach-churning medical first, Australian doctors said on Tuesday.
Nigeria's troubled exit path for repentant jihadists
AFP, Published on 30/08/2021
» MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Gaunt men sit in the shade sewing hats while women in headscarves cook leaves, watching children play as the dry wind blows through the thatched huts.
China scientists discover giant viruses in the deepest place on Earth
South China Morning Post, Published on 25/07/2021
» The first known batch of viruses retrieved from the deepest point in the Mariana Trench includes giant species bigger than some bacterium, according to a research team in Shanghai.
Drug-resistant malaria gaining foothold in Africa: study
AFP, Published on 15/04/2021
» PARIS - Researchers on Thursday reported the first clinical evidence that drug-resistant mutations of the parasite responsible for malaria are gaining ground in Africa.