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Rajoelina, Madagascar's ambitious president who parties on
AFP, Published on 25/11/2023
» ANTANANARIVO - From the musical nights of his youth that earned his nickname "the disc jockey" to his political adventures over the past decade, life has been one long party of one kind or another for Andry Rajoelina, who on Saturday secured a second elected term as Madagascar's president.
Relief, caution in Beijing as city lifts Covid dine-in curbs
AFP, Published on 07/06/2022
» BEIJING - After staying home for more than a month, Chen Chunmei joined a long line of customers at a popular Beijing restaurant where diners tucked into massive bowls of crayfish following an easing of Covid restrictions in the Chinese capital.
Crayfish take more risks while on antidepressants, study shows
AFP, Published on 16/06/2021
» WASHINGTON: Crayfish exposed to antidepressants via contaminated water behave more "boldly," emerging from hiding quicker and spending longer looking for food, a study said Tuesday.
Research tracks how pterosaurs mastered the primeval skies
AFP, Published on 29/10/2020
» PARIS: By the time they were wiped out alongside their dinosaur cousins, most winged pterosaurs had evolved from awkwardly airborne creatures to lords of the primeval skies, according to new research published Wednesday.
China tries to flip the pandemic script, starring a 'reborn' Wuhan
AFP, Published on 06/09/2020
» WUHAN, China: China is recasting Wuhan as a heroic coronavirus victim and trying to throw doubt on the pandemic's origin story as it aims to seize the narrative at a time of growing global distrust of Beijing.
Atlantic haven a test bed for planet's sickly oceans
AFP, Published on 03/12/2019
» ON BOARD THE ARCTIC SUNRISE: Clad in diving gear or oilskins and gumboots, a team of scientists and activists spent weeks in the South Atlantic, enduring storms and choppy seas to check up on a place almost no-one has heard of.
'Ghost' fishing gear: the trash haunting ocean wildlife
AFP, Published on 06/11/2019
» ON BOARD THE ARCTIC SUNRISE, South Africa: Far out in the South Atlantic Ocean, invisible to the South African coastline, diver Pascal Van Erp surfaced with an abandoned lobster cage covered in algae and other marine organisms.