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Their time to slime: who will be 'Mollusc of the Year'?
AFP, Published on 17/03/2023
» PARIS - Will you choose beauty? The carnivorous Wavy Bubble Snail, perhaps, with its billowing skirts shimmering under UV light. Or will it be age? Like the venerable 500-year-old Methuselah oyster.
Biles on five-gold Tokyo mission as 'King' Kohei plots triumphant farewell
AFP, Published on 23/07/2021
» TOKYO - American gymnastic goddess Simone Biles and Japan's national sporting deity Kohei Uchimura begin their quests for Olympic immortality in Tokyo this weekend.
Japan's Arata Isozaki wins Pritzker prize, the 'Nobel' of architecture
AFP, Published on 06/03/2019
» NEW YORK - Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has been awarded the Pritzker Prize, considered architecture's highest honor, for a lifetime of work that found global resonance while mining local traditions.
North Korea's 'Mass Games' return after five-year absence
AFP, Published on 10/09/2018
» PYONGYANG - The biggest show on earth made an astonishing comeback Sunday as North Korea put on its all-singing, all-dancing propaganda display, the 'Mass Games', for the first time in five years.
Strike a pose: International Yoga Day stretches around world
AFP, Published on 21/06/2018
» NEW DELHI - Downward-facing dogs, cobras and warriors sprouted all over Asia on Thursday, as the fourth annual International Yoga Day got under way.