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Singapore Airlines changes seatbelt sign rules after fatal turbulence
Published on 24/05/2024
» Singapore Airlines has tightened cabin-service rules when planes hit turbulence after one passenger died and scores were injured on a flight from London earlier this week.
A migrant's odyssey from Venezuela to the United States
AFP, Published on 27/12/2023
» MATAMOROS (MEXICO) - Lying in the jungle with a gun pointed at him, Marcel Maldonado remembered his mother's warning about the dangers of migrating overland to the United States -- and wondered if he'd get out alive.
Under your skin: Tattoo artist inks cremated remains in art
AFP, Published on 27/10/2023
» OCEANSIDE (UNITED STATES) - When Scout Frank lost her mother, she knew she needed to keep her close -- and hit upon the perfect solution when she found she could have her ashes tattooed into her skin.
India's headhunter warriors sever past, fret over future
AFP, Published on 05/07/2023
» MON (INDIA) - Once, the way to get ahead among India's Konyak warriors was by chopping off an enemy's skull. Today, the last survivors of a past age mourn the changing times -- and a new generation they see as soft.
Fossil findings prompt dinosaur rush
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/07/2023
» It took a moment to spot the fragment, initially: fist-size and unnaturally smooth, nestled between shrubs teeming with burrs in an endless expanse of arid plains. But after the first, the others were easier to pick out, gleaming dirty white against the red earth and run through with a honeycomb texture.
Modern medicine in ancient Rome
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/07/2023
» Doctors are generally held in high regard today, but Romans of the first century were sceptical, even scornful, of medical practitioners, many of whom ministered to ailments they did not understand. Poets especially ridiculed surgeons for being greedy, for taking sexual advantage of patients and, above all, for incompetence.
the dinosaur with a 15-metre neck
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/04/2023
» Few creatures have pushed anatomy to its limits like sauropods. These supersized dinosaurs moved on pillar-like limbs that supported massive girth, wielded whip-like tails to ward off predators and used long necks to vacuum up foliage.
Rio carnival title goes to parade on Brazil's northeast
AFP, Published on 23/02/2023
» RIO DE JANEIRO - A darker-than-usual parade dedicated to an infamous outlaw-hero from Brazil's impoverished northeast, bastion of newly inaugurated President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, won the championship of Rio de Janeiro's colorful, cutthroat carnival parade competition Wednesday.
They even mummified crocodiles
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 05/02/2023
» At first glance, you may think the picture is of living crocodiles moving stealthily through mud. But the animals are mummies, possibly dead for more than 2,500 years and preserved in a ritual that likely honoured Sobek, a fertility deity worshipped in ancient Egypt.
The two-century-old mystery of Waterloo's skeletal remains
AFP, Published on 03/02/2023
» LIEGE (BELGIUM) - More than 200 years after Napoleon met defeat at Waterloo, the bones of soldiers killed on that famous battlefield continue to intrigue Belgian researchers and experts, who use them to peer back to that moment in history.