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How Paris is remaking the Seine
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 28/05/2023
» An electric delivery boat pushed up the Seine, past the former palaces and elegant museums and under the low-slung stone and metal bridges before turning at the Eiffel Tower and gliding to the riverbank.
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In Bali, warring sides cohabitate
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 05/02/2023
» At a cafe nearly 100,000 kilometres from the front lines, the Kyiv-style cake sits near the kartoshkas, a Russian dessert made of cookies, condensed milk and butter.
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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.
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The home makeover from hell
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/06/2022
» Millions of viewers, eager for a Cinderella story with real estate as the central character, watch televised home renovation shows to see troubled houses transformed into showstoppers.
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When the everyday looks special
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 09/10/2022
» Julie Blackmon grew up in Springfield, Missouri, a city of 165,000 people in the southern part of the state, and went to college there. She got married in Springfield and raised three children there.
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Cancer claims OJ Simpson at 76
Published on 11/04/2024
» OJ Simpson, the American football star who was acquitted in a sensational 1995 trial of murdering his former wife but was found responsible for her death in a civil lawsuit and was later imprisoned for armed robbery and kidnapping, has died at the age of 76.
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Lego to pay extra for renewable plastic used in toys
Bloomberg News, Published on 16/03/2024
» COPENHAGEN - Faced with a shortfall of renewable plastic for its colourful toy bricks, the man in charge of Lego A/S is engaging with producers of the raw material in a race to meet sustainability targets.
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Xi seeks to dispel fear about anti-graft drive
Published on 15/03/2024
» Chinese leader Xi Jinping says members of the ruling Communist Party should feel good, not fearful, about his sweeping anti-corruption campaign, a sign he may be dealing with some frustration among the organisation’s 98 million members.
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Subterranean ‘baby dragons’ found to sneak up to the surface
New York Times, Published on 13/03/2024
» NEW YORK - Scientists have discovered that blind cave salamanders in northern Italy leave their underground homes to go on expeditions to the surface. Eyeless and ghostly pale from millions of years spent below ground, the salamanders appear to commute back and forth to the sunny surface using springs where water bubbles up from hundreds of feet deep.
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Wealthy Indians splurge ahead of temple opening
Published on 19/01/2024
» AYODHYA, India - The private jet parking lots at airports near Ayodhya are full and the shops have run out of gold-plated idols, as wealthy devotees prepare for the invitation-only opening ceremony of one of Hinduism’s holiest temples.
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