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'So much joy': Brazil holds first carnival since Covid-19
AFP, Published on 23/04/2022
» Rio de Janeiro's carnival, a glittering, sequin-studded festival of the flesh, exploded back to life Friday with the first famed samba school parades since Covid-19 started devastating Brazil.
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Dubouloz joins mountain greats with solo climb of Grandes Jorasses
AFP, Published on 21/01/2022
» CHAMONIX, France: After six days and five nights fighting against the freezing wind, being "glued to the ice", barely sleeping, hardly eating, Charles Dubouloz is still on a high.
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Brazil football crash survivor finds new life in music
AFP, Published on 28/11/2021
» SAO PAULO: Jakson Follmann remembers the moment the plane's engine died and everything went black. Then, an intense pain, and cold rain falling on his body.
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'Becoming Cousteau' plumbs depths of French ocean explorer
AFP, Published on 21/10/2021
» LOS ANGELES: Explorer, inventor, filmmaker, environmentalist and once even an oil prospector: the complicated journey of Jacques Cousteau is laid bare in a new film about one of the world's most famous Frenchmen.
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'Belly of the beast': From 13, kids treated as adults online
AFP, Published on 30/09/2021
» WASHINGTON: Facebook drew outrage for its now paused plans for an Instagram app for kids aged 12 and under. But 13-year-olds are already welcome on social media with few protections and sometimes tragic effects, experts and parents said.
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Fighting discrimination in India, one purse at a time
AFP, Published on 12/03/2021
» MUMBAI: The sound of men punching holes into colourful rubber sheets reverberates across a tiny studio in India's largest slum -- an unlikely birthplace for luxury handbags made by a marginalised community seeking to reclaim its identity.
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Ukraine seeks World Heritage status for Chernobyl zone
AFP, Published on 13/12/2020
» CHERNOBYL: A soft snow fell as a clutch of visitors equipped with a Geiger counter wandered through the ghostly Ukrainian town of Pripyat, frozen in time since the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986.
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Body of Glee star Naya Rivera recovered from US lake
Life, AFP, Published on 15/07/2020
» US officials on Monday found the body of Glee actress Naya Rivera in the California lake where she drowned last week during a boat trip with her four-year-old son.
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'Testosterone' is reason women outlive men
AFP, Published on 24/09/2012
» Scientists said Monday they have new evidence about why women live longer than men, from a study of historical data showing castrated Koreans far outlived their non-eunuch contemporaries.
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