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Asteroid sample on track for dramatic landing
Published on 23/09/2023
» LOS ANGELES: A space capsule carrying a sample of rocky material plucked from the surface of an asteroid three years ago is heading for a fiery plunge through the atmosphere and a parachute landing in the Utah desert on Sunday.
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Taiwan's antique jade dealers see trade losing lustre
AFP, Published on 18/08/2023
» TAIPEI - Tracing a palm-sized jade pig resting on its haunches, an antique trader in Taiwan said the ears on the nearly 400-year-old piece are a marker of its authenticity.
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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.
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In Iraq, Saddam's ageing superyachts attest to legacy of excess, war
AFP, Published on 14/03/2023
» BASRA (IRAQ) - Frozen in time for 20 years, two superyachts lie at the confluence of Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers, bearing witness to the false glories of former dictator Saddam Hussein.
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Ex-ice factory turns Bronx school
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 05/03/2023
» 'When you live in the South Bronx, you hear one story being told about your community everywhere that you go," Amanda Septimo, a member of the New York State Assembly, told the Bronx Free Press. "This building will change that story."
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Peru police find pre-Hispanic mummy in ex-delivery man's bag
AFP, Published on 01/03/2023
» PUNO (PERU) - Police in Peru have seized a mummified human, between 600 and 800 years old, from a former food delivery man who claimed to have had it at his home for three decades.
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Ramses II sarcophagus in Paris for rare loan
AFP, Published on 13/01/2023
» PARIS: The sarcophagus of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II is to return to Paris in April for the first time in almost 50 years, in a rare loan of the relic outside Egypt.
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Anti-migrant town has change of heart
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 08/01/2023
» For years, the small town of Herouxville in rural Quebec was the embodiment in the province of deep, nativist hostility towards immigrants.
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New dwarf boa found in Ecuadoran Amazon
AFP, Published on 06/01/2023
» QUITO - Scientists have discovered a new species of dwarf boa in the Ecuadoran Amazon and named it after an Indigenous activist.
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Ghosts of the past haunt empty pub
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/10/2022
» There's an old Irish pub in Manhattan's financial district, Jim Brady's, that closed at the start of the pandemic and has been sitting empty ever since. The stockbrokers and construction workers who once drank there now walk past with indifference.
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