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    Fossilised fish a prequel of 'Jaws'

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/10/2022

    » Mention the ocean, and it's hard not to think of jaws. The deep waters contain many tooth-lined mouths: the bear-trap maws of sharks and dolphins, the slack lips of shoaling and reef fish, the baleen-filter gape of enormous whales. Jawed fish eventually crawled out of the seas millions of years ago and gave rise to the jawboning vertebrates we are today.

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    North Korea fires ballistic missile, says Seoul

    Published on 09/11/2022

    » North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile Wednesday, Seoul's military said, the latest launch from Pyongyang following a record-breaking testing blitz earlier this month.

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    Tears, anger on 'Joola' sinking anniversary

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/10/2022

    » Up on the deck, dozens of university students played cards. In the first-class cabins below, passengers watched the movie Air Force One. In an overcrowded third-class compartment, a teenage football team on its way to a tournament belted out songs.

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    The gloved one - or is it two

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 09/10/2022

    » Alan Garcia starts each workday on a cracked plastic stool, hunched over a small vanity mirror, caking on makeup to lighten his skin.

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    Turning 100 gracefully

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 10/07/2022

    » For mammals like humans, ageing is inevitable. No matter how many vitamins we take, skin sags, bones soften and joints stiffen over time. However, turtles and tortoises age more gracefully.

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    Praise be to Trump

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 17/04/2022

    » They opened with an invocation, summoning God's "hedge of thorns and fire" to protect each person in the dark Phoenix parking lot.

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    Laughing off the fear

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 03/07/2022

    » When Taha al-Baskini won a part in a new play about soldiers who reunite after dying in combat, his costume was already in his closet. His onstage camouflage pants were the same ones he had worn as a militia fighter during Libya's most recent civil war a few years ago, when an airstrike injured al-Baskini and killed several of his comrades as they defended their city.

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    Ketamine clinics go beyond therapy

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 03/04/2022

    » The decor of the Nushama Psychedelic Wellness Clinic was designed to look like bliss. "It doesn't feel like a hospital or a clinic, but more like a journey," said Jay Godfrey, the former fashion designer who co-founded the space with Richard Meloff, a lawyer turned cannabis entrepreneur.

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    Air travel 'safer' in 2014, says IATA

    Published on 09/03/2015

    » SINGAPORE — Last year was by some measures the safest in the history of commercial aviation, despite two high-profile crashes involving Malaysia Airlines aircraft in which hundreds of people were killed, a leading industry body said on Monday.

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    Iconic T Rex broken into 3 species? Please

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 13/03/2022

    » Tyrannosaurus rex is the most iconic dinosaur. Its skeletons hold pride of place in museums around the world and sell for millions of dollars at auction -- and a bounty of relatively complete specimens have made it the most thoroughly studied dinosaur in the world.

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