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New Zealand's rare flightless parrot breeds again
AFP, Published on 09/01/2026
» WELLINGTON - New Zealand's critically endangered flightless parrot, the kakapo, started breeding last week for the first time in four years, the government conservation department said.
Seal milk is the cream of the molecular crop
New York Times, Published on 26/11/2025
» NEW YORK — Collecting milk from a nursing seal is no easy task.
Eighteen presumed dead after blast at US explosives factory
AFP, Published on 12/10/2025
» WASHINGTON - Eighteen people are presumed dead after a huge blast at an explosives factory in Tennessee, officials said Saturday.
Multiple deaths in US munitions plant blast
Reuters, Published on 11/10/2025
» Eighteen people were missing and feared dead following an explosion at a munitions factory in rural Tennessee on Friday that obliterated the building and was felt for miles around.
'Backyard fireworks' of WWII bombs still litter Solomon Islands
AFP, Published on 10/10/2025
» HONIARA — Solomon Islander Dennis Phillip was ploughing his soil by hand when he heard an unusual clunk -- one of the countless unexploded bombs still scattered across the small Pacific nation decades after World War II.
100 days later, US federal workers navigate post-Musk wreckage
AFP, Published on 15/09/2025
» WASHINGTON - Roughly 100 days after Elon Musk's dramatic departure from the Trump White House, federal workers are still grappling with the lasting damage from his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
'The Day of The Jackal' author Frederick Forsyth dies aged 86
AFP, Published on 10/06/2025
» LONDON - Prolific British thriller writer Frederick Forsyth, who instantly became a global bestselling author when his book "The Day of the Jackal" was published in 1971, died on Monday aged 86, his literary agents Curtis Brown said.
Second US child dies of measles, almost 650 ill: officials
AFP, Published on 07/04/2025
» WASHINGTON - A measles outbreak has killed a second child in the southwestern United States, authorities said Sunday, with almost 650 people now infected as the highly contagious disease spreads.
Musk's DOGE team emerges from the shadows
AFP, Published on 29/03/2025
» WASHINGTON - It has worked in the shadows for months, but Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has now offered the first peek behind the curtain of the government cost-cutting drive it launched on behalf of US President Donald Trump.
Cute carnivores: Bloodthirsty California squirrels go nuts for vole meat
AFP, Published on 19/12/2024
» WASHINGTON - Squirrels might look like adorable, nut-hoarding furballs, but some are ruthless predators that hunt, tear apart, and devour voles.