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Dutch anti-blackface group declares victory
AFP, Published on 05/12/2025
» AMSTERDAM - A cherished Christmas tradition for some, profoundly insulting for others, the Dutch character “Black Pete”, a servant who helps Santa Claus distribute presents, has divided opinion in The Netherlands for decades.
Trump spotlight divides S.Africa's Afrikaners
AFP, Published on 14/04/2025
» PRETORIA - Country music and the aroma of pancakes enveloped the "Boeremark", or farmer's market, outside South Africa's capital Pretoria where thousands of Afrikaners browsed on a Saturday morning.
Hospitals around the world hobbled by massive tech outage
Bloomberg, Published on 21/07/2024
» Gary Baulos woke up at 3.30am on Friday for open heart surgery to fix eight blockages. A call from the hospital in Paducah, Kentucky, soon altered his plans. The procedure would be rescheduled because of a global technology outage that was derailing operations.
Millet trilogy: India serves G20 leaders a vegetarian dinner
AFP, Published on 09/09/2023
» NEW DELHI - Millet crisps -- twice over -- and millet pudding: the G20 leaders were served a vegetarian gala dinner on Saturday showcasing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's favourite grain.
Tiny bundles of hope: critically endangered turtles hatch in Myanmar
The New York TImes, Published on 25/06/2023
» Small miracles are popping out of the mud around Myanmar’s largest lake: Burmese peacock softshell turtles, just hatched from their eggs. For what may be the first time, humans were there to witness the birth of these rare creatures.
Once home to civilisations, fabled Antioch left in ruins
AFP, Published on 13/02/2023
» ANTAKYA (TURKEY) - The smashed dome of the ancient mosque, considered to be Turkey's oldest, covers rubble that used to be a prayer hall.
After the silence, body bags: Turkish town counts its dead
Reuters, Published on 10/02/2023
» During an "agonising" 10-minute wait, the jackhammers and excavators fell silent, traffic on a four-lane highway next to the pile of rubble came to a standstill with car engines switched off.
How world's most precise clock could transform fundamental physics
AFP, Published on 17/02/2022
» WASHINGTON: Einstein's theory of general relativity holds that a massive body like Earth curves space-time, causing time to slow as you approach the object -- so a person on top of a mountain ages a tiny bit faster than someone at sea level.
Engineer sounded alarm about doomed Florida condo
Reuters, Published on 26/06/2021
» MIAMI: An engineer had warned three years before the deadly collapse of a Florida condominium building that there was evidence of “major structural damage” to the concrete slab below the pool deck.
Beijing seeks to make virus martyr its own
By Chris Buckley and Paul Mozur, The New York Times, Published on 08/02/2020
» WUHAN, China: More than 700 people have died. Tens of thousands are infected. Millions are living under lockdown, and the government has sought to silence complaints.