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Fighting for peace in South Sudan
| Peter Martell | JUBA (AFP) – The giants dance barefoot in circles, strips of leopard print skirt flapping, before one lunges in to topple his opponent and thump him down on the grass. There...
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Fighting women’s abuse: Spain’s law a model but still much to do
| Anna Cuenca | MADRID (AFP) – Smoking nervously, Ruth Cabero says she would be dead if she hadn’t found refuge in a Spanish shelter for victims of domestic violence. Now the head of a...
View ArticleDid volcano eruptions tip Europe into Dark Ages?
| Marlowe Hood | VIENNA (AFP) – Back-to-back volcanic eruptions in the mid-6th Century darkened Europe’s skies for more than a year and may have ushered in the Dark Ages, according to finding...
View ArticleReplica of 5,000-year-old ‘Iceman’ made on 3D printer
VIENNA (AFP) – Scientists presented Wednesday a life-sized copy, made using a 3D printer, of Oetzi the mummified 5,000-year-old ‘iceman’ found in the Alps 25 years ago. Pre-existing CT scans were used...
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Damien Hirst works leaked formaldehyde gas: Study
LONDON (AFP) – Iconic works of art by British artist Damien Hirst involving dead animals preserved in giant tanks leaked potentially-dangerous formaldehyde gas during a show at London’s Tate Modern...
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Underwater ‘zombie grass’ signals trouble for Florida fishermen
| Kerry Sheridan | ISLAMORADA, United States (AFP) – Decades ago, the sight of seagrass swaying beneath the waters off south Florida conjured romance for those who dangled their fishing lines...
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Australian furry friend gets ‘toad-smart’ to survive
SYDNEY (AFP) – Scientists are training an endangered furry marsupial – Australia’s beloved quoll – to avoid eating toxic toads that have devastated predator populations in a novel attempt to save the...
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Indonesian karaoke goes mobile with pedal-powered rickshaw
| Olivia Rondonuwu | DEPOK, Indonesia (AFP) – An Indonesian rickshaw fitted with a karaoke machine blasts out loud music next to a row of food stalls, as revellers sing and dance...
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A look at all-new 2016 Hyundai Tucson
| Azaraimy HH | IF YOU’RE in the market for a crossover SUV, you might be spoilt with several choices either offering a newly released or fully redesigned version, with more expensive brands...
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One man’s wild idea for saving rhinos: Airlifting them to Australia
| Karin Brulliard | THIS is how bad rhinoceros poaching has gotten in Africa: Increasingly, people who want to prevent the animals’ extinction are relying on airlifts to save them. The World...
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Chesapeake Bay ospreys having huge rebound after removal of deadly poison
| Darryl Fears | THE crisis in Flint, Michigan, and other cities offered more evidence that water contamination is a threat to human development. In the natural world, a new US Geological...
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New law to reveal how women struggle at Japan’s big corporations
| Isabel Reynolds, Yuki Hagiwara & Monami Yui | As an ambitious graduate from an elite university, Kyoko Fukushima was aiming for the top when she got a job at one of Japan’s big trading...
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Aleppo’s ancient marketplaces are another casualty of Syria’s civil war
| Loveday Morris | ALEPPO, Syria – For thousands of years, the Syrian city of Aleppo has sat at the crossroad of the world’s great trade routes, connecting Asia, Mesopotamia, India and...
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9-year-old breaks crime news, posts videos, fires back at critics
| Tom Jackman | REPORTER Hilde Kate Lysiak got the tip early Saturday afternoon that there was heavy police activity on Ninth Street. She hustled over with her pen and camera, as any good...
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Meet the British schoolteacher who’s out to inspire the world, one country at...
| Tara Bahrampour | WILL Hodson, a primary-school teacher in London, was reading a superhero book to his students one day when a thought struck him. “We were talking about how we can all do...
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For 4-H, a campaign to reach beyond corn fields and into cities
| T Rees Shapiro | For more than a century, boys and girls with an abiding curiosity about harvesting corn and raising cattle found refuge in their local 4-H Club, which developed deep roots...
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Polish experts return to Palmyra to restore famed lion statue
PALMYRA, Syria (AFP) – When two Polish heritage experts first restored the famed lion statue in Syria’s Palmyra in 2005, they never imagined they would see it smashed to pieces only a decade later. “We...
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Lest We Forget
DOWN MEMORY LANE WITH BORNEO BULLETIN ARCHIVES Compiled by Izzy Isa Triplets double up April 19, 1986 – Two women in Papar and Beaufort gave births to triplets recently. Shown are three healthy baby...
View ArticleNepal marks anniversary of quake that killed nearly 9,000
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) – People gathered Sunday at the remains of a historic tower in Nepal’s capital that collapsed in a devastating earthquake a year ago, as Nepalese held memorial services to mark...
View ArticleIndia revokes passport of tycoon who owes a billion dollars
NEW DELHI (AP) – India on Sunday revoked the passport of a flamboyant Indian businessman accused of fleeing to London in March while owing more than a billion dollars to Indian banks. More details in...
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