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Cambodian rat registers record for sniffing out wartime landmines

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Ronin, the rat, pictured while on duty. — APOPO/File A rat in Cambodia has been honoured with a world record after detecting more than 100 landmines and other undetonated explosives in the country, Belgium’s non-profit APOPO announced on Friday. APOPO named...

'I don't have a voice in my head': Life with no inner monologue

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A person is looking into hand mirror. — Reuters/ File PARIS: Mel May only realised she was different while reading a news article one day. "Wait, what? Some people hear a voice in their head?" she thought at the time. She was stunned to discover that this was not just a...

Sahara desert, once lush and green, was home to mysterious human lineage

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A view from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya, where two approximately 7,000-year-old Pastoral Neolithic female individuals were buried, is seen in this handout photo released on April 2, 2025. — Reuters The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate...

Over 300 'walking bananas' register unique Guinness World Record

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Banana hats donned people gathered at Missouri museum. — Instagram/@citymuseum A Missouri museum gathered 309 people donning banana hats to break a strange Guinness World Record. The City Museum in St Louis made history on Wednesday as they turned...

MF Husain's painting that spent nearly fifty years in Norway's hospital sells for $13.8m

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MF Husain's Gram Yatra. — Christie's/File An old and forgotten oil-on-canvas masterpiece of Indian painter MF Husain rediscovered decades later has rewritten the record books for Indian art. Husain's Untitled , a large 14-foot-wide mural, was sold for...

Tomb of unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh discovered

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Field work takes place near the site where the tomb chamber, dating to about 3,600 years ago, of an unknown ancient Egyptian king was discovered during excavations by Penn Museum and Egyptian archeologists in Abydos, Egypt, in this undated handout image released on March 27, 2025. —...