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A worker in "The London Tunnels" in London in this undated image. — AFP LONDON: Behind a blue door in a narrow London passage lies a little-known network of tunnels deep underground, once home to British spies and a secret long-distance telephone exchange. Thirty metres below...

People queue at the check-in counter at the Dubai International Airport, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 17, 2024. — Reuters DUBAI: A record 92.3 million passengers travelled through Dubai's international airport last year, its operator said on Thursday, underlining the Gulf...

The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by Nasa's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is seen shortly after touching down in the desert at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range in Dugway, Utah, US on September 24, 2023. —...

The two hot air balloons at 8,202 feet in the sky pictured with a man strolling the suspended slackline. — Guinness World Records/File A pair of German dare-devils walked across a slackline suspended between two hot air balloons, floating at 8,202 feet and created a...

Former President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos and other experts unveil the Doomsday Clock at 89 seconds to midnight at a news conference in Washington —AFP The Doomsday Clock symbolising how close humanity is to destruction ticked one second closer to midnight Tuesday as concerns...

Members of the Paraguayan Recycled Orchestra of Cateura pose for a photograph before they perform for an audience inside Lancaster House in London on January 26, 2025. — AFP LONDON: Just two years ago, Lucas Cantero knew nothing about playing music. On Sunday...

Gozde Dogan celebrating after achieving the record. — Guinness World Records/File A Turkish woman has registered a unique world record as she crushed five watermelons using only her thighs within a 60-second timeframe, according to UPI. A video of Gozde Dogan...

A Gingko biloba tree on a central square in Strasbourg, eastern France, November 25, 2022. — AFP In the first three seconds after the nuclear bomb "Little Boy" was dropped over Hiroshima by the US army in 1945, temperatures spiked to 7,000°F from ground zero to as far as two...

Kranthi Kumar Panikera posing with his Guinness World Record medal and posing at an airport. — Instagram/@guinnessworldrecords/@kranthidrillman A man from Telangana has achieved a Guinness World Record after he stopped electric fan blades from his tongue in one...

This is a representational image of a spider. — Unsplash BEIJING: A Chinese scientist has named 16 new spider species after songs by popular "Mandopop" musician Jay Chou. Mi Xiaoqi, a professor at Tongren University in China's southwestern Guizhou province, listed the...

Tinotenda Pundu walks through the harsh terrain of the lion-infested park for 49km from his village. — X/@@mutsamu A seven-year-old boy was found alive after being lost for five days in a reserve home to lions and other wild animals in northern Zimbabwe, the wildlife authority said...

J35 with her calf J61 that died, December 22, 2024. — Facebook/Center for Whale Research A bereaved female killer whale who carried her dead calf for more than two weeks in 2018 has again lost a newborn and is bearing its body, US marine researchers said. Scientists...

A representational image of a small dog. — Unsplash/File A kind neighbour helped in rescuing a dog that spent nearly a day stranded on the thin ice covering a New Jersey lake in harsh weather. Brooklyn, a 20-month old pooch, was spotted on the ice covering Lake...

Sheila Fox poses for a photo prior to his disappearance in 1972. — West Midlands Police/File In a surprising incident, a woman who mysteriously vanished in 1972 from West Midlands in the United Kingdom has finally been found alive. Sheila Fox mysteriously...