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Pakistani-born Paris newspaper halker honoured with France's top award

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Ali Akbar, a Pakistani-born newspaper hawker, can be seen at work on the streets of Paris, France, in this undated image. — New York Times Ali Akbar, a 72-year-old Pakistani-born newspaper hawker from Rawalpindi, who became a familiar face and beloved figure in Paris's...

India recovers ancient Buddhist gems over a century after they were removed

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Gems with ties to early Buddhism are exhibited at Sotheby's in Hong Kong on May 6, 2025. — AFP India has recovered a set of relics linked to early Buddhism more than a century after they were removed from the country during the British colonial period, officials said...

UK researchers uncover 4,000-year-old handprint on Egypt tomb

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Helen Strudwick, curator of Made in Ancient Egypt, views a 4,000-year-old ancient Egyptian handprint discovered on a "soul house" at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Britain. — AFP/File British researchers have discovered a rare handprint on a 4,000-year-old Egyptian artefact, a...

World's smallest snake makes stunning comeback after 20 years in hiding

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A Barbados threadsnake, the world’s smallest known snake, slithers across a human hand. — AFP/File A snake so small it could be mistaken for a worm has been spotted in Barbados, nearly two decades after it was thought to have been "lost" to science. The Barbados...

Karachi couple welcomes quintuplets in rare birth

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Quintuplets born to Karachi couple. — ReporterQuintuplets born at 29 weeks in Karachi.All five infants need oxygen support.NICU care continues; condition remains critical. In a rare and high-risk case, a couple from Baldia Town, Karachi, has welcomed quintuplets, three girls and two...

Two brothers, one bride: Himachal men marry same woman in rare tribal wedding

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The image shows the bride and grooms of the unique wedding. — X@gulfnews In a rare and culturally significant ceremony, two brothers from the Hatti tribe in India's Himachal Pradesh married the same woman, reviving the ancient, though now-declining, tradition of...

Study reveals blazing Betelgeuse's cosmic dance with secret companion star

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Observations of Betelgeuse and, for the first time, its companion star as seen by the ‘Alopeke instrument on the Gemini North telescope in December. 2024. — International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURAImage Since at least the time of the ancient Egyptians, people across...

Belgium turns sunken ship into cradle for endangered oysters

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A pearl oyster called Pinctada radiata is shown next to a farming site in the Gulf of Poets at La Spezia, Italy, August 29, 2024. — Reuters A sunken cargo ship off the Belgian coast has just taken on a new kind of cargo, a treasure chest of rare flat oysters, carefully placed inside...

Ancient headless statue returns to Turkiye 65 years later

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Turkiye's Deputy Culture Minister Gökhan Yazgı stands next to an ancient statue that depicts Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius. — X/@yazgi_gokhan Turkiye has repatriated an ancient statue believed to depict Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius from the United States...

Largest known Mars meteorite on Earth fetches $4.3 million at auction

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The 54-pound Martian meteorite NWA 16788, the largest known piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth, is displayed during a Sotheby's auction preview in New York on July 15, 2025. — AFP An "unbelievably rare" piece largest piece of Mars, the largest ever found on Earth,...

Europe's oldest lake settlement uncovered in Albania

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Archaeologists dive in the lake of Ohrid to uncover objects, in the village of Lin, Albania, July 11, 2025. — Reuters LIN: Archaeologists working on the shores of Ohrid Lake in Albania are convinced they have uncovered the oldest human settlement built on a European lake,...

Research finds that when plants talk, insects listen

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A scientist measures sound from a plant in a lab at Tel Aviv University, where researchers said they had found evidence that plants and insects can interact through sound, in Tel Aviv, Israel, July 15, 2025. —Reuters There is evidence that plants and insects interact...

Injured camel from Sanghar walks again with prosthetic leg after a year

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Cammie can be seen standing up for the first time with the aid of a custom-designed prosthetic leg at the Comprehensive Disaster Response Services in Karachi in this undated image. — X/@ShaziaAttaMarri Cammie, a camel that tragically lost a leg to mutilation in...

Boy kidnapped at age 2 reunites with parents after 32 years

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Muhammad Asif, who was kidnapped in 1992, unites with his family. — Screengrab via YouTube/Geo News In a deeply emotional moment aired on Geo News’ programme Jirga, a man who was abducted at the age of two finally reunited with his parents after 32 years. The heartwarming...

Ancient Egyptian rock art near Aswan may date to early first dynasty

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The rock art panel shows a boat dragged by five figures. It has a standing figure holding an oar and the head and right shoulder of a seated figure inside the boat's inner structure, possibly a cabin. — Dorian Vanhulle/File A newly analysed ancient Egyptian rock...

Moveable feast: Danish chef serves up gastronomic journey by bike

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Danish chef Morten Kryger Wulff cooks on his self-designed kitchen-bike during a stop of a gastronomical bike tour on July 2, 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark. — AFP COPENHAGEN: Hopping off his custom-built bicycle-turned-portable kitchen, Danish chef Morten Kryger Wulff started...

Solar becomes number one energy provider in Europe

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Solar panels are seen along with a view of the neighborhood and lower Manhattan from the rooftop of Timber House, the city's first mass-timber condo building, in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, U.S., August 16, 2022. — Reuters PARIS: Solar energy has become...

'Such good English': Trump wowed by Liberian leader's language skills

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a multilateral lunch with visiting African leaders at the White House on Wednesday. —AFP President Donald Trump was basking in the praise of a group of African leaders on Wednesday, many of them speaking a different language, when...

Fossils were from Canadian Arctic and Kenyan rift valley

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The site of Buluk located near Lake Turkana, northern Kenya, is seen in this undated handout photograph released on July 9, 2025. — Reuters Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. But the...

Alien planet lashed by huge flares from its 'angry beast' star

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The star HIP 67522 with a flare erupting toward an orbiting planet, HIP 67522 b, is depicted in this illustration released by the European Space Agency on July 2, 2025. — Reuters Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to...

Fossils in Sahara Desert reveal whales once had feet and toes

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A picture taken on January 14, 2015 shows fossil of a marine organism at the Wadi Al-Hitan Fossile and Climate Change Museum neara Cairo, Egypt. —AFP A desert site in Egypt known as Whale Valley, or Wadi Al-Hitan, holds more than 400 fossilised whale skeletons...

Nasa astronaut snaps electrifying 'jellyfish sprite' phenomenon from space

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A giant jellyfish-shaped red lightning "sprite" can be seen in this image taken on July 3, 2025, from the ISS over parts of Mexico and the southern US. — X/@Astro_Ayers Nicole Ayers, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut, has recently...

Archaeologists in Peru unveil 3,500-year-old city that linked coast and Andes

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Pieces of what appear to be parts of a 4,000-year-old ceremonial temple in Peru. — Reuters Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast cultures with those in the Andes and Amazon,...

Earth set to experience shortest days this summer

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This representational image shows the sun setting over a beach. — Unsplash It seems that time is literally speeding up as scientists have confirmed that the Earth is set to experience three remarkably shorter-than-average days in the coming weeks, as the planet's rotation...

Manga doomsday prediction spooks tourists to Japan

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A member of staff places the comic book titled 'The Future I saw', authored by manga artist Ryo Tatsuki, on the shelf at Village Vanguard book store in Tokyo, Japan, on June 30, 2025. — Reuters Viral rumours of impending disaster stemming from a comic book prediction have...