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A woman works with human genetic material at a laboratory. — Reuters/File Scientists said on Tuesday they have turned human skin cells into eggs and fertilised them in the lab for the first time — a breakthrough that is hoped to one day let infertile people have...

PARIS: It has black button eyes and long, thin whiskers that tremble when it looks around curiously. Unlike most rats, this one has a name, Plume, and gets to enjoy the rare privilege of wandering around Paris on the shoulder of its owner, a local politician. Gregory Moreau,...

Emirati researcher Saeed Musbah Al Ketbi. — X/@Sharjahnews/screengrab Emirati researcher Saeed Musbah Al Ketbi astonished the audience when he revealed he has four wives and more than 100 children. Speaking at the Sharjah Institute for Heritage this week, Ketbi said his focus...

A golf ball is placed next to the "Motswedi" a 2,488-carat rough diamond, the second largest in the world, at the HB Antwerp diamond company headquarters in Antwerp, on September 22, 2025.— AFP The world’s second-largest diamond could soon find a new home in a...

A worker carries the middle section of a banana plant, known as the pseudostem, to be turned into materials for fabric, in Pingtung, Taiwan, August 20, 2025. — Reuters Entrepreneur Nelson Yang is reaching back into Taiwan's history to turn the humble banana plant into an...

A complete petrified skeleton of an ancestor of modern porpoises dating back more than 10 million years is unveiled at the Geological, Mining, and Metallurgical Institute in Lima on September 17, 2025.—AFP Peruvian palaeontologists on Wednesday unveiled the 12-million-year-old...

A tribesman in Papua, Indonesia, holds a smoke-dried mummy of an ancestor—part of a centuries-old mummification tradition preserved by some communities in this undated image – AFP BANGKOK: Some ancient societies in China and southeast Asia appear to have smoke-dried their...

A giant pot containing almost nine tonnes of jollof rice has earned Nigerian chef Hilda Baci a world record. — AFP Guinness World Records on Monday gave official recognition to Nigerian chef Hilda Baci in recognising her rice jollof, concocted in Lagos last Friday, as the world's...

Coins originating from the Arab world, Central Asia, China, and Khorasan. — Screengrab via Geo News DERA GHAZI KHAN: The flash floods descending from the Koh-e-Suleman mountain range have not only caused destruction but also carried ancient treasures, including coins dating back...

An Easter Sunday mass wedding ceremony in Kgabalatsane, in the North-West province, South Africa, April 9, 2023.— Reuters South Africa’s top court ruled Thursday that men should be able to take their wives’ surnames and a law that prevented this amounted to unfair gender...

Fish Rock of Wadi AlFann. — SPA In the middle of Saudi Arabia’s golden sands lies an unlikely wonder — a rock that looks exactly like a giant fish taking a rest in the desert. Known as the Fish Rock of Wadi AlFann, the 200-metre-long formation has become one...

A representational image of samosas. — Pixabay A domestic dispute over samosas turned into a dramatic village brawl in India's Uttar Pradesh, leaving a man hospitalised and four family members facing attempt-to-murder charges, NDTV reported on Wednesday. Police said...

Art expert Ariel Bassano with the Nazi-looted 'Portrait of a Lady' after it was retrieved by Argentine authorities from the daughter of an SS officer in the resort of Mar del Plata. —AFP Argentine police have recovered an 18th-century painting stolen from a Dutch Jewish art...

This art illustration shows an astronaut standing on moon. — Pexels A Japanese octogenarian was swindled out of thosands of dollars after falling in love online with a self-described astronaut who sought her help to avert a spaceship crisis, police said Tuesday. The hapless...