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Farmers sell different types of potatoes native to the Andes at the Gastronomic Fair 'Mistura' 2010 in Lima, Peru, September 7, 2010.—Reuters Natural hybridisation event occurred 9m years ago.Interbreeding involved tomato and a potato-like species.Study analysed genomes...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...