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UN votes to ‘correct the map’ as India backs fairer world view

Nigerian Navy discovers 99,000 litres of suspected stolen, illegally refined products as it intensifies anti-crude oil theft operations

Who is Aditi Paudel? 17-year-old becomes Japan's first literacy ambassador

Bengaluru: Officials find 40 kg expired chilli at chairman's club 

Jaishankar rejects trade link to ending Ukraine war 

Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill three, injure 23 despite truce

Alpine glacier was covered with sheep wool sheets to prevent melting. It worked

South Korea mulls deploying military assets to Strait of Hormuz

World's fifth-largest economy, British army can't afford to train

Breaking | Vance takes the podium: First White House briefing since Leavitt's exit

Taiwan raises 'concerns' over China's missile test

BRICS 2026: $1 trillion sovereign capital set to converge in Delhi for first iBRICS Summit

What is Iran's Pickaxe Mountain that Trump has again threatened to bomb?

UN votes to correct world map that visually shrank Africa for 450 years

Former NewJeans member Danielle launches YouTube channel, hints at new solo journey

Bangladesh batter Towhid Hridoy creates history with 350 not out in South Africa

Brendan Fraser’s transformation fuels The Mummy 4 excitement as fans welcome back Rick O’Connell

Krishna Janmashtami 2026: From Dhaniya Panjiri to Makhana Kheer- 5 best sweet dishes perfect for celebrating Lord Krishna’s birth

Donald Trump plans to travel to Ireland on Qatari-donated jet amid security concerns

Nazi-looted art to return to Jewish heirs

Eight killed in Kerala’s Thrissur after car rams into lorry parked on highway

Why Russian fighter jets use bulky, low-pressure tyres compared to US jets

FBI-wanted fraud accused arrested in Jalandhar over $600,000 scam

Why US tanks weigh over 20 tons more than Russian tanks

New Friday OTT releases (September 4, 2026): GDN, Dhamaal 4, Jagamae Sangeetham- Watch 6 new movies and TV shows on Netflix, Prime Video and more

Killing the Himalayas slowly: Human urine is melting a glacier on Mount Everest

Meet Persephone, a robot which shows visitors the wonders of the Alistrati cave located 135 kilometres (84 miles) northeast of Thessaloniki. The robot was named Persephone the daughter of the Greek god Zeus and has been inviting people into this underworld since mid July.

Persephone the robot guides visitors through Greek cave

South Korea plans to amend its civil code to grant animals legal status. The amendment, which must still be approved by parliament, likely during its next regular session in September, would make South Korea one of a handful of countries to recognise animals as beings, with a right to protection, enhanced welfare and respect for life.

South Korea to grant legal status to animals to tackle abuse, abandonment

Chisel and hammer in hand, this artist carves out a design. From tribal figures to African wildlife, the finished results are popular keepsakes for tourists visiting Kenya. But amid a pandemic, the demand for these objects has plummeted.

Tourist industry sees trickle of post-pandemic recover

Four-year-old Indonesian pitbull Gledis was home alone for two days without food when a group of volunteers found her. She is among many pets left behind when their owners tested positive for COVID-19 and were hospitalised or placed in isolation.

Indonesia animal-lovers help pets left behind by coronavirus

Tracking the origin of produce is an important but inexact science. A new technology is being used on Australian Tasmanian wool to improve shipping times and increase transparency about where exactly the wool has come from.

QR technology could revolutionise wool supply chain

Afghan refugees living in India for several years with the yearning to return to their homeland one day said on Monday (August 16) all their hopes have shattered as the Taliban took control of the country. Thousands of Afghan refugees have been living in India, most of them in various settlements in the capital New Delhi. At one of the refugee community residential areas, the sense of loss was compounded with a feeling of fear for the loved ones stuck in Afghanistan.

Afghan refugees in India worry for women under Taliban rule

Satellite images show millions of Afghans gathered at Kabul airport for evacuations amid Taliban's beleaguerment of provincial cities of Afghanistan including Kabul.

Satellite images show crowd at Kabul airport amid Taliban's capture of Kabul

The month-long Dixie Fire continued to burn across Northern California forcing thousands of residents and area wildlife from their homes. Near California's Taylorsville firefighters continued to observe a bear cub as it wandered alone along a remote mountain road for the fourth day.

Bear cub left orphaned after California fire

A fossil, originally found in outback Queensland almost ten years ago, has been revealed by researchers to be the largest kind of pterosaur ever found in Australia.

Researchers uncover Australia's largest flying reptile

Aztec culture came alive in the heart of Mexico City on Thursday (August 12), to mark 500 years since the fall of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan to the Spanish.

Aztec culture returns to Mexico City's heart, marking 500 years since fall of Tenochtitlan

Senegal is among the worst affected countries in Africa by droughts. Persistent droughts saw nearly 40% of its mangrove area lost since the 1970s. A project funded by the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has restored thousands of hectares of mangroves. IFAD intends to use this project to reforest more than 1,000 hectares of mangroves over the next few years.

Restored mangroves holding back sea level rise

A gigantic human-faced hot air balloon floated over Tokyo on Friday as part of an art project aimed at reflecting on the legacy of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.

Human-faced hot air balloon floats over Tokyo

Rare snowfall fell heavily over parts of Bolivia and Peru, blanketing buildings and leaving vehicles stranded.

Rare snowfall blankets swathes of Bolivia, Peru

Australian marine rescuers worked to free a whale tangled in shark nets off Queensland's Gold Coast on Wednesday (August 11) after local surfers tried to cut the trapped humpback out of the netting.

Australian rescuers work to free whale tangled in shark nets off Queensland's Gold Coast

King Khufu's Boat, an ancient vessel that is the oldest and largest wooden boat discovered in Egypt, has been painstakingly moved from its longstanding home next to the Giza pyramids to a nearby giant museum.

Egypt's ancient King Khufu's Boat is moved from Giza pyramids to a new home

A German animal shelter is trying a new approach to find homes for abandoned pets: it is posting their profiles on dating app Tinder in the hope that lonely humans looking for love might also enjoy the company of a cat or a dog.

A purrfect match! Shelter pets on Tinder

Designed with the help of a group of Indonesian university lecturers to entertain a village, a homemade robot has found a new use during the pandemic - bringing food, and hopefully a smile, to self-isolating residents who have contracted COVID-19.

Robot delivers food, "get well soon" messages to Indonesians in COVID-19 isolation

Methodically inspecting this farmer's field for weeds and pests, this labourer doesn't complain or even break a sweat. That's because it's a four-wheel robot, dubbed "Tom", that uses GPS and artificial intelligence to digitally map the field. Tom's creator, Small Robot Company, is part of a wave of "agri-tech" startups working to transform production in a sector that's under economic strain, due to market pressures to keep food cheap, a rising global population and uncertainties over climate change

Rise of the Robots: British startup launches crop-monitoring bot

The role of women past and present is being highlighted at a Kyrgyzstan festival.The annual 'Altar Izi' gathering in the picturesque mountains of the Jyrgalan Valley celebrates the legacy of Kyrgyzstan's ancestors.

Event celebrates legacy of Kyrgyzstan's ancestors

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the lion is facing a catastrophic decline, with Africa's population dropping 50 percent in the last 20 years.

World Lion Day: Climate change, human conflict threaten Africa's big cats

Mexico's indigenous communities descended on the capital's Zocalo square on Monday (August 9) to mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.

Mexican folk dancers on show for World's Indigenous Peoples Day

Tresses swirl and fins shimmer as tens of people don tails and dive into a weekend of all things mermaid at the MerMagic convention in Manassas, Virginia, in the eastern United States. The convention is billed as the world's largest dedicated to mermaids and attracts enthusiasts from all walks -- or swims -- of life.

Part of our world: Mermaids mingle at US convention

Neanderthals may have been closer to our species of prehistoric modern human than previously believed after cave paintings found in Spain proved they had a fondness for creating art, one of the authors of a new scientific report said on Sunday (August 8).

Prehistoric cave paintings in Spain show Neanderthals were first artists

Axe making - or mosyazhnyk - is an ancient metal profession which has been passed down for generations in Ukraine's Carpathian mountains. An ethnic group known as Hutsuls started the tradition, which they are striving to keep alive.

Traditional craftsmen strive to preserve axe making skill

More than 250 horses found a safe haven at the facilities of the Hellenic Equestrian Federation after being rescued from a wildfire in Varibobi, north of the Greek capital.

Horses rescued from Greek wildfire find safe haven

After rescuing an injured Brown-throated sloth, Juan Carlos Rodriguez and his wife Haydee opened a shelter for the vulnerable animals in their home in the lush suburbs of the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. Chuwie the Gentleman Rescue Centre has so far rehabilitated more than 40 sloths and returned them to the wild.

Venezuelan couple opens Star Wars-themed shelter for sloths

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