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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

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

Marine biologists are investigating a mystery skin disease afflicting whitetip reef sharks in Malaysia, with some early reports suggesting rising sea temperatures could be to blame.

Malaysia's reef sharks stricken with mystery skin disease

Carpet weaving in Uzbekistan is becoming increasingly popular in a city deserted by its residents since the disappearance of the Aral Sea. To help boost this local industry appreciated by tourists, the government has granted weavers an exemption from income tax.

Rug weaving becoming popular craft in a bid to boost local economy

Flavoursome dishes by three-Michelin star chef Massimo Bottura and roaring Ferrari engines will sit side by side in the luxury carmaker's hometown of Maranello, in Modena, as the group relaunched the restaurant where legendary founder Enzo Ferrari dined with friends, collaborators, and Formula 1 stars.

Ferrari opens Michelin-starred restaurant to offer full luxury experience

Salah al-Mulla's debut as a 'tabla' player did not get much approval from neighbours whom he would wake up in the middle of the night while rehearsing his rhythms in a narrow street of his popular district in Iraq's southern city of Basra. But today, he and a team of musicians specialised in 'Khashaba' music are in high demand during popular celebrations and concerts.

'Khashaba' music and its rhythms from Basra

From life-sized Pharaonic busts to finely painted copies of their treasured grave goods, Egypt has inaugurated a factory dedicated to making high-quality replicas of ancient Egyptian artifacts, available to tourists for purchase. The 10,000 square metre "Konouz Factory" houses more than 150 skilled artists and conservators, and has so far produced more than 6,400 replicas made out of stone, wood, ceramic, and even gold and silver.

Factory produces high-end replicas of ancient Egyptian treasures

A Chicago bus driver looking for a way to relieve stress during the pandemic jumped into Lake Michigan for a 365th straight day, marking the completion of a full year of performing the feat.

Man jumps into Lake Michigan for 365 straight days

New underwater video shot by documentary filmmaker Tahsin Ceylan showed a slimy 'sea snot' expanding in Sea of Marmara as Turkish government launched a disaster management programme meant to clean up the outbreak. Video shot by Ceylan, shortly before cleaning efforts has begun, showed layers of 'sea snot' floating on the surface of water and covering marine plants.

What is Turkey's 'sea snot' outbreak and how does it threaten marine life?

Activist group Avaaz welcomed G7 leaders to Cornwall by sketching their likenesses into sand, putting their support behind calls to waive intellectual property rights over COVID-19 vaccines.

Activists sketch G7 leaders' likeness in sand

At the Keur Moussa abbey near Senegal's capital, the kora has replaced the organ and accompanies all the religious services of the Benedictine monks who live there. The friars fabricate themselves the instruments in their atelier, to the point where the Keur Moussa's kora has acquired the likes of professional Griots, well beyond the Catholic world.

Senegalese monks seek God through kora music

A microscopic organism has wriggled back to life and reproduced asexually after lying frozen in the vast permafrost lands of northeastern Siberia for 24,000 years. Russian scientists found the tiny, ancient animal called the bdelloid rotifer in soil taken from the river Alazeya in Russia's region of Yakutia in the far north.

Tiny creature comes back to life after 24,000 years in Siberian deep freeze

Cicadas are flying off the shelves at a Maryland chocolate shop that is dipping the insects in chocolate to make sweet and crunchy treats. Sarah Dwyer, of Chouquette Chocolates, started coating cicadas in chocolate and selling them when Brood X started singing in 2021. Now her chocolate shop, which spends most of the year selling romantic and timely chocolates, has a five-day backlog for cicada orders.

Chocolatier serves up cicada sweets

A bronze statue of the main God of the kingdom of Saba, located in what is now the Yemeni province of Marib, lies in a dark and fortified room of the Sanaa National Museum. The piece was made by a man named Hawtar Athat in the first half of the sixth century BC. It has been lucky enough to survive the latest war in Yemen. Many other artefacts have not.

As war destroys Yemen's present, museums struggle to preserve its past

The world's oldest cave painting is decaying at a rapid pace due to climate change, archaeologists said, as experts race against time to find ways to preserve the priceless prehistorical artwork in Indonesia. Found in 2017, the painting in a limestone cave in Indonesia's island of Sulawesi appears to be the earliest known pictorial record of storytelling and thought to date back 45,500 years.

Archaeologists fear climate change slowly erasing world's oldest cave painting in Indonesia

As the leaders of the G7 begin to arrive at the South western tip of the UK, their likenesses have also appeared on the side of the Cornish coast in trash. Artists Joe Rush and Alex Wreckage created the sculpture nicknamed "Mount Recyclemore" of the leaders of the G7 out of electronic waste to highlight the huge amount of tech and gadgets that goes unrecycled globally each year.

Artists create giant e-waste 'Mount Recyclemore' sculpture of G7 leaders

The Hong Kong team behind celebrity humanoid robot Sophia is launching a new prototype, Grace, targeted at the healthcare market and designed to interact with the elderly and those isolated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Meet Grace, the healthcare robot COVID-19 created

The voluminous ivory dress Princess Diana wore to marry Prince Charles in 1981 has gone on display at her former London home, as part of a new exhibition showcasing a selection of gowns worn by members of Britain's royal family. "Royal Style in the Making" looks at the works of designers and their royal clients, and features outfits created for Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and Diana as well as sketches, fabric swatches and photographs from the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection.

Royal frocks, including Diana wedding dress, on display in London

In the high-altitude cities of La Paz and El Alto, indigenous "cholita" women have long faced discrimination and abuse. As part of a female empowerment drive by the Warmi Power project, these women are learning self-defence to protect themselves against domestic violence attacks, most often by partners or other family members. UN Women data shows that eight out of 10 Bolivian women suffer some type of violence during their lifetime.

Bolivia's Aymara women train to fight back against domestic violence

The coronavirus pandemic is adding a new unwelcome element to sea pollution off the town of Bauan, a popular dive site in the Philippines' Batangas province. Regular visitors and local residents have reported a rise in the number of face masks, face shields and PPEs (Personal Protection Equipment) being collected from the seabed.

World Oceans Day 2021: Divers in the Philippines try to clear face masks, plastics from sea

A fluffy dog was rescued in the Arctic by Russian sailors after it wandered off the home village and got lost on the sea ice. The Russian icebreaker "Alexander Sannikov" was working near the Gates of the Arctic terminal when its crew noticed a pet by the board.

Russian sailors rescued dog stranded on floating ice in Arctic

Musicians in Brazil beat lockdown restrictions on mass gatherings by taking their instruments onto the streets for a mobile concert in Rio de Janeiro.

Mobile orchestra from favela plays throughout Rio

Drone enthusiasts from all over Russia showed off their technological creativity and on Saturday (June 5) took part in a drone racing competition in the Moscow region.

Russians test self-made drones at drone racing championship in Moscow

For the past two decades, the 62-year old Leonardo Carrillo has cared for the colony of around 100 brown pelicans that land in his village of Guanimar in December to spend the winter months there before heading back northwards for the summer.

Pelicans befriend Cuban man living by the sea

After losing countless fares due to the pandemic, Thai taxi driver Sombat Subin is seeking to reassure nervous clients by letting them know in three languages that he has been vaccinated.

Taxi for hire - Bangkok cabbie aims to capitalise on COVID-19 vaccination

Spider-Man will fly high above Disneyland Resort's new Avengers Campus in California when it starts welcoming the public on Friday (June 4), tumbling through the air as guests below meet Iron Man, Black Panther and other Marvel superheroes.

Avengers to welcome Marvel fans to new Disneyland campus

A ten Altai Saker falcon chicks, born in the nursery near Moscow, were transported to Siberia, where they will continue their lives in the nests of wild falcons.

Russian birds nursery sends rare saker falcons back to Siberian's wilds

Tokyo 2020 Olympic organisers on Thursday (June 3) held an event to unveil the podium, costumes, music and medal trays that will be used during the victory ceremonies, as the countdown to the opening of the Summer Games reached the 50-day mark.

Tokyo 2020 unveils victory ceremony podium, costumes, music, 50 days before Olympics

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