A patient at a British hospital played Mahler and Gershwin on the violin while a tumour was removed from her brain so that surgeons could preserve her ability to play music and her 40-year passion for the instrument.

Violinist plays Mahler, Gershwin as surgeons remove brain tumour

Feeling proud and grateful, Cesar Bonilla, 87, is still baffled by a surge in demand for his canned potato chips after a tin briefly appeared in the award-sweeping Korean film "Parasite", making his small company in northwestern Spain hire more staff.

How Oscar-winning 'Parasite' caused a surge in Spanish crisp maker's sales

Syrian video journalist Abdallah al-Muhammad has turned the experience of air strikes and shelling near his home in northwest Syria's Idlib into a game for his three-year old daughter to help her cope with the trauma.

Syrian father and daughter turn sound of war into rosy game

Thomas Sureau and his partner Lisa Buisine took possession of the keys to an abandoned cafe in the village of Congrier faced with the task of breathing life back into a small corner of "La France Oubliee", or "Forgotten France".

Restoring the heartbeat of forgotten France, one cafe at a time

As archeologists explore more and more of the land, they are finding more and more artifacts of Mayan civilizations underground in the waters of what they have termed the "Great Mayan Aquifer."

Underwater ancient Mayan sites in Mexico to be protected, investigated

Maria Angela Panelli creates custom-made prosthetics for animals at her practice, helping those with injuries and disabilities get up on their feat - or their beaks - and get moving again.

Brazil vet saves animals with custom-made prosthetics

Contestants from around the world braved the cold and heat on Saturday (February 15) by taking part in a bizarre sauna competition in Estonia, which pits teams of four against each other in fancy dress along a route of over a dozen steaming hot sittings.

Turn up the heat! Sauna enthusiasts go head to head in race

Inspired by the late Pope John Paull II, an avid skier, Polish priests hit the slopes on Saturday (February 15) for a friendly competition in Wisla, Poland.

Hallelujah! Polish priests hit the slopes to win prize

Against the backdrop of the melodies of oud played by her husband, Palestinian artist Hana' Hamarsheh creates astonishing artworks of Arabic calligraphy, hoping to bring together the two worlds of music and art.

A blend of music and calligraphy regales visitors of West Bank gallery

Nina Krinitsina has been creating her mosaic masterpieces, some including over 1,000 caps, decorating her house in the village of Makarye around 850 kilometres east of Moscow.

Russian granny turns tonnes of plastic bottle caps into art

For over a decade, 90-year-old Dino Impagliazzo known fondly as Rome's "chef of the poor" has spent his weekends collecting the waste food to cook up warm meals that he dishes out to the homeless living outside the Vatican colonnades.

Meet Rome’s 90-year-old ‘chef of the poor’

Argentina's female soccer league has long tackled stereotypes in the soccer-mad nation. Now, a first-division women's team in the country is breaking new barriers in the sport with a first-division transgender player.

Tackling discrimination: Meet Argentina's transgender soccer player

At the Izu Shaboten Zoo, 60 kilometres south of Tokyo, a family of capybaras is treated to hot baths twice a day to cope with the long winters in Japan.

Capybaras chill out in hot spring baths

Berlin zoo's newly born twin panda cubs made their public debut on Wednesday, attracting flocks of visitors, who also expressed their concerns and best wishes to China's Wuhan City as it fights the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak.

Berlin zoo's panda cubs make public debut five months after birth

Evolved By Nature, based in Medford, Massachusetts, is applying modern biotechnology to centuries-old silk to create activated silk.

How silk can replace artificial ingredients in skin care and clothing

An ageing 1,500 ton Soviet-era submarine known as "Foxtrot", built in Latvia in 1956, is being removed from a harbour in Amsterdam where it was abandoned in 2002.

Abandoned submarine in Amsterdam port makes final journey before dismantlement

Chile's Buin Zoo is celebrating the recent birth of a rare pygmy hippopotamus, as part of its breeding programme for the endangered species.

Meet Bernardina, the baby pygmy hippo delighting Chile

Kane Tanaka has extended her record as the world's oldest person by celebrating her 117th birthday at a nursing home in Fukuoka in southern Japan on Sunday (January 5).

World's oldest living person celebrates her 117th birthday

Pope Francis, in his first message of the new year, denounced on Wednesday (January 1) the use and abuse of women in modern society, and called for an end to the exploitation of the female body.

In New Year message, pope decries violence against women

Like all skateboarders, the rush of air, the thrill of the ride, the sense of achievement in completing a trick are what drew the 19-year-old to the sport. Unlike other boarders, however, Ryusei Ouchi is almost completely blind.

Blind Japanese skateboarder uses cane to ride the rails

An age-old crop is lending a caffeinated boost to the local economy of a remote highland town in Indonesia's Sumatra island.

Prized coffee beans proves stimulant for economy of Indonesian highland town

Up, up and away from street level - 1,131 feet (345 meters) in the air the finishing touches are being put on the highest outdoor observation deck in the Western hemisphere. Edge is being built as part of the new New York City's luxury Hudson Yards complex.

101 floors above Manhattan, a sky high outdoor deck is set to open

Comic book aficionados turned out in droves this weekend (September 21 and 22) to appreciate, celebrate, perform, compete, and share their love of comic book culture at the second edition of Comic Con Africa in Johannesburg.

Superheroes and sidekicks turn up for Comic Con Africa 2019

One person's trash can be another person's meal for some villagers in the Philippines with a rice-for-plastics programme launched to help the environment and feed the public. Since June, officials from Bayanan village on the outskirts of Manila started exchanging a kilogram of rice for every two kilos of plastic waste they can accumulate. The waste collected are then given to the national government for proper disposal or recycling.

A kilo of rice for plastic waste feeds hungry villagers in the Philippines

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