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Tiny Nevada town near secretive Area 51 braces for alien hunters 22 Aug 2019 - 04:12 pm
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Siberian postwoman on DIY monster truck gives lifeline to tiny village 22 Aug 2019 - 02:50 pm
Postwoman Galina Yermolova with her husband drive their homemade off-road vehicle in a forest outside the village of Pikhtovskiy on August 3, 2019. AFP / Alexei Malgavko
Blooms, beasts affected as Alaska records hottest month 18 Aug 2019 - 12:15 pm
The Spencer Glacier collapses, forming a big wave moments before it crashes into a kayaker, in Alaska, U.S., August 10, 2019, in this still image taken from a video obtained from social media. @steeringsouth/via REUTERS
'I put two bullets in German officer's head' recalls French Resistance heroine 14 Aug 2019 - 01:33 pm
Madeleine Riffaud, 94, speaks about the liberation of Paris on 1944 during an interview with the AFP at her appartment in Paris, on July 26, 2019.  / AFP / Natalie HANDEL
Tasmania's Aboriginal groups divided over new place naming policy 22 Jul 2019 - 09:52 pm
An Australian Aboriginal man blows into a shell during a welcoming ceremony at Government House in Sydney, Australia, June 28, 2017. Reuters/David Gray
Home on the range? Private buyers restore US grassland to cowboy consternation 22 Jul 2019 - 08:59 pm
K.C. Weingart fixes a barbed wire fence on his ranch in Petroleum, County in northeastern Montana, USA on June 13, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Gregory Scruggs
Endless kiddie tunes to spikes in doorways: eight ways cities shun the homeless 22 Jul 2019 - 08:58 pm
Two homeless men drink on the pavement in Paris on September 14, 2018. AFP/Joel Saget
Paris show gives the humble back its place in the limelight 21 Jul 2019 - 09:18 pm
A man looks at a dress by Moroccan fashion designer Martine Sitbon (C) displayed next to a large plaster cast by French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929) at the off-site exhibition 'Back Side / Fashion from Behind' by the Palais Galliera held at the
Buried treasure poses Holocaust puzzle for Hungary museum 21 Jul 2019 - 09:18 pm
An archaeologist, Hungarian Ferenc Redo examines a metal coin of a Holocaust victim's collection in the Balatoni Museum in the town of Keszthely, 200 km west of Budapest on May 22, 2019. AFP/Attila Kisbenedek
Hebrew opera takes on Israeli-Palestinian conflict at French festival 21 Jul 2019 - 08:06 pm
The Sleeping Thousand, an opera by Israeli composer Adam Maor with the libretto by Yonatan Levy, was premiered at the prestigious Aix-en-Provence opera festival in southern France this month.(festival-aix.com)
From hidden space heroes to artists, 10 women written out of history 21 Jul 2019 - 06:34 pm
Mary Jackson (Photo credit: Bill Nye/NASA Langley)
ESPN reasserts political talk policy after attack on Trump 21 Jul 2019 - 05:38 pm
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Modern revamp threatens to raze riverfront in Mosul's Old City 20 Jul 2019 - 11:28 pm
Like in Beirut, the urban redevelopment plan in Mosul risks seeing many of its families - which have lived in the ethnically and culturally rich Old City for decades - making way for the construction of megaprojects.
Vatican opens burial chambers in hunt for princesses and missing teen 20 Jul 2019 - 08:26 pm
This handout photo made available by the Vatican Media on July 20, 2019 shows the opening of the ossuary at the Teutonic Cemetery in the Vatican as part of a probe into the case of Emanuela Orlandi, a teenager who disappeared in 1983 in one of Italy's dar
How to sell America on space again 19 Jul 2019 - 03:30 pm
People watch as Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft for the new International Space Station (ISS) crew, comprising NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency) and Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, is transported
Pakistan in danger of losing its rare artifacts 13 Jul 2019 - 01:32 am
Wall clocks decorated with seashells of various shapes and colors are put up for sale along Clifton beach in Karachi, Pakistan, July 9, 2019. Reuters/Akhtar Soomro
Social media rescue Morocco's last woman potters 11 Jul 2019 - 01:25 pm
Moroccan potter Aicha Tabiz, also known as Mama Aicha, holds one of her works near the village of Ourtzagh in the foothills of the Rif mountains on June 12, 2019. AFP / FADEL SENNA
Chinese shadow theatre fights against dying of the light 08 Jul 2019 - 04:31 pm
Jin Xinchun, a member of the Flying Dragon Troupe, creates a shadow puppet at the troupe's studio on the outskirts of Beijing. AFP / NICOLAS ASFOURI