Mon 11 April 2022: The latest chapter in Hollywood star Johnny Depp’s legal battle with ex-wife Amber Heard kicks off on Monday as a US defamation trial begins over allegations Heard made about domestic abuse. Depp, 58, has sued Heard for $50 million, saying she defamed him when she penned a 2018 opinion piece in […]
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Mon 11 April 2022: Three tombs dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907) were recently found in north China’s Shanxi Province, according to the provincial institute of archaeology. Archaeologists said that the tombs are about 2 km west of Houzhai Village, Shuozhou City, and are located in the key area where the farming and nomadic […]
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Fri 08 April 2022: The 1940 comic marking Marvel superhero Captain America’s first appearance has been sold at an auction today for USD 3.1 million. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the price is just short of the record of USD 3.6 million, set in 2014 for Spider-Man’s first comic appearance. #CaptainAmerica‘s Debut #ComicBook Sells for […]
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Fri 08 April 2022: Scientists claim to have discovered a well-preserved dinosaur leg from the period an asteroid struck the Earth. A skin-covered limb of Thescelosaurus was discovered in a fossil site in Tanis, North Dakota, around 3,000 kilometers from the asteroid impact location in the Gulf of Mexico. British archaeologists working at the site […]
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Mon 04 April 2022: Legislators in many cities have banned plastic shopping bags, or added fees for their use. A study finds that this may conversely incentivise customers to buy more plastic bags for everyday use. Many cities around the world have set plastic bag bans or have introduced fees to reduce the amount of […]
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Sat 02 April 2022: Well-preserved fossils of dinosaur footprints and water ripples were found during a field survey carried out by Zhucheng Dinosaur Culture Research Center in east China’s Shandong Province. The fossils were found at a fossil site in Zhucheng City and rock formation in this site dates back to the early Cretaceous period. […]
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Fri 01 April 2022: The ancient Timbuktu manuscripts of Mali were back in the headlines following internet giant Google’s initiative to host a collection of them at an online gallery. The images of the documents, text in Arabic, can be found at a page called Mali Magic. No place in West Africa has attracted more attention and resources than the […]
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Fri 01 April 2022: An oil painting by American painter Zhenya Gershman, based on a photograph taken by Anadolu Agency photojournalist Wolfgang Schwan in Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine, and which has become a symbol of Russia’s war on Ukraine, was sold for $100,000 on Thursday. A statement from Heritage Auctions, a worldwide collectibles auctioneer, said painter […]
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Wed 30 March 2022: State of World Population report released on Wednesday, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) showed that nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended, demonstrating a significant global failure to protect human rights. “This report is a wakeup call. The staggering number of unintended pregnancies represents a global failure to uphold women and […]
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A perspective view of Pluto’s icy volcanic region. The surface and atmospheric hazes of Pluto are shown here in greyscale, with an artistic interpretation of how past volcanic processes may have operated superimposed in blue. (Isaac Herrera/Kelsi Singer/NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Wed 30 March 2022: Pluto had been cloaked in mystery […]
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