Wed 12 June 2019: The anticipated million-dollar auction in London of an 11-inch statue of Pharaoh Tutankhamun may not go as planned next month, as the Egyptian Foreign Ministry has ordered UK authorities and UN officials put a stop to the sale, claiming the artifact may have been stolen from their country. In a Tuesday […]
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Tue 11 June 2019: Composer himself cut off lock and gave to pianist in 1826, Sotheby’s says of unique item A lock of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair, which the composer cut off himself and gave to a pianist in 1826, will hit the auction block this Tuesday. Sotheby’s will auction off the unique item, an oval frame […]
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Mon 10 June 2019: The Philippines has a new beauty queen. Here’s everything you need to know about the 23-year-old Beauty pageantry is big business in the Philippines. Across the country, thousands of hopefuls every year spend months prepping, practising, and even attending pageant school with the hope of earning a coveted crown. And on […]
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Sat 08 June 2019: Researchers have recently investigated the potential benefits of tomato juice on cardiovascular risk. Although the team reported reductions in blood pressure and cholesterol levels, the results are not entirely convincing. Can tomato juice protect against cardiovascular disease? Cardiovascular diseases are responsible for the most deaths in the United States. People can modify certain risk […]
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Fri 07 June 2019: When dog owners go through a stressful period, they’re not alone in feeling the pressure – their dogs feel it too, a new study suggests. Dog owners experiencing long bouts of stress can transfer it to their dogs, scientists report in a study published Thursday in Scientific Reports. The Swedish researchers […]
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Mon 03 June 2019: Dozens of nude models protested against the Facebook and Instagram ban on female nipples with New York City gathering that was coordinated by controversial artist Spencer Tunick. In collaboration with the National Coalition Against Censorship, for their #WeTheNipple campaign, Tunick took photos of the models during a Sunday morning demonstration outside […]
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Sat 01 June 2019: Polish inventor and entrepreneur Jerzy Wysocki catches a brown plate — still warm — as it drops out of a machine and he begins to eat the crunchy, fibrous tableware. “A pork chop will always be more delicious on this wheat bran plate than on plastic,” says Wysocki with a big […]
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Fri 31 May 2019: When she was born, the baby girl weighed about the same as an apple. A San Diego hospital on Wednesday revealed the birth of the girl and said she was believed to be the world’s tiniest surviving micro-preemie, who weighed just 8.6 ounces (245 grams) when she was born in December. The […]
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Sun 26 May 2019 An ongoing spat between developing and developed nations over garbage imports has drawn attention to an issue that ‘advanced’ countries seemed to have put on the back burner – waste management. A bitter feud between the Philippines and Canada over a shipment of garbage made world headlines when President Rodrigo Duterte […]
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Celestial Bodies has won the £50,000 Man Booker International Prize for 2019. The book was written by Jokha Alharthi, the first Gulf writer to win the award and the first female writer from Oman to be translated into English. Her novel was translated by US academic Professor Marilyn Booth from the original Arabic. Both writer and translator were praised […]
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