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Museum opens vast 'on-demand' storehouse to public

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Now London's V&A has launched a revolutionary new exhibition space, where visitors can choose from some 250 000 objects, order something they want to spend time ...

Ns football

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Girl footballers have a higher injury risk than boys.

Tweed's youthful makeover resurrects symbol of Scottish heritage

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MacLeod became a weaver two years ago, joining residents on the islands of Lewis and Harris, off Scotland's northwest coast, in helping to rejuvenate the tweed industry ...

Hyper-realistic dolls fascinate and creep out Brazil

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Some of the so-called "reborn" dolls cry, suck dummies, pee, have nails, eyelashes and veins. But what really sets them apart from traditional dolls with waxy, smooth ...

Fugitive capybara caught by zoo after two months on run

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Capybaras are native to South America but in recent years have become popular attractions at zoos worldwide

Mystery 'golden egg' found on ocean floor

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American scientists have discovered a mysterious dome-shaped specimen deep on the Alaskan seafloor, but nobody knows for sure what it is.

Coral frozen in time throws lifeline for Great Barrier Reef

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The world's largest store of cryogenically frozen coral is a frosty Noah's Ark for an ecosystem that scientists warn could be the first to disappear if climate change ...

Kyiv exhibition helps relieve stress of war

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Russia's invasion has triggered a mental health crisis in Ukraine, with more than half of respondents to a recent survey feeling "anxiety and tension" . If only ...

Seaweed fed to cattle stops them farting methane

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It is barely visible, and needs no irrigation or fertilisers: lying off the coast of Australia is a vast seaweed crop destined to curb livestock's climate-altering ...

Sad farewell to Kenya's Tolstoy

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Widely regarded as east Africa's most influential writer, Ngugi wa Thiong'o sought to forge a body of literature reflecting the land and people from which he came, ...

Slovakia allows culled bears to end up on plates

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The Slovak government has decided to allow the consumption of brown bear meat, angering environmentalists who this week slammed the move as absurd and giving a boost ...

Chimp drumming reveals building blocks of human rhythm

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Out west, they groove with fast, evenly spaced beats. In the east, it's more free-form and fluid. Like humans, chimpanzees drum with distinct rhythms.

SA grannies strut the catwalk again

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At 17, Joyce Malindi won her first beauty contest under the suffocating limits of apartheid South Africa.  Fifty-five years later, she was back on the catwalk, silver ...

On patrol for jihadists with the camel cavalry

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A posse of turban-clad soldiers perched on "ships of the desert" may conjure images of the past but Mauritania's camelback cavalry plays a vital role in the fight ...

Ghana's tech-savvy teens turn to fraud

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Ghost, a pseudonym, is one of a growing number of Accra's teenagers turning to cybercrime to survive in a country mired in economic crisis, battling both youth unemployment ...

£10 painting by 'matchstick men' artist may fetch £1 million

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A rare work by the painter LS Lowry, known for his depictions of English working-class life, originally bought for 10 pounds is expected to fetch up to £1 million  ...

Flight club: Pinching pigeons over line of control

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In the skies above the bunkers where Indian and Pakistani soldiers trade gunfire, masters of an ancient sport beloved on both sides seek to snatch prized pigeons ...

'Poor' local fare is the cardinals' favourite

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Whether chomping on local fare such as pasta carbonara or veal cutlets wrapped in ham, Catholic cardinals, who are meeting in the Vatican this week to prepare for ...

£10 painting by 'matchstick men' artist may fetch £1 million

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A rare work by the painter LS Lowry, known for his depictions of English working-class life, originally bought for 10 pounds is expected to fetch up to £1 million  ...

India-Pakistan: Nuclear rivals with huge resources

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Troops are facing off along the 770-kilometre fortified Line of Control - the route of a ceasefire line dating back to 1949 - which ranges from icy outposts in high-altitude ...

Family mourn hero who died fighting Kashmir attacker

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"He showed his humanity and that allows us to live on," his inconsolable father Syed Haidar Shah said from their modest home nestled on wooded slopes.

US students 'race' sperm in reproductive health stunt

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At the Los Angeles event on Friday night, a man in a lab coat used pipettes to place samples of semen - collected from contestants ahead of time - onto tiny two-millimeter-long ...

Sweden turns up Eurovision heat with wacky sauna song

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Sweden is getting up a head of steam for what could be a record number of Eurovision wins this year with a humorous sauna act.

The archive where Nazi victims come back to life

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Eighty years after the end of World War II, people all over the world are still discovering the fate of their family members sent to Adolf Hitler's Nazi death camps. ...

Yana, the baby mammoth, goes under the scalpel

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Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem. But the body ...