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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 ...

Nose job boom in Iran where procedure can boost social status

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All of the women in Iranian model Azadeh's family have had nose surgeries, each feeling the pressure to conform with Western beauty standards in a country where ...

German police earn their stripes with zebra-loaded van stop

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German police officers found themselves face-to-face with two zebras, six monkeys and several other exotic animals after stopping a van on the Dutch border, the ...

How a Brazilian chief is staving off Amazon destruction

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Raoni's 1 600-strong community has a two-pronged approach to defending its ancestral homeland: conducting patrols against intruders and teaching Indigenous youth ...

Joy and fury of Ukrainian rock tour

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Although war is still raging, 30-year-old Nadia Kukla is managing a punk-rock band's tour around Ukraine. Her biggest challenge is the daily air raid sirens that ...

The town where Holi and Ramadan are celebrated together

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Discrimination against minorities runs deep in Muslim-majority Pakistan, but those tensions are not to be found in Mithi, an affluent city of rolling sand dunes ...

I was a little hoarse. . . Senator after record breaking speech

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A Democratic US lawmaker shattered a record for the longest speech in Senate history this week, staying on his feet for more than 25 hours to deliver a fiery protest ...

Rafayel's 'lovers' gather to celebrate

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Rafayel's girlfriends went all out to celebrate their lover's birthday, renting malls across China for parties, decorating high-speed trains with his photos, and ...