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Musk's AI chatbot under fire for posts praising Hitler

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Billionaire Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok came under fire Wednesday for anti-Semitic comments, praising Adolf Hitler and insulting Islam in separate ...

The Soweto geologist uncovering the Earth's secrets

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Inspired by the movie "Dante's Peak", where Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a volcanologist sent to investigate a long-dormant volcano, Tebogo Makhubela become ...

Angola opens up to tourists in a pivot from oil

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Wary of its dependence on oil and already burned by the market's volatility, Angola is embarking on a drive to lure back foreign tourists by easing access for travellers ...

The 24/7 war room taking on global cybercriminals

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The numbers that the payments giant grapples with are enormous. Every year, $15 trillion flows through Visa's networks, representing roughly 15 percent of the world's ...

Houses made from rice: an eco-friendly revolution

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It may look like an ordinary building site but Akmatbek Uraimov's new house in Kyrgyzstan is being built with blocks of rice. The eco-friendly alternative to conventional ...

How to move a rhino

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"The rhino is the worst one to translocate," said Taru Sheldrick, who was piloting the helicopter in Nakuru National Park in northwest Kenya, an oasis of greenery ...

Legacy of Uganda's end-of-life 'grandmother' lives on

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These home visits, combining affordable medical care and spiritual support, are part of Mwesige's routine with Hospice Africa Uganda. Founded in 1993 by Dr Anne ...

Australia’s social media age ban clears legal test

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Australian trial says tech for social media teen ban can work.

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 ...