What really killed the dinosaurs?

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Dinosaurs were thriving until a space rock wiped them all out

The people who refuse to use AI

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Meet the people who dare to say no to artificial intelligence

Lufthansa flight horror: teens stabbed midair with metal fork

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Passenger allegedly stabs teens with fork on Lufthansa flight

Germany courts youth to rebuild its armed forces

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Germany needs a bigger military, but young people are divided on serving

What it was like to fly into Hurricane Melissa’s eye

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What it was like to fly into Hurricane Melissa’s eye

Day of the dead - for pets

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Pets usher in Day of the Dead, are remembered with photos, toys and treats.

Elon Musk' s new Grokipedia takes on Wikipedia

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Elon Musk launches a Wikipedia rival that extols his own ‘vision’

Smart glasses shouldn’t be the next smartphones

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Right now, the race to put computers on our faces says more about Silicon Valley’s ambitions than our needs. For consumers, the view is blurry.

Destination golf comes to a chilly corner of northern Scotland

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The capital of the Highlands region, Inverness has historically been a gateway to inland adventures involving hunting rifles, fishing rods, walking sticks, whisky ...

160km into a road trip, family realises their cat is on top of their van

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Stopping for petrol and a bathroom break after about 160km, Tony got out of the van, and saw the family’s 8-year-old cat, Ray Ray, perched atop the roof.

Trump refugee plan seeks 7 000 Afrikaners — and virtually no one else

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The Trump administration’s plan to overhaul the U. S. refugee resettlement process, including a drastic reduction in overall annual admissions, coincides with a ...

For US presidents, Nobel Peace Prize long fraught with politics

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It was perhaps not a coincidence that the announcement Friday of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for which President Donald Trump has so openly campaigned coincided with ...

Germany leads world in nonalcoholic brews

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It looked like all the other beers in the sea of giant one-liter glasses at the Augustiner Brewery tent at Oktoberfest, but Peter Asen’s mug harbored a secret: His ...

This man thrifts all year to create free Halloween costumes for kids

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Christophe Waggoner has what he calls a “shopping problem. ” Not for himself, though. All year long, he scours Texas thrift stores for children’s Halloween costumes. ...

Indian cuisine is inspiring a new wave of innovative cocktails

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In India, cocktails have not historically been a big part of fine dining. That’s starting to change in cities such as Delhi and Mumbai, where cocktail culture is ...

Lost work by Virginia Woolf to be published

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Long before “A Room of One’s Own,” a 25-year-old Virginia Woolf wrote a trio of fairy tales about a woman named Violet, plain and very tall, who loved literature, ...

Doing almost anything is better with friends, research finds

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Social interactions are essential for our well-being and happiness, research has shown. And now a large study supports that finding and suggests there are many ways ...

Dogs, bunnies and an 8-legged pet at blessing event

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The event honors the feast of St. Francis, the patron saint of animals. Hundreds of people have flocked to the cathedral on the first Sunday of October for decades, ...

Origins of hallucinations traced to specialized brain cells

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Science appears to be a step closer to understanding how the brain generates hallucinations, raising hopes that someday they might be preventable.

The trendiest TVs are tiny, old and in your kitchen

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Television trends have hustled in one direction: toward ever bigger and flatter screens with the highest possible resolution. Bonus points if the TV camouflages ...

Dog’s hilarious thieving habit stumps experts

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Duke the golden retriever was getting settled in his new adopted home when one day he grabbed a pair of reading glasses and pranced off with them. Then Duke moved ...

We tried ‘sunscreen’ ice cream — and kind of liked it

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“Right off the bat, it’s a tsunami of coconut,” wrote one taster. Another described “toasted coconut overkill. ” Some detected banana (and some didn’t but wished ...

A boxing match decides fight over birthplace of bratwurst

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Two boxers stepped into the ring in the small Thuringian city of Mühlhausen to settle a centuries-old debate: Who can claim title to the world’s oldest bratwurst? ...

What can happen if you let people wear their germy shoes in your house

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The question: Is it true that your shoes can spread germs to the floors in your home and make you sick?

What sound does a fish make? The answer is weirder than you think

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So far, scientists have captured a cacophony of thumps, honks, burps and grunts. And they hope that deciphering these sounds will improve our understanding of aquatic ...