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Photos: Spain’s bull run festival kicks off in Pamplona
At least two runners were injured during the third bull run at Pamplona’s traditional Festival of San Fermin in northern Spain. Dressed in white clothes and r
World’s oldest artwork discovered in Indonesian cave
The painting was dated using a new technique and suggests Europe was not where cave art first emerged.Scientists have discovered what they believe to be the wor
Donald Sutherland, whose career spanned MASH to Hunger Games, dies…
Donald Sutherland, the acclaimed Canadian actor who charmed and enthralled generations of audiences in films such as MASH, Klute, and The Hunger Games, has died
The Zimbabwean musician bringing the marimba and mbira to township…
Harare, Zimbabwe – Dzivarasekwa, a nondescript township on the southwestern rims of Zimbabwe’s capital, copies the 1907 template of the first ghetto, Harari
Spain unveils ‘lost Caravaggio’ that nearly sold for 1,500 euros
A painting by Italian master Caravaggio, once mistakenly thought to be by an unknown artist and nearly auctioned off for a song, has been unveiled at Madrid’s
Casa Skate – a new generation of skateboarders in Morocco
Casablanca, Morocco – It is 5:30pm and the huge Rachidi skate park – commonly known as “Nevada Park” – in Arab League Park, central Casablanca, is bus
Exotic dancer drama, Anora, wins Cannes top prize
Anora, a darkly funny and touching drama about a young exotic dancer who becomes involved with a Russian oligarch’s son, has won the Cannes Film Festival’s
Robe-wearing DJ NewJeansNim draws complaints from Singapore Buddhists
Singapore – A popular South Korean DJ ‘monk’, known for donning a cleric’s robes and combining electronic dance music with Buddhist mantras, is stirring
Ancient humans lived in East Timor 44,000 years ago, archaeologists…
Stone artefacts and animal bones found in a deep cave in northern East Timor offer new insights into where ancient humans lived more than 35,000 years before Eg
‘Nothing left’: How climate change pushes Indigenous people from their…
Wearing a tunic the colour of red earth and a headdress crested with ruby macaw feathers, Samaniego describes how his village, home to 150 people, has always de
‘Refuge of the last dreamers’: Luang Prabang, a city suspended…
A new day breaks to the rhythmic shuffling of bare feet upon the ground. Like an apparition from centuries past, a procession of several hundred shaven-headed m
Canadian Nobel-winning author Alice Munro dies aged 92
Munro was renowned for her short stories, which focussed on the frailties of the human condition.Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author known for
