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'JUST LIKE THE FILM', JAMAICA'S BOBSLEIGH OLYMPIC MIRACLE

29-year-old Nimroy Turgott will be part of the Jamaica's bobsleigh team which have qualified for the winter Olympics for the first time in 24 years. Olivia Chan reports.

Reuters

1 day ago

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SWIMMERS BRAVE FIRST UNDERGROUND TREK AT UNESCO SITE

Hundreds of swimmers braved the elements to swim through an underground corridor at the Historic Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Gory, on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

EuroNews

1 day ago

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FAMOUS REMBRANDT PAINTING TIPPED OVER FOR RESTORATION

Completed in 1642, the painting, which measures 3.8 x 4.5 metres and weighs 337 kilograms, is rich in details. It portrays the captain of an Amsterdam city militia ordering his men into action.

EuroNews

3 days ago

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DIVERS DISCOVER RARE 'PRISTINE' CORAL REEF OFF TAHITI

Scientists have discovered a rare coral reef off the coast of Tahiti. Despite global warming, this stretch of sea in the South Pacific has kept its underwater biodiversity thriving.

Al Jazeera

3 days ago

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TEEN PILOT COMPLETES RECORD-BREAKING AROUND THE WORLD FLIGHT

Zara Rutherford touched down in the town of Kortrijk, 90km west of Brussels, on Thursday afternoon - the same airfield where she embarked on her journey last August.

EuroNews

3 days ago

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LITHUANIA FINALLY ALLOWS 'FORBIDDEN LETTERS' IN NAMES

The bill, passed in a vote of 82 to 37 with three abstentions on Tuesday, will come into force if it is signed into law by President Gitanas Nausėda.

EuroNews

3 days ago

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REMOTE 'ICE HIGHWAY' REOPENS IN BID TO LURE TOURISTS

Plowing is underway for the second year of Minnesota’s Ice Highway, a 37-mile road that runs across a frozen lake and takes motorists to the northernmost point in the continental United States, an ...

France 24

5 days ago

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VR TOUR ALLOWS NOTRE-DAME VISIT DURING REPAIRS

A new virtual reality tour allowing to visit Notre-Dame cathedral throughout the ages was launched on Wednesday (January 12), giving the public an alternative way of discovering it while awaiting i...

France 24

11 days ago

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K-FOOD SPARKS LATEST KOREAN CRAZE IN U.S

After K-pop, K-drama and K-movies, K-food has become the latest South Korean export to have gained worldwide popularity and become a lucrative market. During the pandemic, global sales of instant ...

Al Jazeera

13 days ago

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ROLLING STONES HONOURED WITH UK STAMP COLLECTION

The Stones celebrate their 60th anniversary this year, after their drummer Charlie Watts died in August 2021, aged 80.

EuroNews

13 days ago

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GOLDFISH TAUGHT BY RESEARCHERS TO 'DRIVE' A VEHICLE

Six goldfish have been taught to navigate -- or drive -- an aquarium on wheels as part of an experiment in Israel to understand the extent of their navigational skills and cognitive capability.

CBC News

14 days ago

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FRANCE WELCOMES THE NEW YEAR WITH 'GALETTE DES ROIS'

The traditional sharing of the "Galette des Rois" in France has been slightly tarnished with bakers and chefs having to increase prices due to butter costs doubling in two years.

EuroNews

18 days ago

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THREE KINGS PARADE RETURNS TO MADRID AFTER COVID DISRUPTION

This year's parade featured a giant mechanical elephant, live camels, and acrobats, as well as a traditional fireworks display at the end.

EuroNews

18 days ago

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RUSSIAN TOWN SWAPS NEW YEAR HANGOVER FOR FUN-RUN

Dozens took part in a holiday run on the first day of 2022 in Yaroslavl, northeast of Moscow. The goal of the event is to popularise an active and sober lifestyle.

EuroNews

22 days ago

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RECORD WARM TEMPERATURES FOR EUROPE

Parts of Europe basked in the sunshine on New Year's Day with many people taking advantage to get some fresh air.

EuroNews

22 days ago

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STUDY FINDS LEGO IS A BETTER INVESTMENT THAN GOLD, BONDS

A new study from a Russian university finds that LEGO sets can be a lucrative investment, rising in value by 11 percent every year, a faster and better rate of return than gold, stocks, bonds, and ...

Cheddar News

24 days ago

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SYDNEY SEES IN NEW YEAR WITH DAZZLING FIREWORKS DISPLAY

The Australian city shrugged off a COVID surge with a spectacular Harbour Bridge display, while in New Zealand Auckland's celebration was a far more low-key affair.

EuroNews

24 days ago

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MEET THE VIOLINMAKER WORKING IN THE INSTRUMENT'S BIRTHPLACE

Canadian violin maker Bernard Neumann says living in Cremona, the Italian town where the instrument was born, is what inspires him and his craft.

CBC News

24 days ago

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PERUVIAN SHAMANS NEW YEAR TRADITION, PREDICTS COVID WILL 'DISAPPEAR'

Two days before the arrival of 2022, a group of Peruvian shamans performed rituals on a hilltop outside Lima to make their annual predictions and wish good fortune for the coming year. One shaman ...

EuroNews

25 days ago

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STIR IN THE ART WORLD AS DANISH ARTIST STEALS MONEY MEANT FOR WORK

Danish artist Jens Haaning was given the equivalent of nearly $84,000 in Danish kroner and euro banknotes by the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg but decided to keep the money to himself and...

Al Jazeera

1 month ago

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COPENHAGEN SWIMMERS MAKE CHILLY HARBOUR PLUNGE

The Danish capital Copenhagen has been considered a leading model of urban sustainability for other cities of the world, where its initiatives and strategies have been focused on the development of...

Al Jazeera

1 month ago

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TEENAGE SYRIAN ARTIST MAKES GLOBAL HEADLINES

16-year-old Roaa Tanari has spent most of her life living among the ruins of Syria's war.

EuroNews

1 month ago

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GEN-Z PARODY MOVEMENT CLAIMS 'BIRDS ARE A CONSPIRACY'

NBC's Ben Collins joins The News with Shepard Smith reports that Gen Z-ers across the country are joining in on a parody conspiracy theory that the U.S. government has replaced all birds with look-...

CNBC

1 month ago

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'MIRACLE' AFTER BIG WAVE SURFER SAVED FROM DROWNING

Competitive big-wave surfer, Andrew Cotton, was saved from drowning on Friday after falling from his board into the sea in Portugal.

EuroNews

1 month ago

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BELGIUM MONKS RESUME BEER BREWING AFTER CENTURIES

When the nuns of Maredret Abbey in Belgium were struggling to scrape together the funds for badly needed renovation works, they turned to an occupation that for hundreds of years had been the prese...

Reuters

1 month ago

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CANADA UNLOCKING ITS MAPLE SYRUP VAULT DUE TO GLOBAL SHORTAGE

Due to shortages, Canada has been forced to tap into its emergency maple syrup reserve. Here’s a tour inside the vault and how much syrup it holds.

CBC News

2 months ago

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GIANT STAR ILLUMINATES NEW SAGRADA FAMILIA TOWER

The 138-metre tower dedicated to the Virgin Mary is the tallest of the nine completed thus far and the first to be inaugurated since 1976.

EuroNews

2 months ago

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PAKISTAN: FORMER CRICKETER TURNED PRIME MINISTER URGES YOUNG PEOPLE INTO SPORT

Former Pakistan cricket captain, and now-Prime Minister Imran Khan has launched the country's largest-ever sports drive. The aim is to encourage young people to compete in one of 12 sports includi...

Al Jazeera

2 months ago

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SAUDI ARABIA EMBRACES CINEMA AFTER BAN LIFTED

Less than four years after lifting a ban on cinemas, Saudi Arabia rolled out the red carpet Monday in the Red Sea city of Jeddah for celebrities descending on the kingdom's first major film festival.

France 24

2 months ago

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CLIMBER REVEALS GEMS DISCOVERED IN MONT BLANC BOX

A treasure trove of emeralds, rubies and sapphires buried for decades on a glacier off France's Mont Blanc has finally been shared between the climber who discovered them and local authorities, eig...

France 24

2 months ago