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Emirati researcher reveals fathering more than 100 children
Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:51:00 +05:00

Emirati researcher Saeed Musbah Al Ketbi. — X/@Sharjahnews/screengrab

Emirati researcher Saeed Musbah Al Ketbi astonished the audience when he revealed he has four wives and more than 100 children.

Speaking at the Sharjah Institute for Heritage this week, Ketbi said his focus...

World's second-largest diamond awaits home
Mon, 22 Sep 2025 23:15:00 +05:00

A golf ball is placed next to the "Motswedi" a 2,488-carat rough diamond, the second largest in the world, at the HB Antwerp diamond company headquarters in Antwerp, on September 22, 2025.— AFP

The world’s second-largest diamond could soon find a new home in a...

Bananas? Taiwan entrepreneur wants to make clothes out of plant material
Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:09:00 +05:00

A worker carries the middle section of a banana plant, known as the pseudostem, to be turned into materials for fabric, in Pingtung, Taiwan, August 20, 2025. — Reuters

Entrepreneur Nelson Yang is reaching back into Taiwan's history to turn the humble banana plant into an...

12-million-year-old porpoise fossil found in Peru
Thu, 18 Sep 2025 05:32:59 +05:00

A complete petrified skeleton of an ancestor of modern porpoises dating back more than 10 million years is unveiled at the Geological, Mining, and Metallurgical Institute in Lima on September 17, 2025.—AFP

Peruvian palaeontologists on Wednesday unveiled the 12-million-year-old...

Smoke-dried bodies could be world's 'oldest mummies': study
Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:43:00 +05:00

A tribesman in Papua, Indonesia, holds a smoke-dried mummy of an ancestor—part of a centuries-old mummification tradition preserved by some communities in this undated image – AFP

BANGKOK: Some ancient societies in China and southeast Asia appear to have smoke-dried their...

Lagos chef sets Guinness record with 8,780-kg serving of Nigerian jollof rice
Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:47:46 +05:00

A giant pot containing almost nine tonnes of jollof rice has earned Nigerian chef Hilda Baci a world record. — AFP

Guinness World Records on Monday gave official recognition to Nigerian chef Hilda Baci in recognising her rice jollof, concocted in Lagos last Friday, as the world's...

Floodwaters from Koh-e-Suleman bring 2,000-year-old coins in Punjab
Sun, 14 Sep 2025 19:44:00 +05:00

Coins originating from the Arab world, Central Asia, China, and Khorasan. — Screengrab via Geo News

DERA GHAZI KHAN: The flash floods descending from the Koh-e-Suleman mountain range have not only caused destruction but also carried ancient treasures, including coins dating back...

South Africa's top court rules men can take wives' surnames
Fri, 12 Sep 2025 22:54:00 +05:00

An Easter Sunday mass wedding ceremony in Kgabalatsane, in the North-West province, South Africa, April 9, 2023.— Reuters

South Africa’s top court ruled Thursday that men should be able to take their wives’ surnames and a law that prevented this amounted to unfair gender...

How did a fish end up in Saudi Arabia's AlUla's desert?
Sat, 06 Sep 2025 15:33:00 +05:00

Fish Rock of Wadi AlFann. — SPA

In the middle of Saudi Arabia’s golden sands lies an unlikely wonder — a rock that looks exactly like a giant fish taking a rest in the desert.

Known as the Fish Rock of Wadi AlFann, the 200-metre-long formation has become one...

Wife thrashes husband for not bringing samosas
Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:53:00 +05:00

A representational image of samosas. — Pixabay

A domestic dispute over samosas turned into a dramatic village brawl in India's Uttar Pradesh, leaving a man hospitalised and four family members facing attempt-to-murder charges, NDTV reported on Wednesday.

Police said...

Argentine police recover Nazi-looted painting spotted in property ad
Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:45:08 +05:00

Art expert Ariel Bassano with the Nazi-looted 'Portrait of a Lady' after it was retrieved by Argentine authorities from the daughter of an SS officer in the resort of Mar del Plata. —AFP

Argentine police have recovered an 18th-century painting stolen from a Dutch Jewish art...

Over the Moon: Fake astronaut scams lovestruck Japanese octogenarian
Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:58:00 +05:00

This art illustration shows an astronaut standing on moon. — Pexels

A Japanese octogenarian was swindled out of thosands of dollars after falling in love online with a self-described astronaut who sought her help to avert a spaceship crisis, police said Tuesday.

The hapless...

Tilburg turns red as thousands flock to annual ginger festival
Mon, 01 Sep 2025 05:06:45 +05:00

A boy looks at a girl, both from Germany, as they attend the annual Redhead Days Festival in Tilburg, Netherlands, August 27, 2023. REUTERS

Far from the childhood mockery they once faced, thousands of red-haired people gathered "as a family" this weekend in the southern Dutch city of...

World's first gene-edited horses shake up genteel sport of polo
Sun, 31 Aug 2025 11:22:00 +05:00

They look like ordinary foals, docile with honey brown coats and white facial patches, content to spend their days munching alfalfa in a cordoned-off pasture in rural Buenos Aires province.

But these five 10-month-olds are the world’s first genetically edited horses: cloned copies...

Tiny carved animals found in Turkey tell story of prehistoric myth-making
Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:58:00 +05:00

Animal sculptures, discovered at the Karahan Tepe archaeological site, are on display at the "Golden Age of Archaeology" exhibition at the Presidential Complex Exhibition Hall in Ankara, Turkey, August 21, 2025. — Reuters

ISTANBUL: A set of carved stone animals — a fox, a...

Need a pee? Japan has QR code for that
Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:51:00 +05:00

A worker at an assembly line of the Washlet Techno factory of Japanese toilet manufacturer TOTO. — AFP

Japanese toilet giant TOTO has launched a service allowing those caught short in public to locate the nearest washrooms and see how busy they are in real-time with a phone and QR...

Tentacles tighten grip as octopus invasion sinks Britain's shellfish trade
Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:09:29 +05:00

A technician at the Spanish Oceanography Institute in Santa Cruz de Tenerife weighs an octopus.—Reuters

At first, in March and April, they were almost empty. Then, starting in May, they were unexpectedly packed with octopuses, before sitting largely empty again over the last month...

Mexico's jaguar population is up 30% since 2010, but still at risk
Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:04:21 +05:00

A jaguar wears a monitoring collar in Calakmul, Mexico, where the population has increased significantly in recent years, but the largest feline in the Americas remains at risk of extinction, according to the National Alliance for Jaguar Conservation , in this handout distributed on August...

Berlin's 'Moors' Street' renamed after years of controversy
Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:01:00 +05:00

A worker installs a sign with the street's new name, after years of controversy and a last-minute courtroom drama over the old name, 'Moors' Street'. — AFP

A central Berlin street is being officially renamed on Saturday for an 18th-century African philosopher after years of debate...

GB shepherd hailed as hero for warning that saved 200 lives in glacier burst
Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:58:44 +05:00

This combination of photos shows Wasiat Khan and the newly-formed lake in Ghizer, Gilgit-Baltistan. —Screengrab/Geo News

A local shepherd in Gilgit Baltistan’s Ghizer district has been honoured for saving hundreds of lives after he raised the alarm when a glacial lake...

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