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Board game harassment: Japanese firefighter suspended for forcing coworkers to play homemade board games for six months

‘Stealing from a family-run business’: Truck driver nabs $3,000 in fuel from petrol station in Sydney

Gigantic “pink heart” spotted in Argentina by NASA from the international space station; though it isn’t romantic

World’s hottest cities: India transforms into a scorching furnace with cities shockingly hitting 46°C

Buried beneath a Swedish city: Six centuries-old shipwrecks discovered during a railway project

An underground world: The Australian town where life exists beneath ground, with churches and hotels under the desert

Japan lifts advisory a week after 7.7-magnitude quake

Lost for 200 years: Virginia dig uncovers hidden barracks of America’s first soldiers

Fast-growing Georgia wildfire tops 80 square kms, with evacuations possible

2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck reveals the secret formula that kept ancient ships afloat

Meet Tsutomu Yamaguchi: Japan’s official survivour of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks

Auckland mayor calls Indian-origin staffer ‘Muslim terrorist’, issues apology: ‘Fumbled attempt at humour’

Mali violence escalates: Defence minister Sadio Camara killed in 'terrorist attack'

Countries with the most millionaires in 2026: The US tops the global list, China and France follow

Bomb attack kills 14, injures 38 in Colombia weeks before presidential election

Mexico: 2 dead US agents had no permission to raid drug lab

Wikimedia, Indonesia reach a compromise

Watch: Gunfire, blasts rock Mali's capital, other cities; defence min's residence targeted — what we know so far

‘Get out of my country’: Elderly Sikh man abused, threatened and physically assaulted in racist attack in Canada

Canadian court pauses deportation of Indian-origin driver Jaskirat Singh Sidhu over 2018 crash that killed 16

'Gunfire everywhere': Explosions heard near Mali international airport, military base

A nearly 2-metre-tall marble statue of the Greek goddess Athena discovered in Turkey

The real wall with ears: Ancient Roman walls can hear you from metres away

Countries with the most 100-year-olds in 2026: Japan leads global longevity rankings as the US, China, and India follow

Hunter becomes the hunted: Five elephants crush 75-year-old millionaire trophy hunter to death during hunt

Indian-origin couple bags $5 million after selling lottery-won luxury home in Perth: 'I came to Australia...'

Rare 3,500-year-old Bronze Age gold jewellery unearthed in Aegina

‘Bigfoot’ sample sent to FBI in 1977 revealed something elusive: questions that remain unanswered to this day

Giant Ramesses II statue fragment found in Nile Delta, revealing new clues about ancient Egypt

‘Australians are becoming an endangered species’: Elon Musk highlights population concerns amid falling birth rates

Thousands of 1,700-year-old Roman coins were unearthed in a French village

Georgia blaze shows how climate change has led to more wildfires in East

Alleged coup plotters in Nigeria plead not guilty to treason and terrorism

Scientists use cosmic rays to “see through” Jerusalem’s hidden underground

The 10 biggest dams in the world and their power capacity

Top 10 largest gold mines in the world: US, Uzbekistan, Russia and other global mining countries revealed

Lost civilisation discovered in Georgia’s highlands challenges ancient history

Palaeontologists identify a new coelacanth species from a 150-year-old fossil in London

World’s longest road with no U-turns: A 30,000 km journey across 14 countries

Japanese police arrest a South Korean for allegedly obstructing Yasukuni Shrine festival

10 countries in the world without any rivers

Mid-air selfie stunt: S Korea pilot fined $59K for 2021 fighter jet collision

A hidden prehistoric forest was just discovered beneath the North Sea, revealing life from 16000 years ago

World’s first nuclear waste vault: Why Finland is burying radioactive waste 400 metres underground

Top 10 deepest caves in the world: From Veryovkina Cave in Georgia to Sistema Huautla in Mexico

10 largest landlocked countries in the world

Massive gold discovery at Maria Geralda in Suriname shocks geologists with unusually high grades

7,500-year-old skull in Eastern Europe thought to be “human-neanderthal hybrid” turns out to be something else

‘I get cut through by hyperbole’: NZ minister Shane Jones refuses to tone down ‘butter chicken tsunami’ remark

What lies inside a 1,600-year-old mummy: The shocking discovery of Homer’s Iliad fragment sealed within a Roman-era Egyptian burial

Grand Canyon mystery solved? Shocking new study claims a 'lost ancient lake' may have carved one of Earth’s greatest natural wonders

A lost ‘Silk Road’ city found beneath Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan stuns archaeologists

Top 10 countries with the highest IQ in the world: South Korea, China, Japan and others lead global rankings

New evidence shows early humans built vast ocean networks across the Philippines 40,000 years ago

Indian Uber driver accused of killing baby passenger after falling asleep and crashing vehicle in Perth, worked 22-hour shift

Mysterious German skull found in 1973 was once thought to be a Neanderthal hybrid; new study reveals the truth

From Chile to Indonesia: Your donated clothes may end up thousands of miles away in deserts and on shorelines

Prehistoric cave hidden beneath Pembroke Castle reveals 120,000 years of human and animal history

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