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UK Says 50 Million Face Masks It Bought Might Not Be Safe

3 Men Rescued from Pacific Island after Writing SOS in Sand

Japan Set to Mark 75 Years since Hiroshima, Nagasaki Atomic Bombing

'Gnarly' Tumor Shows Dinosaurs Got Cancer, Too

Ancient Egyptians Used Dental Filling, New Study Suggests

Indian Restaurant Offers 'COVID Curry' to Scared Customers

Fine Art and Face Masks: London's Victoria and Albert Museum Reopens

Five thousand years of art and design history will be joined by some more modern items after London’s Victoria and Albert (V&A) museum reopened on Thursday - hand sanitizer dispensers and protective screens. Mask-wearing visitors will be allowed to tour exhibits on two of the museum’s floors, str

SpaceX Completes Test Flight of Mars Rocket Prototype

SpaceX on Tuesday successfully completed a flight of less than a minute of the largest prototype ever tested of the future rocket Starship, which the company hopes to use one day to colonize Mars. "Mars is looking real," SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted in response to a fan. The current Starsh

Egypt Invites Musk after 'Aliens Built Pyramids' Tweet

Egypt has invited Elon Musk to visit its famed pyramids after the SpaceX and Tesla founder posted a satirical tweet stating that clearly extra-terrestrials had built the giant monuments. "Aliens built the pyramids obv," Musk had tweeted, picking up on a theme popular with conspiracy theorists and

Mountain Lovers Wed above the Clouds in Kurdish Iraq

Chicago Artist Brings Segregated Residents together in 'Folded Map Project'

Rosa Parks Letter on Martin Luther King Jr. on Sale for $54k

Notre-Dame Cathedral's Organ Getting 4-Year-Long Cleaning

Honoring Tradition, French Artisans Harvest Salt from the Sea

In the salt marshes of north-west France, Franch Durot, a rake in his hand and a hat to keep off the baking sun, is following in a time-honored tradition, harvesting salt from the sea by hand. It is a craft that has been practiced at Guerande, in the French region of Brittany, for hundreds of yea

Japan's Ninja Arts Hold Key to Survival, Says First Winner of Graduate Degree

The mystique of Japan’s once-feared covert warriors, spread by films and fiction, is embodied today in the world’s first winner of a master’s degree in ninja studies, who also grows his own crops, just as many of his predecessors did. The modern black-clad ninja is Genichi Mitsuhashi, 45, who say

In Milestone Year, A-Bomb Survivor Keeps up Fight for Nuclear Disarmament

Terumi Tanaka was 13 when a US warplane dropped a plutonium bomb on the southern Japanese city of Nagasaki, on Aug.

Australia: Tourist 'Crushed by Whale's Tail'

UN Rights Experts: Keep Hagia Sophia ‘a Space for Meeting of Cultures’

Amid Pandemic, Mopeds Have a Moment in Car-Loving US

Scientists Study Coronavirus Outbreaks among Minks in Europe

First US Recipient of Partial Face Transplant Dead at 57

Connie Culp, the first US recipient of a partial face transplant, has died at age 57, according to Ohio's Cleveland Clinic, where she underwent the delicate operation nearly 12 years ago. The health center listed no cause of death in its tweet on Friday, quoting one of her doctors, Frank Papay, a

Fires in Brazil's Amazon Rainforest Surge in July, Worst in Recent Days

Tall People Are More Susceptible to Contract Coronavirus

Eusebio Leal, who Oversaw Renewal of Old Havana, Dies at 77

Divers Haul Ghost Nets from Submarine Wreck in Greece's Ionian Sea