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This Beirut Family Has Sold Falafel for 100 Years, Through War and Crisis. It Has No Plan to Stop

Varieties  Ziad Tabarra, right, holds falafel sandwiches made with finely ground fava beans at his family's shop in Beirut's Hamra district, Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026. (AP)

This Beirut Family Has Sold Falafel for 100 Years, Through War and Crisis. It Has No Plan to Stop

For more than a century, the Tabbara family has been serving up falafel to Beirut’s residents. Their business, which predates Lebanon’s founding, has…

Varieties In this image made from video and provided by the Victoria State Police 17-year-old William, center right, is embraced by his mother Elizabeth, only first names were provided by police, while in a helicopter in Cowwarr, Australia, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026, after William spent six days lost in eastern Australian woodlands. (Victoria Police via AP)

Missing Teen Found Alive After 6 Days in Australian Woodlands

A 17-year-old boy with autism was found alive Thursday after six days lost in eastern Australian woodlands. The boy, whom police identified only as William…

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Varieties This undated image provided by the European Space Agency on Nov. 5, 2026 and taken by the Hera spacecraft, shows asteroid Didymos. (European Space Agency via AP)

Europe’s Hera Spacecraft Begins Close Inspections of an Asteroid Rammed by NASA in a 2022 Test

A European spacecraft has begun close inspections of an asteroid rammed by NASA four years ago in a planetary defense test. The European Space Agency…

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Varieties Looking across vast distances means peering into the past because of the time needed for light from distant objects to reach us (Reuters)

Euclid Mission Data Release Spans More than 900 Million Galaxies

The European Space Agency has released its first big collection of data from the orbiting Euclid telescope's mission to map the universe's large-scale…

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Varieties The program also provides specialized training in organic farming, pest control, modern irrigation, and coffee cultivation - SPA

Saudi Reef: Coffee Production Reaches 7,400 Tons in 2026

The Sustainable Agricultural Rural Development Program (Saudi Reef) reported that Saudi coffee production rose from 800 tons annually in 2020 to approximately…

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Varieties Rana Ellithi: A New Ambassador for Modest Fashion

Rana Ellithi: A New Ambassador for Modest Fashion

Rana Ellithi, a 21-year-old Egyptian-British female, is among the latest fashion influencers who joined Instagram and attracted hundreds of followers in few…

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Varieties Workers Eradicate First Nest of 'Murder Hornets' Found in US

Workers Eradicate First Nest of 'Murder Hornets' Found in US

Agricultural department workers wearing protective suits have eradicated the first nest of giant "murder hornets" discovered in the United States, vacuuming…

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Varieties Mexico's Legendary Masked Wrestlers Seek New Ways to Keep Fighting

Mexico's Legendary Masked Wrestlers Seek New Ways to Keep Fighting

Mexico’s famed masked wrestlers are trying to get their coronavirus-hit sport off the canvas by taking their colorful fights to a small island nestled in the…

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Varieties NASA Probe Leaking Asteroid Samples After Hearty Collection

NASA Probe Leaking Asteroid Samples After Hearty Collection

A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week´s grab that it´s jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space,…

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Varieties A Saudi Child Hopes to Receive Guinness's 'World's Youngest Author of Novel Series'

A Saudi Child Hopes to Receive Guinness's 'World's Youngest Author of Novel Series'

Ritaj Al-Hazmi, an 11-year-old Saudi girl, exemplifies children's creativity with her nack for writing stories. The youngest novelist candidate, who has…

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Varieties Dubai Unveils World's Biggest Fountain

Dubai Unveils World's Biggest Fountain

With multicolored lights and jets of water blasting into the night sky, the United Arab Emirate's newest attraction set a world record on Thursday as the…

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Varieties 2 Artists Started a Home Bakery in Mexico. It’s a Pandemic Hit.

2 Artists Started a Home Bakery in Mexico. It’s a Pandemic Hit.

A toaster oven may not be the ideal gadget for starting a full-fledged bakery, but this is a pandemic and everyone is doing their best with what they have. …

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Varieties Barn Owl Reveals How Birds Fly in High Winds

Barn Owl Reveals How Birds Fly in High Winds

Scientists from the University of Bristol and the Royal Veterinary College have discovered how birds are able to fly in gusty conditions in a study involving…

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Varieties Air Pollution Killed Around Half Million Newborns in 2019

Air Pollution Killed Around Half Million Newborns in 2019

Some 476,000 infants across the world died from the adverse effects of exposure to air pollution in 2019, most of them are from India and sub-Saharan Africa, a…

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Varieties Puppy With Green Fur Born in Italy's Sardinia

Puppy With Green Fur Born in Italy's Sardinia

Italian farmer Cristian Mallocci could not believe his eyes when Spelacchia, one of his eight dogs, gave birth to a green-furred puppy. The tiny dog,…

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Varieties Banksy Artwork Sells for Almost $10 Million at Auction

Banksy Artwork Sells for Almost $10 Million at Auction

Banksy’s playful take on a famous Impressionist painting has sold at auction for 7.6 million pounds ($9.8 million), the second-highest price ever paid for a…

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Varieties Three-man Crew Returns to Earth from ISS

Three-man Crew Returns to Earth from ISS

An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts touched down safely on the Kazakhstan steppe on Thursday, after a 196-day mission on the International Space…

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Varieties Harry and Meghan Decry 'Crisis of Hate' in Social Media

Harry and Meghan Decry 'Crisis of Hate' in Social Media

Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, spoke on Tuesday about their campaign against social media negativity, with Harry warning of a “global crisis of…

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Varieties Europe’s Museums Are Open, but the Public Isn’t Coming

Europe’s Museums Are Open, but the Public Isn’t Coming

Visitors to the Rijksmuseum’s vast, vaulted galleries of Dutch old master paintings can feel as though they’ve got the whole place to themselves these days…

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Varieties Brazilian Woman Overcomes Pandemic Crisis by Selling Flowers in Rio de Janeiro's Streets

Brazilian Woman Overcomes Pandemic Crisis by Selling Flowers in Rio de Janeiro's Streets

Deprived of income because of the coronavirus pandemic, Roberta Machado wanders in the streets of Copacabana, in Rio de Janeiro, to sell flowers in her beetle…

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Varieties Japan to Open Largest Art Studio Complex in Tennoz Island

Japan to Open Largest Art Studio Complex in Tennoz Island

Art lovers will soon have more places to visit in the Japanese capital with the opening of a new complex of contemporary art in the amazing island of Tennoz,…

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Varieties Items Collected by Ice Bucket Challenge Inspiration for Sale

Items Collected by Ice Bucket Challenge Inspiration for Sale

Dozens of items of sports memorabilia collected by Peter Frates, whose battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease helped spread the ALS ice bucket challenge, are being…

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Varieties Founder of UAE State-Run WAM News Agency Dies at 78

Founder of UAE State-Run WAM News Agency Dies at 78

Ibrahim al-Abed, the founder of the United Arab Emirates' state-run WAM news agency and a pioneering media figure, died Tuesday. He was 78. Al-Abed long…

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Varieties Peruvian Archaeologists Unveil Giant Cat Carved into Nazca Hillside

Peruvian Archaeologists Unveil Giant Cat Carved into Nazca Hillside

Peruvian archaeologists have uncovered a 37-meter-long (120-foot-long) cat etching in a little-explored area of the country’s celebrated Nazca Lines UNESCO…

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Varieties Scientists Uncover Link between Sugar, ADHD

Scientists Uncover Link between Sugar, ADHD

Many behavioral disorders such as the Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and aggressive behaviors are linked to sugar intake and obesity, but the…

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Varieties Egypt Says Another Trove of Ancient Coffins Found in Saqqara

Egypt Says Another Trove of Ancient Coffins Found in Saqqara

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed another trove of ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of Cairo, authorities said Monday. The Tourism and…

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Varieties Saudi Arabian Artist Makes World’s ‘Largest Coffee Painting’

Saudi Arabian Artist Makes World’s ‘Largest Coffee Painting’

A Saudi artist has created the world’s “largest coffee painting,” becoming the first woman from the country to achieve a record title single-handedly, the…

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Varieties Sotheby’s Auction to Showcase More Than 100 Works From Middle East

Sotheby’s Auction to Showcase More Than 100 Works From Middle East

More than 100 works of Middle Eastern art will go on sale as part of Sotheby’s upcoming 20th Century Art / Middle East online auction. The auction…

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Varieties 'Crazy' Beekeepers Determined to Make It in Tough Times

'Crazy' Beekeepers Determined to Make It in Tough Times

They wrote it right into their business plan -- an expectation that, each year, at least half the stock on which their livelihood depends would die. …

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