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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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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 Demand on New Ferrari Remains High Despite Coronavirus Effects

Demand on New Ferrari Remains High Despite Coronavirus Effects

Covid-19 has affected the production and delivery of luxury cars, but not demands from the wealthy to acquire them, as analysts have noted. The financial…

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Varieties People of Arabian Peninsula Had Great Skills in Making Stone Arms

People of Arabian Peninsula Had Great Skills in Making Stone Arms

People living in southern Arabia some 8,000 years ago created intricate stone weapons that were not just useful, but designed to "show off" their tool-making…

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Varieties Britain Braces for Record-Breaking High Temperatures

Britain Braces for Record-Breaking High Temperatures

Britain braced for record-breaking temperatures Friday as forecasters warned the public to take additional care in the heat. The mercury is set to rise to…

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Varieties Paws for Reflection: British Foreign Office Cat Heads for Retirement

Paws for Reflection: British Foreign Office Cat Heads for Retirement

Palmerston, the cat who has lived at the Foreign Office for four and a half years, will trade in his London residence for retirement in the countryside, where…

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Varieties Nigerian Boy Captivates the World With His Ballet

Nigerian Boy Captivates the World With His Ballet

ony Mmesoma Madu stands out in black leggings, a white turtleneck and poise beyond his years. His parents in Lagos, Nigeria's teeming lagoon city, wanted…

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Varieties Got an Axe to Grind? Throw it Instead at Jordan Rage Room

Got an Axe to Grind? Throw it Instead at Jordan Rage Room

Had it up to here with your boss, the lockdown? Throw an axe to get it all out. “Axe Rage Rooms” are all the er, rage in Jordan as people seek release…

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Varieties Plants Could Have Trouble Growing if Internal Clock is Disturbed

Plants Could Have Trouble Growing if Internal Clock is Disturbed

People and animals quite obviously have a biorhythm that dictates when they should eat or sleep. But even though it's not as noticeable, plants also have their…

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Varieties Scientists Find New Method to Track Space Junk in Daylight

Scientists Find New Method to Track Space Junk in Daylight

Scientists said they had discovered a way to detect space debris even in daylight hours, which could facilitate space observations, reported a new study…

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Varieties Italian Elderly Fulfills Dream, Earns University Degree

Italian Elderly Fulfills Dream, Earns University Degree

Giuseppe Paternò set his sights on obtaining a university education as a child growing up in Sicily in the 1930s. Poverty, war and supporting a family got in…

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Varieties Scientists Develop New Painless Method to Deliver Insulin

Scientists Develop New Painless Method to Deliver Insulin

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research have showed that applying …

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

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

UK said it won’t be using 50 million face masks it bought during a scramble to secure protective equipment for medics during the coronavirus outbreak because…

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

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 -…

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Varieties SpaceX Completes Test Flight of Mars Rocket Prototype

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…

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Varieties Egypt Invites Musk after 'Aliens Built Pyramids' Tweet

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…

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Varieties 3 Men Rescued from Pacific Island after Writing SOS in Sand

3 Men Rescued from Pacific Island after Writing SOS in Sand

Three men have been rescued from a tiny Pacific island after writing a giant SOS sign in the sand that was spotted from above, authorities say. The men had…

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

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

Thursday marks 75 years since the United States unleashed the world’s first atomic bomb attack on the city of Hiroshima, followed three days later by the…

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Varieties 'Gnarly' Tumor Shows Dinosaurs Got Cancer, Too

'Gnarly' Tumor Shows Dinosaurs Got Cancer, Too

When scientists first unearthed fossils of a horned dinosaur called Centrosaurus in the badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park in Canada’s Alberta province in…

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Varieties Ancient Egyptians Used Dental Filling, New Study Suggests

Ancient Egyptians Used Dental Filling, New Study Suggests

A recent Greek study that examined an ancient Egyptian mummy from the Ptolemaic age unearthed in "old Panopolis" in the city of Akhmim, southern Egypt, has…

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Varieties Indian Restaurant Offers 'COVID Curry' to Scared Customers

Indian Restaurant Offers 'COVID Curry' to Scared Customers

An Indian restaurant is hoping to win back customers afraid of eating out during the pandemic with a special "COVID Curry" and "Mask Naans". "This has been…

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Varieties Mountain Lovers Wed above the Clouds in Kurdish Iraq

Mountain Lovers Wed above the Clouds in Kurdish Iraq

Avid mountaineers Salar and Soma met while trekking in Iraqi Kurdistan, so it was only natural they would get married amid its majestic peaks, some 2,000…

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

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

Chicago’s segregated residents are unexpectedly becoming friends in a project that an artist hopes will smash barriers and stereotypes. When Tonika Johnson…

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

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

A handwritten letter written by Rosa Parks recalling Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.´s work in the civil rights movement is on sale for $54,000. The letter,…

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

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

Pipe by precious pipe, the organ that once thundered through Notre-Dame Cathedral is being taken apart after last year's devastating fire. The mammoth task…

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Varieties Honoring Tradition, French Artisans Harvest Salt from the Sea

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,…

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