If you’ve been waiting for a good excuse to stay up late and look at the sky, tonight could be worth it. The Perseid meteor shower is reaching its peak around August 12-13, and 2026 is shaping up to be a particularly good year for watching it because the Moon is essentially new. That means…
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Records cited by the official show that on 5 June this year, one male and two female lar gibbons were transferred from Manipur to a person in Perundurai in Tamil Nadu’s Erode district. The stated purpose was adoption. But investigators have not yet found documentation showing that permission from Tamil Nadu’s Chief Wildlife Warden had…
There is something about the way grandparents talk to children that feels different. They may listen to the same story for the tenth time, answer endless questions, tell stories from a world the child has never seen and, sometimes, simply sit beside them without asking anything at all.It is easy to dismiss these moments as…
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Japan is facing worsening summer heat. In the past two months more than 53,000 people have been treated for heatstroke, with 79 reported deaths. Now, the Do Hiemon – which roughly translates to “The Cooling Box” – is being rolled out in public spaces and sold to businesses. A unit costs 1.5m¥ each ($9,407; £6,973)….
Love and hate often go hand in hand when it comes to food. While some dishes are celebrated as cultural treasures in one part of the world, they can leave others wrinkling their noses in disbelief. In fact, global food platform TasteAtlas, which compiles millions of user ratings for traditional dishes, has repeatedly shown that…
South Korea’s Incheon has become the world’s busiest airport by passenger traffic for the first time, new figures show. Incheon International Airport, the main gateway to South Korea, served 38.4 million international passengers for the first six months of this year, according to preliminary data from the Airports Council International. London Heathrow Airport ranked second…
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He opens a folder and takes out a stack of large photographs: portraits of prisoners. One shows four journalists – Antonina Favorskaya, Konstantin Gabov, Sergey Karelin and Artyom Kriger – convicted and jailed on extremism charges. They’d been accused of links to the anti-corruption organisation of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny. There’s a photo…