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World's tallest and smallest dogs meet up for a playdate

World's tallest and smallest dogs meet up for a playdate

A playdate between the world’s tallest and smallest living dogs went the way of most dog park encounters despite the 3-foot (0.91-meter) height difference — lots of tail wagging, sniffing and scampering. Reginald, a 7-year-old Great Dane from Idaho, and Pearl, a chihuahua from Florida,

Remains of 5000-year-old woman found in Peru

Remains of 5000-year-old woman found in Peru

Archaeologists in coastal Peru have discovered the 5,000-year-old remains of a woman who may have belonged to the upper echelons of the ancient Caral civilisation, a find they say points to the importance of women in the city some five millennia earlier. Caral, located some 180 km (112 miles) up t

Kenya's ant-smuggler bust exposes lucrative underground trade

Kenya's ant-smuggler bust exposes lucrative underground trade

Kenyan police who raided a national park guesthouse earlier this month aimed not to bust elephant tusk or rhino horn poachers but a more esoteric ring trading a much smaller, more lucrative item by weight - queen ants. Two Belgian teenagers were arrested for wildlife trafficking at Jane Guesthouse


UK Supreme Court to rule on definition of 'woman'

UK Supreme Court to rule on definition of 'woman'

The UK Supreme Court is poised to rule Wednesday in a legal challenge focusing on the definition of a woman in a long-running dispute between a women’s rights group and the Scottish government. Five judges at Britain's highest court are scheduled to rule whether a transgender person with a c

Notes from riding the Sonar Bangla Express on Eid eve 

Notes from riding the Sonar Bangla Express on Eid eve 

Dressed in black pants and a white coat over a white shirt, a ticket inspector asked for my ticket at the entrance to the platform area, gesturing for me to hurry up. He glanced at the digital ticket when I showed it on my phone and waved me through. Behind me were swarms of travellers, all eagerly

Weird Mongolian dinosaur wielded 'big, sharp and nasty' claws

Weird Mongolian dinosaur wielded 'big, sharp and nasty' claws

Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest members of a rather strange group of dinosaurs, a creature whose two-fingered hands sport a pair of menacing curved claws. The dinosaur, named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, measured a

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