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Hiroshima attack flame offered for Pearl Harbor peace memorial
The family of a famed Hiroshima atomic bomb victim is fundraising to take a flame burning since the wartime attack...
NASA astronauts complete ISS spacewalk
Two NASA astronauts have completed the 13th spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS) this year, the agency said, days...
Pok ta Pok: Mayan ball game is serious business
With little regard for joints or bones, bare-chested men hurl their bodies at a hard floor and contort their limbs...
Handmaid’s Tale author Atwood on Canada stamp
Canada’s postal service celebrated the 60-year writing career of “The Handmaid’s Tale” author Margaret Atwood by featuring her image on...
Sweet taste of Squid Game success for South Korean candy couple
Simple, sweet, and fictionally fatal: the stallholder who makes the traditional South Korean children's treat featured in the global cultural...
Barbers suffer under Taliban rule as Afghans shun fashion
Quiffs, mohawks, and crew cuts were hairstyles Nader Shah was accustomed to styling for image-conscious young men in Afghanistan's third-biggest...
Faroe Islands mass dolphin slaughter casts shadow over tradition
Every summer in the Faroe Islands hundreds of pilot whales and dolphins are slaughtered in drive hunts known as the...
Guantanamo 9/11 trial: The defendants
The trial of five men accused of participating in the September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda plot to attack the United States...
More joy: Milan designers visualize post-pandemic home
A pool table that changes into a dining table, a bookshelf that transforms into a filing cabinet and noise-cancelling panels...
Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.