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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...
Art, terror and erections showcase VR potential
"Can you tell the difference between what is and isn't real?" intones Tilda Swinton as the room disintegrates into pixels....
Swiss glaciologist bears witness to relentless Alpine glacier melt
After hiking for hours across the mountain and a vast expanse of white, Swiss glaciologist Matthias Huss crouches down near...
In the footsteps of a woolly mammoth, 17,000 years ago
Walking the equivalent of twice around the world during a life lasting 28 years, one wooly mammoth whose steps have...
Dissident Hong Kong artist chooses ‘self-exile’ in Taiwan
As he queued to board a flight out of Hong Kong to Taiwan last month, dissident artist Kacey Wong was...
The curious case of the $600 million crypto heist
Cryptocurrency investors have been transfixed over the past few days by the antics of a mysterious hacker who stole more...
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.