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The ritual is always the same. Mario Prushi carefully washes his hands and face before kissing and pressing one of the world’s smallest Korans...
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Dozens of bawling Japanese babies faced off Saturday in a traditional "crying sumo" ritual believed to bring the infants good health.
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From “psycho seagulls” to a zoo’s strange new attraction. Your weekly roundup of offbeat stories from around the world. – Check her out –...
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Finland crowned its reindeer racing king on Sunday when 14 reindeer and jockeys competed for the title in the season’s final match of the...
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Thieves operating in Las Vegas, a rural area near Spain’s capital Madrid, managed to steal 17.5 tonnes of olives from local farms before being...
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As Asia’s “Quad” powers search for ways to define the group, Japan’s foreign minister has offered a model — The Beatles. Yoshimasa Hayashi, an...
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A nursing home in southern Japan is "hiring" babies for a very important job -- to keep its elderly residents company and make them smile.
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Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has fathered 10 children, said the world needs to "make more babies" and keep digging for oil.
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Swedish motorists were left puzzled this week after mistakenly receiving an air raid warning, an incident authorities termed “serious” on Thursday given the war...