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Lost Mayan city discovered in Mexico jungle
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Dhaka strongly protests over the killing of minor Bangladeshi girl by BSF
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Taiwan workshop turns trash into sunglasses
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World's second-largest diamond found in Botswana
It is the biggest find since the 3,106-carat Cullinan diamond, found in South Africa in 1905 and cut into nine separate stones, many of which are in the British Crown Jewels.
Ancient secrets unearthed in vast Turkish cave city
Archaeologists stumbled upon the city-under-a-city "almost by chance" after an excavation of house cellars in Midyat, near the Syrian border, led to the discovery of a vast labyrinth of caves in 2020.
Swiss nursery lets robot do the talking
Sat in a circle on the nursery floor, a group of Swiss three-year-olds ask a robot called Nao questions about giraffes and broccoli.
Lines that reflect life: April is the cruellest month
The opening lines from TS Eliot's masterpiece The Waste Land (1922) serve as a haunting invitation to a complex poetic landscape, offering a doorway into themes of disillusionment, rebirth, and the fractures of modern existence
US airline mistakes 101-year-old woman for baby
The airport computer system is unable to process a birth date so far in 1922- so it defaulted to one 100 years later instead.
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