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Cigarette butts for free food? How one group is asking people to rethink litter
The WasteBar food truck hopes the eye-catching deal will change people’s attitude to waste in the NetherlandsUsing cigar...
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‘This isn’t freedom’: anger, anxiety and tears as Iran’s internet flickers back
After 88 days of near-total blackout, first reactions to the return of partial connectivity were not celebratoryAfter 88...
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Bitcoin funding spike shows longs defending $70K: Will ETF outflows reverse bulls’ efforts?
Bitcoin dropped closer to a critical support level as spot and long futures traders’ efforts to hold $75,000 failed. Is...
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Five people have been found trapped in a flooded cave in Laos. How will divers get them out?
Rescuers say extraction efforts complicated by low oxygen supplies, dark and narrow spaces, plus more rainAfter five of...
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Greener pasture of a shepherd’s life lures Chinese workers penned in by ‘996’ jobs
When an Inner Mongolia farmer sought two herders to tend his 3,000 sheep, he was swamped with applicants including gradu...
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Ebola outbreak: What travel restrictions have countries imposed?
Canada, the Bahamas and the US are banning arrivals from affected countries to prevent the spread of the rare strain.
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Weatherwatch: Chinese farmers hope for rain at time of ‘small fullness’
In May, farmers in China look for heavy downpours to fill the rice paddies so that they stay wet throughout summerThe Ch...
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US charges Google employee with insider trading bets on Polymarket
The Justice Department and the CFTC allege that Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo profited $1.2 million on Poly...
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Ghana welcomes home citizens evacuated from South Africa
The first flight carrying around 300 Ghanaians evacuated from South Africa following anti-immigrant tensions.
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Rachel Roddy’s recipe for tozzetti, AKA dipping biscuits with chocolate chips and orange
These crunchy ‘cupboard biscuits’ from central Italy are just made to be dunked, be that in a cuppa or in wineConsiderin...
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If you’re still on Elon Musk’s X, ask yourself this: why? | Jonathan Liew
Some argue that quitting the platform formerly known as Twitter cedes the space to malign actors. But it’s an open sewer...
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Thursday news quiz: A shooting pooch, avatar anger and a collective noun for ‘Derren Brown’
Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?Amid a heatwav...