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Rotting fish, maggots on museum menu

[2018-11-02 07:35]

MALMO, Sweden - Sheep eyeball juice. Bull testicles. Maggot-infested cheese. American root beer.

Crouching tigers, hidden cameras

[2018-11-01 07:50]

BARDIA NATIONAL PARK, Nepal - Chayan Kumar Chaudhary flicked through photographs captured on a hidden camera in the jungle, hoping his favorite big cat - dubbed "selfie tiger" for its love of the limelight - had made another appearance.

Soviet-era moon fragments shoot for the stars at sale

[2018-11-01 07:50]

NEW YORK - Wealthy space buffs will have the chance to own three small particles of lunar matter when what Sotheby's describes as the only known documented "moon rocks" to be legally available for private ownership hit the auction block in November.

Japan's usho keep alive the ancient art of fishing with cormorants

[2018-11-01 07:50]

GIFU, Japan - In the pitch black night, fires burn alongside a river in Japan's Gifu as a handful of men prepare for a ritual that dates back more than 1,300 years: fishing with cormorants.

Female wrestlers take on rivals and tradition

[2018-11-01 07:50]

DIWANIYAH, Iraq - Sports teacher Nehaya Dhaher was living a quiet life looking after her elderly mother in Iraq's tribal south when she was asked to set up the country's first women's wrestling squad.

Pots and pods a hot topic for coffee drinkers

[2018-11-01 07:50]

ROME - The long history of the stove-top moka coffee pot has, for generations, been among the most fundamental possessions of Italian families, but it may be bubbling to an end in the wake of relentless competition from modern technology.

Indonesia hunts for victims, wreckage

[2018-10-31 08:04]

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday sent condolences to his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo over a plane crash that has likely killed all 189 people on board.

Trump to visit amid divide over synagogue attack

[2018-10-31 08:04]

Shackled to a wheelchair, the man accused of fatally shooting 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue made a stony-faced, largely silent appearance on Monday in a federal courtroom, where he was ordered held without bond in the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the United States.

Pentagon sending 5,200 troops to border

[2018-10-31 08:04]

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said it's sending 5,200 troops to the Southwest border in an extraordinary military operation ordered up just a week before midterm elections in which US President Donald Trump has put a sharp focus on Central American migrants moving north in slow-moving caravans that are still hundreds of kilometers from the United States.

Merkel move 'poses problems for EU'

[2018-10-31 08:04]

BRUSSELS - Angela Merkel's decision to quit as German chancellor in 2021 spells uncertainty and possibly paralysis for the European Union as populists rally, diplomats and analysts warn.

IN BRIEF (Page 11)

[2018-10-31 08:04]

Firm ordered to pay for forced labor

Seeing the past in a different light

[2018-10-30 07:37]

In the modern world of social media, photo-sharing and celebrity, sharing an image of an executed murder plotter from the 19th century may sound like a strange thing to do, but that was the unlikely starting point for what has turned out to be one of the biggest publishing hits of the year.

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