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Toxic waste from US pot farms alarms experts 07 Aug 2017 - 12:10 am
Thousands of used butane cans used to process concentrated marijuana dumped in the forest in Humboldt County, California are pictured in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters July 25, 2017. California Department of Fish and Wildlife/ via Reuters
Cash versus culture: tourism projects hit trouble in Greece 05 Aug 2017 - 10:44 pm
Tourists stand in front of the ancient Parthenon temple atop the Acropolis hill in Athens, Greece August 5, 2017. Reuters/Costas Baltas
The immigrant success story that led Spanish police to a Chinese banking behemoth 01 Aug 2017 - 09:27 pm
A woman walks past a Chinese food store at Usera district in Madrid, Spain, July 24, 2017. Reuters /Susana Vera
Here’s who to blame for the resurgence of flamingo kitsch 31 Jul 2017 - 06:57 pm
Don and Nancy Featherstone hold their creation, the pink flamingo lawn ornament, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts September 20, 2012. Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters
Polish street artists out to revive sleepy Bulgarian village 31 Jul 2017 - 02:15 am
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Artist uses Iraq refugees, war veterans in radio project 29 Jul 2017 - 07:33 pm
Michael Rakowitz  (Photo courtesy: YouTube / The Moving Museum)
Fairy tales overcome nightmares at South Korea’s militarised border town 29 Jul 2017 - 07:07 pm
Resident Woo Jong-il speaks inside his private bunker at his house near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, South Korea, July 14, 2017. Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji
Jakarta’s traffic-clogged economy gets a lift from motorbike deliveries 26 Jul 2017 - 04:33 pm
A Go-Jek driver shows boxes with food for his customer in front of a food stall in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 13, 2017. Reuters/Beawiharta
Bombshell stories spur news war with a twist 24 Jul 2017 - 10:30 pm
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Spain’s Balearic Islands vote to outlaw killing bulls at fights 24 Jul 2017 - 06:25 pm
Spanish matador Alberto Aguilar performs a pass on an Adolfo Martin Andres bull at Plumacon arena in Mont de Marsan during the festival of La Madeleine, southwestern France, on July 23, 2017. AFP / Iroz Gaizka
Flint water crisis whistle-blowers win MIT Media Lab’s ‘Disobedience Award’ 24 Jul 2017 - 12:32 am
Reid Hoffman (L), co-founder of LinkedIn, presents the inaugural Disobedience Award to Virginia Tech engineering Professor Marc Edwards (C) and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha of Michigan's Hurley Medical Center, who first drew national attention to the water cris
Exhumation of Salvador Dali's remains finds his trademark mustache still intact 22 Jul 2017 - 02:12 am
Forensic examiners leave the Teatre-Museu Dali following the exhumation of Salvador Dali's remains in Figueras, yesterday.
Drowning for sand: miners risk all for India’s building boom 20 Jul 2017 - 09:27 pm
Sand scarcity has set off alarms with the Indian government issuing guidelines last year on sustainable mining and the United Nations flagging concerns about sand consumption globally being much higher than its renewal in a 2014 report.
Bodies of Swiss couple found in glacier after 75 years 18 Jul 2017 - 03:18 pm
This handout picture distributed on July 18, 2017 by the Swiss cable cars company Glacier 3000 shows the mummified remains of a Swiss Couple who went missing 75 years ago and who were found in a glacier in the Diablerets mountains, in southern Switzerland
Tennis ball-sized ‘diamond in the rough’ too big to sell 17 Jul 2017 - 03:02 pm
A model shows off the 1109 carat
From refugee camps to Lord's: dizzying rise of Afghan cricket 15 Jul 2017 - 08:55 am
In this photograph taken on July 6, 2017, Afghan refugees play a cricket match at the Khurasan refugee camp in the suburbs of Peshawar.
Liu Xia: the unpolitical poet who became a dissident's wife 15 Jul 2017 - 08:08 am
 Liu Xia, wife of veteran Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo, wipes her eyes as she speaks during an interview in Beijing June 24, 2009. REUTERS/David Gray/File Photo
Saving lives: Pope adds fourth path to Roman Catholic sainthood 11 Jul 2017 - 06:52 pm
Pope Francis waves at the end of his general audience in Saint Peters Square at the Vatican, November 9,  2016 (REUTERS / Stefano Rellandini)