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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine (AFP) Dec 26, 2025 - Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey wall of seemingly endless dials, screens and gauges that were supposed to prevent disaster.
Dec 26, 2025
Lagos (AFP) Dec 26, 2025 - Nigeria on Friday signalled that more strikes against jihadist groups were expected after a Christmas Day bombardment by US forces against militants in the north of the country, which it said was a joint operation with its military.
Dec 26, 2025
Bangkok (AFP) Dec 26, 2025 - An elusive wild cat long feared extinct in Thailand has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded sighting, conservation authorities and an NGO said Friday.
Dec 26, 2025
Los Angeles, United States (AFP) Dec 25, 2025 - Torrential rains unleashed flash floods and warnings of debris flow across southern California's fire-scarred areas, as a series of Christmas storms pummeled the state, with downpours and high winds forecast through Friday.
Dec 25, 2025
Antakya, Turkey (AFP) Dec 25, 2025 - Saint Peter's, one of the world's oldest rock churches, is a sacred rallying point for the isolated Christians still left in quake-hit Antakya in southeastern Turkey, the city known in ancient times as Antioch.
Dec 25, 2025
Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 24, 2025 - Hong Kong fire survivor Yip Ka-kui has turned happy holiday photos into a heartfelt tribute to his beloved wife a month after she died in the huge blaze that destroyed their home.
Dec 24, 2025
Chichibu, Japan (AFP) Dec 24, 2025 - Since Japan recorded a spike in deadly bear attacks, Koji Suzuki has struggled to keep up with booming demand for grilled cuts of the animal at his restaurant.
Dec 24, 2025
Libreville, Gabon (AFP) Dec 23, 2025 - A mural depicting Vladimir Putin and fatigue-clad Russian paramilitary fighters has appeared in the Central African Republic ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections as the country seeks to recover from decades of violence.
Dec 23, 2025
Lashio, Myanmar (AFP) Dec 23, 2025 - Myanmar's military-run elections are being pilloried abroad and shunned at home, but neighbouring China has emerged as an enthusiastic backer of the pariah poll.
Dec 23, 2025
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 - Researchers have shown how kangaroos increase hopping speed without a rise in energetic cost by changing posture to boost elastic energy storage in their tendons at higher speeds. The study, c
Dec 19, 2025
Pamplona, Spain (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 - University of Navarra researchers have created RNACOREX, an open-source software tool that reconstructs gene regulatory networks from RNA data and applies them to cancer survival analysis. The team
Dec 19, 2025
Cairo (AFP) Dec 19, 2025 - When Sudanese nurse Asmaa returned to the Darfur city of El-Fasher, she found only bodies where her neighbours once lived and no sign of the family she had come to save.
Dec 19, 2025
Dubai (AFP) Dec 19, 2025 - UAE airport authorities cancelled or delayed dozens of flights and roads were flooded in major cities as the heaviest rainstorm in months lashed the desert nation on Friday.
Dec 19, 2025
Paris, France (AFP) Dec 19, 2025 - Farmers and fishermen hit by climate change are taking big corporate polluters to court - and experts say these David-vs-Goliath lawsuits are only set to multiply as the planet keeps warming.
Dec 19, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 - Marine bacteria help determine whether carbon remains near the ocean surface or sinks to deeper waters, but they live under constant threat from infection by viruses known as phages and frequently m
Dec 19, 2025
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 - Researchers from Hebei University of Technology and Tsinghua University have developed a zwitterionic hydrogel evaporator that maintains high solar desalination performance while resisting salt crys
Dec 18, 2025
