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  Astronauts bake first cookies in space

  Agence France-Presse. Washington | Updated at 07:31pm on January 24, 2020

  Astronauts on the International Space Station have baked the first cookies in space, but they took far longer than on Earth. The space station's Italian...

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  Brazil collects venom from deadly snakes to save lives

  Agence France-Presse . Sao Paulo | Updated at 03:30pm on December 10, 2019

  Gripping the deadly snake behind its jaws, Fabiola de Souza massages its venom glands to squeeze out drops that will save lives around Brazil where...

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  Pope mistakenly Tweets support for US ‘Saints’ football team

  Reuters. Vatican City | Updated at 08:38pm on October 14, 2019

  Some saints wear halos, other saints wear helmets.

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  Angry bees delay Air India flight carrying Bangladesh minister

  Agence France-Presse. New Delhi | Updated at 02:37pm on September 16, 2019

  An Air India flight was delayed by several hours after a swarm of bees landed on the cockpit window, attacking ground staff when they tried...

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  Indonesian walks 700-km backwards to highlight deforestation

  Reuters. Sragen | Updated at 11:37am on August 06, 2019

  An Indonesia man is walking backwards from his home in eastern Java to the capital Jakarta to raise awareness of deforestation in a country with...

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  How Magellan’s voyage changed the world 500 years ago

  Agence France-Presse . Lisbon | Updated at 11:52am on August 05, 2019

  Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the...

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  Vatican opens burial chambers in hunt for princesses, missing teen

  Agence France-Presse . Vatican City | Updated at 05:53pm on July 20, 2019

  The Vatican on Saturday opened two burial chambers discovered under a trapdoor as it attempts to get to the bottom of a riddle involving two...

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  Aussie boy found message in a bottle 50 years on

  Agence France-Presse. Sydney | Updated at 12:40pm on July 19, 2019

  An Australian boy who discovered a message in a bottle on a remote beach may have a new penpal after the Englishman who dropped it...

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  Kenyan thieves nab guns as police watch Champions League

  Agence France-Presse . Nairobi | Updated at 07:01pm on April 18, 2019

  Police in Kenya have been left red-faced after thieves stole guns and ammunition from an unattended checkpost as the officers on duty watched...

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  India's Kerala to give workers a siesta to help beat the heat

  Thomson Reuters Foundation. Mumbai | Updated at 09:17pm on March 06, 2019

  Workers in India's Kerala state are now getting a three-hour afternoon siesta as part of a series of benefits aimed at combating soaring temperatures and...