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Mediterranean diet: More than just eating 26 Nov 2017 - 10:22 am
Pics: Qassim Rahmatullah/The Peninsula
Flipping lids! Chinese barber offers eyelid shaves 25 Nov 2017 - 09:33 am
A file photo of Xiong Gaowu, a 62-year old street barber cleans his customer eye using the straight razor in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
Black Friday: another US import the French love to hate 24 Nov 2017 - 08:06 pm
A photo shows a shop window where a poster announces Black Friday sales on November 24, 2017 in Marseille, southern France. AFP / Boris Horvat
Sorrow and admiration in Mugabe's home village 24 Nov 2017 - 07:46 pm
In this photograph taken on November 23, 2017, 93 year-old Zimbabwean Johannes sits on a chair in his home as he speaks about growing up with former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in the village of Kutama some 200kms west of Harare.  AFP / Mujahid Saf
Burn victim saved by skin grafts from identical twin 23 Nov 2017 - 06:32 pm
Franck, 33-year-old who had suffered burns over 95 percent of his body and was saved by a skin transplant from his identical twin Eric, in a world-first operation, receives a physiotherapy session by French physiotherapist Christophe Loisel, at the rehabi
Finland baker launches bread made from crushed crickets 23 Nov 2017 - 04:13 pm
Bakers Maria Malinen and Samuli Malmi of the Finnish food company Fazer bake the world's first mass-delivered bread made of insects in the bakery in Helsinki, Finland November 23, 2017. REUTERS/Attila Cser
A siesta can make you work better 23 Nov 2017 - 12:01 pm
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Family of tragic French artist Camille Claudel sell last of her work 22 Nov 2017 - 07:07 pm
French artist Camille Claudel, whose life and tortured love affair with fellow sculptor Auguste Rodin has inspired several films and plays, destroyed much of her work before she was confined to a psychiatric hospital by her brother, the poet Paul Claudel,
In US, 4 in 10 cancers due to 'modifiable risk': study 22 Nov 2017 - 12:37 pm
Cigarette smoking, which accounted for 19 percent of cancer cases and nearly 29 percent of deaths, is the top risk factor.
Pregnant women might increase their risk of stillbirth if they sleep on their backs, study finds 22 Nov 2017 - 12:11 pm
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Free wheelin' in New York: the Big Apple bike boom 22 Nov 2017 - 09:20 am
File photo of a woman riding a bicycle along a designated bike lane in New York. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
British women still taxed on tampons - and paying for domestic abuse 21 Nov 2017 - 11:51 pm
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond poses putting finishing touches to his speech in his office in Downing Street central London on November 21, 2017 on the eve of his 2017 budget announcement. AFP/ Christopher Furlong
Power, whites and gays: Mugabe in quotes 21 Nov 2017 - 08:25 pm
Patriotic Front leaders Robert Mugabe (L) and Joshua Nkomo (R) posing prior the opening of the British convened Rhodesian Constitutional Conference at Lancaster House, in London on September 10, 1979 AFP / UPI / Pete Skingley
Just one password? Swiss groups plan single online identity 21 Nov 2017 - 06:44 pm
A magnifying glass is held in front of a computer screen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013. Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski
Cigar-shaped asteroid came from another solar system: study 21 Nov 2017 - 12:53 pm
This handout photo released by the European Southern Observatory on November 20, 2017 shows an artist's impression of the first interstellar asteroid: Oumuamua. AFP PHOTO / EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY / M. Kornmesser
Artists find their voice in Turkey's 'difficult' climate 20 Nov 2017 - 12:33 pm
People look at works during the 15th Istanbul Biennial on November 3, 2017. All pics: AFP / OZAN KOSE
Honda recalls 800,000 minivans over faulty seats 20 Nov 2017 - 09:31 am
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Women-only festival for Sweden after rape complaints 19 Nov 2017 - 06:58 pm
Organiser Emma Knyckare said the two-day music festival called Statement will be held next summer in the western city of Gothenburg and will allow women to party and drink