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Kick off your holiday party with this bubbling-hot crab and spinach dip 15 Dec 2019 - 10:50 am
 Warm Crab and Spinach Dip. Photo by Tom McCorkle for The Washington Post.
Indonesian martial art pencak silat gets UNESCO heritage status 15 Dec 2019 - 10:20 am
This picture taken on December 14, 2019 shows pencak silat practitioners, a martial art indigenous to Southeast Asia, taking part in a session in Jakarta. AFP / BAY ISMOYO
Qatar Automobiles Company introduces the all-new Mitsubishi ASX 2020 15 Dec 2019 - 07:42 am
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Netflix-inspired tools can reap rewards for farmers, says Nobel winner 13 Dec 2019 - 10:25 pm
A farmer shows an irrigation management system app on his mobile phone at a coffee plantation in Sao Sebastiao do Paraiso, Brazil April 22, 2019. Reuters/Amanda Perobelli
Swipe right for climate action: Gen Z daters seek a green love match 13 Dec 2019 - 10:25 pm
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Social enterprise restaurant founded by Jamie Oliver closes 13 Dec 2019 - 08:47 pm
Jamie Oliver (Scandic Hotels / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0)
Kenyan scientist builds with bottles to beat plastic pollution 13 Dec 2019 - 08:47 pm
Hope Mwanake, co-founder of Eco Blocks and Tiles poses for a photo at her factory in Gilgil, Kenya on Dec 4, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Nita Bhalla
Climate talks head for overtime with key issues unresolved 13 Dec 2019 - 07:52 pm
A demonstrator holds a placard during a protest on climate emergency, called by environmental groups including Extinction Rebellion and Fridays For Future, outside the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 at the 'IFEMA - Feria de Madrid' exhibition centre,
Brazil's Amazon rainforest and development at a crossroads 12 Dec 2019 - 07:04 pm
Trucks drive along the Trans-Amazonian highway BR230 past a bridge under construction, near Ruropolis, Para state, Brazil, in the Amazon rainforest, on September 7, 2019. AFP / Nelson Almeida
German doctor fined again over abortion advertising ban 12 Dec 2019 - 05:34 pm
Kristina Haenel (Photo courtesy: Boris Roessler/DPA)
Indonesian cave art is earliest known record of "story telling", researchers say 12 Dec 2019 - 02:15 pm
This handout photography releases by Griffith University on December 11, 2019, shows cave art inside Bulu Sipong 4, Sulawesi, Indonesia. AFP PHOTO/RATNO SARDI/GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY
World's hottest peppers grow under Serbian snow 12 Dec 2019 - 01:49 pm
The young farmer Aleksandar Tanic shows the hottest peppers in Serbia on December 3, 2019 that he produces in the southern Serbian town of Niska Banja.Among them is the chubby and gnarled Carolina Reaper, considered to be the hottest pepper in the world a
I'm Santa Claus, hacker taunts terrified girl via room camera 12 Dec 2019 - 12:17 pm
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Over 9 hours' of sleep may raise stroke risk by 23% 12 Dec 2019 - 11:40 am
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Facebook, Google drop out of Top 10 ‘best places to work’ list 12 Dec 2019 - 10:25 am
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Europe gains ground in global race to sell electric cars 12 Dec 2019 - 08:38 am
FILE PHOTO: A worker makes final checks on an e-Golf electric car at the new production line of the Transparent Factory of German carmaker Volkswagen in Dresden, Germany, March 30, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo
New drugs show rare promise against advanced breast cancer 11 Dec 2019 - 06:42 pm
Representative image: A monitor shows the image of a breast cancer at a centre run by the Reto Group for Full Recovery of Breast Cancer in Mexico City, October 18, 2012. Reuters / Edgard Garrido
Nobel winner Handke not welcome in Sarajevo and Kosovo 11 Dec 2019 - 06:42 pm
Austrian writer Peter Handke poses in Chaville, in the Paris surburbs, on October 10, 2019 after he was awarded with the 2019 Nobel Literature Prize. AFP / Alain Jocard