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NEW CAT SPECIES SPOTTED IN BOLIVIA AFTER 100 YEARS

A diminutive wild cat inhabiting Bolivia’s cloud forests has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time in more than a century that a new living cat species has been formally named and...

The newly identified Leopardus tilcayo in Bolivia’s Yungas cloud forest.

Typhoon unveils ancient shipwreck off Vietnam coast

People stand next to a centuries-old shipwreck uncovered in the aftermath of Typhoon Kalmaegi on a beach off the Hoi An coast in central Vietnam. — AFP

Spike in bear attacks hits Japan 'almost every day'

Akita University Hospital's Professor of Emergency and Critical Medicine Hajime Nakae showing a bear attack safety illustration in Akita. — AFP

New study on rare mating behaviour of Egyptian vultures published

How oral hygiene protects the whole body

Dr Tanveer Ahamed

Stay off screen often to beat stress

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Long walk better than short ones

SCI SHORT VS LONG WALKS

Camels replace cows as Kenya battles drought

Camel traders inspect camels gathered for sale at a livestock market, where various animals including camels are traded, in Merille. — AFP

Brazil plans Amazon blast for grain route

Fisherman Welton de Franca fishes in the Tocantins River in the Ilha da praia Alta community near Pedral do Lourenco. — Reuters

Growing rice in the UK 'not so crazy' as climate warms

Dr Nadine Mitschunas, an ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, inspects a crop of various rice species being grown on a trial site in rewetted peat soils on the Cambridgeshire Fens, in Pymoor, near Ely, eastern England. — AFP

Meet the first Omani woman behind the wheel of a bus

Huda al Mahrooqi

Protecting treasures with forensic mapping

A visitor views a jewelled mitre encrusted with precious stones from the "Treasure of San Gennaro", in Naples. — Reuters

Women's empowerment through adventure

Women's empowerment through adventure

Archaeologists unearth clues on French colonial massacre in Senegal cemetery

Archaeologists unearth clues on French colonial massacre in Senegal cemetery

Bloomsbury chief: AI sparks creativity and can beat writer's block

Bloomsbury chief: AI sparks creativity and can beat writer's block

Where the sea glows blue: Nights of wonder along Oman’s coast

Where the sea glows blue: Nights of wonder along Oman’s coast
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