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Countdown to opening day for Brussels' new art museum

Brussels' Kanal-Pompidou museum — a major new arts complex built around a modernist former Citroen showroom — unveiled its inaugural programme, 300 days before it is set to open to the public.Billed as the...

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'Kindness' named as children's word of the year in Britain

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6 things we get wrong about sleep

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Psychological Decluttering: Planning for a Purposeful Year Ahead

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Kashmir's saffron growers experiment with indoor farming as climate pressures mount

Kashmiri farmer and saffron producer Ghulam Mohammad Mir and his family pick saffron stigmas from the flowers at his residence in Kashmir's Pampore October 31, 2024. REUTERS/Sharafat Ali

On the Right Track to Managing Stray Animals in Oman

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LA’s Getty Center’s art safeguarded as Palisades fire rages

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When They Hear Plants Crying, Moths Make a Decision

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Small Uruguayan town seeks place on international art map

Aerial view of the abandoned train station at the Garzon town during the preparations for CAMPO Artfest in Garzَn, Maldonado, Uruguay, taken on December 26, 2024. CAMPO Artfest 2024 will be taking place in a small town in the Uruguayan countryside on December 28 and explores the broad topic of migration—the physical movement from one region or habitat to another. In its general reference, the theme interrogates issues of home, belonging, community, and identity. (Photo by Santiago MAZZAROVICH / AFP)

South Africa's colourful minstrel carnival draws thousands

Kaapse Klopse minstrels dance as their troupe moves forward during the annual Kaapse Klopse parade, also known as "Tweede Nuwe Jaar" (second New Year), in Cape Town on January 4, 2025. Thousands of colourfully costumed minstrels paraded through Cape Town Saturday in an exuberant century-old carnival rooted in the South African city's history of slavery that drew large crowds of spectators. In glitzy uniforms matched with flashy hats, parasols and face paint, the marchers walked and danced through the city's historic centre in an annual event that an organiser said had grown to become the biggest such parade on the continent. (Photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP)

Jurassic highway: Hundreds of dinosaur footprints found in UK quarry

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The Essences highlight Oman as Muse for Innovative Perfumery

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120 Miles of Russian Forest Couldn’t Keep These Two Tigers Apart

An undated photo provided by ANO WCS shows Amur tigers Boris and Svetlaya, observed by a trail camera in 2018. (ANO WCS via The New York Times)

Killer Whales Hunt and Feast on the Largest Fish on Earth

A killer whale biting the pelvic fin of the whale shark. (James Moskito via The New York Times)

'Amphibious mouse' among 27 new species discovered in Peru's Amazon

A specimen of spiny mouse (Scolomys sp.), a species discovered on a Conservation International Rapid Assessment expedition into the Alto Mayo Landscape in Peru, is pictured, June 16, 2022.

True blue tradition: how Japan's coveted jeans are made

In this picture taken on September 4, 2024, weaving craftsman Shigeru Uchida checks looms for unusual sounds that could signal a breakdown at the Momotaro Jeans factory in the Kojima district of Okayama. Call it an antidote to fast fashion: Japanese jeans hand-dyed with natural indigo and weaved on a clackety vintage loom, then sold at a premium to global denim connoisseurs. - To go with AFP story Japan-fashion-business-denim, FOCUS by Natuko Fukue (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) / To go with AFP story Japan-fashion-business-denim, FOCUS by Natuko Fukue
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