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Eid between two worlds: Where memory meets celebration

During Eid Al Fitr, as celebrations continue across Oman with family visits, shared meals and quieter moments of reflection, the festival takes on layered meanings for those who have lived between cultures.For Reinilda...

Thousands attend annual minstrelparade in Cape Town

Performers take part in the annual Cape Town Minstrel Carnival parade, in Cape Town, South Africa. — Reuters

Béla Tarr, iconic Hungarian filmmaker who directed ‘Damnation’ and ‘Sátántangó,’ dies at 70

Tarr was best known for the best known for the movie "Satantango" (1994), a seven-hour epic about the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe

China's birth-rate push sputters as couples stay child-free

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Trenčín, Oulu Selected as European Capitals of Culture for 2026

The European Capitals of Culture programme is designed to celebrate the distinct arts, history and traditions that define each host city and its surrounding area.

Super tusker Craig dies in Kenyan park at 54

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Shanghai's elderly waltz back to the past at lunchtime dance halls

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First woman at the helm of Nobel Prize institution

At the beginning of 2026, Ellen Moons will take up her post as the new secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) in Stockholm.

Russia reopens theatre devastated by siege of Mariupol

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Musandam’s nature make it a go-to destination

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A Visitor From Beyond: Third Interstellar Comet Detected Passing Through the SolarSystem

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Rio receives Guinness record for biggest New Year's bash

People watch the traditional New Year's fireworks at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. — AFP

Hooked on the claw: how crane games conquered Japan’s arcades

This picture taken on June 6, 2024 shows a claw crane game shop in Akihabara district of Tokyo. As school and work wraps up, crowds gradually fill Tokyo's many bustling arcade halls —- not to battle it out in fighting games, but to snag plush toys from claw machines. - To go with 'JAPAN-ANIMATION-GAME-ARCADE, FOCUS' by Mathias Cena

Olympics-Italian pianist Dardust to provide soundtrack for Milano Cortina

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Row deepens over vanished river wave in Munich

A surfer rides an artificial wave in the canal of the Eisbach (ice creek) river at the English Garden park in Munich, southern Germany. — AFP

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