World Watch

Witnesses Describe Wordless Knife Attack on ‘Satanic Verses’ Author Salman Rushdie

Jurors heard on Monday how an attacker stabbed novelist Salman Rushdie more than a dozen times in a matter of seconds at a New York lecture, during the trial of the man accused of trying to murder the author.

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Washington DC Plane Crash Latest: Trump Criticises Diversity Hiring After 67 Dead in Air Disaster

President Donald Trump implied without evidence federal diversity efforts were at fault on Thursday after a regional jet crashed into a U.S. Army helicopter at a Washington airport, killing 67 people in the deadliest U.S. air disaster in more than 20 years.

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Auschwitz Survivors Warn of Rising Antisemitism at 80th Anniversary of Camp’s Liberation

Auschwitz survivors warned of the dangers of rising antisemitism on Monday, as they marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp by Soviet troops in one of the last such gatherings of those who experienced its horrors.

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Can Trump Just Order New Names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico? A Geographer Explains Who Decides What Goes on The Map

President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Denali, the tallest peak in the country, has resulted in lots of discussion.

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Thailand Holds First Same-Sex Weddings as Marriage Equality Law Takes Effect

Thailand on Thursday became the first country in Southeast Asia to hold legal same-sex weddings, with LGBT groups aiming to mark the occasion with more than 1,000 marriage registrations in a single day.

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Egypt Uncovers Blocks From 18th Dynasty Queen Hatshepsut Temple

Archaeologists have uncovered intact portions of the foundation wall of pharaonic Queen Hatshepsut’s valley temple in Luxor and the nearby tomb of Queen Teti Sheri, grandmother of Ahmose I, the first pharaoh of Egypt’s golden New Kingdom era.

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Scientists Uncover ‘Remarkably Well-Preserved’ Remains of Baby Mammoth

Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in thawing permafrost after more than 50,000 years.

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90-Year-Old Weightlifter Proves You’re Never Too Old To Pick Up a New Hobby

Cheng Chen Chin-Mei beamed broadly as she hoisted a 35-kg (77-pound) weightlifting bar to her waist, dropped it and waved confidently to the enthusiastic crowd in a competition in Taipei.

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Stand Aside Harry Potter, Blazing Brooms Light Up Spanish Festival

Processions of people wielding flaming brooms may sound like something out of magic tales, but those used to light up a Spanish town every year are the real thing – and there is no witchcraft involved, just fun.

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Weird and Wonderful Libraries Around the World

In a world where the love of books crosses boundaries, ‘Hidden Libraries’ by Lonely Planet takes you on a completely new journey to discover 50 of the most unique and unusual libraries across the globe.

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Lost Mayan City in Mexico Jungle Discovered By Accident

Ancient cities and settlements have been discovered by studying laser scans captured by drones, including those taken a decade ago.

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Chile Team Builds Region’s First 3D Printed ‘Seed Home’

A university team in Chile has built a huge 3D-printed concrete home that they say is Latin America’s first such building, using a robot “printer” that pours layers of concrete based on a digital plan controlled by a computer.

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Auckland Theatre Company 2025 season: From Gothic horror and mystery to big belly laughs

Auckland Theatre Company is continuing its reputation for presenting a diverse selection shows with its captivating 2025 line-up.

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Spanish mother and daughter train bacteria to restore church frescoes

As Spanish microbiologist Pilar Bosch was casting around for a subject to investigate for her PhD in 2008, she stumbled across a paper suggesting that bacteria, her field, could be used in art restoration, her mother’s own area of expertise.

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Katy Perry, the internet go crazy for chonky Australian penguin chick

Pesto the huge king penguin chick has drawn hundreds of visitors to an Australian aquarium, and now the bird can count Katy Perry as one of his biggest fans.

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Low Danube reveals sunken World War II ships in Serbia, Hungary

The wrecks of explosives-laden Nazi ships sunk in the River Danube during World War II have emerged near Serbia’s river port town of Prahovo, after a drought in July and August that saw the river’s water level drop.

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Turkey’s stray dogs find homes abroad after new law to clear them off streets

Former Istanbul street dogs Dali and Deezi now live in the Netherlands, enjoying a pampered home life after years in a shelter in the Turkish city, and as other strays face being rounded up under a new law to clear them from the streets.

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World Watch: Spanish town gets soaked in red during tomato-lobbing Tomatina festival

The festival takes place every year in the last week of August.

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Marriage’s power dynamics explored in ATC’s harrowing one-woman show ‘Girls & Boys’

Auckland Theatre Company’s powerful production of Girls & Boys tells a harrowing tale of gender dynamics and violence through the eyes of a mother of two.

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The world’s most weird and wonderful hotels

For the average traveller, a hotel room is a merely a place to rest one’s weary head (with the real adventure starting once you leave its comfort).

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Paris delivers Seine swimming, but some still sceptical

Parisians will swim in the River Seine by the foot of the Eiffel Tower next year, Paris City Hall has pledged, although the high bacteria levels that delayed Olympic triathlon events this summer have left some residents and tourists hesitant over diving in.

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The tree that bears 40 different fruits

A professor from Syracuse University in New York created a tree that produces 40 different fruits.

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154-year-old pink wisteria in Japan creates magical canopy

This giant pink wisteria vine in Japan will leave you gobsmacked – it’s more than 150 years old.

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The world’s most beautiful bookstores

In an age where brick-and-mortar bookshops are few and far between, we celebrate print and the written word with our round-up of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

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