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Food banks and hunger relief organizations are seeing an increase in the number of people lining up for food packages and calling helplines since Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits were halted on Nov. 1. Nearly 42 million Amer...
Cruises are making waves this year as new megaships set sail and demand reaches record highs, triggering some popular destinations to update tourist tax rules. Here is what to know. Star of the Seas, the sister ship to the cruise liner's Icon ...
NEW DELHI --Hundreds of doctors protested near India's health ministry Monday as they demanded stringent laws to protect health care workers from violence and sought justice for their colleague who was raped and killed at a state-run hospital....
An Israeli hostage freed from Gaza three months ago has accused the world of forgetting those still held by Hamas and urged the Israeli government to do whatever it takes to bring them home. Itay Regev, 19, told the BBC he was held in &qu...
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Egyptian antiquities officials say they have confirmed the existence of a hidden internal corridor above the main entrance of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Video from an endoscope showed the inside of the corridor, which is 9m (30ft) long an...
Scientists have made the most precise map yet of the mountains, canyons and plains that make up the floor of Antarctica's encircling Southern Ocean. Covering 48 million sq km, this chart for the first time details a new deepest point...
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There's a new robot on the surface of Mars. The American space agency has successfully landed its Perseverance rover in a deep crater near the planet's equator called Jezero. "The good news is the spacecraft, I thin...
China's Great Wall: How technology is helping to restore it. The Jiankou section of the wall ribbons over top mountains for 20km (Credit: Amanda Ruggeri) Built in the 1500s and early 1600s, the Jiankou section was left u...
The price of US oil has turned negative for the first time in history. That means oil producers are paying buyers to take the commodity off their hands over fears that storage capacity could run out in May. Demand for oil has all but dried ...
The current coronavirus outbreak is the biggest challenge for the world since World War Two, UN Secretary General António Guterres has warned. He said it could bring a recession "that probably has no parallel in the recent past&q...
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Nearly all applicants for US visas will have to submit their social media details under newly adopted rules. The State Department regulations say people will have to submit social media names and five years' worth of email addresses and phon...
Airbnb has called off a competition offering to chance to spend a night on the Great Wall of China. The accommodation site asked people to write a 500-word essay on overcoming cultural boundaries in a bid to win a "once-in-a-lifetime" expe...
An emergency call went unanswered because a man rang 999 to complain about KFC being closed, police have revealed. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said the "joke" call came on 21 February after the fast food chain closed some ...
Unprecedented coral bleaching in consecutive years has damaged two-thirds of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, aerial surveys have shown. The bleaching - or loss of algae - affects a 1,500km (900 miles) stretch of the reef, according to scient...