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In pictures: Preston City Mela 2026 brings the beats to Miller Park
Miller Park came alive to the sounds of South Asia during Saturday as the city enjoyed the annual Mela. The stage was set for dance…
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Meet the forgotten enslaved and working-class labourers behind British exploration in Africa, Asia and Antarctica
By July 1858, the English explorer John Hanning Speke had been in Africa for 18 months. His eyes and body were weakened by fever, and…
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These colourful diagrams show how air quality has changed in over 100 countries around the world since 1850
Kirsty Pringle/data from http://airqualitystripes.info/, CC BY-NC-ND Air pollution is an unseen menace that poses a major threat to human health and the climate. We have…
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World
Sri Lanka’s population dynamics at risk, Registrar General’s Department warns
April 28 (AdaDerana) – Sri Lanka has shown a significant drop in annual birth rate while the number of annual deaths has increased since 2020,…
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Technology
Asia is officially the most ‘disaster-prone’ region in the world
Residents clean debris of their destroyed houses at the Khaung Dote Khar Rohingya refugee camp in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on May 15th, 2023, after Cyclone…
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How central Asian Jews and Muslims worked together in London’s 20th-century fur and carpet trade
The praying hall in Bukhara Synagogue, in the Uzbek capital. Ymblanter|Wikimedia, CC BY-SA From the late 1920s, London was home to a lively, if small,…
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Extreme weather may help invasive species outcompete native animals – new study
Invasive species can capitalise on disturbances like this. FJAH / shutterstock Non-native species appear to be better able to resist extreme weather, threatening native plants…
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City liveability rankings tell a biased story — our research in Dhaka explains why
Like many fast-growing megacities in Asia and Africa, Dhaka, in Bangladesh, is often stigmatised as one of the most unliveable cities on earth, due to…
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Entertainment
Warner Bros. Responds To Controversy Over Map Of Asia Used In Barbie Movie
Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as Barbie and Ken Warner Bros., the film studio behind Greta Gerwig’s new Barbie movie, has weighed in after the…
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Are interest rates really going to keep rising sharply?
For anyone trying to understand where interest rates and inflation are heading, it has been a strenuous few days. Jay Powell, chairman of US central…
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