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Italian luxury knitwear legend Missoni dead at 92
ROME: Italian knitwear innovator Ottavio “Tai” Missoni, whose distinctive colourful zigzag designs became a global fashion empire, died on Thursday in his home and company headquarters at the age of 92. Missoni co-founded the fashion brand in 1953 with his wife Rosita Jelmini and their designs have graced the rich and famous from Jackie Kennedy to the Duchess of ...Full Article
Altitude sickness? Try a mug of Bolivian coca beer
LA PAZ: A Bolivian brewer has come up with an innovative solution for quenching thirst and coping with altitude sickness: coca beer, based on the same leaf used to make cocaine. Coca has ...Full Article
Landing is key puzzle in Mars trip plans: experts
WASHINGTON: Landing astronauts safely on Mars is one of the biggest technological hurdles for any future manned mission to the Red Planet, even more complicated than last year’s daring ...Full Article
Delhi metro to breathalyse commuters to weed out drunks
NEW DELHI: Some New Delhi metro commuters will be breathalysed to detect whether they are drunk under a pilot scheme planned by the state-run transport network, an official said Tuesday. ...Full Article
Scientists may have found Brazilian “Atlantis”
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian geologists on Monday announced the discovery, 1,500 kilometres from Rio, of what could be part of the continent submerged when the Atlantic Ocean was formed ...Full Article
Rising sea levels threaten migratory birds
SYDNEY: Millions of birds that stop at coastal wetlands during annual migrations could die as rising sea levels and land reclamation wipe out their feeding grounds, researchers warned Monday. ...Full Article
Gandhi’s personal belongings auctioned in UK
LONDON: Mahatma Gandhi’s personal effects and documents, including his prayer beads, drinking cup, bed sheet and ivory-carved ‘Three Wise Monkeys’, will go under the hammer in the United Kingdom ...Full Article
Solar plane takes off on cross-country US trip
MOFFETT FIELD, CALIFORNIA – A solar airplane took off Friday from California on its first attempt at a cross-country trip across the United States. “Solar Impulse has successfully taken ...Full Article
Britons join global challenge to live below the poverty line
LONDON: Kathy Trevelyan pushes the bland mixture of gloopy rice and cubes of unidentifiable vegetables around the plate with her fork, contemplating five days of eating only this for ...Full Article
Greying Japan celebrates Children’s Day with carp streamers
TOKYO – Colourful carp-shaped streamers fluttered all over Japan on Thursday as an increasingly elderly nation readied to pray for the health of young sons and mark Children’s Day. ...Full Article