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From Zen to zany, backyards with style and personality
Dhaka, Jul 25 (AP/UNB)- For some people, backyards aren’t just backyards anymore.
Chicago thieves steal 3 mannequins wearing designer clothes
Chicago, Jul 25 (AP/UNB) — Chicago police say three thieves smashed a display window of a high-end department store and stole three mannequins dressed from head to feet in designer clothes.
Nepal woman spends her day feeding temple monkeys
Kathmandu, Jul 25 (AP/UNB) — In the forests of Nepal's capital Kathmandu near the revered Hindu temple of Pahsupatinath, some 300 monkeys eagerly await their pieces of roti, or flat bread.
Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood on Booker Prize list
London, Jul 24 (AP/UNB) — Booker Prize winners Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood are contenders again for the coveted fiction trophy.
Diplomats' brain scans show differences, add to Cuba mystery
Chicago, Jul 24 (AP/UNB) — Advanced brain scans found perplexing differences in U.S. diplomats who say they developed concussion-like symptoms after working in Cuba, a finding that only heightens the mystery of what may have happened to them, a new study says.
Titanic survivor's light-up cane goes for $62,500 at auction
Providence, Jul 23 (AP/UNB) — A Titanic survivor's walking stick, with an electric light she used to signal for help from a lifeboat, sold for $62,500 at an auction of maritime items, the auction house said Monday.
Teen climate activist gets Normandy's first Freedom Prize
Paris, Jul 21 (AP/UNB) — Swedish teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg has received the first Freedom Prize awarded by France's Normandy region, which last month commemorated the 75th D-Day anniversary.
Florida woman accused of assault over pizza slice
St. Augustine, Jul 21 (AP/UN) — Authorities have arrested a woman in Florida who they say tried to attack another woman with a knife when she was denied a slice of pizza.
Learning new skills can make older people's brains 30 years younger
Washington, July 19 (Xinhua/UNB) -- Learning new things can make older people's brains 30 years younger in just six weeks, according to a new research from University of California Riverside (UCR).
Australian finds message in a bottle written 50 years ago
Canberra, Jul 19 (AP/UNB) — A fisherman said on Wednesday he was looking for the author of a message in a bottle found off the southern Australian coast 50 years after it was written.