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Ms Wang has spent at least four days locked down with her date. Photo :BBC
China

Chinese woman stuck in lockdown with blind date

She said that her date had cooked every day for her while they were stranded together

A man kicks a ball against the late player Jaime Escandar's coffin during a final send off given by his Aparicion Paine team in Paine, Chile January 2, 2022 in this still image obtained by Reuters on January 7, 2022. Photo : Reuters
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Goal 'scored' by deceased player in coffin delights fans

Entrepreneur Muhammad Malik has plastered his face across several advertising hoardings across Birmingham. Photo: Collected.
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Billboards to find wife

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Mexican fish extinct in wild successfully reintroduced

Li Jingwei drew a map of his childhood village from memory and shared it online. Photo :BBC
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Chinese man reunites with mother after 30 years of abduction through map drawn from memory

A demonstrator licks the screen of Taste the TV (TTTV), a prototype lickable TV screen that can imitate the flavours of various foods, during its demonstration at the university in Tokyo, Japan, December 22, 2021. Picture taken December 22, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
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Tasty TV: Japanese professor creates flavourful screen

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Indians ordered 115 plates Biryanis per minute in 2021: Report

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Footprints show some two-legged dinosaurs were agile

Many have lambasted the futuristic design of the Sarco machine – noting that it “glorifies” suicide.
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Switzerland approves euthanasia device for ‘painless death’

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Science

Chinese rover spots cube-shaped "mystery house" on moon

Vishal Garg. Picture: Collected
World+Biz

Mortgage company CEO fires 900 employees on Zoom call

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Passengers push aircraft off runway in Nepal, video goes viral

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Woman sues doctor for allowing her to be born with defect, wins millions