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One springtime night a decade ago, bearded men wearing flip-flops kidnapped 276 girls from their boarding school dormitories in Chibok, north-eastern Nigeria. They forced the teenagers onto lorries and drove them deep into a vast forest in the savannah. "My captors did a lot of things to me and the other girls," says Glory Mainta, who was abducted that day. "We were beaten, shouted at – there’s nothing that they didn’t do to us. While they didn’t force us to marry them, what they did to us was worse. We were just managing till God saved us." It was a full two years before one of her fellow stu...
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Although Mark Inglis walks on prostheses, he has achieved a feat that tests the physical boundaries of many. A few years ago, the New Zealander reached the highest point on Earth, the 8,849-metre summit of Mount Everest. And he says that he barely needed more help than fellow mountaineers during the climb. "I don't have a disability," emphasizes the 64-year-old in an interview with dpa. "I just have an additional complication in my training and have to concentrate much more on the mountain and make more of an effort." He explains in an online video that he has loved mountaineering since his yo...
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It's not a lakeside villa or a downtown condominium - it's an unassuming property nestled in a forest near Pasewalk, a German town west of the Polish border, that Heinz Fuhrmann wants to sell for €1 million ($1.07 million). Behind this seemingly inconspicuous property - or rather underneath it - lies a bunker from the former East Germany era, which was reportedly built in the 1980s. It's also been called a nuclear bunker as it's allegedly capable of withstanding a nuclear blast. "I had a specialist explain this to me once. The wall and ceiling thicknesses are not that huge, and they don't have...
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On a Sunday afternoon, inside a whimsical Redondo Beach plant shop, eight women and I sat at a workshop table, smiling and laughing as we played with dirt. With bird chirping sounds and mediation music humming in the background, we closed our eyes and dug our hands into containers filled with soil, noticing the coolness of it and its texture. There were tissue boxes within reach in case we needed to wipe away any tears. "Remember when we were little, we weren't scared of this," said Barbara Lawson, who was leading the group at Meet Me in the Dirt, which she opened at the South Bay Galleria in ...
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With its rugged coastline and pristine natural beauty, Corsica is a jewel in the Mediterranean Sea. The French island, just a stone's throw north of Italy's Sardinia, attracts millions of tourists each year, but only very few of them ever become aware that the mafia is holding Corsica in its ironclad grip. For the locals, threats, hush money payments and fudged construction work are part of daily reality. It's also not rare for people to be killed by the mafia. Often dubbed "the island of beauty," Corsica is the region in France, excluding its overseas territories, with the highest murder rate...
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Mathias Labah normally catches fish in the Baltic Sea but today, the rope he is pulling out of the water a few kilometres off Germany's north coast is not a net filled with herring or cod, but a plastic cylinder about 30 centimetres long. Labah carefully hoists the device onto the deck of the Solea research vessel, frees it from the water and reveals an innovative probe which could play a vital role in how the crisis-ridden coastal fishermen and women of northern Germany could earn more money and attract new recruits in the future. The device measures oxygen, temperature, salinity and pressure...
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Bali's coffee gardens are the perfect place to relax, where you can sip your brew while looking out onto lush rice terraces lined by coffee trees carrying crimson berries. Most people come to try the world's most expensive coffee - kopi luwak. Often sold in pretty packaging, kopi luwak is made from coffee cherries digested and then excreted by the Asian palm civet, fermenting as they pass through the animal's intestines. Producers claim that the fermentation process alters the amino acids and therefore makes the coffee less bitter and easier digestible. It also is said to have a special aroma,...
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The boat glides through the tranquil waters of the Hawkesbury River near the village of Mooney Mooney, about 45 minutes north of Sydney, where only a small sign on a pier reveals that there is an oyster farm beneath the surface. The farm belongs to Sheridan Beaumont and her family, who offer tours for visitors here. "Who wants to hold some baby oysters?" Beaumont asks, pulling two long containers out of the water containing several small oysters. The visitors, all wearing waterproof fishing overalls with sewn-on wellies, cautiously take a bite. Beaumont explains that the sea creatures are rais...
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In the heart of Rome, for nearly a quarter of a century, the Pisano sisters held steadfast to their morning ritual, rain or shine, unfailingly opening their newspaper kiosk, or edicola in Italian. Except in August when Italy practically shuts down for vacation, and on sacred Sundays, a day of rest, Alessandra and Patrizia Pisano opened their newsstand in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, one of Rome's most beautiful squares, at 5:30 am and closed its shutters again at 3 pm. But now, at 59, illness has struck Alessandra, the younger sister by a year, leaving Patrizia to confront an uncertain future ...
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The number on Albrecht Weinberg's left forearm is clearly visible even some 80 years later: 116,927. Albrecht Weinberg sees the slightly faded tattoo when getting ready for the day every morning - and with it come the memories of Auschwitz. "It's unbelievable that something like that really happened," the 99-year-old says looking back on the Holocaust, when Germany's Nazi regime systematically murdered more than 6 million Jews across Europe, plus many other minorities and dissidents. Weinberg, who emigrated to the US after surviving the unspeakable horrors of Nazi persecution but has since mov...
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