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Cholera spreads from Iraq to Syria, Kuwait, Bahrain: UNICEF

Cholera spreads from Iraq to Syria, Kuwait, Bahrain: UNICEF

A cholera outbreak in Iraq has spread to neighboring Syria, Kuwait and Bahrain, and risks turning into a region-wide epidemic…
Egypt scanning for Nefertiti’s tomb encouraging: minister

Egypt scanning for Nefertiti’s tomb encouraging: minister

Infra-red scanning of King Tutankhamun's tomb could support a British archeologist's theory that Queen Nefertiti -- or another ancient Egyptian…
France to reinstate border controls for UN climate talks

France to reinstate border controls for UN climate talks

France will reinstate controls on its borders — normally open to other countries in Europe's free-travel zone — for the…
Alzheimer’s is a young(er) person’s disease — so get to work

Alzheimer’s is a young(er) person’s disease — so get to work

While he couldn't possibly have known, Sandy Halperin was likely around 35 years old when his brain began slowly accumulating…
Solar wind transformed Mars into cold, dry planet: NASA

Solar wind transformed Mars into cold, dry planet: NASA

We now know more about what happened to Mars' climate. NASA announced on Thursday several major scientific findings by its MAVEN…
Tourists encircle scarab statue in Luxor for good luck

Tourists encircle scarab statue in Luxor for good luck

Some may be surprised to see a number of tourists parading around the statue of a scarab, but this ritual…
How to create a Windows 10 app without knowing how to code

How to create a Windows 10 app without knowing how to code

To enhance its customer offering and enable anyone to submit their own Windows 10 apps, Microsoft has released a new…
Finnish researcher guides visitors to popular Tanta shrines

Finnish researcher guides visitors to popular Tanta shrines

Guests at an international poetry festival in the city of Tanta, Gharbiya, made a brief visit Wednesday to the shrine…
Twitter trades stars for hearts, favorites for likes

Twitter trades stars for hearts, favorites for likes

Like it or not, Twitter on Tuesday retired its star button that users click to "favorite" a post and replaced…
Luxor celebrates 93rd anniversary of King Tut’s tomb discovery

Luxor celebrates 93rd anniversary of King Tut’s tomb discovery

Twenty hot air balloons rose above Luxor before sunrise on Thursday at Karnak to commemorate the 93rd anniversary of the…
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