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Biral Bari: A purrfect sanctuary for felines

Located in the serene Block L of Bashundhara, Dhaka, Biral Bari currently houses almost 70 stray cats Robbie was Zeeshan and Mayisha’s first stray.He was the only survivor from a litter of four kittens born to Ishima, a feral cat near Zeeshan Sadeque’s parental home. Mayisha Alamgir took Robbie to their garage, fearing he might […]

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Apple debuts iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

Apple debuts iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro MaxPowered by the A18 Pro chip and built for Apple Intelligence, the Pro lineup introduces larger display sizes, Camera Control, innovative pro camera features, and a huge leap in battery lifeCUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today introduced iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, featuring Apple Intelligence, larger display sizes, new creative capabilities with innovative pro

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The Wadi Rum Trail: Jordan’s new long-distance hike

It traces the stunning, extraterrestrial landscape featured in films like Star Wars and Dune, while helping to preserve traditional Bedouin culture. My Bedouin guide Abdallah led the way up and into the crags of Jebel Umm Ishrin (1,753m), the sheer, eastern wall of Jordan’s most spectacular valley: Wadi Rum. Though it’s considered one of the

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Hyderabad, the city of Nizams

Thriving for nearly 433 years, Hyderabad is a magical city with remnants from the era of the Nizams When we started our journey from Bangladesh, we did not know much about Hyderabad, except their biryani, the pearls, the Nizam rulers and perhaps the Golconda Fort. But as we started travelling around the city, we began

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Aroids: The fascinating world of plants with strange flowers

While aroids are popular houseplants, they are also an important part of many ecosystems in the wild, providing food and habitat for a range of animals, including birds, insects, and primates Aroids are a family of flowering plants that includes over 4,000 species, with many of them grown as houseplants. They are known for their

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Penguin chicks survive tearaway iceberg

Mothers of emperor penguin chicks leave them for weeks to hunt for food In May a huge iceberg broke off from an Antarctic ice shelf, drifted, and came to a stop – right in front of “maybe the world’s unluckiest” penguins. Like a door shutting, the iceberg’s huge walls sealed off the Halley Bay colony

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Norway’s simple answer to greener, cleaner living

One family hopes to show people how a return to basic mid 19th-Century life can teach us much about how to care for our environment today. The approach to my accommodation for the night was similar to the ascent into any valley in the Norwegian fjords. Precipitous rocky mountainsides thick with conifer forest increasingly pressed

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How restoring rivers’ natural curves can prevent flooding

For centuries meandering rivers have been straightened – but experts say restoring their natural bends and curves can prevent flooding and create healthy habitats for wildlife. Swindale Beck, a stream in Cumbria, in the heart of the UK’s Lake District, meanders through fields, farmland and valleys. However, not long ago, the river took a far

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From wastelands to wetlands: The fight to save Sri Lanka’s natural flood buffers

Sri Lanka’s capital is transforming floating garbage patches into biodiverse wetlands which are teeming with life. Pay Dreschel is going for his daily morning walk around Thalangama Wetland, in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo. The Sun casts a warm glow over flowering pink water lilies as a farmer scrubs down his water buffalo. A kingfisher hovers

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Rare shy penguin wins NZ bird of the year

Thought to be one of the world’s rarest penguin species, the hoiho is native to New Zealand A shy yellow-eyed penguin has come out on top of one of New Zealand’s most contested competitions to win Bird of the Year.More than 50,000 people voted in the competition – which has in the past seen its

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Too hot for humpbacks: The race to protect Pacific whales

Move over Moby Dick. Big Mama, the first humpback whale to have returned to the North Pacific’s Salish Sea after decades of absence, is telling a new story about the global threat to whale populations. By the start of the 20th Century, humpback whales had virtually vanished from the Salish Sea, a marginal body of

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Dinner with a view: Five of Sydney’s best waterfront restaurants

All that glitters is not always gold when it comes to restaurants with multi-million-dollar waterfrontages, but Sydney caters sublimely to those in the market for splashing out. All that glitters is not always gold when it comes to restaurants with multi-million-dollar waterfrontages, but harbourside Sydney, cradled within the crown of New South Wales’s breathtaking coastline,

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The California town that kept a record-breaking wildfire at bay

In 2017, one of California’s largest ever wildfires was steadily approaching Montecito. But it had long been preparing for just such an event, and survived almost intact. A few days into December 2017, Maeve Juarez, a wildland fire specialist for the Montecito Fire Department, learned an enormous wildfire was creeping toward the Southern California town.She

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Walking above the air: The awe-inspiring history of spacewalks

They are astonishingly beautiful moments of human endeavour, but not all spacewalks go to plan – astronauts and cosmonauts have become stuck in hatches, lost tools and come close to drowning. The launch of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission marks the beginning of what could be another historic moment in commercial spaceflight: the first spacewalk by

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