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Amazing Discovery Claims Elephants Have Specific 'Names' For Each Other
As elephants wander the African savannah, they might keep in touch with relatives by calling out their individual 'names'.
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The Oldest Known Burial Site in The World Wasn't Made by Our Species
Paleontologists in South Africa said they have found the oldest known burial site in the world, containing remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable of complex behavior.
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Turns Out There's One Animal Powerful Enough to Mess With Lions' Feeding Habits
In a stark example of how everything on our living planet is interconnected, one species of tiny, invasive insects has reduced lions' abilities to feast on zebras.
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Nigeria gunmen 'kill at least six Christians'
Gunmen in the northern Nigerian state of Yobe have shot dead at least six Christians, the army and local officials say.
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Slavery's Global Comeback
Buying and selling people into forced labor is bigger than ever. What "human trafficking" really means.
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ICC acquits DR Congo 'warlord' Ngudjolo
Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui cleared of crimes against humanity charges for a 2003 attack on village that claimed 200 lives.
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Guyana to get $45M from Norway for saving forests
The South American country of Guyana says it will receive an additional $45 million in cash from Norway as a reward for protecting its Amazonian rainforest.
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Egypt vice-president resigns on final day of referendum
Egypt's vice-president has announced his resignation, on the day the country completes its voting in a controversial referendum on a draft constitution.
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Tech Innovators: Let's Turn Traditional Philanthropy On Its Head
Scott Harrison knows his charity has funded nearly 7,000 clean water projects in some of the poorest areas of the world in the past six years. How many of those wells are still flowing with drinking water months or years later, though?
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Climate change may have driven evolution
Rapid climate change in Africa two million years ago may have driven human evolution, researchers believe.
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Two giraffes scrap it out with their necks.
Watch as two giraffes engage in a vicious battle for the rights to this prized territory from the 'Kalahari' episode.
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Africans and the desire to bleach their skin
A recent study by the University of Cape Town suggests that one woman in three in South Africa bleaches her skin. The reasons for this are as varied as the cultures in this country but most people say they use skin-lighteners because they want "white skin".
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Ivory Coast stampede kills dozens, mostly children
New Year's Day celebrations took a deadly turn early Tuesday in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, when a stampede following a fireworks show killed dozens of people, most of them children, according to a fire department official.
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‘I wouldn’t let my children play with toy guns. In the Congo, theirs is a world of Kalashnikovs’
My own children at their age were doing childish things. But these children – whom I met in places with names few have ever heard of – carried guns and used them. They were called “Sir” and even “General”.
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Poachers kill 11 elephants in Kenya
Poachers killed a family of 11 elephants in the biggest single mass shooting of the animals on record in Kenya, wildlife officials said today.
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Two men jailed for ‘looking gay’ acquitted by Cameroon court after a year behind bars
A Cameroon court has overturned the conviction of two men who were sentenced for five years in prison for “looking gay” and ordering Bailey’s Irish Cream.
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History of Pyramids
Get the facts about the history of pyramids around the world.
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Cairo’s New Normal: Protests Spawn a World of Walls and Barricades
Ramadan Romih, the heavyset manager of the White House Net, an Internet café up the street from the U.S. embassy in Cairo, sat on a chair on the sidewalk outside his shop, smoking a large tobacco water pipe.
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Bones and jars of the dead unearthed in 3,000-year-old Egyptian tombs
Archaeologists say they have discovered a string of 3,000-year-old rock tombs in the Egyptian city of Luxor, containing the remains of wooden coffins, skeletons, furniture and canopic jars.
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Moises Saman's Photographs of the Egyptian Revolution
The Cairo-based photographer Moises Saman has been covering the Arab Spring and its repercussions since the revolution’s inception. “The past two years in Egyptian politics have been like a turbulent soap opera, playing out on the streets of Cairo for all the world to see,” he told me.
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