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Funny old world: the week's offbeat news

Funny old world: the week's offbeat news

From the saddest, cutest monkey ever to AI going all mystical... Your weekly roundup of offbeat stories from around the world. - Punch to the heart - Celebrity doesn't just cast its spell on humans, it seemingly works its magic on monkeys too. Take poor little Punch, a baby macaque

Real Madrid face Man City, PSG draw Chelsea in Champions League last 16

Real Madrid face Man City, PSG draw Chelsea in Champions League last 16

Real Madrid and Manchester City will face off in a Champions League knockout tie for the fifth season running after being drawn Friday to play each other in the last 16, while reigning champions Paris Saint-Germain will take on Chelsea. The Spanish giants, record 15-time European champions, will

Hochul to feds: Fork over $13.5B in tariff refunds

(The Center Square) — Gov. Kathy Hochul is demanding the Trump administration refund New York $13.5 billion in tariff payments following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last week. In a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, called on the federal agency to "immediately formulate and implement

Cambodia welcomes back dozens of artefacts looted by UK trafficker

Cambodia welcomes back dozens of artefacts looted by UK trafficker

Cambodian monks chanted blessings and scattered flowers Friday over 74 cultural artefacts returned to the country after being plundered by a notorious British antiques smuggler. Scholar Douglas Latchford -- once regarded as a key authority on Cambodian antiquities -- was charged by prosecutors in New York in 2019 with smuggling looted Cambodian

'Without ports, Ukraine will be destroyed': Odesa buckles under Russian bombs

'Without ports, Ukraine will be destroyed': Odesa buckles under Russian bombs

Looking out at the blue and yellow cranes towering over the Black Sea horizon, Viktor Berestenko worries about the relentless Russian bombardment of Odesa, Ukraine's southern port city. "It's war, every night," the head of the Inter Trans logistics company told AFP. The main

Belarus opposition leader fears her country could become Putin's 'consolation prize'

Belarus opposition leader fears her country could become Putin's 'consolation prize'

Exiled Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya told AFP in an interview that her country must not become a "consolation prize" for Russian President Vladimir Putin amid intense efforts to end the Ukraine war. Tikhanovskaya said it was crucial for Ukraine to win its battle but that Belarus, a

French prosecutors probe Al-Fayeds over sex trafficking

French prosecutors probe Al-Fayeds over sex trafficking

He traded on the glamour of owning Harrods, the Paris Ritz and luxury yachts, but Mohamed Al-Fayed was at the centre of a dark web of alleged abuse, say French lawyers for women who liken him to US sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. French authorities began investigating the late Egyptian