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  • Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
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    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit

  • Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport
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    Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport

  • Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse
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    Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse

  • Arunachal Pradesh: Threatened by dam, Siang Valley is home to staggeringly diverse number of species
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    Arunachal Pradesh: Threatened by dam, Siang Valley is home to staggeringly diverse number of species

  • A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
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    A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant

  • Economic history: How the relationship between government and big business changed in India
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    Economic history: How the relationship between government and big business changed in India

  • Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate
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    Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate

  • Why Adani’s Dharavi redevelopment plan has run into resistance from some residents
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    Why Adani’s Dharavi redevelopment plan has run into resistance from some residents

  • For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with
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    For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with

  • Is AI not all it’s made out to be? A new book punctures the hype and proposes some ways to resist it
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    Is AI not all it’s made out to be? A new book punctures the hype and proposes some ways to resist it

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Watch: Contestants wrestle in pool of ‘cold gravy’ to raise money for charity in the UK

Men and women at the World Gravy Wrestling Championships are scored on costumes, humour and wrestling ability.

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Sep 01, 2022 · 10:56 am
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The World Gravy Wrestling Championship returned to England for the 12th year -- and dozens of contestants competed against each other in a pool of cold, vegan gravy for two minutes at a time. https://t.co/cj5B1QhK0Q pic.twitter.com/kquEgHHN6s

— CNN (@CNN) August 31, 2022

Competitors take part in the 12th World Gravy Wrestling Championships. Contestants wrestle in the gravy for 2 minutes with points scored for fancy dress, comedy effect and wrestling ability.

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Journalist @becklockwood7 takes on a T-Rex in the World Gravy Wrestling Championships at the Rose 'N' Bowl pub in Stacksteads, Lancashire.@LiveLancs pic.twitter.com/ZMQvvCdWDH

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