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Mushroom Diet Dangers (2014/02/18)

A kidney disease sufferer in Taichung spent a week eating copious amount of fungi. This led to worsening of his condition and a case of gout. 

Hsinchu river decorated with glass lanterns (2014/02/18)

The Hsinchu City government commissioned local glassmakers to create colorful lanterns that decorate the Hucheng River. These lanterns are made of a special type of glass known as liuli and are an interesting departure from the more common paper lanterns. 

Rare black coral discovered off the coast of Green Island (2014/02/18)

A diving instructor from Taitung recently discovered a rare type of black coral off the coast of Green Island. Lin Ming-sheng was just over a hundred meters below the surface when he obtained footage of this astonishing find. 

Yunlin Agriculture Expo welcomes 600,000th visitor (2014/02/18)

Over a period of less than two months more than 600,000 visits have been made to the Yunlin Agriculture Expo. The event is proving to be a big success in promoting environmentally friendly lifestyles. 

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For the first time in Saudi Arabia, a woman has been named editor-in-chief of a daily newspaper published in the kingdom.

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Dutch scientists have developed the world’s smallest autonomous flapping drone, a dragonfly-like beast with 3-D vision that could revolutionise our experience of everything from pop concerts to farming.

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Twelve years ago, South Korea’s Ahn Hyun-soo crashed into Apolo Ohno a few feet from the finish line in the men’s short track 1000m at the Olympics.

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When Bosnia’s National Library went up in flames in 1992 in a bombardment during the Bosnian Serb siege of Sarajevo, Mustafa Jahic knew he had to act to save his own institution’s priceless collection.

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Singapore said on Friday it would consider growing public complaints against infidelity website AshleyMadison.com when deciding whether to allow the platform to operate.

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Alexander Gorbunov, a 38-year-old, single man from Hollywood, Florida is looking for a wife. But he decided to take a less traditional approach to finding his true love and placed handwritten signs on the back of his two cars, a BMW and Hummer, hoping to attract Ms. Right. The signs read： "Looking for a Wife," and include his phone number.

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Until she introduced "magic cheese" to her sick and aging bulldog, Laura Bugni-Daniel watched him suffer for two years. He’d spend his days lying down or throwing up.

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Dairy cows with a serious case of flatulence have simultaneously ’broken wind’ and blown up a building in a fiery explosion.

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Municipalities hosting ancient castles around Japan are under siege as aging castle towers restored in the post-World War II economic boom are in desperate need of replacement or refurbishment.

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Doing the night shift throws the body "into chaos" and could cause long-term damage, warn researchers.

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Thieves accused of stealing a religious relic stained with Polish pope John Paul II’s blood threw it away thinking it worthless, Italian media said on Thursday, reporting the police had detained three people.

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About a dozen four-legged practitioners of stand-up paddle boarding took to the waves with their human owners off Rio de Janeiro’s Barra Beach, practicing for a second annual competition next month in which canine-human teams race around buoys.

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Here’s a man who has been using ’Close-up’ brand of toothpaste for seven years in the hope of attracting a female. However, his hopes have been dashed and now he has decided to sue the brand as it has not aided him in attracting ladies with fresh smelling breath as the toothpaste ads suggest, according to Geobeats.