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The magnificent ancient city of Petra, located in modern day Jordan, is one of the New Seven Wonders of the ...

Sweden is famous for having some of the highest taxes in the world, and yet the country's tax agency is ...

In the mountains of northern Spain, archaeologists discovered a pit of bones 100ft underground. They soon realised they had a ...

In 1957, a massive nuclear accident took place at the top secret Mayak nuclear station in the Soviet Union. At ...

The Northern Sea Route goes for 5600km from the Kara Sea to the Bering Strait, connecting Western Russia to the ...

Swedish bodyworker Andy Buru has devised a therapeutic way of working with bondage to help people heal from trauma, burnout ...

Described as the last matriarchal society in Europe, the women on the Estonian islands of Kihnu and Manija are in ...

Scientists have discovered a unique behaviour among the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in the Red Sea. The dolphins deliberately rub themselves ...

During the 19th Century, a strange new pseudoscientific technique became hugely popular. Based on the theory that the brain was ...

The centuries-old abacus, once a common tool in many countries, has now been abandoned around the world. But in Japan, ...