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The drawing is on a pottery fragment measuring 12 centimeters by 16.3 centimeters, which apparently dates back to the middle of the Yayoi period in 100 B.C. Two eyes, a nose, a mouth and five fingers are visible. The person appears to be dressed in a bird costume.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab tells MPs that export licences will be halted following Turkey's "reckless" action.
In a now-deleted tweet, Houston Rockets' Daryl Morey expressed support for pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. He later apologised.
The 45-year-old arrived at Sydney airport on Saturday with raw pork, quail, pate, squid and other food items, officials said.
Actions continue after Met police order end to protests across the capital.
Typhoon Hagibis brought heavy rain and winds of 225km/h (140mph) to Japan at the weekend, killing 66 people.
The three-day-old was found inside a sealed clay pot, wrapped in cloth and buried just three feet beneath the earth at a village crematorium in Northern India.
If the country actually leaves the European Union as scheduled on October 31, as many people are likely to be drowning their sorrows as they are to be toasting to this new future.
Researchers captured the unprecedentedly detailed footage of the unusual surface feeding practice — dubbed bubble-net fishing — in waters off of Southeast Alaska.
Typhoon Hagibis brought heavy rain and winds of 225km/h (140mph) to Japan at the weekend, killing 66 people.
The diminutive art collector and patron from Turin has been described as "Italy's Peggy Guggenheim," and Sandretto Re Rebaudengo seems to like the comparison.
England's Football Association tweeted after the match that English players had been "subjected to abhorrent racist chanting" and that it would ask the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to "investigate as a matter of urgency."
Revealed: Cameron and May lobbied Bahrain royals for Tory donor's oil firm.
Last year saw a flurry of sports diplomacy between the two Koreas, who fielded a joint ice hockey team and marched together at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in South Korea.
The comments came amid heightened attention on China’s purchases of U.S. farm goods, one of President Donald Trump’s key demands to resolve a months-long trade war between the two nations.
Walk through Central London, and evidence of Crossrail is everywhere: from the new station at Farringdon and the vast building sites at Tottenham Court Road and Bond Street, to the revamped Paddington Station.
An American-Israeli woman arrested at a Moscow airport with nine and a half grams of marijuana has found herself at the center of a diplomatic standoff between Israel, Russia, and the United States.
Atwood's The Testaments, the Canadian writer's follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale, was recognised alongside Londoner Evaristo's novel Girl, Woman, Other.
The recycling companies in charge of reprocessing the country's waste are at risk of not producing enough. This has driven those companies to import selected waste from countries like Britain.
Dean was arrested on a murder charge and is being held at Tarrant county jail. Hours earlier, the interim Fort Worth police chief, Ed Kraus, said that Dean had resigned and would have been fired had he not done so.
Troubled office rental company to lay off 13% of its workforce to try to staunch massive losses – and few believe the cuts will stop there.
It's a crime that was captured on numerous surveillance cameras.
Last year saw a flurry of sports diplomacy between the two Koreas, who fielded a joint ice hockey team and marched together at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in South Korea.
Thailand held general elections in March and a pro-army coalition of parties has formed a government, officially ending five years of military rule.
The director said at the London Film Festival that cinemas need to "step up."
Working long hours in London in 2012, he longed for a convenient, easy way to cook and eat decent meals at home.
The skin of the 2.5m-long (8.2ft) snake was found at a building site in the town of Silverdale in New South Wales.
Nine leaders cleared of violent rebellion but found guilty of lesser crimes over roles in 2017 independence referendum.
Upmarket brand, which has just launched UN partnership, opens investigation as female labourers in Bangladesh factory say they suffer regular abuse.
A virtual unknown on the Tour at the start of the season, the former top-ranked junior lit up Wimbledon and the US Open with mesmerizing performances, capturing the world's attention and turning her into a superstar overnight, with a string of lucrative endorsements.
UK company Powerhouse Energy wants to turn this plastic deluge into an opportunity by producing energy from non-recyclable plastics and other waste.
The 63-year-old daughter of King Leopold III and the Princess of Rethy is said to have been taken away by officers in Trafalgar Square then released without charge on Friday morning.
David Eastman received a life term in 1995 for the killing six years earlier of Colin Winchester, an Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner.
Police told the BBC the singer's manager found her dead at her home near Seoul, South Korea.
Nations counts its losses after deadly storm dumped 40% of average annual rainfall in some areas.
Huckle was serving 22 life sentences after abusing up to 200 babies and children.
dried-up river system that stretches out for nearly 700 kilometres across the surface, making it one of the longest valley networks on the planet.
From a young age, Hillary knew she was adopted but later in life couldn't find her biological half-sister, Dawn.
Abhinandan Singh told reporters the baby was found by a villager who had gone to the burial ground after his own daughter died minutes after birth.
The doodles are the creation of Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara, who took a felt-tip pen 10 years ago to the walls of Niagara, a bar he frequents in the city's East Village neighborhood.
The team's victory came hours after Japan's worst storm in decades battered much of the country with hurricane like winds and incessant, overpowering rain, killing dozens of people.
The ‘security catalogue’, due to be published this week, will confirm Germany’s decision to keep a level playing field for suppliers to next-generation telecoms networks, despite calls by the United States to ban Huawei.
The three other defendants in the landmark ruling over a banned referendum and short-lived independence declaration were found guilty only of disobedience and not sentenced to prison.
The airport hosts the Surf & Style Championship since 2012 where surfers from all over the world compete. The airport houses a 33-foot indoor wave pool that was built by CityWave where you can simply join in and just catch a wave-free of charge.
Nations counts its losses after deadly storm dumped 40% of average annual rainfall in some areas.
The footage of the animal, captured in Tyresö, Sweden on October 2, shows it jumping up and down on the apparatus that is buried in the ground.
Cho was widely seen as the key man to push ahead with President Moon Jae-in's prosecution reform drive.
Paul McCartney, her widower, has generously gifted a set of limited-edition photos to the Glasgow Museums.
and encouraging it to bite one of the men's arms while forcing it to drink beer.
Cho was officially appointed by South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Sept. 9 to lead the reform of the country’s prosecutors’ office.
The country’s biggest opposition grouping, the Civic Coalition, is seen coming second with 22.3% support, followed by the leftist alliance, The Left, with 10.9%. The bloc of agrarian PSL and anti-system Kukiz’15 was at 9.8% while the far-right Confederation would get 6.6%.
Hospitality firm Barsala's Lisa Frank Flat, developed in partnership with Hotels.com, features wallpaper, bed sheets, drapes, shower curtains and other surfaces featuring the colorful illustrations of Lisa Frank, best known for school supplies popular at the end of the 20th century.
The shooting unfolded just before 7 a.m. at what is believed to be an after hours club called Triple A Aces, a source said.
It was written by Bernhard von Breydenbach in 1486 and illustrated by artist, Erhard Reuwich, after their pilgrimage to the Holy Land. In the exhibition, the book will be displayed on the ‘pull-out’ map of Jerusalem, the first-ever printed map of the city, with the Dome of the Rock at its centre.
For decades peacocks and peahens have been a colourful and harmless part of life in the picturesque village.
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