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21 Jun 2022

DNA: Whiskey War -- Story of the world's most humble war

This is the story of the world's most humble war in which the armies of two countries kept fighting not through weapons but through bottles of whiskey. The war between the Canadian and Danish armies over the capture of an island went on for almost 50 years. The story of the end of this war is equally interesting. Watch this report.

22 Mar 2018

Bizarre! This town in Norway bans people from dying

Longyearbyen is located in one of the most northern parts of the world that are inhabited by 2,000 locals and sees no sunlight for months of the year.

22 Aug 2017

Quake kills two on Italian holiday island, young brothers saved

Tourists and residents on the island off the coast of Naples ran out onto the narrow streets after the quake wrecked a church and several buildings. Fearing aftershocks, many decided to leave the island early.

16 Jul 2017

China rescues 49 tourists stranded on island by typhoon

At 0200 GMT Sunday, the eye of Talas was above the South China Sea some 60 km to the southwest of Sanya city in Hainan, packing winds of up to 23 metres per second, the National Meteorological Center (NMC) said.

15 May 2017

David Beckham wants to buy an island for wife Victoria

According to a source, David has been looking at territories in the Caribbean as he thinks it would be the perfect gift so he and his wife, along with their children -- Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper -- could go on holiday without being bothered.

23 Sep 2016

The Eye - Mysterious floating island discovered in Argentina! (Watch video)

The Eye is a circle of land surrounded by a thin channel of water with a diameter of 130 yards,” said director Sergio Neuspiller.

14 Sep 2016

This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a streamlined form in Lethe Vallis – See pic!

The image was acquired at 15:16 local Mars time on May 6, 2016, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

08 Jul 2016

Over 15,000 evacuated in Taiwan as typhoon heads to China

Super Typhoon Nepartak brough chaos to Taiwan on Friday, forcing more than 15,000 people to flee their homes as the strongest winds over a century lashed part of the island.

Barro Colorado Island

07 Dec 2015

Panama isle is nerve center for climate researchers

Barro Colorado is probably the most studied tropical forest in the world and has given scientists many ideas about how forests work in other parts of the world.

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