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Search under way for 25 missing people after 14 survivors and boat found on a beach in Tanjung Balau.

Source: aljazeera.com

The death toll from a fuel truck explosion in Haiti rose to 75 on Wednesday as doctors scrambled to treat the wounded from an incident that officials say was made more deadly by residents approaching the vehicle in a desperate search for fuel. Rescue workers recovered 61 bodies at the site of the accident, which took place late on Monday in Haiti's second-largest city of Cap-Haitie.

Source: reuters.com

Lithuania's diplomatic delegation to China left the country on Wednesday in a hastily arranged exit, diplomatic sources said, as relations soured further over Taiwan, which opened a de facto embassy in Vilnius last month.

Source: reuters.com

Dancers moved gracefully in a circle, their beaded dress pieces swaying as they struck bird-like poses in a dance-drama known as "nora" -- a southern Thai performance art which was added Wednesday to UNESCO's prestigious heritage list.

Source: france24.com

The US space agency (Nasa) is calling it a historic moment - the first time a spacecraft has flown through the outer atmosphere of the Sun. It occurred in April, but the analysis of data has only now confirmed it.

Source: bbc.com

A four-year-old boy left his Sydney family gobsmacked after ordering more than $1,000 worth of gelato on a food delivery app, including a personalised birthday cake and tubs of his favourite flavours. Christian King used his father’s phone to order $1,139 worth of gelato and cakes from Gelato Messina on UberEats on Monday.

Source: theguardian.com

Two small figurines, made of copper, were created more than 2,200 years ago. One statue, known as Shakyamuni, shows Buddha standing on a platform and the other is for Five Tathāgatas, which highlights the five great Buddhas.

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The heady beats of Congolese rumba were hailed by UNESCO on Tuesday as it added the central African music and dance to its list of global cultural treasures. The Democratic Republic of Congo and Congo Republic had submitted a joint bid for their rumba to receive heritage status for its unique sound that melds the drumming of enslaved Africans with the melodies of Spanish colonisers.

Source: reuters.com

Wednesday’s blaze at the 38-story World Trade Centre in Causeway Bay triggered a large response, with firefighters trying to rescue several using emergency ladders. Dozens of people have already been evacuated. Local media say more than 300 people, including elderly, are trapped on a roof deck of skyscraper in Causeway Bay.

Source: aljazeera.com

The United States, the country hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, crossed 800,000 Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday, a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University showed. Around 450,000 of the deaths occurred in 2021, despite highly effective vaccines that were first authorized in December 2020 and widely available by springtime.

Source: france24.com

Grammy-winning singer Billie Eilish has spoken about an addiction to watching pornography, starting at age 11, and how it gave her nightmares and messed her up when she started dating. Eilish, who turns 20 on Saturday, was speaking on "The Howard Stern Show" on Sirius XM radio on Monday.

Source: reuters.com

UNESCO on Tuesday added Arabic calligraphy, a key tradition in the Arab and Islamic worlds, to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

Source: france24.com

The Bored Ape Yacht Club is a collection of 10,000 pieces of digital NFT art living on the ethereum (eth) blockchain. On Saturday, the owner of such a piece of art accidentally sold his NFT for a fraction of what it was worth. Max, who goes by the username maxnaut, said the mistake happened after "a lapse of concentration" when he accidentally listed the NFT for 0.75 eth ($2,844) instead of 75 eth ($284,495).

Source: cnn.com

French researchers have observed non-human primates developing social conventions to work together to obtain a reward, in an experiment set up with a group of baboons. About twenty baboons raised at a primatology centre were given the task in pairs of making the same choice when each presented with a set of two images on touch screens.

Source: france24.com

Several hundred dinosaur tracks, representing at least seven species, have been found and geologists say they are likely to find more. Described by the Polish Geological Institute-National Research Institute as a “treasure trove”, the fossilised tracks and bones were found in an opencast clay mine in Borkowice, 130km south of Warsaw.

Source: aljazeera.com

Siberian town of Verkhoyansk reached the temperature during a prolonged heatwave in June last year.

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At least 50 people were killed when a gas tanker exploded in the Haitian city of Cap-Haitien on Tuesday morning, according to a local official, with overwhelmed local medics saying the toll was feared to rise.

Source: france24.com

Canada has pledged up to C$40bn ($31bn) in compensation for indigenous children and families who suffered discrimination while in foster care. In September, a top court upheld a 2016 ruling that the government underfunded First Nations services compared with those for non-indigenous children. It ordered C$40,000 ($31,350) payouts to each child who was in the on-reserve welfare system after 2006. The government initially said it would appeal the verdict.

Source: bbc.com