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新奇事件簿 法国要求谷歌对其监狱画面模糊处理
France's government has asked Google to blur all images of French prisons on the Internet. The request is because a prisoner escaped from Reau Prison near Paris in July. The prisoner who escaped was an infamous killer. He is known as the jailbreak ki
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新奇事件簿 马来西亚废除死刑
The Malaysian government has stated it intends to abolish the death penalty in a move that has been welcomed by human rights campaigners. Malaysia's Law Minister said: The death penalty will be abolished. Full stop. He added: Since we are abolishing
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新奇事件簿 越善良的人越穷?
New research shows that nicer people are likely to be poorer than people who are not so nice. Researchers looked at how the personalities of different people affected how rich or well off they were. The researchers found that people with a nice, warm
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新奇事件簿 沙特记者失踪 疑点重重
The disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is descending into greater mystery. Mr Khashoggi was last seen at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on October 2. He went there to process documents for his upcoming marriage. In the
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新奇事件簿 遭客户投诉 纸巾生产商变更产品名字
One of the world's biggest makers of tissues is changing the name of one of its products. The company called Kimberly-Clark is putting an end to its Kleenex Mansize brand of tissues. This comes after many people complained to the company that the nam
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新奇事件簿 圣家族大教堂重新施工
Barcelona's world-famous La Sagrada Familia basilicahas finally been given a building permit 136 yearsafter construction on the site began. The churchhas agreed to repay $41 million in fees that dateback to 1882, which is when ground was first broken
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新奇事件簿 港珠澳大桥通车
The world's longest sea bridge has opened. It links Hong Kong and Macau to mainland China. The bridge is called the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge and is 55 kilometres long. The bridge took over a decade to construct. Builders had to make artificial i
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新奇事件簿 大批移民朝美国涌进
A caravan of more than 7,000 migrants is embarking on a thousand-kilometre journey through Mexico, aiming for the border with the USA. The migrants are mainly from Honduras and are hoping to find a better life in the U.S. Parents with young children
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新奇事件簿 加拿大医生用艺术治疗病人
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in Canada has teamed up with a group of doctors to help sick people. The doctors will prescribe visits to Montreal's art galleries, instead of giving them medicine. The museum is currently taking part in 10 trials on
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新奇事件簿 法国蜘蛛侠攀登英国摩天大楼
A French stuntman who specializes in scaling skyscrapers has been banned from climbing any building in the UK. Alain Robert, 56, was handed a 20-week prison sentence on Friday, suspended for two years, for scrambling up London's 201-metre Heron Tower
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新奇事件簿 全球大量野生动植物灭亡
Earth is losing wildlife at a faster rate than at any time in history. This is according to the new Living Planet Report from the World Wildlife Fund. The report says the global wildlife population shrank by 60 per cent between 1970 and 2014. The WWF
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新奇事件簿 老来得子 不利初生儿健康
A study from Stanford University in the USA reports that babies of older fathers may be more likely to have health problems. Scientists studied data on 40,529,905 births in the USA between 2007 and 2016 to ascertain whether a father's age adversely a
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新奇事件簿 欧洲部分机场安装测谎仪
Airports will soon add a new layer to their security procedures. Several airports in Europe will start giving lie detector tests to passengers. Special lie detector machines will use artificial intelligence to test travellers. The lie detector machin
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新奇事件簿 美国再对伊朗实施严厉制裁
The USA has re-imposed tough economic sanctions on Iran. The U.S. Secretary of State warned Iran that it would be subject to relentless pressure unless it changes its revolutionary course. The Trump administration reinstated all sanctions that were l
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新奇事件簿 恶心食物博物馆在瑞典开业
There is a museum for everything these days. The latest museum to open may turn you off your dinner. It is the Disgusting Food Museum, which opened earlier this week in Malmo, Sweden. The new exhibition will allow people to analyze why they love and
