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How to write a professional resignation letter with free templates

You want to leave your job, but writing a professional resignation letter feels tough and awkward. A well-written resignation letter gives your employer official notice and helps you leave on good...

Customers are required to suit up in light boiler suits, boots, and gloves, topped off with visored helmets or a selection of ghoulish masks for that extra touch of theatricality. Photo: Collected

Angry at your boss? Smashing things is becoming Hong Kong's new recipe for dealing with stress

Ghislaine Maxwell’s star on the ‘Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame’ in Farragut Square in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, March 1, 2026. Photo: Collected

'Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame' stickers appear near White House

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping scientists’ ability to interpret the brain’s complex electrical signals. Photo: University of California, Davis

AI edges closer to decoding human thoughts

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5-metre-long python seen slithering in flooded Bali street

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Dubai police arrest beggar who owns 3 luxury cars

A 40,000-year-old mammoth figurine with engraved rows of crosses and dots. Photo: Collected

Writing may have begun 40,000 years earlier than thought: Research

An artist's impression of a planetary system with four planets, around a small red star, called LHS1903 with a large reddish-brown rocky planet with craters is visible in the foreground and three smaller planets: one with blue and white colors, another with blue and brown bands, the third with a rocky surface behind it and in the top right corner of the image, a small but bright red star illuminates the scene, with space dust and distant stars visible in the background, in this illustration released on 12 February 2026. Photo: ESA/Reuters

Six planets set to form rare parade at end of February

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The $100,000 banana: Audiophile cable myths meet mud, fruit and physics

Nazgul the dog who gatecrashed the Nordic Combined Team Sprint, Cross-Country, Via Lago, Tesero, Italy - February 20, 2026. Nazgul the dog who gatecrashed the cross-country race is pictured with owner Enrico Varesco at his home in Tesero. Photo: REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

Owners recount panic after wolfdog Nazgul gatecrashes sprint at Olympics

Authorities say the tortoises are large enough to survive in the wild and withstand predators. Photo: Ecuador's Ministry of Environment/AFP

Giant tortoises reintroduced to a Galapagos island

Punch was abandoned by his mother shortly after birth. Photo: X

Once isolated, Punch the monkey slowly accepted by troop at Japan zoo

This illustration shows the dinosaur Spinosaurus mirabilis standing at water's edge over a carcass of the coelacanth Mawsonia some 95 million years ago in what is now the Sahara desert in Niger. A scimitar-shaped head crest and interdigitating teeth characterise this wading giant. The illustration was released by the University of Chicago on 19 February 2026. Photo: Dani Navarro/Reuters

Fossils of a new species of huge dinosaur Spinosaurus unearthed in Niger