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US woman buys fake gold jewellery worth 300 rupees for 6 crore in India

A US woman paid 6 crore rupees for what she thought was real gold jewellery. It turned out to be artificial jewellery worth 300 rupees

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Rolex watch 'eaten' by cow found 50 years later

Kakarna Alkananda, a member of the Goud family, keeps a child's mouth open with the help of a pen as she prepares to insert a live fish stuffed with a yellow herbal paste into the mouth, in Hyderabad, India, Saturday, June 8, 2024. Every year thousands of asthma patients arrive here to receive this fish therapy from the Bathini Goud family, which keeps a secret formula of herbs, handed down by generations only to family members. The herbs are inserted in the mouth of a live sardine, or murrel fish, and slipped into the patient's throat. Photo: AP /Mahesh Kumar A
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Asthma 'miracle cure'? People flock to India's Hyderabad to swallow live fish

105-year-old Virginia “Ginger” Hislop receiving her degree from Stanford University. Photo: Collected
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105-year-old great-grandmother gets her Stanford degree after 83 years

An Air India passenger finds a foreign object in a meal served on one of its flights last week (2nd week of June). Photo: X/@MathuresP
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Air India passenger finds metal blade in on-flight meal

A Japanese woman interacts with Toko. Photo: EPA
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Japanese man who turned himself into a dog also wants to become panda, bear and more

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Tiny bugs live in our eyelashes. Should we be worried?

A man from Indonesia uncovers that the person he married following a year of courtship is, in reality, a male individual attempting to deceive him for financial gain. Photo: SCMP
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Indonesian man discovers 'wife' is not woman after 12 days of marriage

The "Neko Jinja," or Cat Shrine, mythologizes cats as guardian angels of Tashirojima, where cats outnumber humans. Photo: AP
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Shrine honours cats at a Japanese island where they outnumber humans

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From rescue pup to meme star to Dogecoin face: How Kabosu became most loved dog

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Kabosu: Dog that inspired 'Doge' meme and became face of Dogecoin dies

Natalia, a chimpanzee that has carried her dead baby for months, which experts say must be respected and reveals that grieving is not exclusive to humans, looks on as she sits on a rock at Valencia's Bioparc, Spain May 16, 2024. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
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Grieving chimpanzee carries dead baby for months at Spanish zoo

Max the cat. Photo: Facebook page of Vermont State University
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US university honours cat with 'doctor of litter-ature' degree