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Alban Nikolai Herbst’s Berlin apartment is covered in dust, his precious record collection included, thanks to a coal-powered stove he still uses to heat his home like thousands across the city.

A recent study endorsed by the UN predicts that by 2050 the overwhelming amount of plastics on the planet will actually outnumber fish in the sea. Plastic production will have tripled by the year 2040 if no action is taken to curb their use or manufacture.

British architect Richard Rogers, known for designing some of the world’s most famous buildings including Paris’ Pompidou Centre, has died aged 88, his publicist said Sunday.

Prime Minister Hun Sen and Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc praised the development of relations between the two countries over the past 55 years, while Vietnam reiterated its support and wished the Kingdom success in its role as ASEAN chair in 2022.

Afghanistan’s national museum is once again welcoming visitors and exhibiting pre-Islamic artefacts with the Taliban’s blessing – a stark contrast to when the hardliners ransacked and shuttered the facility during their last stint in power.

In Papua New Guinea’s isolated Star Mountains, Indigenous people say the tree kangaroo is king and the bird of paradise is queen. But both have a price on their heads. These extraordinary species have long been prized by traditional hunters, but conservationists now fear the forests they live in, one of Earth’s last great wilderness areas, could soon fall to axe and bulldozer.

A two-tonne rubber whale can take on a life of its own in the frigid shallows of a windswept New Zealand beach, particularly when a bedraggled group of would-be rescuers is trying to wrestle it into a harness.

Once the stomping ground of Italy’s greatest directors and actors, from Federico Fellini to Sophia Loren, Rome’s renowned Cinecitta film studios are planning a much-needed makeover for a new era.

Khmer Rise Party president Sok Sovann Vathana Sabung, better known as William Guang, and 14 other suspects have been arrested for an armed robbery which took place on December 19 at the home of online lotion seller An Sieu Mey at the Borey Moon Town gated community in Chaom Chao I commune’s Chambok village of the capital’s Por Sen Chey district.

A recent study endorsed by the UN predicts that by 2050 the overwhelming amount of plastics on the planet will actually outnumber fish in the sea. Plastic production will have tripled by the year 2040 if no action is taken to curb their use or manufacture.