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Visitors walk outside the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza on the southwestern outskirts of the capital Cairo on February 7, 2025, set to open fully on July 3, following a partial opening in October. The long-awaited debut of the museum comes after years of delays caused by political instability, economic crises and the global pandemic. — AFP pic

Grand Egyptian Museum gears up for grand opening near Giza pyramids, featuring Tutankhamun’s treasures and Ramses II statue

Pedestrians walk along Embankment backdropped by The London Eye, in London, on February 25, 2025. Floating high above the London skyline aboard her most famous creation, architect Julia Barfield said she never expected the London Eye to take off as a design icon. — AFP pic

Celebrating the London Eye: Architect’s joy as iconic landmark still sparkling after 25 years

A picture shows a typical portion of pie and mash at G Kelly in east London on February 19, 2025. Londoners have been eating the classic Cockney combination, pie and mash since at least Victorian times, but for many years the working-class staple has had a humble reputation among outsiders. — AFP pic

‘One and one please love’: UK pie ‘n’ mash fans seek protected status for Cockney classic

Chinese tourists view photos of Japanese war crimes at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum in Nanjing on February 12, 2014. A Frenchman’s donation of vintage conflict photographs to China offers insight into the 1930-1940s Sino-Japanese war — even if some images are not the unique family heirlooms he believed them to be. — AFP pic

Frenchman’s mislabelled wartime photo donation to China sparks controversy over authenticity

A person walks past AI artwork created by Grimes, Mac Boucher, Mary Jacobo and Eurypheus called ‘Marie Antoinette After the Singularity #1 and Marie Antoinette After the Singularity #2’ at a press preview for ‘Augmented Intelligence’ at Christie’s on February 20, 2025 in New York City. — AFP pic

‘Should they be at auction yet?’ A blend of hits... and plenty of misses in Christie’s first ever AI art auction

A pint of beer is poured into a glass in a bar in London June 27, 2018. — Reuters pic

Fancy a pint? British Lords vote to safeguard cherished measure amid metric system debates

Undated handout picture released by Vieiro family and Rabal family of the late legendary mountaineer Guillermo Vieiro. Vieiro, known for having climbed Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas at 6,900 metres, several times, lost his life at the age of 44 while descending a complex route on Tupungato accompanied by his apprentice Leonardo Rabal, who also died at the age of 20. — Gentileza Familia Vieiro Y Familia Rabal handout pic via AFP

Retrieving memories: Daughters scale Argentine peak to find dead mountaineer dad’s lost photos after 40 years

A screen capture shows the Cheetozard on the Goldin Auctions’ website.

Cheeto shaped like Pokémon’s Charizard sells for RM388,000 in auction

Tokyo police saw a record 4.49 billion yen worth of cash turned in as lost property in 2024, up 1.8 per cent from the previous year, amid a surge in inbound tourists and as more people went out after Covid-19 restrictions were lifted. — AFP pic

Tokyo sees record 4.49 billion yen in lost cash turned in, driven by tourism surge

The world’s biggest iceberg appears to have run aground roughly 70 kilometres from a remote Antarctic island, potentially sparing the crucial wildlife haven from being hit, a research organisation said Tuesday. — AFP pic/Eyos Expeditions/Ian Strachan

Wildlife on South Georgia dodges disaster as world’s largest iceberg runs aground

Specialists discover mammoth bones along the shore of Pechevalavato Lake in the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous district, Russia July 22, 2020. — Reuters pic

Woolly mammoth revival project begins… with a mouse in a winter jacket

Ukrainian refugees and their children in Warsaw in January 2023. — AFP pic

Ukrainians waiting for peace before having children

The Midnight Sun Mosque, widely referred to as the Little Mosque on the Tundra, opened its doors in August 2010. — AFP pic

Marking Ramadan at Canada’s ‘Little Mosque on the Tundra’

A seller fills a bottle with honey at his shop in Chamkanni on the outskirts of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. — AFP pic

Where have all the flowers gone? Pakistani beekeepers battle climate change to keep hives buzzing and honey flowing

The number of overweight or obese people worldwide rose from 929 million in 1990 to 2.6 billion in 2021, the study found. — AFP pic

It’s a global crisis: Nearly 60pc of adults will be overweight by 2050, study warns

A health worker shows a malaria rapid test kit after collecting blood sample from a resident during an awareness campaign drive. — Reuters pic

Why conflict and climate change drive malaria deaths in Ethiopia