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Japanese pen lights up artwork
Jul 24, 2016News Hour: A Japanese startup has developed a pen that can bring pictures to life using a silver quick drying ink that conducts electricity. The “Circuit Marker” allows users to draw an electric circuit that can withstand up to... -
FBI repatriates recovered 1,000-year-old Mayan artifacts to Guatemala
Jul 24, 2016News Hour: Federal authorities on Friday formally repatriated a collection of more than thousand-year-old Mayan artifacts to the Guatemalan government at a ceremony in Los Angeles after recovering them from the estate of a deceased art... -
Turkey dismiss all university deans in post-coup purge
Jul 20, 2016News Hour: The Higher Education Board ordered all deans to resign as part of a crackdown following last weekend’s failed coup. Staff from the education ministry and the office of the prime minister were also told... -
Tourist bus crash in Taiwan kills 26 people
Jul 19, 2016News Hour: A Taiwan tour bus carrying visitors from mainland China crashed and caught fire on Tuesday near the capital Taipei, killing 26 on board, reports BSS. Footage on local media showed the bus had rammed... -
One man gored in leg during bull run in Pamplona
Jul 13, 2016News Hour: One man was gored in the leg and seven people treated for minor injuries in the seventh bull run in this year’s San Fermin festival in Spain, which featured fewer runners after overnight rain... -
Ten people killed in head-on collision between two trains in Italy
Jul 12, 2016News Hour: Ten people were killed in a head-on collision between two trains in the southern Italian region of Puglia on Tuesday, firefighters said, reports BSS. Footage showed emergency services racing to extract people from the... -
California shop makes lowrider bikes with expertise and heart
Jul 11, 2016News Hour: Mexican-born Manny Silva is known as the “godfather of lowriders” thanks to the custom-made bicycles he makes in the shop he set up in Compton in 1973. His lowriders, with frames closer to the... -
Spanish Civil War press card of Little Prince author found in box
Jul 11, 2016News Hour: A Spanish researcher has stumbled across the long-lost press card of French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of the iconic story The Little Prince, used when he was covering Spain’s 1936-1939 Civil War for... -
Minor injuries, no gorings at San Fermin’s fifth bull-run this year
Jul 11, 2016News Hour: The fifth run of Pamplona’s week-long bull-running festival on Monday saw only a handful of injuries and no gorings during a quick, 3-minute and four-second dash through the northern Spanish city. The nine-day San... -
Brussels revelers dress up to remember Renaissance emperor
Jul 11, 2016News Hour: Thousands of revelers wearing medieval helmets, feathers and striped pantaloons paraded through Brussels on Thursday, in a tradition stretching back over half a millennium. The Ommegang parade commemorates the arrival of Habsburg Emperor Charles...
