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YouTube’s AI-aided scanning process can sometimes go awry and tar innocent individuals as…child abusers

You know Greek Fire, but have heard of the “Flexible Glass”?

About 5% of engagement rings a decade ago were made up of colored gemstones, while today the percentage is more than 15%

“I’m on this quest to dump out any water that gets trapped in plastic, because once it’s trapped in these plastic bottles, we have now lost it basically forever”

Cypriot farmers have descended in droves upon Nicosia this week to protest against a long-delayed EU pesticide ban, with tractor drivers taking part in the demonstration and warning 79% of arable land would be lost.

They can bolster the coastlines, break the force of hurtling waves, provide housing for fish, shellfish, and migrating birds, clean the water, store as much as 5% of the world's carbon dioxide, and pump oxygen into the ocean, in part making it possible for life on Earth as we know it.

The largest ruby in the world will be offered by Sotheby's in New York in June, the auction house said at a preview in Hong Kong on Apr 17, and is estimated to fetch more than US$30 million.

The City of Light is losing its luster with tons of garbage piling up on Paris sidewalks as sanitation workers were on strike for a ninth day Tuesday. The creeping squalor is the most visible sign of widespread anger over a bill to raise the French retirement age by two years.

Although solitaire ring prices range from 5,000 to 300,000 Turkish Liras ($265- $16,000), 80 percent of marriage proposals in Türkiye are made with rings worth around 10,000 liras ($532), the chairman of a diamond brand has stated.

Andreas Dorgiomanolakis shapes a terracotta pot in one of the last surviving ceramic workshops in Thrapsano, a village in Crete that had around 150 such workshops up until the 1970s. In the business since the age of 15, Dorgiomanolakis laments the lack of interest among the younger generations to take up the craft. "I fell in love with it through my grandfather," he told the AMNA.