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Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe

A Soviet-era Buran shuttle lies abandoned in a hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It's been gathering dust here for nearly 30 years. French photographer David de Rueda has visited the ...
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Sexy, skintight, sophisticated: How China’s iconic dress has survived a century

Worn by Hong Kong actress Linda Lin Dai, four-time Best Actress award winner at the Asia Film Festival, this cheongsam exhibits a popular style in the 1950s, with an extremely narrow hem. A zip sewn ...
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Inside the world’s quietest room

If you stand in it for long enough, you start to hear your heartbeat. A ringing in your ears becomes deafening. When you move, your bones make a grinding noise. Eventually you lose your balance, ...
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Shanghai Tower picks up 3 Guinness World Records including fastest elevator

A new tall tower has broken ground in New York City. Named the One Vanderbilt Avenue tower, the building is designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox architects, and construction officially started today. At ...
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Green buildings: 18 examples of sustainable architecture around the world

There are a lot of ways to size up buildings, whether by measuring their height, comparing styles of architecture or dissecting their histories. But in the era of climate change, more and more ...
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Famous Picasso paintings: 7 works that captured our imagination

It’s hard to imagine a visual record of the 20th century without Pablo Ruiz Picasso. With his bold shapes and characteristic angles, the Spanish artist captured everything from the horrors of war to ...
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A floating city in the Maldives begins to take shape

A city is rising from the waters of the Indian Ocean. In a turquoise lagoon, just 10 minutes by boat from Male, the Maldivian capital, a floating city, big enough to house 20,000 people, is being ...
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The next world’s tallest building could be a 3,000-feet-high battery

Humans have long built towering structures to showcase the power of empires, rulers, religions and corporations. Today, more tall buildings are popping up than ever before. But skyscrapers could soon ...
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Inside the world’s quietest room

If you stand in it for long enough, you start to hear your heartbeat. A ringing in your ears becomes deafening. When you move, your bones make a grinding noise. Eventually you lose your balance, ...
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The cities designed to be capitals

The smallest and southernmost capital city in Europe, Valletta was built after the Great Siege of Malta in 1565. The city was named after Jean de Valette, the victorious Grand Master, and designed by ...
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10 most famous paintings in the world

Every year, billions of dollars’ worth of art passes through international auction houses, while leading museums each hold tens of thousands – even hundreds of thousands – of artworks in their ...
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The ‘Mona Lisa’ has been caked in attempted vandalism stunt

The “Mona Lisa” was the subject of attempted vandalism on Sunday when a visitor to the world-famous Louvre museum in Paris smeared frosting all over the Renaissance-era painting’s protective glass.