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Cop Your XXL Merch Now Ye not dropping an album on the announced release date is one of the surest bets in hip-hop. The formula is pretty much always the same. He announces an album. He promotes the album. He gives fans a release date. Then, following a lull on updates, the clock strikes midnight on said day and…crickets. Yeezy supporters cry, complain and post angry GIFs on X, formerly known as Twitter. And they do it all again the next time. Thus was the case yet again on Friday (May 3), when Ye and Ty Dolla $ign‘s Vultures 2 did not drop after Ye stated it would. This isn’t a particularly g...
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One springtime night a decade ago, bearded men wearing flip-flops kidnapped 276 girls from their boarding school dormitories in Chibok, north-eastern Nigeria. They forced the teenagers onto lorries and drove them deep into a vast forest in the savannah. "My captors did a lot of things to me and the other girls," says Glory Mainta, who was abducted that day. "We were beaten, shouted at – there’s nothing that they didn’t do to us. While they didn’t force us to marry them, what they did to us was worse. We were just managing till God saved us." It was a full two years before one of her fellow stu...
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One springtime night a decade ago, bearded men wearing flip-flops kidnapped 276 girls from their boarding school dormitories in Chibok, north-eastern Nigeria. They forced the teenagers onto lorries and drove them deep into a vast forest in the savannah. "My captors did a lot of things to me and the other girls," says Glory Mainta, who was abducted that day. "We were beaten, shouted at – there’s nothing that they didn’t do to us. While they didn’t force us to marry them, what they did to us was worse. We were just managing till God saved us." It was a full two years before one of her fellow stu...
DPA International
Without mountaineering experience, money or a team, a 46-year-old blind man decided he wanted to climb Mount Everest. People said he was crazy, but Zhang Hong wanted to prove something to himself - and his wife. To get in shape, he climbed his staircase up to the 12th floor for several hours a day with 20 to 30 kilograms of luggage and heavy mountain boots on his feet. Scaling the famous peak, while he could not see the mountain, he was able to feel the air, smell the odour of snow and hear prayer flags flapping in the wind. In one of the newest gripping narratives from us at the dpa trends & ...
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Although Mark Inglis walks on prostheses, he has achieved a feat that tests the physical boundaries of many. A few years ago, the New Zealander reached the highest point on Earth, the 8,849-metre summit of Mount Everest. And he says that he barely needed more help than fellow mountaineers during the climb. "I don't have a disability," emphasizes the 64-year-old in an interview with dpa. "I just have an additional complication in my training and have to concentrate much more on the mountain and make more of an effort." He explains in an online video that he has loved mountaineering since his yo...
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It's not a lakeside villa or a downtown condominium - it's an unassuming property nestled in a forest near Pasewalk, a German town west of the Polish border, that Heinz Fuhrmann wants to sell for €1 million ($1.07 million). Behind this seemingly inconspicuous property - or rather underneath it - lies a bunker from the former East Germany era, which was reportedly built in the 1980s. It's also been called a nuclear bunker as it's allegedly capable of withstanding a nuclear blast. "I had a specialist explain this to me once. The wall and ceiling thicknesses are not that huge, and they don't have...
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On a Sunday afternoon, inside a whimsical Redondo Beach plant shop, eight women and I sat at a workshop table, smiling and laughing as we played with dirt. With bird chirping sounds and mediation music humming in the background, we closed our eyes and dug our hands into containers filled with soil, noticing the coolness of it and its texture. There were tissue boxes within reach in case we needed to wipe away any tears. "Remember when we were little, we weren't scared of this," said Barbara Lawson, who was leading the group at Meet Me in the Dirt, which she opened at the South Bay Galleria in ...
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With its rugged coastline and pristine natural beauty, Corsica is a jewel in the Mediterranean Sea. The French island, just a stone's throw north of Italy's Sardinia, attracts millions of tourists each year, but only very few of them ever become aware that the mafia is holding Corsica in its ironclad grip. For the locals, threats, hush money payments and fudged construction work are part of daily reality. It's also not rare for people to be killed by the mafia. Often dubbed "the island of beauty," Corsica is the region in France, excluding its overseas territories, with the highest murder rate...
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Although Mark Inglis walks on prostheses, he has achieved a feat that tests the physical boundaries of many. A few years ago, the New Zealander reached the highest point on Earth, the 8,849-metre summit of Mount Everest. And he says that he barely needed more help than fellow mountaineers during the climb. "I don't have a disability," emphasizes the 64-year-old in an interview with dpa. "I just have an additional complication in my training and have to concentrate much more on the mountain and make more of an effort." He explains in an online video that he has loved mountaineering since his yo...
DPA International
It's not a lakeside villa or a downtown condominium - it's an unassuming property nestled in a forest near Pasewalk, a German town west of the Polish border, that Heinz Fuhrmann wants to sell for €1 million ($1.07 million). Behind this seemingly inconspicuous property - or rather underneath it - lies a bunker from the former East Germany era, which was reportedly built in the 1980s. It's also been called a nuclear bunker as it's allegedly capable of withstanding a nuclear blast. "I had a specialist explain this to me once. The wall and ceiling thicknesses are not that huge, and they don't have...
DPA International
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