World’s oldest mummies are not Egyptian: Meet the Chinchorro people who preserved the dead 2,000 years earlier | World News

For most people, the word mummy immediately conjures images of ancient Egypt, gilded pharaohs and elaborate tombs along the Nile. Yet archaeology tells a very different story. Nearly 2,000 years before Egyptians perfected embalming, a community of marine hunter-gatherers living on Chile’s arid Pacific coast had already developed the world’s earliest known tradition of artificial…

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Kuwait caps domestic worker hiring at 10 countries, restricts recruiting from 27 others | World News

Kuwait has introduced new regulations governing the recruitment of domestic workers, narrowing the list of approved source countries and placing restrictions on recruitment from dozens of others.The Ministry of Interior has issued a circular setting out updated procedures for hiring domestic workers, with recruitment now permitted from 10 countries. Officials said the changes are part…

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Why a Shanghai grandpa gave away his Rupees 1.4 Crore flat to a stranger who showed him kindness

A 78-year-old Shanghai man named Qiangming spent nearly a decade living inside a supermarket despite owning an apartment nearby because he feared loneliness after his divorce and estrangement from his son. (AI generated image) Loneliness does not always look dramatic. Sometimes, it sits beside a person in an empty room, waits through silent meals, and…

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