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The £6.9bn world’s longest bridge that’s strong enough to resist earthquakes and typhoons | World | News

A colossal bridge in China is the world’s longest and is designed to withstand typhoons and powerful earthquakes. The Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge was constructed between 2006 and 2010, and officially launched in June 2011. That month, it gained the Guinness World Record for being the longest in the world. But despite the vast scale of […]

The ‘mountains’ 100 times taller than the Everest that are hidden beneath Earth’s surface | World | News

Two enormous continent-sized mountains 100 times taller than Everest are hidden thousands of kilometres beneath the Earth’s surface, according to new research that has left experts stunned. The gigantic rocky islands, dwarfing any other mountain on Earth, lie just above the planet’s core. One sits under Africa, the other beneath the Pacific Ocean. These vast […]

After Assad, these 3 women are working to build a just and peaceful Syria

The Current24:51Meet the Syrian women demanding a role in the country’s future As Alma Salem crossed the border from Lebanon into Syria she asked the driver to pull over. She fled the country 13 years ago when Bashar al-Assad’s authoritarian government opposed pro-democracy protests with military force, plunging the country into civil war. The collapse of Assad’s regime […]

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