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AQABA, Jordan — Sunken tanks, a troop carrier and a submerged helicopter: Jordan on Wednesday opened its first underwater military museum off its Red Sea coast.The kingdom is hoping the 19 decommissioned pieces of military hardware, submerged at depths up to 28 meters (92 feet), will attract tourists to the already popular diving resort of Aqaba.The Underwater Military Museum Dive Site includes several tanks, an ambulance, a military crane, a troop carrier, an anti-aircraft battery, guns and a combat helicopter, the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) said.The sunken items have been "stationed along the coral reefs imitating a battle tactical formation", ASEZA said in a statement.The museum aims to offer a "new type" of museum experience combining...
July 24, 2019
Fish tanks: Jordan sinks military hardware for underwater museum
July 24, 2019
Hair apparent: Boris locks key to political brand
DALÍAS, Spain — "They work for me night and day," smiles Antonio Zamora, standing in his greenhouse. His minuscule employees are bugs that feed on the parasites threatening his peppers.Zamora, like most of his colleagues, no longer sprays his crops with pesticides, instead hanging small bags of mites on the plants, leaving them to attack parasites while sparing his produce.He owns two hectares (five acres) in the so-called "Sea of Plastic", some 30,000 hectares of greenhouses in southeastern Spain's Almeria province, where much of Europe's fruits and vegetables are grown.The sparkling mosaic of white plastic bordering the Mediterranean — which is visible from space — produces tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes, peppers and aubergines all year round to supply...
July 24, 2019
Insects replace pesticides in Spain's 'Sea of Plastic'
LOS ANGELES — Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande dominated nominations on Tuesday for the MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) with 10 apiece, but some K-pop fans cried foul when best-selling Korean bands were placed in a separate category.Grande's breakup anthem "thank u, next" and Swift's "You Need to Calm Down," in which she criticizes social media trolls, will contend for the top prizes of song of the year, best pop and video of the year.Grande also got a nod for artist of the year along with rapper Cardi B, 17-year-old newcomer Billie Eilish, Halsey, the Jonas Brothers and Shawn Mendes.Korean boy band BTS, which has led a K-pop music wave in the United States and scored three No.1 albums on the Billboard chart in the past year, got just four nods, including three in...
July 24, 2019
Swift, Grande lead VMA nominations but K-pop fans unhappy
July 24, 2019
Summertime, and the living is easy for Santas in Copenhagen
July 23, 2019
French inventor to hover across English Channel on 'flyboard'
July 23, 2019
Mick Jagger back to Venice fest with art heist thriller
July 23, 2019
Milky Way melded with smaller galaxy in long-ago cosmic crash
July 23, 2019
Zip-wire calamity to wild rugby tackles: The comedic face of UK's Johnson
July 23, 2019
Bad driving leads to $140m drug bust in Sydney
