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Climbers to pay $13 fee on popular Mount Fuji trail

Hikers using the most popular route to climb Japan's Mount Fuji will be charged $13 each from July, with numbers…

Archeologists probe mysterious Canadian shipwreck

A shipwreck believed to date from the 19th century has washed up on the snow-covered shores of Canada's Atlantic island…

AI reads ancient scroll buried by Vesuvius eruption

Three researchers on Monday won a $700,000 prize for using artificial intelligence to read a 2,000-year-old scroll that was scorched…

Deep sea explorer says may have found Amelia Earhart’s plane

A deep sea exploration company has released a sonar image they say may be the remains of the plane of…

Royal Caribbean’s ‘Icon,’ world’s largest cruise ship, sets sail

The world's largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas, set sail from Miami on its maiden voyage Saturday,…

Big in Japan: country’s tallest skyscraper opens in Tokyo

Japan's new tallest building opened in Tokyo on Friday, taking the title from an Osaka skyscraper. The 330-metre-high Azabudai Hills…

Venice to launch tourist tickets in 2024

Venice announced on Thursday that it would introduce a fee for day tourists to enter the city's overcrowded historic centre…

120 incubator babies at risk after Israel cuts Gaza fuel: UN

By Rosie Scammell The lives of at least 120 newborn babies on incubators in war-torn Gaza's hospitals are at risk…

How a Bronze Age rock became a ‘treasure map’ for researchers

By Antoine AGASSE LEUHAN, France, Oct 17, 2023 (AFP) - A piece of rock with mysterious markings that lay largely…

Japan’s Mount Fuji ‘screaming’ from too many tourists

https://youtu.be/auLrtvpeRWc By Mathias CENA With its millions of visitors every year and the buses, supply trucks, noodle shops and fridge…

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