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  • West Japan Railway has introduced a 12-metre high robot mounted on a truck to perform maintenance work on rails, including trimming tree branches and painting.

    Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

    The 12-metre high machine has coke bottle eyes and a crude Wall-E-like head, as well as large arms that can be fitted with blades or paint brushes
  • A faded cave painting with a large pig visible in the middle.

    Oldest known picture story is a 51,000-year-old Indonesian cave painting

    Picture story featuring human-animal hybrids found in Indonesia is believed to be at least 51,200 years old
  • A large sea cow or dugong with its elongated snout stirring up sediment as it grazes the seabed

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘We rarely see them now’: just how vulnerable are Vanuatu’s dugongs?

    A study of the sea cow population in the South Pacific islands is urgently needed, say experts, as numbers fall dramatically
  • home affairs minister Clare O’Neil

    Australia to strike new funding deal with Papua New Guinea to manage transferred asylum seekers

  • a temu logo and smartphone screenshot of its online marketplace

    EU plan to impose import duty on cheap goods could dent Shein and Temu

  • The Imaginary. Netflix © 2024 Ponoc

    The Imaginary review – charming anime about made-up best friends from former Ghibli protege

  • Lawyers and supporters of victims of forced sterilisation carrying a banner demanding apologies and compensation march towards the supreme court of Japan in Tokyo

    Court orders Japanese government to pay damages over forced sterilisations

  • Taiwan demands China returns fishing boat seized by coastguard

  • US expels more than 100 Chinese migrants in rare mass deportation

  • Xi’s central Asia trip aims to cement ties as China vies for influence with Russia

  • A woman in white is grabbed by two police officers wearing masks

    Cambodia jails 10 environmentalists in ‘crushing blow to civil society’

    Activists from the award-winning Mother Nature found guilty on charges of plotting against government
  • Thomas Sainsbury (Ian) in Loop Track.

    Loop Track review – no escape for tormented hiker on horror trek to creature-feature hell

    Writer-director Thomas Sainsbury plays a twitchy divorcee who wants to get away from it all, but this intriguing journey disappoints at the final hurdle
  • Hundreds of people took part in the hunting contest in North Canterbury that targets feral cats - a pest in New Zealand.

    ‘Like the devil on meth’: New Zealand feral cat killing competition produces record haul

    Contest condemned by animal rights groups sees children and adults hunt cats, which threaten native wildlife
  • The G8388 Loop high-speed train is passing through Kunshanba town in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China, on June 15, 2024.

    China’s tech firms vow crackdown on online hate speech after knife attack

    Clampdown follows fatal stabbing of Chinese woman who tried to stop attack on Japanese mother and child
  • Multicoloured striped pieces of cloth hang from the ceiling

    Thai artist gives voice to Myanmar’s Shan refugees at Venice and Bangkok biennales

    Themes of displacement and diaspora explored in collaborative textile project as part of The Spirits of Maritime Crossing exhibition in Venice and Bangkok
    • Blue Lock the Movie: Episode Nagi review – football anime gets the battle royale treatment

    • Life at the heart of Japan’s lonely deaths epidemic: ‘I would be lying if I said I wasn’t worried’

    • Chinese space rocket crashes in flames after accidental launch

June 2024

  • The South Korean president, Yoon Suk-yeol, boards the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier during the trilateral ‘Freedom Edge’ military exercise.

    North Korea says drills by South Korea, US and Japan show nations have developed ‘Asian Nato’

  • A person passing an illuminated sign on a wall reading: 'IQOS - This changes everything'

    Tobacco giant accused of ‘manipulating science’ to attract non-smokers

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