JIREOMON Kimura has celebrated his 115th birthday with four generations of his family in Kyoto thanking "the sun above" for his longevity. Born on in Japan on April 19 in 1897, Mr Kimura would have been 6-years-old when the Wright brothers flew the first
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BARCLAYS sank into the red in the first quarter on massive exceptional charges, the British bank said. The lender suffered a net loss of £337m (€412m) in the three months to March, compared with a profit of £1.24bn a year earlier. The results included a
Mankind's ancestors may have started walking on two legs simply because it allowed them to carry more food away in their hands, boosting their chance of survival, scientists have said.Anthropologists studying chimpanzees found that the great apes, who us
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