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• 2025-01-20 ~ B1
  Pizza delivery hero in a snowstorm
• 2025-01-14 ~ B1
  AI chatbots in holiday shopping
• 2025-01-07 ~ B1
  Japan's lucky bags offer New Year surprises
• 2024-12-17 ~ B1
  People put googly eyes on Bend statues
• 2024-12-09 ~ B1
  Standing on one leg as a measure of aging
• 2024-12-03 ~ B2
  'Brain rot' chosen as 2024 word of the year
• 2024-11-25 ~ B2
  Debate on banning social media for children under 16 in Australia
• 2024-11-19 ~ B1
  Japan's lowest English proficiency ranking
• 2024-11-12 ~ B1
  Humanoid robot artist sells portrait for $1.3 million
• 2024-11-08 ~ B1
  Japan plans conveyor belt road for Tokyo and Osaka
• 2024-11-02 ~ B1
  PhD student discovers lost Maya city in Mexico
• 2024-10-23 ~ B2
  California company develops giant catapult to launch satellites
• 2024-10-19 ~ B2
  Pillow fighting becomes a professional sport
• 2024-10-08 ~ B2
  Russian senator wants to ban quadrobics
• 2024-10-01 ~ B2
  Toyota ends Olympic sponsorship
• 2024-09-24 ~ B2
  Woman fined for leaving IKEA cabinet outside home
• 2024-09-17 ~ B1
  Gallery worker fired for hanging own art
• 2024-09-09 ~ B1
  Pomfret takes action to control tourist visits
• 2024-08-30 ~ B2
  NASA astronauts stuck on ISS
• 2024-08-24 ~ B2
  Unitree's new G1 humanoid robot can flip pancakes
• 2024-08-17 ~ B2
  Wizz Air introduces 'all you can fly' subscription
• 2024-08-15 ~ B1
  Fireworks festival returns to Fukuchiyama after 11 years
• 2024-07-25 ~ B2
  Amazon starts pharmacy service in Japan
• 2024-07-20 ~ B1
  Fourteen students hospitalized after eating spicy chips
• 2024-07-12 ~ B2
  Student flies to class to save on rent
• 2024-07-07 ~ B1
  Snake dies after bitten by man
• 2024-06-22 ~ B2
  More and more Americans lying on job resumes
• 2024-06-04 ~ B2
  Parcel found in garden two years after delivery
• 2024-05-31 ~ B1
  Fire-breather hurt in fight with mariachi band
• 2024-05-26 ~ B1
  Residents protest against solar farm in Japan
• 2024-05-18 ~ B1
  Do nothing competition in Seoul
• 2024-05-13 ~ B1
  Japanese official loses important papers to the wind
• 2024-05-06 ~ B1
  UK post office scandal over faulty computer system
• 2024-04-29 ~ B1
  Late night ice cream ban in Milan
• 2024-04-22 ~ B1
  NASA urged to help in Loch Ness monster search
• 2024-04-15 ~ B1
  House seen floating in San Francisco Bay
• 2024-04-07 ~ B1
  All Japanese to be called 'Sato' in 500 years
• 2024-04-01 ~ B1
  Japanese company making more adult diapers than baby ones
• 2024-03-25 ~ B1
  British woman first to finish world's toughest ultramarathon
• 2024-03-18 ~ A2
  Woman gets Antarctica tattoo for job at penguin post office
• 2024-03-12 ~ B1
  UK unhappy in world happiness ranking
• 2024-03-09 ~ A2
  Grandma gets stuck in shop shutters
• 2024-03-03 ~ B1
  Delhi Police find lost iPhone in just 3 hours
• 2024-02-25 ~ B1
  Disco parties in Kentucky convenience store toilets
• 2024-02-22 ~ A2
  Deer crashes into Old Navy store
• 2024-02-15 ~ B1
  Is British food misunderstood in Japan?
• 2024-02-07 ~ B1
  285-year-old lemon fetches more at auction than antique chest
• 2024-01-30 ~ A2
  Man opens airplane door and walks on wing
• 2024-01-26 ~ B1
  Ugly lawn wins international contest
• 2024-01-24 ~ B1
  Woman's unusual pronunciation of 'broccoli' goes viral on TikTok
• 2024-01-16 ~ B1
  Hole in the road brings dead man back to life
• 2024-01-11 ~ B2
  Tourist trap? The price of food in Niseko
• 2024-01-07 ~ A2
  Football team flies 7,000km and loses 12-0
• 2024-01-05 ~ B1
  Family dog eats $4,000 in cash

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