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Pretoria, Jakarta, Manila, Seoul, Apr 22 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: EPA) Climate activists around the world on Thursday marked Earth Day with events and rallies to call for greater global support for environmental protection.FOOTAGE OF CLEANING AND PROTESTS IN PRETORIA, JAKARTA, MANILA AND SEOUL.
The Nobel Peace Prize is a 'call to action' to end hunger around the world, World Food Program executive director David Beasly tells journalists on a field trip in Niger after the Norwegion Nobel Committee chose the UN body as this year's recipient. SOUNDBITE
Yokosuka, Dec 10 (EFE).- The Mariana Trench, the deepest point on planet Earth at 11 kilometers (nearly 7 miles) below sea level, is an inhospitable place and almost inaccessible to humanity. But it's not inaccessible to the garbage left by humans.Over three decades, researchers from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) have identified, photographed and recorded some of the waste generated by human activity that has ended in the deepest folds of the Pacific Ocean.In Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Trench at over 10,000 meters deep, these scientists found remnants of plastic bags and a wooden plank.Closer to the surface, but still several kilometers below sea level, they discovered objects such as slippers, a shoe, a sports backpack, several car wheels, a toy fire engine and a mannequin's head, which a marine organism had made its home. (Camera: ANTONIO HERMOSÍN). SOUND BITES: SANAE CHIBA, THE LEAD RESEARCHER OF THE STUDY "HUMAN FOOTPRINT IN THE ABYSS: 30-YEAR RECORDS OF DEEP-SEA PLASTIC DEBRIS" (IN ENGLISH).
Guillermo del Toro's 'The Shape of Water' leads this year's Academy Awards with 13 nominations, closely followed by 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' with nine nods.
This is Berlin's Bode Museum, one of the most prestigious museums in the German capital, and it was the site of a baffling, 'Ocean's Eleven' style heist which took place in the wee hours of Monday morning. Two thieves broke in to the museum at 3:30 AM and stole the world's second biggest gold coin, which weighs a whopping 220 pounds. The special print coin, which is called the "Big Maple Leaf" and was minted in Canada, is featured in the Guinness Book of World Records because it has a gold standard of 999.99/1000. Only five of these coins exist, each with a current gold value of over $4 million.
Keisha, Katherine McPhee, January Jones, Amanda Seyfried, Kristen Bell, Elizabeth Gillies were just some of the stars that attended a concert event hosted by Seth MacFarlane for 'OCEANA protecting the world's oceans'. Check out all the stars on the red carpet.