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Asharq Al Awsat Below the waves off Germany's northern tourist beaches, a toxic time bomb lurks on the Baltic Sea floor -- enormous quantities of World War II munitions that are slowly rusting ...

As bubbles rippled across the frigid Finnish lake, diver Daan Jacobs emerged from a hole carved out of the thick, crackling ice. The journey had taken him 8 meters (26 feet) beneath the surface, where ...

On the eve of Apple's 50th anniversary, I bought an Apple QuickTake 100 from 1994. With help from some passionate indie software developers, I managed to get it up and running.