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China: Fish in Supermarket Tank Resembles Human Face

On August 27, 2025, a video from a supermarket in Henan, China, showed a fish flipping onto its back in a tank. Its mouth and fins resembled a human face, drawing laughter from shoppers who filmed the uncanny sight.

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Yemen's Houthi group claims home-made hypersonic missile attack on ship in Arabian Sea

STORY: Yemen's Houthi group claims home-made hypersonic missile attack on ship in Arabian Sea SHOOTING TIME: June 26, 2024 DATELINE: June 27, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:40 LOCATION: Sanaa CATEGORY: MILITARY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Houthi group launching a missile in an undisclosed location (source: Houthi group) STORYLINE: Yemen's Houthi group said on Wednesday they used a domestically developed hypersonic missile in an attack on a cargo ship in the Arabian Sea earlier this week. The Houthis released a video statement purporting to show the launch of the missile, dubbed "Hadim 2," without disclosing the exact timing of the attack. The video depicts a long, yellow rocket with Roman numerals on its fins, launched from a mobile platform in an unidentified desert location. The statement described the Hadim 2 as a solid-fuel hypersonic ballistic missile manufactured by Houthi military facilities. The group said this marked the first public revelation of the missile, used to target the Israeli-related c

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China's Xu Tongtong eyes breakthrough in freediving career

STORY: China's Xu Tongtong eyes breakthrough in freediving career DATELINE: Sept. 17, 2023 LENGTH: 00:07:11 LOCATION: Manila CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Xu Tongtong's 100m diving 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): XU TONGTONG, Chinese freediver 3. various of Xu Tongtong's diving training 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): XU TONGTONG, Chinese freediver 5. various of diving training 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): XU TONGTONG, Chinese freediver 7. various of freediving training base 8. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): LU QING, Owner of Freedive Superhome 9. various of coast views 10. SOUNDBITE 5 (Chinese): XU TONGTONG, Chinese freediver STORYLINE: As one of the world's best freedivers, China's Xu Tongtong is looking to add new accolades to her record book. This June, Xu dived 100 meters underwater without any breathing apparatus in both games of constant weight (CWT) and constant weight bi-fins (CWTB), becoming the world's third female freediver to pull off this "breathtaking" endeavor. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): XU TONGTONG, Chi

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Rare Chinese white dolphins spotted in S. China

STORY: Rare Chinese white dolphins spotted in S. China DATELINE: April 17, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:36 LOCATION: GUANGZHOU, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of white dolphins STORYLINE: Three Chinese white dolphins were spotted by fishermen in the waters off Shantou, south China's Guangdong Province. Dubbed the "giant panda in the sea," the Chinese white dolphin is under the national first-class protection in China, with fewer than 5,000 remaining in the country. A team of experts determined that a group of 13 Chinese white dolphins now lives in the waters in eastern Guangdong based on photographs of individuals identified by their dorsal fins. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Guangzhou, China. (XHTV)

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Biden approves more military aid as Ukraine's Zelensky visits Washington

STORY: Biden approves more military aid as Ukraine's Zelensky visits Washington DATELINE: Dec. 22, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:58 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the meeting and the joint press conference STORYLINE: U.S. President Joe Biden pledged visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday to offer military aid, mentioning in particular the Patriot surface-to-air missile battery he just approved for Ukraine in a new tranche of security assistance totaling 1.85 billion U.S. dollars. The weapons package approved by Biden, according to a list from the Pentagon, also included "precision aerial munitions," which it didn't explain in detail regarding the type and quantity. According to U.S. media reports, they might be the so-called "Joint Direct Attack Munitions," which would transform the unguided "dumb" bombs into "smart" bombs by the addition of fins and a precision guidance system. Arriving in the United States Wednesday for a visit, Zelensky told Biden he wi

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Urban Animal Album

OSAKA, Japan - A loggerhead sea turtle named Yu swims with artificially produced fins at Suma Aqualife Park in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on March 12, 2014. The turtle was found in the sea south of Osaka Bay, with part of its fore fins believed to be bitten off by a shark.

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Trade in 5 shark species restricted

KESENNUMA, Japan - Shark fins are being dried in the sun in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 14, 2013. Japan failed in a final attempt to prevent five commercially valuable shark species from being listed under restricted trade rules of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora during a CITES conference in Bangkok the same day.

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Trade in 5 shark species restricted

KESENNUMA, Japan - Shark fins are being dried in the sun in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 14, 2013. Japan failed in a final attempt to prevent five commercially valuable shark species from being listed under restricted trade rules of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora during a CITES conference in Bangkok the same day.

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Shark fins dried in the sun in tsunami-hit Kesennuma

KESENNUMA, Japan - Shark fins, a local specialty of tsunami-hit Kesennuma, are dried in the sun as part of their processing as a luxury food item, in the Miyagi Prefecture city on Oct. 17, 2011, after shark catches were landed at the Kesennuma port. The fins were suspended by strings because drying platforms were washed away by the March 11 tsunami.

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Goldfish with heart-shaped tail fin

IWAKI, Japan - Goldfish with heart-shaped tail fins are displayed at Aquamarine Fukushima aquarium in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 23, 2010. The new goldfish named Sakura Bristol is a hybrid of the Bristol Shubunkin goldfish bred in Britain and Tamasaba goldfish bred in Niigata Prefecture in Japan.

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Sensing crisis due to the new shark fin trading regulation

Japanese fishermen, drying shark fins under cold windy climates, in north part of Japan.

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U.S.-NEW YORK-MERMAID PARADE

(220619) -- NEW YORK, June 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A woman wears mermaid fins in the sea after the 2022 Mermaid Parade at Coney Island in New York, the United States, June 18, 2022. The Mermaid Parade made its in-person return on Saturday after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

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U.S.-NEW YORK-MERMAID PARADE

(220619) -- NEW YORK, June 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People wear mermaid fins on a beach after the 2022 Mermaid Parade at Coney Island in New York, the United States, June 18, 2022. The Mermaid Parade made its in-person return on Saturday after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

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U.S.-NEW YORK-MERMAID PARADE

(220619) -- NEW YORK, June 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People wear mermaid fins in the sea after the 2022 Mermaid Parade at Coney Island in New York, the United States, June 18, 2022. The Mermaid Parade made its in-person return on Saturday after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

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Shark fins dried in the sun in tsunami-hit Kesennuma

KESENNUMA, Japan - Shark fins, a local specialty of tsunami-hit Kesennuma, are dried in the sun as part of their processing as a luxury food item, in the Miyagi Prefecture city on Oct. 17, 2011, after shark catches were landed at the Kesennuma port. The fins were suspended by strings because drying platforms were washed away by the March 11 tsunami. (Kyodo)

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DAVID VENCL

Czech freediver David Vencl breaks Stig Severinsen's eight-year-old Guinness record for swimming under the ice. David Vencl set the record 80,9 meters underwater without fins or even a wetsuit below ice on a single breath of air in Lahost, Czech Republic, February 23, 2021. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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DAVID VENCL

Czech freediver David Vencl breaks Stig Severinsen's eight-year-old Guinness record for swimming under the ice. David Vencl set the record 80,9 meters underwater without fins or even a wetsuit below ice on a single breath of air in Lahost, Czech Republic, February 23, 2021. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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Goldfish with heart-shaped tail fin

IWAKI, Japan - Goldfish with heart-shaped tail fins are displayed at Aquamarine Fukushima aquarium in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 23, 2010. The new goldfish named Sakura Bristol is a hybrid of the Bristol Shubunkin goldfish bred in Britain and Tamasaba goldfish bred in Niigata Prefecture in Japan. (Kyodo)

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DAVID VENCL

Czech freediver David Vencl breaks Stig Severinsen's eight-year-old Guinness record for swimming under the ice. David Vencl set the record 80,9 meters underwater without fins or even a wetsuit below ice on a single breath of air in Lahost, Czech Republic, February 23, 2021. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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DAVID VENCL

Czech freediver David Vencl breaks Stig Severinsen's eight-year-old Guinness record for swimming under the ice. David Vencl set the record 80,9 meters underwater without fins or even a wetsuit below ice on a single breath of air in Lahost, Czech Republic, February 23, 2021. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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DAVID VENCL

Czech freediver David Vencl breaks Stig Severinsen's eight-year-old Guinness record for swimming under the ice. David Vencl set the record 80,9 meters underwater without fins or even a wetsuit below ice on a single breath of air in Lahost, Czech Republic, February 23, 2021. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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DAVID VENCL

Czech freediver David Vencl breaks Stig Severinsen's eight-year-old Guinness record for swimming under the ice. David Vencl set the record 80,9 meters underwater without fins or even a wetsuit below ice on a single breath of air in Lahost, Czech Republic, February 23, 2021. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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DAVID VENCL

Czech freediver David Vencl (sitting centre) breaks Stig Severinsen's eight-year-old Guinness record for swimming under the ice. David Vencl set the record 80,9 meters underwater without fins or even a wetsuit below ice on a single breath of air in Lahost, Czech Republic, February 23, 2021. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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DAVID VENCL

Czech freediver David Vencl breaks Stig Severinsen's eight-year-old Guinness record for swimming under the ice. David Vencl set the record 80,9 meters underwater without fins or even a wetsuit below ice on a single breath of air in Lahost, Czech Republic, February 23, 2021. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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DAVID VENCL, Guinness record, divers control

Czech freediver David Vencl breaks Stig Severinsen's eight-year-old Guinness record for swimming under the ice. David Vencl set the record 80,9 meters underwater without fins or even a wetsuit below ice on a single breath of air in Lahost, Czech Republic, February 23, 2021. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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DAVID VENCL

Czech freediver David Vencl breaks Stig Severinsen's eight-year-old Guinness record for swimming under the ice. David Vencl set the record 80,9 meters underwater without fins or even a wetsuit below ice on a single breath of air in Lahost, Czech Republic, February 23, 2021. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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DAVID VENCL

Czech freediver David Vencl breaks Stig Severinsen's eight-year-old Guinness record for swimming under the ice. David Vencl set the record 80,9 meters underwater without fins or even a wetsuit below ice on a single breath of air in Lahost, Czech Republic, February 23, 2021. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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DAVID VENCL

Czech freediver David Vencl (centre sitting) breaks Stig Severinsen's eight-year-old Guinness record for swimming under the ice. David Vencl set the record 80,9 meters underwater without fins or even a wetsuit below ice on a single breath of air in Lahost, Czech Republic, February 23, 2021. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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DAVID VENCL

Czech freediver David Vencl (centre) breaks Stig Severinsen's eight-year-old Guinness record for swimming under the ice. David Vencl set the record 80,9 meters underwater without fins or even a wetsuit below ice on a single breath of air in Lahost, Czech Republic, February 23, 2021. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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DAVID VENCL

Czech freediver David Vencl breaks Stig Severinsen's eight-year-old Guinness record for swimming under the ice. David Vencl set the record 80,9 meters underwater without fins or even a wetsuit below ice on a single breath of air in Lahost, Czech Republic, February 23, 2021. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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DAVID VENCL

Czech freediver David Vencl (centre) breaks Stig Severinsen's eight-year-old Guinness record for swimming under the ice. David Vencl set the record 80,9 meters underwater without fins or even a wetsuit below ice on a single breath of air in Lahost, Czech Republic, February 23, 2021. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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DAVID VENCL

Czech freediver David Vencl breaks Stig Severinsen's eight-year-old Guinness record for swimming under the ice. David Vencl set the record 80,9 meters underwater without fins or even a wetsuit below ice on a single breath of air in Lahost, Czech Republic, February 23, 2021. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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DAVID VENCL

Czech freediver David Vencl breaks Stig Severinsen's eight-year-old Guinness record for swimming under the ice. David Vencl set the record 80,9 meters underwater without fins or even a wetsuit below ice on a single breath of air in Lahost, Czech Republic, February 23, 2021. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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Norther pike

Northern pike (Esox lucius) - a head and a part of body and fins. Pilsen ZOO. (CTK Photo/Roman Krompolc)