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These Stunning Pictures Will Shatter Your Image Of Opera

Think opera is dull? Wait to see you see the sun rise out of Sydney Harbour.

A bizarre sun has risen over Sydney Harbour.

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It rose behind a giant stage built over the water.

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The enormous 12m high inflatable sun is a prop in Madama Butterfly, an outdoor opera performed on a temporary stage built on Australia's most famous waterway.

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The very 21st century interpretation of Puccini's 1903 opera stars Japanese soprano Hiromi Omura as Cio-Cio-San.

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27 Reasons The UConn Women Huskies Are An Unstoppable Force To Be Reckoned With

Eight national titles. 14 Final Four appearances. 37 Big East championships. Any questions?

The UConn women's basketball is a complete powerhouse of a team.

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Every year, their roster of players keeps getting better and better.

Current players, from left to right: Moriah Jefferson, Breanna Stewart, Stefanie Dolson, Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, and Bria Hartley.

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The program has produced players like Maya Moore.

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And Diana Taurasi.

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Banksy Reworks Famous Piece To Mark Third Anniversary Of Syria Conflict

The image will be projected onto the Eiffel Tower.

The altered image will be used to promote the #withsyria campaign in support of victims of the conflict.

The reclusive artist has written on his website about an incident in the Syrian town of Daraa in 2011 which saw 15 children “arrested and tortured for painting anti-authoritarian graffiti”.

“The protests that followed their detention led to an outbreak of violence

across the country that would see a domestic uprising transform into a

civil war displacing 9.3 million people from their homes.”

A series of vigils are due to be held around the world this week to mark the third anniversary of the Syrian civil war.

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24 Big Questions Science Still Needs To Answer

Will we ever have jetpacks?

To celebrate the launch of its new publication Mosaic the Wellcome Trust asked leading scientists, journalists and thinkers what they thought was the biggest question remaining in science. These are what they came up with.

How does the brain generate consciousness?

Mo Costandi, neuroscientist and writer.

Scientists might never be able to explain what consciousness is. But scientists have somewhere to start in determining how it comes about by looking at neurological patients whose injuries have changed their consciousness – for example, damage to some structures in the brainstem leaves people in a coma.

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What are the limits of human life and physiology?

Kevin Fong, space medicine expert.

At the moment, astronauts that go up to the International Space Station are limited to spending six months in space at a time because of the effects of microgravity on the human body. But from March 2015 astronaut Scott Kelly is going to spend a year in orbit. And his twin, astronaut Mark Kelly, will be staying on Earth. Nasa hopes this unique twin study will give us some insight into how we can counteract the damaging effects of space on our bodies.

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Can we replace damaged brain parts with computational devices?

Vaughan Bell, author.

We already have prosthetic limbs but “neural prostheses” to replace or bypass damaged brain tissue are a bit further away, because the brain is so complicated.

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Watch Sarah Jessica Parker Answer 73 Questions In Her NYC Home

This adorable interview comes courtesy of Vogue .

So many things learned from this video! Her least favorite food,

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her favorite pizza topping,

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on a scale of 1 to 10 how excited she is about life,

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Which Weird Subculture Wedding Will You Have?

Bring on the Klingons.

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33 Deeply Remorseful Australians Apologise To Asylum-Seekers

These people are ashamed to be Australian. And they’re sorry.

A website has been set up for Australians embarrassed by the treatment of asylum-seekers.

“This website is about humanity and compassion. It's not about arguing against one political party's policy or any particular politician. It's not about legal definitions or grandstanding… It may not change the world, but it's a start.”

—Sorryasylumseekers.com

Participants have been spurred into action by the recent death of asylum-seeker Reza Berati in a detention centre riot on Manus Island, PNG.

Australians at home and overseas have uploaded pictures to sorryasylumseekers.com

The ruling Coalition government and previous Labor administration have pursued hardline policies towards asylum-seekers attempting to reach Australia by sea.

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Eleven Million Cigarettes Have Washed Up On The Devon Coast

They’re on the beach near Beer, North Devon.

There are 14 tonnes of cigarettes in this container.

It was one of a reported 517 to be washed off a cargo ship in the Bay of Biscay at the end of last week.

Police have told those after free cigarettes to keep their hands off.

A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall police said: “It was reported by a member of the public at 8.10am this morning and officers are on scene to make sure no one puts themselves at risk to recover anything.”

If full, the 40ft shipping container could have had as many as 55,511 cartons of cigarettes.

The spokesman said: “The contents belong initially to the original owner of the container, and then to the official Receiver of Wrecks, so anyone taking anything that washes ashore, even one packet of cigarettes, is effectively committing theft and will be prosecuted.”

Containers were lost from a Maersk cargo ship as it crossed the northern stretches of the Bay of Biscay on 14 February.

A spokesman for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said: “Most of the containers were empty and are believed to have sunk approximately 75 nautical miles south west of Lands End in French waters.”