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The rainy season's floods affected over 60,000 of the province's households and killed 18 people this year, Ayutthaya's Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Office said Friday.

The comic books have sold more than 260 million copies in Japan and worldwide by November last year, 40 years since the franchise's birth, according to publisher Shueisha.

Women and girls can compete in amateur sumo worldwide but they are traditionally barred from the professional version, which only takes place in Japan.

The Italian agronomist-turned-detective seeks descriptions of bygone local fruits in centuries-old diaries or farming documents, and sets out to find them.

British artist David Shrigley has piled tonnes of discarded rope into a London gallery and put a £1-illion price tag on it, in a playful take on the phrase "money for old rope".