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The white-headed fruit dove (Ptilinopus eugeniae) is a species of bird in the pigeon family, Columbidae. It was described by John Gould in 1856, and the specific name eugeniae honours Eugénie de Montijo. Adults of the species have white heads, a purplish-red breast patch, a grey shoulder patch, olive-green upperparts, greenish underparts with a blue tinge, and a yellowish vent. Juveniles have green heads with the white restricted to the forehead and upper throat, a much smaller grey shoulder patch, and the red breast patch restricted to the centre of the breast. The species is endemic to Makira and the nearby islands of Ugi and Malaupaina in the Solomon Islands. It inhabits lowland, hill, and ridge forest, along with neighbouring agricultural areas, and is especially common in foothills. Its diet consists of small-seeded fruits and berries. The IUCN considers it a least-concern species. Although it can adapt to disturbed habitat, it is threatened by deforestation and habitat loss. (Full article...)

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Over Saudi Arabia, the crew and passengers of Flydubai Flight 1073 (aircraft pictured) avert an attempt to hijack or crash the aircraft.
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Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri is appointed the first woman prime minister of Morocco after her party's victory in the general election.
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October 5: Child Health Day in the United States (2026); World Teachers' Day

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1838 – A Cherokee band attacked settlers near Larissa, Texas, killing or abducting 18 people.
1903 – Samuel Griffith (pictured) became the first Chief Justice of Australia, while Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor became the first Puisne Justices of the High Court of Australia.
1937 – Six days after retiring from the Queen's College, Oxford, Robert Howard Hodgkin was elected its provost due to the sudden death of B. H. Streeter.
1962 – Dr. No, the first James Bond film, was released.
2014 – Formula One racing driver Jules Bianchi sustained fatal head injuries in a crash at the Japanese Grand Prix, dying the following year.

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There are 90 Grade I listed buildings in Mendip, a former local government district in the English county of Somerset. In the United Kingdom, the term listed building refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance; Grade I structures are those considered to be "buildings of exceptional interest". Most such buildings in Mendip are Norman- or medieval-era churches, many of which are included in the Somerset towers, a collection of distinctive, mostly spireless Gothic church towers. The greatest concentrations of Grade I listed buildings are in Wells and Glastonbury. In Wells these are clustered around the 10th-century Cathedral Church of St Andrew, better known as Wells Cathedral, and the 13th-century Bishop's Palace. Glastonbury is the site of the Abbey, where construction started in the 7th century, and its associated buildings. (Full list...)

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Bukharan Jews are a Mizrahi Jewish community originating in Central Asia, predominantly in what is now Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. They traditionally spoke Bukharian, a Judeo-Persian language closely related to Tajik. Jewish communities existed in Central Asia from at least the early medieval period, and Bukharan Jews later developed a distinct identity from Iranian Jewry. From the 1870s they began migrating to Jerusalem, where they established the Bukharan Quarter. Since the late Soviet period, most have emigrated to Israel, the United States and elsewhere, although small numbers remain in Central Asia. This photograph shows a group of Bukharan Jewish children and their teacher in Samarkand, present-day Uzbekistan, around 1910. It was produced by photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky as part of his work to document the Russian Empire from 1909 to 1915.

Photograph credit: Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

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