20191225_101902

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Three days of national mourning in Argentina for footballer Diego Maradona

Argentina's president has said there will be three days of national mourning following the death of the country's most famous… ...

'Find some comfort in the hands of God': Lineker leads tributes to football legend Maradona

Tributes are pouring in for the legendary footballer Diego Maradona, who has died at the age of 60. ...

Ethiopia's army begins 'final offensive' against rebel forces in Tigray capital

Ethiopia's prime minister has said the army is moving in on the capital of the northern Tigray region after his… ...

Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: PM declares assault on regional capital Mekelle

PM Abiy Ahmed says the military will try not to harm civilians and urges people to stay at home. ...

Diego Maradona: Thousands bid farewell as Argentina grieves

Fans pay their final respects to the late football legend at Argentina's presidential palace. ...

Turkey court jails hundreds for life for 2016 coup plot against Erdogan

Air force pilots, other officers and civilians are jailed for trying to oust President Erdogan. ...

Biden faces test over Trump's secret server

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Bidens: We're letting go of the traditions we can't do safely

This Thanksgiving, tables throughout our country will have an empty chair. ...

Hear Biden's message to those who've lost loved ones

President-elect Joe Biden got personal delivering a Thanksgiving message to the nation from Wilmington, Delaware, as Americans prepare for Thanksgiving… ...

Chinese Premier To Attend SCO Heads Of Government Meet Hosted By India

China on Thursday announced that Premier Li Keqiang will attend the 19th meeting of the council of the heads of… ...

AstraZeneca Likely To Run Fresh Global Covid Vaccine Trial, Says CEO

AstraZeneca Plc is likely to conduct an additional global trial to assess the efficacy of its Covid-19 vaccine, according to… ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin Opens COVID Drug Plant Amid Record Cases

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday inaugurated a pharmaceutical plant in Siberia that will manufacture drugs to treat COVID-19 as… ...

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Äthiopiens Regierung kann den Krieg mit Panzern gewinnen, nicht aber den Frieden

So wenig über den Krieg in der äthiopischen Tigray-Region in… ...

Gottesdienst und Shopping sind nicht das Gleiche

Die neue konservative Mehrheit im amerikanischen Supreme Court lässt ihre… ...

Deutschland will Rechtsextremismus und Rassismus per Gesetz besiegen

Der Kabinettsausschuss «zur Bekämpfung von Rechtsextremismus und Rassismus» einigte sich… ...

Thailand confirms return of Iranians held over 2012 bomb plot

Thailand confirmed on Thursday it had returned three Iranians jailed… ...

Malaysia leader wins budget vote

Malaysia Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin survived a key test of… ...

B40bn high-speed train contracts inked

The State Railway of Thailand on Thursday signed five more… ...

Diego Maradona Is Mourned in Argentina

For many Argentines, Diego Maradona, who died on Wednesday, was… ...

Cho Joo-bin Gets 40 Years in South Korean Prison for Sexual Exploitation

Cho Joo-bin was convicted of blackmailing young women into making… ...

A Feared Law to Protect the Monarchy Returns Amid Thailand’s Protests

The country’s lèse-majesté law, which makes insulting the king punishable… ...

Äthiopien vor dem Bürgerkrieg: Der Vielvölkerstaat könnte zerfallen

Äthiopiens Präsident befiehlt der Armee, die Hauptstadt Tigrays zu erobern.… ...

Analyse Türkei: Erdogan zeigt, wie wandlungsfähig er ist

Der türkische Präsident Tayyip Erdogan will sich nach zahlreichen Provokationen… ...

Holocaust Gedenkstätte: Umstrittener Direktor

Der nationalreligiöse Ephraim Eitam soll Leiter des weltberühmten Museums Yad… ...

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Zebra finches amazing at unmasking the bird behind the song

Like humans who can instantly tell which friend or relative is calling by the timbre of the person's voice, zebra finches have a near-human capacity for language mapping. ...

Researchers examine which approaches are most effective at reducing COVID-19 spread

Researchers have found that physical distancing is universally effective at reducing the spread of COVID-19, while social bubbles and masks are more situation-dependent. The researchers developed a model to test… ...

Memories create 'fingerprints' that reveal how the brain is organized

While the broad architecture and organization of the human brain is universal, new research shows how the differences between how people reimagine common scenarios can be observed in brain activity… ...

Information for all visitors to ESA sites

Information for all visitors to ESA sites Coronavirus measures for hosted meetings and visitors ...

Iceberg A-68A: hit or miss?

Image: An enormous iceberg, called A-68A, has made headlines over the past weeks as it drifts towards South Georgia in the Southern Ocean. New images show the berg is rotating… ...

How can space improve urban planning?

Innovative solutions to urban planning will be explored at an online seminar to be held on Thursday 26 November. ...

Yellow fever – Nigeria

Reports of a cluster of deaths from an undiagnosed disease were notified on 1 November 2020 through Event Based Surveillance in two states, Delta and Enugu, located in southern Nigeria. ...

Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

On 18 November 2020, the Minister of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared the end of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Equateur Province. ...

Avian Influenza A(H5N1)- Lao People's Democratic Republic

The Ministry of Health in Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) reported a human case of infection with an avian influenza A(H5N1) virus. The case is a one-year-old female who developed… ...

Rural broadband: Where has all the money gone?

Network and service providers ask why the government's £5bn for rural broadband has been slashed. ...

Black Friday: Why bots will beat you to in-demand gifts

Black Friday and Christmas shopping are here - but it may be harder than ever to snag what you want. ...

AWS: Amazon web outage breaks vacuums and doorbells

Smart-home owners are left without service as an AWS outage breaks device functionality. ...