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Gibraltar to ease strict abortion laws after referendum result

Gibraltar has voted to relax its tough anti-abortion laws following a referendum on Thursday. ...

Dissident Belarusian journalist and girlfriend moved from jail to house arrest

Dissident journalist Roman Protasevich, who was arrested when a Ryanair flight was diverted to Belarus, has been moved from jail… ...

The rise of Fast & Furious - and how Vin Diesel sensed Paul Walker had 'sent' John Cena to join F9

It starts with Vin Diesel's Dominic Toretto retired and seemingly happy enough living the quiet life - but it's not… ...

France's young voters turned off by key regional election

Abstention rates were very high in the first round, so what will happen in Sunday's run-offs? ...

Miami building collapse: Firefighters search rubble

Firefighters are scouring what was once the basement for any survivors of the Surfside apartment tower collapse. ...

Miami building collapse: Rescuers listen for signs of life in rubble

Rescuers search for survivors with 99 unaccounted for after the collapse of the 12-storey complex. ...

Officials hold press conference in Surfside, Florida, after 4 confirmed dead

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Hungary 'has no place in the EU anymore,' Dutch leader says

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At least 4 dead after Surfside building collapse, county mayor says

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Germany Eases Process For Nazi Victims' Descendants To Get Citizenship

Germany on Friday passed legislation to naturalise some Nazi victims' descendants who had previously been denied citizenship in what it… ...

Australia, Israel Were Covid Success Stories. Then, Delta Variant Struck

Australia and Israel, which had been successful in fending off Covid-19, reimposed restrictions on Friday as cases surged of the… ...

Australia's Largest City Heads For Lockdown Amid Delta Variant Spike

Central Sydney and its popular eastern beaches around Bondi were ordered into lockdown Friday as authorities try to contain an… ...

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Belarus Transfers Opposition Figure to House Arrest

The Belarusian authorities released Roman Protasevich and his Russian girlfriend,… ...

These Fonts Are Puzzles. Can You Solve Them?

Erik and Martin Demaine, a father-and-son team of “algorithmic typographers,”… ...

Ousting Toshiba Chairman, Foreign Investors Score Breakthrough in Japan

While Japan’s corporations have long resisted the entreaties of activist… ...

DIE NEUSTEN ENTWICKLUNGEN - Coronavirus weltweit: Corona zerstört Zukunftschancen vieler Kinder in Afrika, Israel führt erneut eine Maskenpflicht in Innenräumen ein

Über 179 Millionen Menschen sind laut der Johns-Hopkins-Universität weltweit positiv… ...

Deutsche Soldaten in Mali angegriffen: Mehrere Personen offenbar schwer verwundet

Deutsche Bundeswehrsoldaten wurden in Mali mutmasslich durch eine Autobombe verletzt.… ...

Operation «Ghostwriter»: Nach Deutschland gerät auch Polen ins Visier von Hackern

Die Regierung in Warschau beschuldigt Russland, mit gezielten Angriffen auf… ...

Fears full Bangkok lockdown could spread Covid to provinces

The Department of Disease Control has proposed only spot-lockdowns in… ...

Police weigh charges over Thursday rallies

Leaders and supporters of Thursday's unauthorised pro-democracy rallies in Bangkok… ...

Missing trawler found with dead skipper, no crew

SONGKHLA: A fishing boat reported missing almost a week ago… ...

Machtkampf bei den Cinque Stelle: Beppe Grillo ringt um seinen Thron

Sie nennen ihn den «Erhabenen»: Nun droht dem Parteigründer der… ...

Weissrussischer Journalist: Roman Protassewitsch und Freundin in Hausarrest versetzt

Bei der Zwangslandung eines Ryanair-Flugzeugs wurde er verhaftet, nun ist… ...

Mutmassliches Bombenattentat: 15 deutsche Soldaten bei Angriff in Mali verletzt

Bei einem mutmasslichen Anschlag sind am Freitag 15 deutsche Soldaten… ...

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NASA Selects 2 Missions to Study ‘Lost Habitable’ World of Venus

NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor. ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads for Earth with Asteroid Sample

After nearly five years in space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is on its… ...

NASA Invites Public, Media to Watch Asteroid Mission Begin Return to Earth

NASA invites the public and the media to watch its first asteroid sample return mission begin a two-year cruise home… ...

A new type of Homo unknown to science

The bones of an early human, unknown to science, who lived in the Levant at least until 130,000 years ago,… ...

Exoplanets in 2,034 star-systems get cosmic front-row seat to see Earth

Scientists have identified 2,034 nearby star-systems -- within the small cosmic distance of 326 light-years -- that could find Earth… ...

Stress can turn hair gray -- and it's reversible, researchers find

A new study offers quantitative evidence linking psychological stress to graying hair in people. ...

Human infection with avian influenza A (H5N8) – the Russian Federation

On 18 February 2021, the National IHR Focal Point for the Russian Federation notified WHO of detection of avian influenza… ...

Ebola virus disease – Guinea

On 14 February 2021, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Guinea informed WHO of a cluster of Ebola Virus ...

Rift Valley fever – Kenya

Rift Valley fever (RVF) has been reported in Kenya in humans in Isiolo and Mandera counties and in ...

Is Windows 11 the beginning of the end for Skype?

Windows 11 will not have Skype installed by default - favouring Microsoft Teams instead. ...

The valuable car part gone in 60 seconds

Why international criminal networks are behind a jump in the theft of catalytic converters. ...

Amazon and Google probed over efforts to stop fake reviews

UK competition watchdog begins formal probe into whether the internet giants have broken consumer law. ...

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