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India has launched what it says is the world’s lightest satellite ever to be put into orbit.
WORLD

India has launched what it says is the world’s lightest satellite ever to be put into orbit.

Weighing only 1.26kg (2.6lb), the Kalamsat-V2 was made by students belonging to a space education firm. It will help ham…

byFaraz Shauketaly26/01/2019
‘Worrying’ rise in global CO2 forecast for 2019
WORLD

‘Worrying’ rise in global CO2 forecast for 2019

Levels of the climate-warming gas are set to rise by near-record amounts, Met Office predicts The level of climate-warming carbon…

byFaraz Shauketaly26/01/2019
George Soros: China is using tech advances to repress its people
WORLD

George Soros: China is using tech advances to repress its people

Artificial intelligence and machine learning ‘are being used for authoritarian control’ The billionaire philanthropist George Soros has delivered a stinging attack on…

byFaraz Shauketaly26/01/2019
El Chapo trial: ex-bodyguard says he watched boss bury victim alive
WORLD

El Chapo trial: ex-bodyguard says he watched boss bury victim alive

Guzmán alleged to have committed three murders, marking first time in three-month trial he has been personally accused A former…

byFaraz Shauketaly26/01/2019
‘Racist’ D&G ad: Chinese model says campaign almost ruined career
WORLD

‘Racist’ D&G ad: Chinese model says campaign almost ruined career

The Chinese model featured in a Dolce & Gabbana ad campaign accused of racism has said the controversy almost ruined…

byFaraz Shauketaly23/01/2019
Zimbabwe troops accused of ‘systematic torture’ of protesters
WORLD

Zimbabwe troops accused of ‘systematic torture’ of protesters

A government-appointed human rights group in Zimbabwe has accused soldiers of using “systematic torture” in a crackdown on protests. The…

byFaraz Shauketaly23/01/2019
How El Chapo Escaped in a Sewer, Naked With His Mistress
WORLD

How El Chapo Escaped in a Sewer, Naked With His Mistress

By Alan Feuer   In the early morning of Feb. 17, 2014, the Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera was…

byFaraz Shauketaly19/01/2019
UK’s Prince Philip, 97, escapes unhurt from car crash
WORLD

UK’s Prince Philip, 97, escapes unhurt from car crash

Queen Elizabeth’s 97-year-old husband Prince Philip escaped uninjured from a car crash while driving on Thursday near the Sandringham estate…

byFaraz Shauketaly19/01/2019
Modi’s pre-election handouts to cost India billions, breach fiscal targets: sources
WORLD

Modi’s pre-election handouts to cost India billions, breach fiscal targets: sources

A series of vote-catching measures planned by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he braces for a difficult general election…

byFaraz Shauketaly19/01/2019
Jaws-dropping! World’s ‘biggest great white shark’ snapped off Hawaii
WORLD

Jaws-dropping! World’s ‘biggest great white shark’ snapped off Hawaii

A group of divers came face-to-face with a shark that is half the length of a bus and lived to…

byFaraz Shauketaly19/01/2019

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