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US environment agency axes nearly a quarter of workforce
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Pacquiao, Barrios make weights for Vegas showdown
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Spain see off spirited Swiss to reach Euro 2025 semi-finals
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Lowry accepted 2-shot British Open penalty over fear of 'cheat' backlash
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Moldova ex-minister charged in Interpol corruption case
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Canada wildfires burn area the size of Croatia
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Dubois says victory over Usyk would put him among boxing greats
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Fitzpatrick happy for 'Tiger-like' Scheffler to assume British Open pressure
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Venezuela receives 7 kids left behind in US after parents deported
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Argentines commemorate Jewish center bombing, demand justice
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Frank aims to take Tottenham to 'new heights'
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'Mass grave': Medics appeal for aid at last working hospital in Syria's Sweida
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Over 11 mn refugees risk losing aid because of funding cuts: UN
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Hojgaard twins hoping for British Open showdown
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Usyk at career heaviest for title fight with Dubois
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Charging Scheffler closes on British Open lead
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Brazil police raid home of Bolsonaro, accused of plotting coup
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France museum-goer eats million-dollar banana taped to wall
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Pogacar extends Tour de France lead with dominant time-trial win
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Tomorrowland music festival opens with new stage after blaze
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Arsenal seal divisive move for Chelsea winger Madueke
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G20 nations agree central bank independence 'crucial'
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Pogacar extends Tour de France lead with uphill time-trial win
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'Witnesses to despair': Marseille sees poverty fuel cocaine problem
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Stocks consolidate after bumper week buoyed by resilient US economy
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MacIntyre 'will not back off' in bid for first major title
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What's in the EU's two-trillion-euro budget bazooka?
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EU, UK target Russian oil in tough new Ukraine war sanctions
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Barca's planned Camp Nou return in August scrapped
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McIlroy 'excited' for shot at homecoming British Open glory
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Hunter Harman stalking second British Open crown
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Marquez tops Czech MotoGP practice as Martin returns
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Disinformation catalyses anti-migrant unrest in Spain
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Ex-Brazil president Bolsonaro must wear monitoring device: Supreme Court
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Resilient US economy spurs on stock markets
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Trump administration seeks to release some of Epstein probe material
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Man Utd agree deal to sign Brentford winger Mbeumo: reports
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New clashes rock Syria's Druze heartland as tribal fighters reinforce Bedouin
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Germany presses ahead with deportations to Afghanistan
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Crews rescue 18 miners trapped in Colombia
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McIlroy five back as Harman leads British Open
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Lyles the showman ready to deliver 100m entertainment
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EU targets Russian oil in tough new Ukraine war sanctions
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Liverpool line up swoop for Frankfurt striker Ekitike: reports
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Stocks up, dollar down tracking Trump moves and earnings
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Three Sri Lankan elephants killed in blow to conservation efforts
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Indie game studios battle for piece of Switch 2 success
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Former Liverpool and Man Utd star Ince banned for drink-driving
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Spain taming fire that belched smoke cloud over Madrid
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Top Holy Land clerics visit Gaza after deadly church strike
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Poop patrols: dogs to face DNA testing in French town
Dog owners in a southern French town are having to get their pets DNA tested under new rules to tackle the scourge of poop-strewn pavements.

Virgin Galactic's next spaceflight will include sweepstakes winners
Virgin Galactic's next spaceflight will include a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean who won their tickets in a sweepstakes contest, as well as an 80-year-old former Olympian.

Virgin Galatic's next spaceflight will include sweepstakes winners
Virgin Galactic's next spaceflight will include a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean who won their tickets in a sweepstakes contest, as well as an 80-year-old former Olympian.

Russia seizes shares of Danone and Carlsberg subsidiaries: decree
Russia took control of shares belonging to French agribusiness Danone and brewer Carlsberg, according to a decree published on Sunday.

New book claims to reveal identity of 'Jack the Ripper'
The great-great-granddaughter of a police officer who investigated the "Jack the Ripper" murders in 19th century London believes she has uncovered the killer's true identity, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

As climate changes, farms in US 'Peach State' Georgia suffer
From a distance, everything looks normal: neat rows of peach trees, their green leaves fluttering in the wind, near a pretty little American farmhouse.

UK govt approves construction of road tunnel near Stonehenge
The British government on Friday approved the construction of a controversial road tunnel near the historic Stonehenge site in southwestern England.

India launches cut-price mission to land on Moon
India launched a rocket on Friday carrying an unmanned spacecraft to land on the Moon, its second attempt to do so as its cut-price space programme seeks to reach new heights.

Google launches ChatGPT rival Bard in EU, Brazil
Google launched its AI chatbot Bard in the European Union, Brazil and a dozen other countries on Thursday and unveiled new features as it expands access to its answer to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT.

Musk launches xAI to rival OpenAI, Google
Elon Musk on Wednesday launched his own artificial intelligence company, xAI, as he seeks to compete with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT -- a program he accuses of being politically biased and irresponsible.

In Brazil, stargazers escape cities in search of 'astro-tourism'
Awestruck by the oranges and blues of the Jewel Box star cluster, part of the Southern Cross constellation, Pedro Froes manages to get out a few words: "It's incredible."

Chinese hackers breached US govt email accounts: Microsoft
Chinese-based hackers seeking intelligence information breached the email accounts of a number of US government agencies, computer giant Microsoft said.

NASA celebrates Webb telescope anniversary with close-up of stellar birth
Jets of red gas bursting into the cosmos, and a glowing cave of dust: NASA marked a year of discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope Wednesday with a spectacular new image of Sun-like stars being born.

NASA celebrates Webb's first year with close-up of stellar birth
Jets of red gas bursting into the cosmos, and a glowing cave of dust: NASA unveiled a spectacular new image Wednesday depicting the birth of stars to mark the first anniversary of the James Webb Space Telescope's science operations.

NASA to unveil new Webb image on telescope's first anniversary
NASA is set Wednesday to unveil a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope a year after it first stunned the world with breathtaking views of the distant cosmos.

India shoots for the moon with latest rocket launch
India on Friday launches its latest attempt at an unmanned moon landing, the next frontier of a burgeoning, cut-price aerospace programme rapidly closing in on the milestones set by global superpowers.

Canadian lake ground-zero for Anthropocene epoch
Scientists on Tuesday designated a small body of water near Toronto, Canada as ground-zero for the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch defined by humanity's massive and destabilising impact on the planet.

Foxconn pulls from $19.4 bn deal in India to make semiconductors
Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn withdrew from a $19.4 billion deal with India's Vedanta to make semiconductors in the South Asian nation owing to "challenging gaps", it announced Tuesday.

Australia, New Zealand revive 'football's Ashes'
Australia and New Zealand will play this year for the "Soccer Ashes", sporting officials said Tuesday, a long-forgotten trophy recently rediscovered almost 70 years after it was lost.

ChatGPT dragged to US court over AI copyright
US comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors have sued Open AI over copyright infringement in the latest pushback by creatives since the company's release of ChatGPT took the world by storm.

Signs of the human era, from nuclear fallout to microplastics
As scientists make the case that humans have fundamentally transformed the planet enough to warrant our own geological epoch, another question arises: is there anything left untouched by humanity's presence?

'Like a mirror': Astronomers identify most reflective exoplanet
A scorching hot world where metal clouds rain drops of titanium is the most reflective planet ever observed outside of our Solar System, astronomers said on Monday.

In vaccination champ Brazil, many have stopped getting shots
Two years after Brazil began emerging from its pandemic horror show thanks to a massive immunization campaign, officials face a paradoxical predicament: vaccination rates have plunged, and not just for Covid-19.

Startup bets on kitesurf to blow away shipping pollution
Inspired by kitesurfing, French firms want to deploy the same wind technology to propel everything from yachts to cargo ships in order to cut the shipping industry's massive carbon footprint.

US destroys its last chemical weapons, watchdog hails milestone
President Joe Biden announced Friday that the United States has fully destroyed its decades-old stockpiles of chemical weapons, a milestone hailed as completing the elimination around the world of all known stores of the agents of mass death.

US has destroyed all its chemical weapons: Biden
President Joe Biden announced Friday that the United States has fully destroyed its decades-old stockpiles of chemical weapons, fulfilling a commitment under the three-decade-old Chemical Weapons Convention.
AI robots at UN reckon they could run the world better
A panel of AI-enabled humanoid robots told a United Nations summit on Friday that they could eventually run the world better than humans.

Musk predicts Tesla self-driving cars 'later this year'
Electric car giant Tesla is set to realise fully autonomous vehicles "later this year", CEO Elon Musk said Thursday, in the billionaire's latest forecast for the long-anticipated milestone.

Final Ariane 5 blasts off amid Europe rocket crisis
Europe's workhorse Ariane 5 rocket blasted off for a final time on Wednesday, with its farewell flight after 27 years of launches coming at a difficult time for European space efforts.

US court limits officials' contacts with social media firms
A US federal court on Tuesday restricted some top officials and agencies of President Joe Biden's administration from meeting and communicating with social media companies to moderate their content, a ruling that could curtail government efforts to fight online falsehoods.

Disinformation researchers lament 'chilling' US legal campaign
The study of disinformation has emerged as a political lightning rod in the United States, with conservative advocates launching a sweeping legal offensive that researchers fighting falsehoods denounce as an intimidation campaign ahead of the 2024 election.

Carbon 'capture' climate tech is booming, and confusing
Humanity's failure to draw down planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions -- 41 billion tonnes in 2022 -- has thrust once-marginal options for capping or reducing CO2 in the atmosphere to centre stage in climate policy and investment.