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Spanish scientist helps free Australia’s ‘worst female killer’
Kathleen Folbigg spent twenty years in prison being demonised for killing her four children, until a Spanish scientist helped to…
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Commentary: Would you let Elon Musk implant a device in your brain?
INSIDIOUS INTRUSION Another vision for this technology is that the owners of computers will want to “rent out” the powers…
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‘A first’ from Mars: European spacecraft sends livestream from red planet
A European spacecraft around Mars sent its first livestream from the red planet to Earth on Friday to mark the…
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Middle East
Restoration lags for Syria’s famed Roman ruins at Palmyra and other war-battered historic sites
PALMYRA, Syria (AP) — At the height of the Islamic State group’s rampage across Syria, the world watched in horror…
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Newly discovered stone tools drag dawn of Greek archaeology back by a quarter-million years
ATHENS, Greece — Deep in an open coal mine in southern Greece, researchers have discovered the antiquities-rich country’s oldest archaeological…
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Private flight with 2 Saudi astronauts returns from space station with Gulf of Mexico splashdown
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private flight carrying two Saudi astronauts and other passengers returned to Earth late Tuesday…
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UAE announces groundbreaking mission to asteroid belt, seeking clues to life’s origins
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates unveiled plans Monday to send a spaceship to explore the…
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Stephen Hawking’s last collaborator on physicist’s final theory
PARIS: When Thomas Hertog was first summoned to Stephen Hawking’s office in the late 1990s, there was an instant connection…
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Egypt unveils recently discovered ancient workshops, tombs in Saqqara necropolis
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian antiquities authorities Saturday unveiled ancient workshops and tombs they say were discovered recently at a Pharaonic…
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Europe
The Spanish island where they say it with a whistle
On the Spanish island of La Gomera, in the Canary Islands, people can communicate by whistle. Dating back centuries, the…
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