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The research was published in the journal Nature earlier this month. It was carried out by a team of international scientists based at different institutes in France, Italy, Bulgaria, and Austria.
Charlie Kirk murder: Tyler Robinson has been charged with aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm, two counts of obstruction of justice, two counts of witness tampering, and committing a violent crime when children are present.
Unite the Kingdom rally: What exactly happened in London on Saturday, and who is Tommy Robinson? Why are so many in the UK angry, and with whom? We explain, in three points.
India's Vice President Election Process: The Electoral College consists of 233 elected members of the Rajya Sabha, 12 nominated members of the Rajya Sabha, and 543 elected members of the Lok Sabha.
Total Lunar Eclipse September 2025 Time: How is a Blood Moon related to the colour of the sky and of sunrises and sunsets? What is a lunar eclipse in the first place? We explain, in 5 points.
The BLS report indicates that jobs growth in America has hit a slowdown, with employers creating only 22,000 positions in August. The unemployment rate in August reached 4.3%, the highest since 2021.
The settlement is the largest payout in the history of US copyright cases. Anthropic, which is behind the Claude family of large language models (LLMs), will pay $3,000 per work to 500,000 authors
Anutin has thus became the third Prime Minister in two years, a week after Paetongtarn Shinawatra was dismissed from the post by the Constitutional Court.
Trump first floated the idea in August, when he said that the Department of War sounded “like a better name”. “Defence is too defensive...and we want to be defensive, but we want to be offensive too if we have to be,” he said.
New GST Slab 2025-26: Will the new GST rules really make your Diwali brighter? What will be the impact of the govt's revenue loss? Also, what exactly is GST? We answer all your questions, starting from the simplest.
Not much is known about Kim’s daughter, who first appeared in public in November 2022 with her father at the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile
In the Indian caste system, while Brahmins are at the top of the pyramid, they are not the business class. 'Brahmin' in the sense of rich business families is more common in the US, where Boston's wealthy elite were once called the 'Boston Brahmins'.
Afghanistan earthquake news today: Afghanistan is particularly vulnerable to earthquakes. In 2023, the country’s Herat province experienced three major earthquakes, which killed nearly 1,300 people and wounded around 1,700. In 2022, a 5.9-magnitude quake killed at least 1,300 people in the southeast region
The Ramon Magsaysay Award is widely considered Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. This year, Educate Girls has become the first Indian organisation to win it. Here's what to know.
The analysis has said the tipping point that makes an Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) shut down inevitable could be breached within a few decades. However, the collapse of the current itself may not happen until 50 to 100 years later
Shinawatra has thus become the fifth Prime Minister, and the third from the Shinawatra family, to be removed by the nine-member Constitutional Court since 2008.
Their arrival, which has angered locals and ruined vacations during the peak summer tourism in Spain, has surprised everyone, including scientists. Blue dragons are typically found in tropical waters and have been rarely seen in the Mediterranean Sea
The Shinkansen is the world fastest and most efficient high-speed rail system, boasting average speeds of well over 200 km/h and zero passenger fatalities since its inauguration in 1964
