Soyuz crew to blast off and mark 60 years of spaceflight
ALMATY (KAZAKHSTAN) - A three-man crew will blast off to the International Space Station on Friday in a capsule honouring the 60th anniversary of...
Polish teen’s false-front beauty website helps victims of lockdown abuse
WARSAW: Worried about reports of rising domestic violence during lockdown, Polish teen Krysia Paszko set up a website purporting to be a cosmetics shop...
Influenced by Clubhouse, Facebook experiments with audio
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook on Wednesday launched an experimental online forum called Hotline, an attempt by the social media giant to keep up with...
Biden tackles ‘ghost guns’ and US firearms violence
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden will unveil measures on Thursday aimed at curbing rampant US gun violence, especially seeking to prevent the spread of...
Philippine leader cancels address as coronavirus spreads among staff
MANILA: Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte cancelled a weekly televised address and meeting with his coronavirus task force on Wednesday, following dozens of Covid-19 cases...
Don’t spoil it! Italians celebrate classic carbonara
ROME - Italian gourmets celebrating Tuesday one of the country's classic pasta dishes -- carbonara -- had a simple message for foreigners: keep it...
China sentences Uyghur ex-government officials to death for ‘separatism’
BEIJING - Two Uyghur former government officials in China's Xinjiang have been handed death sentences for carrying out "separatist activities", a court said, as...
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter survives first night alone on Mars
WASHINGTON: NASA's Ingenuity mini-helicopter has survived its first night alone on the frigid surface of Mars, the US space agency said, hailing it as...
Rise of the ‘robo-plants’, as scientists fuse nature with tech
SINGAPORE: Remote-controlled Venus flytrap "robo-plants" and crops that tell farmers when they are hit by disease could become reality after scientists developed a high-tech...
Climate change driving marine species poleward
PARIS: Warming waters have driven thousands of ocean species poleward from the equator, threatening marine ecosystems and the livelihoods of people who depend on...
