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Too soon to call end to COVID-19 emergency, says Gavi chief 12 Dec 2022 - 09:46 pm
File Photo: Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi Alliance speaks during the session 'Rising to a Global Challenge: The 15th Anniversary of Gavi' in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos January 22, 2015. (REUTERS/Ruben Sprich)
Qatar to host FIA World Endurance Championship season-opener in 2024 12 Dec 2022 - 08:48 pm
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On-again, off-again Twitter subscription service to be relaunched 12 Dec 2022 - 09:22 am
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NASA capsule Orion splashes down after record-setting lunar voyage 11 Dec 2022 - 11:42 pm
NASA's unmanned Orion spaceship splashes down in the Pacific Ocean off Baja California, Mexico, on December 11, 2022. - Orion was launched November 16 on the Artemis rocket for a 25-day mission to the Moon. The main goal of this mission was to test Orion's heat shield -- for the day when it is humans and not test mannequins riding inside. (Photo by CAROLINE BREHMAN / POOL / AFP)
Japanese startup launches historic Moon mission 11 Dec 2022 - 01:47 pm
Officials of ispace Inc's HAKUTO-R mission look at live broadcasting of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for ispace at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Tokyo, Japan December 11, 2022. Kyodo via Reuters
NASA's Orion capsule heads for splashdown after Artemis I flight around moon 11 Dec 2022 - 11:34 am
NASA's next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from launch complex 39-B on the unmanned Artemis 1 mission to the moon, seen from Sebastian, Florida, U.S. November 16, 2022. REUTERS/Joe Rimkus Jr.
Let the lava flow! Iceland's volcano show is a hit 09 Dec 2022 - 11:25 am
Real molten lava originated from tephra and that erupted in 1918 from the Katla Volcano in southern Iceland, cools down on the basalt structure at the Lava Show showroom in Reykjavik city center, Iceland, on December 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeremie RICHARD / AFP)
US FDA authorizes bivalent COVID shots for 6 months old 08 Dec 2022 - 07:30 pm
Signage is seen outside of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in White Oak, Maryland, US, on August 29, 2020. File Photo / Reuters
Teenage walruses dine on gourmet mussels at new home in US zoo 08 Dec 2022 - 02:43 pm
Six-year-old walruses Balzak and Lakina swim inside the exhibit at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington, U.S., November 17, 2022. Katie Cotterill/Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium/Handout via REUTERS
Swirled brownies make a simple dessert even better 08 Dec 2022 - 01:58 pm
From left, tahini, white chocolate-peppermint and cheesecake swirl brownies. Photo by Scott Suchman for The Washington Post.
'Downton Shabby': US producer quits Hollywood to do up UK family pile 08 Dec 2022 - 11:44 am
An aerial view shows Hopwood Hall, the ancestral home of US film producer Hopwood DePree, that dates from the 15th century, which he is in the process of restoring, in Middleton, northern England on November 28, 2022. Photo by OLI SCARFF / AFP
Twitter to hike Blue pricing to $11 for iPhone app users -report 08 Dec 2022 - 10:07 am
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Oldest DNA on record - 2 million years - reveals Greenland's lost world 07 Dec 2022 - 08:18 pm
An artist's reconstruction shows the Kap Kobenhavn formation in northernmost Greenland two million years ago, at a time when temperatures were significantly higher than northernmost Greenland today, in this undated handout image obtained by Reuters on December 6, 2022. (Beth Zaiken/Handout via Reuters)
Webb telescope promises new age of the stars 07 Dec 2022 - 12:43 pm
In this file photo taken on September 06, 2022 This handout picture released by NASA on September 6, 2022 shows a stellar nursery nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula captured in crisp detail by NASA's Webb telescope, revealing never-before-seen features that deepen scientific understanding, the agency said. (Photo by Space Telescope Science Institut / NASA / AFP)
Sony says it has technology for humanoid robots, just looking for use 06 Dec 2022 - 02:01 pm
People watch Sony's robotic dogs 'Aibo' during a ritual ceremony Sichi-Go-San, which is usually held for praying for children's health and wellbeing, at the Kanda Myojin shrine in Tokyo, Japan, November 11, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo
Warmer noses are better at fighting colds: study 06 Dec 2022 - 12:23 pm
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Prehistoric 'wonderfully weird beast' Whatcheeria grew big quickly 05 Dec 2022 - 05:02 pm
A skull of the large early tetrapod and apex predator Whatcheeria, which lived an amphibious lifestyle around 330 million years ago and whose fossils have been found in Iowa, is seen with its many sharp teeth visible in the collections of the Field Museum, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., in this undated handout image. Kate Golembiewski/Field Museum/Handout via REUTERS
Australia starts building 'momentous' radio telescope 05 Dec 2022 - 11:16 am
This handout released on December 5, 2022 by Australia's Department of Industry, Science and Resources shows an artist's impression of low-frequency stations forming the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope, to be built in Western Australia. Photo by Handout / Australia's Department of Industry, Science and Resources / AFP