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Google, Microsoft invest in booming Indian-language TikTok rival 22 Dec 2020 - 11:20 am
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From tourism to Covid-era deliveries - Barcelona women reinvent bike business 21 Dec 2020 - 02:42 pm
Geraldine Caillaud, member of the bicycle delivery company Les Mercedes, leaves their office with a bicycle at Barcelona's city center, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Spain, December 17, 2020. Picture taken December 17, 2020. Reuters/Albert Gea
'World's ugliest Orchid' among new species named in 2020 20 Dec 2020 - 04:08 pm
An orchid (Gastrodia agnicellus) is seen in this handout photo taken in Madagascar on September 20, 2019. Rick Burian/Handout via Reuters
Syrian potter preserves centuries-old craft 20 Dec 2020 - 03:23 pm
Syrian-Armenian potter Misak Antranik Petros watches his son Anto moulding a clay vase at his workshop located inside an ancient mud-brick house near the city of Qamishli in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, on December 19, 2020. AFP / Delil Souleima
Covid labour shortage makes Greek olive harvest a traditional family affair again 20 Dec 2020 - 11:30 am
Nikos Argirakis gathers olives in his olive grove in village Aghios Andreas, about 300 kilometers from Athens, on December 16, 2020. AFP / Angelos Tzortzinis
NBK Automobiles presents Mercedes-Benz S-Class 20 Dec 2020 - 09:31 am
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2020 in records: K-pop and the planet get super hot 19 Dec 2020 - 07:50 pm
BTS accept the win for Best Group at the MTV EMA's 2020, in Los Angeles, California, U.S. in this screengrab image released on November 8, 2020. Courtesy of MTV/via REUTERS
Lab-grown meat makes historic debut in Singapore 19 Dec 2020 - 03:00 pm
This undated handout from Eat Just released on December 19, 2020 shows a nugget made from lab-grown chicken meat at a restaurant in Singapore, which became the first country to allow meat created without slaughtering any animals to be sold. AFP PHOTO / EA
Massive iceberg pivots, breaks near south Atlantic penguin colony island 18 Dec 2020 - 09:56 pm
A satellite image of the A-68A iceberg (L) as it approaches South Georgia island (R) in the South Atlantic, December 4, 2020. Picture taken December 4, 2020. Copernicus Sentinel-Pierre Markuse/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Zoom's Christmas gift: no cap on call lengths over the holidays 18 Dec 2020 - 03:18 pm
In this file photo illustration a Zoom App logo is displayed on a smartphone on March 30, 2020 in Arlington, Virginia. Zoom shares soared on August 31 after the video-meeting service reported that quarterly revenue rocketed as its ranks of users more than
WhatsApp tests voice and video calls on desktop version - report 18 Dec 2020 - 03:09 pm
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'We made it': Iraqi refugee family is home at last 17 Dec 2020 - 05:15 pm
In this photograph taken on September 24, 2020, 32 year-old Ahmad (R) with his wife Alia and their five year old son Adam pose standing in a park in the town of Duiven, The Netherlands. (AFP / ARIS MESSINIS)
Singapore's foodie "hawker" culture given UNESCO recognition 17 Dec 2020 - 02:14 pm
People have their lunch at the Maxwell market hawker centre in Singapore on December 17, 2020, a day after Singapore's street food culture was included on a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) list of intangible cultu
Chinese craft returns to Earth with moon rocks 17 Dec 2020 - 11:47 am
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PlayStation 5 scalpers use bots to hunt down scarce consoles 17 Dec 2020 - 10:42 am
In a photo taken on November 12, 2020, a customer walks away after purchasing the new Sony Playstation PS5 in Seoul after Sony launched the new console in select markets around the world. / AFP / Ed JONES
Facebook to implement UK accounts switch after Brexit 16 Dec 2020 - 07:06 pm
FILE PHOTO: A Facebook App logo is displayed on a smartphone on March 25, 2020 in Arlington, Virginia.  AFP / Olivier DOULIERY
Auto Class Cars launches all-new Maxus vehicles for individual, transport use 16 Dec 2020 - 11:05 am
Managing Director for Auto at Nasser Bin Khaled Group, Sheikh Faleh bin Nawaf Al Thani, with other officials during the launch event in Doha recently.
Without clearing any new farmland, we could feed two earths’ worth of people 15 Dec 2020 - 06:13 pm
A sugarcane farmer at Zhongba, a small island near to the southwestern city of Chongqing. AFP / NOEL CELIS