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WHO chief hopes COVID will no longer be emergency next year 14 Dec 2022 - 06:40 pm
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a press conference at the World Health Organization's headquarters in Geneva, on December 14, 2022. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)
Microsoft seeks to bring internet to millions in Africa by satellite 14 Dec 2022 - 05:20 pm
In this file photo taken on November 20, 2022, a flock of pigeons flies as the sun sets behind the Great Pyramid of Khufu and a cellular broadcast antenna tower in Giza, the twin city of Egypt's capital Cairo, on November 20, 2022. (Photo by Amir MAKAR / AFP)
Nigeria's female-led startups winning investors in fight to close cash gap 14 Dec 2022 - 02:22 pm
Workers prepare sliced coconuts at Reelfruit factory in Lagos, Nigeria November 8, 2022. REUTERS/Seun Sanni
Rich nations against new biodiversity fund 13 Dec 2022 - 10:22 pm
Members of WWF protest during COP15, the two-week UN Biodiversity summit, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on December 7, 2022. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi/File Photo
US researchers announce historic nuclear fusion breakthrough 13 Dec 2022 - 09:28 pm
Scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (left - right) Principal Experimentalist Alex Zylstra, Principal Designer Annie Kritcher, Chief Engineer for National Ignition Facility Laser System Jean-Michel Di Nicola, Target Fabrications Program Manager Michael Stadermann, Stagnation Science Team Lead Arthur Pak and Tammy Ma, of the Inertial Fusion Energy Institutional Initiative, speak during a news conference at the Department of Energy headquarters to announce a breakthrough in fusion research on December 13, 2022 in Washington, DC.  Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP
Moderna, Merck cancer vaccine combo cuts melanoma recurrence by 44% 13 Dec 2022 - 05:09 pm
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Medieval-inspired communal bakery aims to help with cost-of-living crisis 13 Dec 2022 - 03:45 pm
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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