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First commercial electric plane takes flight in Canada 11 Dec 2019 - 12:41 pm
Harbour Air Pilot and CEO Greg McDougall flies the world’s first all-electric, zero-emission commercial aircraft during a test flight in a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver from Vancouver International Airport’s South Terminal on the Fraser River in Richmond, Bri
TV watching most strongly linked to obesity in kids: Study 11 Dec 2019 - 12:32 pm
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Facebook Portal will now work with just WhatsApp login 11 Dec 2019 - 10:42 am
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Keto diet may fight against Alzheimer's disease 11 Dec 2019 - 10:05 am
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WhatsApp won't work on millions of devices from next year 11 Dec 2019 - 08:21 am
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Climate change tops list of global worries for young people, says Amnesty 10 Dec 2019 - 11:24 pm
FILE PHOTO: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greets Swedish climate change teen activist Greta Thunberg before a climate strike march in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 27, 2019. Reuters /  Andrej Ivanov
Revving up to a new speed record in the Kalahari 10 Dec 2019 - 11:24 pm
The jet-propelled British Bloodhound LSR (Land Speed Record) car drives at about 900km/h, on November 15, 2019, during preliminary tests at Hakskeenpan in the Northern Cape Province. AFP / Rodger Bosch
Christmas in Iceland means a 'flood' of books under the tree 10 Dec 2019 - 11:24 pm
Visitors check out the Iceland pavilion featuring giant projections of people reading, on October 12, 2011 at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where Iceland was the guest of honour in 2011. AFP / Daniel Roland
Leaders 'criminally negligent' if they ignore climate science, says Al Gore 10 Dec 2019 - 11:23 pm
Former US Vice President Al Gore speaks during an interview with Reuters at UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid, Spain December 10, 2019. Reuters/Sergio Perez
Dictionary chooses gender-neutral 'they' as word of 2019 10 Dec 2019 - 11:23 pm
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Paris charity gets share of $1 mln prize for training refugees as museum guides 10 Dec 2019 - 08:54 pm
Representative image: People take part in a visit of the Discorde, Fille de la Nuit season exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo museum in Paris on May 5, 2018. AFP  / Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt
Homeless Santa? Banksy reindeer mural goes viral amid rough sleeping crisis 10 Dec 2019 - 08:54 pm
A man lays on a bench next to a new mural by Banksy in Birmingham, Britain, December 9, 2019, in this picture obtained from social media. @banksy/Instagram via Reuters
With few green spaces, Bangkok plants Asia's biggest rooftop farm 10 Dec 2019 - 08:54 pm
An aerial view of the urban rooftop farm at Bangkok's Thammasat University's Rangsit campus, said to be Asia's biggest. Photo courtesy: Landprocess
Child's play: Coding booms among Chinese children 10 Dec 2019 - 07:59 pm
This photo taken on November 7, 2019 shows Zhou Ziheng (L) helping his son Vita to create a game with coding on his laptop at their home in Shanghai. AFP / Hector Retamal
In Sweden's Arctic, ice atop snow leaves reindeer starving 10 Dec 2019 - 06:54 pm
This file photo taken on March 16, 2017 shows reindeers in Kautokeino, a town in Finnmark county, located in the northeastern part of Norway. AFP / Jonathan Nackstrand
Apple may add larger batteries to 2020 iPhone models 10 Dec 2019 - 12:19 pm
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Runaway warming could sink fishing and reef tourism 09 Dec 2019 - 11:20 pm
A green turtle swims through corals on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Cairns, Australia October 25, 2019. Reuters/Lucas Jackson
Winds of hunger: Simultaneous heatwaves to batter food-growing countries 09 Dec 2019 - 10:14 pm
A farmer tends to a wheat farm in the El-Dakahlia governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt, February 16, 2016. Reuters / Mohamed Abd El Ghany