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Voice-command ovens, robots for pets on show at Berlin's IFA tech fair 07 Sep 2019 - 01:38 pm
A pet feeding and fitness device is pictured at the booth of Varram at the international electronics and innovation fair IFA in Berlin on September 6, 2019. AFP / Tobias SCHWARZ
Google bans ads for 'unproven' therapies, including stem cells 06 Sep 2019 - 11:10 pm
The logo of Google is pictured during the Viva Tech start-up and technology summit in Paris, May 25, 2018. Reuters / Charles Platiau
Apple: Security report on iPhone hack created 'false impression' 06 Sep 2019 - 11:09 pm
An Apple iPhone Xs Max and iPhone Xs rest on a table during a launch event on September 12, 2018 in Cupertino, California. AFP / Noah Berger
Women hold one in five top science and tech jobs 06 Sep 2019 - 08:47 pm
A woman wearing a pair of Christian Louboutin shoes during Fashion Week in New York, February 12, 2010. Reuters/Carlo Allegri
Samsung Galaxy Fold isn’t just about the folding stuff 06 Sep 2019 - 06:46 pm
The Samsung Galaxy Fold 5G phone is presented at the hall of Samsung at the IFA consumer tech fair in Berlin, Germany, September 6, 2019. Reuters/Hannibal Hanschke
In Greenland village, shorter winters cast doubts over dog sledding 06 Sep 2019 - 06:46 pm
Justus Utuaq, a 32-years-old Greenlandic musher feeds his dogs in Kulusuk (also spelled Qulusuk), a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality located on the island of the same name on the southeastern shore of Greenland on August 17, 2019.  AFP / Jonathan
Tsars of the show: Aussie blokes become unlikely Russian folk heroes 06 Sep 2019 - 06:46 pm
Andrew Swain (R), director of the Dustyesky Choir, leading choir members during a rehearsal in Mullumbimby, on August 27, 2019. AFP / William West
The worm that turned: fossils shed light on early animal movement 05 Sep 2019 - 10:38 pm
This handout image released by Virginia Tech on September 4, 2019 shows an artist's reconstruction of Yilingia spiciformis worm. AFP/ Virginia Tech/ Shuhai Xiao/ Zhe Chen
Selfies from the disaster zone: how TV show changed Chernobyl tourism 05 Sep 2019 - 08:58 pm
Tourists take pictures at New Safe Confinement (NSC), new metal dome encasing the destroyed reactor, at Chernobyl plant, Ukraine, on August 15, 2019. AFP / Genya Savilov
Cafe brews hope for Nepal's trafficking survivors 05 Sep 2019 - 08:52 pm
A chef guides two employees - former trafficking victims - in the kitchen of Maiti Cafe in Kathmandu, Nepal, August 16, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Gopal Sharma
Rising risk: Flood damage now a mental health threat in Britain 05 Sep 2019 - 08:52 pm
A woman uses a bowl to clear water from her drive to prevent rising flood water from entering her house in the Sale area of Manchester, Britain, July 31, 2019. Reuters/Phil Noble
Indigenous tribes fear hard year ahead after Amazon fires 05 Sep 2019 - 08:52 pm
Members of the Tenharim indigenous community gather under a thatched roof in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, Sept. 1, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Fabio Teixeira
Tricked by family members, widows in rural Kenya left landless 05 Sep 2019 - 08:52 pm
A woman works at a quarry in Muiru village, central Kenya on July 16, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Kagondu Njagi
Just say no? Sierra Leone tests new ways to cut teen pregnancy 05 Sep 2019 - 07:29 pm
Although the global adolescent birth rate has declined in the last two decades, the number of teen pregnancies is set to rise, it says, because the world's population is growing.
Samsung to launch foldable smartphone after major delay 05 Sep 2019 - 09:28 am
FILE PHOTO: The Samsung Galaxy Fold phone is shown on a screen at Samsung Electronics' Unpacked event in San Francisco, California, U.S., Feb. 20, 2019 REUTERS/Stephen Nellis/File Photo
'Our territory, our history': Georgian monastery spotlights post-Soviet border troubles 04 Sep 2019 - 10:11 pm
A view of the David Gareja monastery in south-eastern Georgia. Picture taken on August 1, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Umberto Bacchi
Fire hazard: Children struggle to breathe as smoke chokes Amazon city 04 Sep 2019 - 10:11 pm
A boy looks on as his mother holds the nebuliser that is helping him with symptons of smoke inhalation, in Porto Velho, Brazil, on August 31, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Fabio Teixeira
Bangkok tops Paris, London as world's most-visited city MasterCard 04 Sep 2019 - 10:11 pm
A view of Chao Phraya river in Bangkok, Thailand, August 30, 2016. Reuters / Chaiwat Subprasom