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Europe gains ground in global race to sell electric cars 12 Dec 2019 - 08:38 am
FILE PHOTO: A worker makes final checks on an e-Golf electric car at the new production line of the Transparent Factory of German carmaker Volkswagen in Dresden, Germany, March 30, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo
New drugs show rare promise against advanced breast cancer 11 Dec 2019 - 06:42 pm
Representative image: A monitor shows the image of a breast cancer at a centre run by the Reto Group for Full Recovery of Breast Cancer in Mexico City, October 18, 2012. Reuters / Edgard Garrido
Nobel winner Handke not welcome in Sarajevo and Kosovo 11 Dec 2019 - 06:42 pm
Austrian writer Peter Handke poses in Chaville, in the Paris surburbs, on October 10, 2019 after he was awarded with the 2019 Nobel Literature Prize. AFP / Alain Jocard
Grumpy cat, lovelorn whale are stars of 2019's top animal stories 11 Dec 2019 - 03:59 pm
FILE PHOTO: Goats, deployed on scrubland surrounding the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute, gather in Simi Valley, California, in an undated photo released to Reuters on December 6, 2019. Courtesy The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation
Dress Diana wore for Travolta dance sells for more than $280,000 11 Dec 2019 - 01:10 pm
Britain's Princess Diana's Victor Edelstein midnight-blue velvet evening gown (estimated at £250,000 - £350,000), which was worn by the princess when she danced with actor John Travolta at the White House in 1985. Also pictured is her Katherine Cusack eve
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