Forty-five per cent of the world's known flowering plants could be threatened by extinction, scientists have warned. Those under threat include orchids, varieties of pineapple, and many important crop species. Of the nearly 19,00...
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Over the next five years, three new heavy-lift rockets will put thousands of satellites into low earth orbit as part of Amazon's Project Kuiper. The project aims to provide broadband connections using a constellation of 3,23...
Coldplay will stop recording music as a band in 2025, frontman Chris Martin has revealed. Martin made the announcement on Radio 2 on Wednesday, in a clip trailing ahead to his Christmas Show with Jo Whiley on the same c...
The social media platform TikTok is making a big push into shopping. The video sharing app is famous for its short lip sync videos, dance routines and humour. And its popularity has soared during the pandemic. T...
US President Donald Trump has confirmed the White House coronavirus task force will be winding down, with Vice-President Mike Pence suggesting it could be disbanded within weeks. \\\"We are bringing our country back,\\\" Mr Trump said du...
Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga confirmed a case in Mbandaka, a city of a million people about 130km (80 miles) from the area where the first cases were confirmed earlier this month. Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga confirmed a case in Mbandaka...
An ex-political candidate was shot dead by her lover's wife in a suburban Philadelphia home before the attacker turned the gun on herself, police say. Jennair Gerardot, 48, broke into the house of Meredith Chapman, 33, and ambushed her as sh...
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One Missouri woman came up with a unique way to cherish her family’s Thanksgiving memories each year — and she couldn’t be more grateful that she did. In 2000, Deb Mills of Clinton began the holiday tradition of having each...
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Celine Dion's husband René Angélil has died at the age of 73, ABC News has confirmed. Angélil, who has been married to the famed singer since 1994, had been battling cancer for some time. \\\"René Ang&eacut...
BEIJING – A Beijing court has granted a divorce to an American woman and her Chinese celebrity-entrepreneur husband in a high-profile case that highlighted the often-hidden problem of domestic violence in China. The case began when Kim...
The Amazon rainforest, Vietnam's Halong Bay and Argentina's Iguazu Falls were named among the world's new seven wonders of nature, according to organizers of a global poll. The other four crowned are South Korea's Jeju Island, Indonesia's Komodo, the...
\\\"The Natural World Close-up\\\" (Firefly Books) showcases more than 300 extraordinary close-up photographs from nature. These are the closest views that technology will allow, the publisher says. Take a guess at what are you are viewing in thi...
Photo by Wolfgang Staudt In the previous post of this waterfall series, I wrote a list of the 5 tallest waterfalls in the world. I bet some of you were surprised not to hear more famous waterfalls or to see that the ‘big boys’ are not t...
I overheard (不小心听到)my husband telling our son about a fishing game he downloaded off the Internet: \\\"I played it for only a few minutes and caught two! \\\"But you should have seen the one that got away,\\\" he continued enthusiasticall...