NASA to send its first mobile robot to search for water on the moon.

NASA on Tuesday 25 May 2021 announced that it is planning to send its first mobile robot to the Moon in late 2023 that will conduct a search for the presence of ice and other resources on and below the lunar surface.  The Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or V…

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International Missing Children’s Day - 25 May.

International Missing Children's Day (IMCD), 25 May, is a day where people around the world commemorate the missing children who have found their way home, remember those who have been victims of crime, and continue efforts to find those who are still missing. The symbo…

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Nyiragongo volcano near the city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) erupted.

On 22 May 2021, the Nyiragongo volcano, which looms over Goma town in eastern DRC, erupted with lava streams pouring down towards the east in the direction of Rwanda. Another lava stream headed in the direction of Goma town and stopped 300 meters from Goma International Air…

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Phil Mickelson wins US PGA Championship.

Phil Mickelson minted golf history on Sunday, becoming the oldest winner of a major tournament with his victory at the 2021 PGA Championship. He finished two shots ahead of Brooks Koepka and Louis Oosthuizen at Kiawah Island's Ocean Course, following an excellent final r…

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Valeria Luiselli wins €100,000 Dublin Literary Award.

Mexican author Valeria Luiselli has won the 2021 International Dublin Literary Award for the novel "Lost Children Archive". The novel, the first the author has written in English, follows an artist couple on a road trip from New York to Arizona with their two child…

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Forbes Highest paid Athletes list 2021 released.

Forbes has unveiled its annual list of the 10 highest-paid athletes of the year. UFC star Conor McGregor has topped the Forbes list by earning $180 million in the past year beating soccer superstars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to become the highest-paid athlete in th…

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Norwegian Tennis Player Casper Ruud Captures Geneva Open Title.

Norwegian young Tennis Player Casper Ruud has clinched his second ATP Tour title by winning the Gonet Geneva Open held at the Tennis Club de Genève. The 21-year-old, No. 3 seed of the ATP 250 clay-court tournament, defeated second favourite Denis Shapovalov 7-6(4), 6-4 on 2…

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Naturalist Jane Goodall wins 2021 Templeton prize for life’s work.

The naturalist Jane Goodall has been announced as the 2021 winner of the Templeton prize in recognition of her life’s work on animal intelligence and humanity. Goodall, 87, built her global reputation on her groundbreaking studies of chimpanzees in Tanzania in the 1960s. Her…

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2021 Asia Cup postponed to 2023.

The Asian Cricet Council (ACC) has postponed the 2021 edition of the Asia Cup to 2023 due to the constantly changing situation in the country envolving in current global pandemic situation. This year's continental tournament was moved from Pakistan to Sri Lanka but risin…

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Bloomberg Billionaires Index - May, 2021

The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of the world’s richest people. Details about the calculations are provided in the net worth analysis on each billionaire’s profile page. The figures are updated at the close of every trading day in New York. Billionaire Gau…

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Red Bull's Max Verstappen wins Monaco Grand Prix 2021.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen has won the Monaco Grand Prix for the first time to take the Formula One championship lead from Lewis Hamilton.  His teammate Valtteri Bottas went from second place to out of the race before the midway point after his team botched a tire change.…

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World Thyroid Day - 25 May.

Every year on May 25th, World Thyroid Day highlights this important gland in the body that causes widespread disease across the globe. The day also educates the public on the role of the thyroid in their overall health. The thyroid is a small gland located at the base of the…

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US President Joe Biden appoints new US envoy for North Korea.

Joe Biden, the president of the United States, has appointed a special envoy to engage North Korea in dialogue, saying he and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in remain “deeply concerned” about Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal. At a joint news conference on Friday, Biden also sai…

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Pakistan Prime Minister Khan inaugurates 1,100 MW Karachi nuclear power plant.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurated the country's first Chinese-assisted 1,100MW nuclear power plant in Karachi. Khan virtually performed the inauguration of the plant, formally known as Karachi Nuclear Power Plant Unit-2 (Kanupp-2 or K-2), which was built wit…

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Google is opening its first physical retail store.

Google is opening its first physical retail Google Store, the company announced, which will debut in New York City this summer. The new store will be located in Chelsea, as part of Google’s campus in that neighborhood (the company’s New York headquarters are already located …

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South Korea and US agree to end missile guidelines.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in announced a joint decision on Friday 21 May 2021 with the United States to terminate guidelines that have long restricted Seoul's development of missiles. He was speaking right after the summit with President Joe Biden at the White Hous…

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International Tibet Mukti Divas - 23 May.

The Chinese government forcibly imposed its 17-point agenda on Tibet on 23 May 1951. The agenda was also forcibly signed with the then Tibetan authorities. This agenda states that there should be no interference with the position of the Dalai Lama, protection of the languag…

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UN announces release of USD 22.5 mn for rising humanitarian needs in Gaza.

The UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock announced the release of 22.5 million US Dollars towards the response to rising humanitarian needs in Gaza.  The amount includes a 4.5 million Dollars’ allocation from the…

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Collinet Makosso appointed Republic of Congo’s New Premier.

Republic of the Congo’s President Denis Sassou-Nguesso has appointed Anatole Collinet Makosso as the new prime minister. Before this appointment, Makosso was the education minister of the Central African country since 2015. He was also minister of youth and civic instruction …

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National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) based Inflation increased in April 2021.

Headline inflation, as measured by the year-on-year (Y-o-Y) change in the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI, 2013=100), increased to 5.5 per cent in April 2021 from 5.1 per cent in March 2021. This was mainly due to the statistical effect of the low base prevailed in Apri…

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