Leonardo and Microsoft team up to help digitalize public systems.

Italian defence group Leonardo (LDOF.MI) and U.S. tech giant Microsoft (MSFT.O) have teamed up to boost the digital transformation of Italy's public administration and critical national infrastructures. The project will focus on data protection and the use of advanced cl…

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Climate change destroying world's oldest animal painting.

Indonesian rock art is decaying at an alarming rate due to the effects of climate change, researchers said. This includes a picture of a wild pig drawn 45,500 years ago on the island of Sulawesi - said to be the world's oldest animal cave painting. Other cave motifs in th…

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Scientists have grown a beating mini heart organoid in the lab.

Researchers from Vienna’s Austrian Academy of Sciences have grown tiny 3D heart-like organs in a petri-dish. Made from human stem cells, these sesame-seed-sized cardiac models even beat like the real thing. Significantly, unlike previous versions of these tiny heart organs (…

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Privacy campaigner and ex-motorsport boss Max Mosley dies at 81.

Former motorsport boss Max Mosley, who later became a privacy campaigner, has died aged 81. Mr Mosley, who had been suffering from cancer, led motorsport's governing body the FIA from 1993 to 2009. Mr Mosley is the son of 1930s British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley. Mo…

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Andy Jassy will become Amazon’s CEO on July 5th 2021.

Andy Jassy will officially become the CEO of Amazon on July 5th, the company announced at a shareholder meeting. Amazon announced that Jassy, who is the current CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), would replace Jeff Bezos as CEO of the entire company in February. Bezos will be…

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David Barnea Appointed as Israel's Next Mossad Chief.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed David Barnea as the new head of the country's spy agency, the Mossad. Barnea, a former longtime Mossad operative, will succeed Yossi Cohen as head of Israel's intelligence agency on June 1. Cohen has served as Isra…

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Record-setting U.S. Olympic sprinter Lee Evans passes away.

Lee Evans, the record-setting sprinter who wore a black beret in a sign of protest at the 1968 Olympics then went onto a life of humanitarian work in support of social justice.  Evans became the first man to crack 44 seconds in the 400 meters, winning the gold medal at the M…

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Guillermo Lasso in Ecuador's sworn in as the first right-wing leader in 14 years.

Conservative Guillermo Lasso assumed the presidency of Ecuador on Monday 24 May 2021, becoming the country's first right-wing leader in 14 years. The 65-year-old former banker beat left-wing economist Andres Arauz in a second-round run-off last month and succeeds the hug…

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Menstrual Hygiene Day - 28 May.

May 28 is observed as Menstrual Hygiene Day across the world. Though it is as normal as any other biological function of a human body, where the lining of the uterus breaks down and leaves the body through the vagina, it is still brushed under the carpet and not discussed o…

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Iran bans bitcoin mining after blackouts and power shortages.

Iran’s government announced a ban on the mining of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, the country’s president, Hassan Rouhani, announced Wednesday 26 May 2021, as officials blame the energy-intensive process for blackouts in a number of Iranian cities. The ban is effective …

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English Footballer Kane wins Premier League Golden Boot for a third time.

Harry Kane has won the Premier League Golden Boot for the third time, with the Tottenham striker notching 23 goals for the season. Kane has passed the 20-goal mark in the Premier League for the fifth time in the last seven years, though the first time since the 2017-18 campa…

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First Lunar Eclipse of 2021 was visible to Sri Lanka on 26 May.

The first total lunar eclipse of the year 2021 was visible to Sri Lanka on May 26. The Penumbral Lunar Eclipse was visible in the sky over Sri Lanka, when the moon is in the less dark shadow of the Earth (penumbra), as a penumbral lunar eclipse with a little dimming of the M…

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Roadmap to create a green socio-economy in Sri Lanka.

Ministers presented a roadmap prepared with the aim of transforming Sri Lanka’s economy into a green socio-economy with sustainable solutions to Climate Change, to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The plans were presented at a meeting held at the Presidential Secretariat on May…

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Colombo elevated highway project handed over to the China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC).

The Cabinet approval was granted to award the contract for the construction of the elevated highway to Kelaniya New Bridge (NKB) via Rajagiriya connecting Outer Circular Highway at Athurugiriya to the China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), co-cabinet spokesman, Energy Mi…

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Cabinet nod to build new oil refinery in Sapugaskanda in Sri Lanka.

The cabinet has given the green light to Energy Minister of Sri Lanka Udaya Gammanpila to construct a new Oil refinery with the capacity of 100,000 BPD (Barrels Per Day) at Sapugaskanda and also to renovate the existing refinery to raise its daily capacity to 45,000 BPD fro…

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US imposes visa restrictions on Ethiopia over Tigray conflict.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday 23 May 2021that the actions by the United States are to press for the resolution of the crisis in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. US visa restrictions were also placed on Ethiopian and Eritrean officials accused of contribut…

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Singapore has approved Covid Breath Test with one-minute result.

A breath test designed to detect Covid-19 and give accurate results within one minute has been approved for use in Singapore, the National University of Singapore said in a statement. The test, developed by NUS spin-off startup Breathonix, works much like a standard breathal…

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Greek tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas beats Cameron Norrie for Lyon Crown.

Second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas produced an impressive performance on Sunday 23 May 2021 to defeat Cameron Norrie 6-3, 6-3 in the final of the Open Parc Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes Lyon and win his second ATP Tour title of the year. The 22-year-old, who won his first ATP Masters 100…

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UK launches plans for "global pandemic radar" to detect Covid-19.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Friday 21 May 2021 that the United Kingdom will work with the World Health Organization, other partners and nations to develop an advanced international pathogen surveillance network to identify COVID-19 variants and emerging dis…

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China’s ‘father of hybrid rice’ Yuan Longping dies at age 90.

Yuan Longping, China’s “father of hybrid rice” and hailed for his contributions to the country’s food security, died on Saturday 22 May 2021. He was 90 years old. The Chinese agronomist was known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s and regarded as a n…

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