First 5-time woman Olympian lifter.

Papua New Guinea's Toua becomes first 5-time woman Olympian lifter. When women's weightlifting was introduced as an Olympic sport in 2000, Papua New Guinea's then 16-year-old Loa Dika Toua became the first-ever female Olympian lifter. On Saturday (Jul 24) in Toky…

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NASA has awarded launch services contract for "Europa Clipper Mission" to SpaceX.

NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for Earth’s first mission to conduct detailed investigations of Jupiter's moon Europa. The Europa Clipper mission will launch in October 2024 on a Falcon …

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World’s first 3D-printed steel bridge opened in Amsterdam.

The world’s first 3D-printed steel bridge was opened to the public in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was developed by MX3D, a Dutch robotics company, in collaboration with a consortium of experts, and represents a major milestone for 3D-printing technology. After four years of …

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With Steven Weinberg’s death, physics loses a titan

Steven Weinberg died July 23, at the age of 88. He was one of the key intellectual leaders in physics during the second half of the 20th century, and he remained a leading voice and active contributor and teacher through the first two decades of the 21st. On lists of the gre…

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Team USA starts off summer Olympics with no medals.

Team USA is off to its worst Summer Olympic start in nearly 50 years, having not won a single medal on the first day of competition for the first time since 1972.  Saturday 24 July 2021 marked a disappointing day for the American’s competing in archery, cycling, fencing, jud…

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Team USA wins its first medals of the Tokyo Olympics.

Chase Kalisz, who won the silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics in the men’s 400 individual medley, won gold Sunday (25) to give the United States its first medal of these Olympic Games. U.S. teammate Jay Litherland took silver, .86 of a second behind Kalisz. Australia's…

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International Self Care Day - 24 July.

Every year on July 24th, International Self Care Day promotes self-care as a vital foundation of health. It’s also a day for people around the world to prioritize self-care and make it a part of their lifestyle. Also 24th June is the start of Self-Care Month at WHO, leading …

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NASA Captures Spooky Photo of the Moon's Shadow on Earth During an Eclipse.

Earthlings were privy to an exciting astronomical event last month: an annular solar eclipse, which cast a lunar shadow across the Arctic Circle. NASA shared an image of that shadow, taken by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Obs…

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Teen on space flight told Bezos he had never ordered from Amazon.

The Dutch teenager who became the world’s youngest space traveler this week surprised billionaire Jeff Bezos on the flight by telling him he’d never ordered anything on Amazon. Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old physics student, accompanied Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos and 82-ye…

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The first gold medal of the 2020 Olympics was officially won Saturday (24) in Japan.

China's Qian Yang earned gold in the women's 10-meter air rifle to take home the long-awaited first medal. The 21-year-old is a rising star in the sport. She defeated Russian Anastasiia Galashina -- competing under the Russian Olympic Committee moniker -- in the fina…

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NASA Perseverance Mars Rover to Acquire First Sample.

NASA is making final preparations for its Perseverance Mars rover to collect its first-ever sample of Martian rock, which future planned missions will transport to Earth. The six-wheeled geologist is searching for a scientifically interesting target in a part of Jezero Crat…

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Philippines approves 'golden rice' for commercial production.

The Philippines became the world's first country Friday (Jul 23) to approve the commercial production of genetically modified "golden rice" that experts hope will combat childhood blindness and save lives in the developing world. A biosafety permit issued by go…

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China's first green sheep-farming city in ecological push.

Xilingol League, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, became the country's first green sheep-farming city thanks to its efforts in grassland ecological protection and green sheep farming. The honor was rolled out by China Meat Association during a summit …

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Guinea reverses decision to pull out of Tokyo Olympics.

The West African country of Guinea has reversed an earlier decision to pull out of the Olympics and will send a delegation of five athletes to the Tokyo Games. Minister of Sports Sanoussy Bantama Sow made the announcement after national and international outcries that follow…

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Norovirus outbreak reported in the UK.

The United Kingdom, which is already seeing a surge in coronavirus cases amid relaxation of curbs, has now reported an outbreak of the norovirus. Public Health England (PHE) has issued a warning after finding a rise in infections recently. Over the past five weeks since May-e…

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G20 Environment Ministers’ Meeting 2021.

The G20 Environment Ministers’ Meeting 2021 is one of the ministerial meetings organized as part of the G20 Leaders Summit 2021, which will be hosted by Italy in October 2021. The 2021 G20, under the Italian Presidency, will focus on three broad, interconnected pillars of a…

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Russia successfully launches test hypersonic cruise missile.

The Russian defense ministry on Monday 19 July 2021 reported a successful test launch of its new Zircon hypersonic cruise missile. The missile had been fired from the Admiral Gorshkov, a warship in the White Sea. The missile successfully hit a target more than 350 kilometers…

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Hayleys Fabric cuts carbon footprint by 15% with Sri Lanka’s largest solar roof.

Contributes 6,241,500kWh of power per annum to the National grid Largest single rooftop solar installation in Sri Lanka 9,000 solar panels installed across 18,000 square metre rooftop Carbon footprint reduced by 4,065.45 tCO2. Leading textile manufacturer, Hayleys Fabric furthe…

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Russia launches long-delayed lab module to space station.

Russia on Wednesday 20 July 2021 successfully launched a long-delayed lab module for the International Space Station that is intended to provide more room for scientific experiments and space for the crew. A Proton-M booster rocket carrying the Nauka module lifted off as sch…

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UN and IOC launch stamps.

The United Nations and International Olympic Committee have initiated a new move to acknowledge the role of sports for peace. They have launched a series of stamps for the same. The United Nations Postal Administration or UNPA worked in partnership with the International Oly…

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BTS tops Billboard Hot 100 with new hit replacing own song.

South Korean boy band BTS has gracefully replaced its own No. 1 song, “Butter,” at the Billboard Hot 100 chart with another hit -- “Permission to Dance.” The latest track officially debuted at No. 1 on this week’s Hot 100, while “Butter” bowed to the seventh spot in the char…

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Tokyo Olympics 2020 kick off amid pandemic fears.

The most troubled Olympics in modern history finally get under way in Tokyo on Friday 23 July 2021, struggling to emerge from the clutches of Covid-19 after a one-year postponement and following a build-up marred by scandal and controversy. The opening ceremony of the Tokyo …

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Mercedes-Benz announces plan to go all-electric by 2030.

Mercedes-Benz today announced a new electrification plan that sets them up to “go all-electric by the end of the decade.” The German automaker is the latest in a series of automakers who are trying to put a timeline on when they are going to sell their latest internal combus…

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Facebook spent $23.4 million on Mark Zuckerberg's personal security.

The cost to protect high-profile tech execs is spiralling even as lockdowns have grounded travel to a halt. A new analysis of the security expenses racked up by Silicon Valley giants shows they collectively spent $46 million to safeguard their top brass last year. Of that f…

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UK to permanently deploy two warships in Asia Pacific.

Britain has announced that it will permanently deploy two warships in Asian waters after its Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier and escort ships sail to Japan in September through seas where China is vying for influence with the United States and Japan. Plans for the high-prof…

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Australia’s Brisbane to host 2032 Olympic Games.

The Australian city of Brisbane will host the 2032 Summer Olympic and Paralympic after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved the recommendation of its executive board. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has voted the Australian city of Brisbane as the hos…

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US launches air strike in Somalia.

The US military conducted an airstrike against Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabaab jihadists on Tuesday 20 July 2021, the first since President Joe Biden took office. The US military command for Africa (Africom), in coordination with the Somali government, conducted one airstrike…

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Ariel Henry to take over as new Haitian Prime Minister.

Ariel Henry has formally assumed the post of Prime Minister of Haiti. He assumed the role of the leader of the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation in a ceremony in the capital Port-Au-Prince. Henry was installed as head of a new government in an attempt to stabilize a c…

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Liverpool’s historic waterfront removed from World Heritage List.

The World Heritage Committee of the UNESCO, holding its 44th session in Fuzhou and online, decided to delete the property ‘Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City’ (UK) from the World Heritage List. That decision  has taken due to the irreversible loss of attributes conveying …

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A finger-sized fossil unearthed in United States.

A finger-sized fossil from 308 million years ago unearthed in the United States gives tantalizing clues to the habits of tiny dinosaurlike creatures that may be the forerunners of reptiles. The new species is a microsaur — small lizardlike animals that roamed the Earth well …

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