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The Reds snapped their losing streak to take a big step towards the last eight of the Champions League with victory over Leipzig.

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A tooth from a mammoth that roamed the Siberian steppe more than a million years ago has yielded the world's oldest DNA sequence. It's the first time that DNA has been recovered from animal remains more than a million years old. Previously, the most ancient DNA sample was from a horse that lived between 560,000 and 780,000 years ago.

Source: cnn.com

Europe is now trading more goods with China than the United States, a sign of how the pandemic is transforming the global economy. The overall value of EU-China goods trade last year was €586 billion ($706 billion), about €31 billion ($37 billion) more than between the European Union and the United States.

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The Tokyo 2020 organising committee will ask Japan’s Olympics Minister Seiko Hashimoto - a woman who competed in seven Games as a skater and a cyclist - to be its new president following the resignation of the former head over sexist comments.

Source: reuters.com

A fight is brewing on Capitol Hill over continuing a program, begun under President Barack Obama and supported by President Donald Trump, that will cost an estimated $100 billion to develop and deploy improved ground-based missiles that would be used only in a civilization-shattering nuclear war.

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More than 200 new emojis will arrive on iPhones with the release of the next operating system update, including a vaccine-ready syringe, a flaming heart and a vast array of options for couples with different skin tones.

Source: theguardian.com

Seqenenre Tao II ruled Egypt 3,600 years ago, according to the country’s antiquities ministry. After conducting CT scans and producing 3D images, archaeologist Zahi Hawass and Cairo University radiology professor Sahar Salim concluded that he had been killed in an “execution ceremony” after being taken prisoner on the battlefield.

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that purportedly leaves the late star's $2m estate to his children. Shawn Southwick King, whom King was divorcing at the time of his death, claims he was "of questionable mental capacity" when the will was signed.

Source: bbc.com

Musk lost about $4.5 billion Tuesday after Tesla (TSLA) shares fell 2.4%, which was enough to knock him to second place on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranking. Bezos' net worth also fell as the broader stock market lost a bit of ground -- but his loss wasn't as extreme, only taking a hit of about $372 million. That was enough to recapture his title that he held for about three years.

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Healthy, young volunteers will be infected with coronavirus to test vaccines and treatments in the world's first Covid-19 "human challenge" study, which will take place in the UK. The study, which has received ethics approval, will start in the next few weeks and recruit 90 people aged 18-30.

Source: bbc.com

A proposed law in Nepal that would ban women from travelling abroad without permission from their families and local government officials has been called unconstitutional and “ridiculous”. The proposals, introduced by the Department of Immigration last week in an attempt to prevent women being trafficked, would require all women under 40 to seek permission before they visit Africa or the Middle East for the first time.

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South Australian winemaker Jarrad White spent almost a decade building his business in China. By mid-2020, more than 96% of Jaressa Estate's wines were being sold to consumers in China, up to seven million bottles a year. But in November, Beijing announced crippling tariffs on Australian wine as part of an "anti-dumping investigation" into whether those wines were being sold too cheaply in China. The government said the probe was prompted by complaints from Chinese wine producers.

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The celebrity couple donated $500,000 to two organizations -- Feeding America and Food Banks Canada.

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Moscow said on Wednesday it had denied a visa for a candidate to head the mission of U.S. space agency NASA in Russia, in what it described as retaliation for the U.S. denial of a visa to an undisclosed Russian official.

Source: reuters.com

Coca-Cola, which has been named the world’s worst plastic polluting company by researchers, is conducting a small trial of new paper-based bottles which could significantly reduce the amount of waste the firm produces if widely adopted.

Source: independent

Ri Sol-ju joined her husband at a concert on Tuesday to mark the birthday of Kim's late father and former leader, Kim Jong-il.

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FedEx and General Motors were among several companies whose operations were stalled by bone-chilling weather that has caused power outages and gas shortages in parts of the United States. A rare deep freeze swept the southern North America over the three-day Presidents Day holiday weekend, leaving millions without power and sending front-month gas futures to an over three-month high.

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Biden told the televised town hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that he would put more money into local policing. He also reiterated another campaign promise Tuesday, ending jail sentences for drug use alone. “No one should go to jail for the use of a drug, they should go to drug rehabilitation,” he said.

Source: reuters.com