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The asteroid, 99942 Apophis, will come within 19,000 miles of Earth on April 13, a decade from now, but scientists at the Planetary Defense Conference are already preparing for the encounter.
Alphabet announced that one of those two board seats will be filled by Robin L. Washington, who has been the chief financial officer of biotech company Gilead Sciences for the past 11 years.
DirecTV, Net Uno, Intercable, and Telefónica all received orders from Venezuela's government regulator Conatel to block CNN.
Jellyfish’s sting carries enough venom to kill more than 60 people.
Chinese photographer Jianhui Liao has been named as the overall winner of the Food Photographer of the Year 2019 contest.
The firm said revenue from the iPhone dropped by 17%, compared with the same period a year earlier, to $31bn.
WikiLeaks founder breached bail by entering Ecuadorian embassy seven years ago.
The Sudanese Professionals Association and its allies, which organized the four months of demonstrations that drove al-Bashir from power on April 11, on Tuesday accused the generals of clinging to power.
Legal immunity would squash raft of climate lawsuits launched by cities and counties across the US seeking compensation for damages.
Green MP Caroline Lucas says millions 'at risk of losing right to have their voice heard'.
The surprise decision, which was announced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport after three judges had spent more than two months deliberating over the complex and highly contentious case, came even though Cas agreed that the IAAF’s policy was discriminatory to athletes with differences in sexual development (DSDs) such as Semenya.
In a sign of the growing appetite for riskier assets, Australian shares ended just shy of an 11-year peak and London’s blue chip FTSE 100 was up 0.2 percent after solid earnings from supermarket chain Sainsbury’s.
BlackRock, which owns 5.25 percent of Persimmon shares, declined to comment, while the company did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.
The video, which quickly went viral, showed the 10-foot boa making its way across the road in Porto Velho, a city in the northwestern state of Rondônia.
The inventor of aspirin is in the grip of a huge shareholder revolt after its $63 billion purchase of Roundup owner Monsanto put the German company at risk from thousands of US cancer lawsuits tied to the weedkiller.
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