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Half-a-million insect species face extinction: scientists

Half of the one million animal and plant species on Earth facing extinction are insects, and their disappearance could be catastrophic for humankind, scientists have said in a "warning to humanity".

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India's Ola aims to knock Uber off its London perch

Hail to the chief: Cab app Ola is entering a crowded market dominated by Uber (Credit: AP Photo/Saurabh Das) The UK capital's ride-hailing market is set to hot up after India-based Ola launche

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Solar probe will capture sun's poles for the first time

01:53 If all goes to plan, humans will see the sun's north and south poles for the first time in history.On Sunday night, NASA and the European Space Agency launched the Atlas V rocket

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109 U.S. troops diagnosed with brain injuries from Iran attack

U.S. soldiers inspect the damage from Iranian missile strikes at Ain al-Asad airbase in Anbar province, Iraq, January 13, 2020. /Reuters Photo The U.S. military on Monday disclosed a jumpof mo

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9 killed, 14 injured in Chicago weekend shootings

Nine people were killed and 14 others injured across the city of Chicago between Friday evening and Sunday midnight, according to Monday's local media reports. In the city's first fatal shooting of

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Jam lets you safely share streaming app passwords

Can’t afford Netflix and HBO and Spotify and Disney+…? Now there’s an app specially built for giving pals your passwords while claiming to keep your credentials safe. It’s cal

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White House requests $15 billion to establish Space Force

The Space Force will be taking one giant leap towards reality if the Department of Defense’s proposed budget and operations go through. $15 billion is requested, which would fund a number of mis

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Elizabeth Warren’s challenge: Breaking out of murky middle

Elizabeth Warren isn’t struggling like Joe Biden. But she isn’t soaring, like Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders.Instead, the Massachusetts senator enters a critical str

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Malaysia says yet to decide on new search for MH370

Malaysia on Monday said it has yet to decide on launching a new search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which went missing with 239 people on board nearly six years

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German politics upended as Merkel's heir apparent quits

Chancellor Angela Merkel's heir apparent shook up German politics Monday by declaring she would step down as the governing party's leader and not run for chancellor, fu

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Irish election produces an earthquake as Sinn Fein tops poll

Ireland’s political parties were scrambling to adjust to a new reality Monday after an earth-shaking election that saw the left-wing nationalist party Sinn Fein win the

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Germany: Merkel’s party in crisis as heir apparent quits

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s heir apparent unexpectedly threw in the towel Monday, plunging her conservative party into an even deeper crisis as it struggles to ag

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Bribery trial begins against ex-Ecuador leader Rafael Correa

Prosecutors opened what some are calling Ecuador’s trial of a century Monday against former President Rafael Correa and 20 other high-ranking politicians and business l

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Trump’s $4.8 trillion budget proposal revisits rejected cuts

President Donald Trump is offering a $4.8 trillion election-year budget plan that recycles previously rejected cuts to domestic programs to promise a balanced budget in

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WHO outlines priorities of its coronavirus teams working in China

01:42 Michael J Ryan, the executive director of the World Health Organization (WHO), says the main priority for the body's teams working on the ground in China is first and foremost to

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What happened to Slack today

You’ve been busy. I’ve been busy. But people are talking about Slack all over Twitter, so let me catch us both up.All the ruckus concerning Slack and its publicly traded stock appeared to

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CurieMD is using telehealth to plug the menopause support gap

U.S. femtech startup CurieMD is offering menopause diagnosis and treatment prescription via a telehealth platform — beginning in California, where it launched late last year.Founder Dr Leslie Meserve