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Grassroots members prepare to decide future of "at war" Labour Party

In a week's time members of Britain' s Labour Party will receive ballot papers that could determine whether the party survives or disappears.

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Climate change threatens end to Summer Olympics: New Zealand research

Climate change risks ruling out 90 percent of northern hemisphere cities as hosts of the Summer Olympics by the end of the century, a New Zealand researcher said Friday.

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"Spider-Man Gene" Is Discovered In Flies

​If the chemical can be turned off in disease-carrying flies, they could be killed off by making them stick to surfaces.

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China to launch "hack-proof" quantum satellite next month

​Technology is first step towards building unbreakable network of communications based on cutting-edge physics

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Too early to say if Singapore will benefit from Brexit: Analysts

Banks in Britain have started working on a possible move to other financial cities in Europe after the shock Brexit decision but it remains to be seen if Singapore will see any direct benefits from that.

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Would you become a robophile? Sex with ROBOTS could replace intimate human relationships within 30 years

​Would you become a robophile? Sex with ROBOTS could replace intimate human relationships within 30 years

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Promising vaccines developed against Zika virus

In February, the World Health Organization declared the Zika epidemic a global public health emergency. Since then, drugmakers have been working to create vaccines that could protect against it.

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Aussie winemakers could be unlikely winner out of Brexit vote

​Australian wine makers could be an unlikely beneficiary of Great Britain's Brexit vote, as the current EU-sanctioned export costs could be waived if a free trade deal is struck with the United Kingdom.

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Brexit: what happens when Britain leaves the EU

​Voters have voted in favor of Brexit: British exit from the European Union. That means that in the coming months, British and European leaders will begin negotiating the terms of Britain's departure.

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IMF: Brexit could shrink U.K. economy by over 5%

A vote to exit the European Union in this week’s referendum could leave Britain’s economy more than 5 percent smaller by 2019 than if it stays in the 28-nation club, the International Monetary Fund said.

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Japanese firms fear cost of Brexit

Japanese companies with bases in Britain are becoming increasingly anxious over the referendum this week in which the country will vote on whether to leave or remain in the European Union. Their main concerns are over possible increases in costs caused by tariffs and appreciation of the yen against the euro. If British voters choose a so-called Brexit, some company executives are saying they could be forced to review their production and sales strategies.

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DPRK slams Stratfor Scenario for precision strikes

DPRK has denounced a U.S. intelligence company's scenario for precision strikes on its nuclear facilities as an "expression of the American ambition for a war of aggression."

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Job prospects for new HK graduates decline: high level jobs hard to find and earnings drop

The city has nurtured more workers with a university degree in the past two decades, but less than half of them could take up top managerial and professional jobs and they made less money than older graduates, research from the Legislative Council secretariat has found.

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China's hospitals cut back on antibiotic use

The use of antibiotics in Chinese hospitals has dropped by 40 percent since the top health authority began to curb their overuse, said a senior expert.

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Drink-drivers in Thailand to be sent to work in morgues

Government launches plan to shock repeat traffic offenders into changing their behaviour by confronting them with dead bodies

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After Brussels, leaders tackling threat of nuclear terrorism

Still reeling from attacks in Brussels and Paris, world leaders are wrestling this week with the chilling prospect of the Islamic State group or other extremists unleashing a nuclear attack on a major Western city.

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Crowd control? Baidu has an algorithm for that

A unit of Chinese internet giant Baidu has developed an algorithm that can predict crowd formation, which it says could be used to help warn authorities and individuals of unusually large crowds that could lead to public-safety threats.