It's Zuckerberg vs Murdoch as Australia mulls new tech law
AFP | Sydney
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Australia’s push to regulate tech giants has become a power struggle between two of the world’s most powerful men, with Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg locked in a generat...
Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan welcome second child
Agencies | Mumbai
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Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor and her husband, actor Saif Ali Khan, have welcomed their second child.
The couple welcomed a baby boy on Sunday, February 21. Kareena was a...
Kim Kardashian files for divorce from Kanye West
Agencies | Los Angeles
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"Kimye" is kaput.
Kim Kardashian West filed for divorce from Kanye West Friday after 6.5 years of marriage, court records show. The mo...
WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy policy update despite backlash
Agencies | Bengaluru
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Facebook Inc. 's WhatsApp said on Thursday it will go ahead with its controversial privacy policy update but will allow users to read it at "their own pace...
Manya Singh's Journey—How An Auto Driver’s Daughter Became Miss India Runner-Up
Agencies | Mumbai
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Never give up and never lose hope is what Miss India 2020 runner-up Manya Singh from Uttar Pradesh believes in. She ran away from her village to Mumbai with dreams in her eyes. Her ...
Perseverance spacecraft lands on Mars
AP | Cape Canaveral
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A NASA rover streaked through the orange Martian sky and landed on the planet Thursday, accomplishing the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back ...
NASA's Perseverance to land on Mars in search for ancient life
Agencies | Washington
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance will land on the Red Planet Thursday after a roughly 480-million-kilometre journey through space.
The landing sequence, known as the "Seven Minutes of Terror," will see Perseverance enter Mars's atmosp...
Russian cargo ship docks at International Space Station
Agencies | Moscow
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An unmanned Russian cargo ship docked at the International Space Station Wednesday with a load of supplies said AP.
The Progress MS-16 cargo ship, which blasted...
New Millennium School, DPS Bahrain student designs quiz app
TDT | Manama
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Nirvaan Modi, a Grade 5 student of New Millennium School, DPS Bahrain, has proved himself a technological genius by developing a quiz app based on the Harry Potter series of books, which...
NASA set to fly helicopter on Mars for the first time
AFP | Washington
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More than a century after the first powered flight on Earth, Nasa intends to prove it’s possible to replicate the feat in another world.
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UAE receives Hope Probe’s first image of Mars
Agencies | Dubai
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The United Arab Emirates' Amal, or Hope, mission sent back its first image of the red planet, the national space agency announced Sunday, days after the spacecraft suc...
WHO gives emergency use approval to AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccines
Agencies | Geneva
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The World Health Organization gave emergency use approval to AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccines on Monday, allowing distribution to some of the world's poorest countries to begin.
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Britain's Prince Harry and wife Meghan expecting second child
Agencies | London
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Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, announced on Sunday they are expecting their second child.
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Larry the Cat marks 10 years’ ruling Downing Street roost
AFP | London
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A stalwart of the British political scene, Larry the Cat has ruled the roost in Downing Street for a decade, serving three prime ministers and becomin...
Pakistan's 'Charlie Chaplin' bringing laughs to frontier city
AFP | Peshawar
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Wearing a bowler hat and familiar toothbrush moustache, Pakistan's Usman Khan darts through traffic swinging a cane, teasing motorists and shopkeepers for laughs and a few rupees with ...
Twitter may allow users to receive payments from followers
Reuters | New York
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Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said Wednesday the company is exploring allowing its users to receive tips, or digital payments, from their followers.
Dorsey said the...
India to social media firms: Mind our laws or leave
Reuters | New Delhi
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India’s Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday warned US social media firms to abide by the country’s laws, a day after a face-off between Prime Minister ...
Arthritis drug cuts deaths in hospitalised Covid patients, study finds
AFP | Paris
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The arthritis drug tocilizumab reduces the risk of critically ill patients dying of Covid-19, according to results of a study on Thursday which experts welcomed as an &l...
China spacecraft enters Mars orbit, second in two days after UAE
AP | Beijing
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A Chinese spacecraft entered Mars orbit on Wednesday on a mission to land a rover and collect data on underground water and possible signs of ancient life, stat...
Two masks, snug fit reduces Covid-19 spread: US study
Reuters | Washington
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Making sure a mask fits snugly on the face and use of two masks is likely to significantly reduce a person's exposure to the coronavirus, laboratory experiments...
Dubai Airshow 2021 will demonstrate new technologies’ role in accelerating aviation, aerospace growth
Agencies | Dubai
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Dubai Airshow 2021 will serve as a platform to showcase the role of cutting edge technologies in bolstering the recovery of the aviation, aerospace and defence industries following t...