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Crude oil touted as health cure in Azerbaijan
AFP, Published on 12/04/2019
» NAFTALAN (AZERBAIJAN) - Immersed up to her neck in a dark viscous liquid, Sulfiya smiles in delight, confident that the fetid substance will cure her painful condition.
After spending winter in a fridge, Minsk bats return to the wild
AFP, Published on 27/03/2019
» MINSK - After spending the winter months hibernating inside a fridge at a rescue centre in Belarus, a group of bats awaken and are released into the wild.
South Australia heatwave smashes record temperatures
AFP, Published on 24/01/2019
» ADELAIDE, Australia: Temperatures in southern Australia topped 49 degrees on Thursday, shattering previous records as sizzling citizens received free beer and heat-stressed bats fell from trees.
New Australian Open heat policy to counter oven-like conditions
AFP, Published on 29/12/2018
» MELBOURNE - A new extreme heat policy that dictates when it is safe to play will be introduced at next month's Australian Open to better deal with frequent oven-like conditions on court.
Campaigners target coal at UN climate summit
AFP, Published on 05/12/2018
» KATOWICE, Poland: Campaign groups representing citizens from across the world demanded Tuesday that big energy leaves coal in the ground as COP24 host Poland pushed for protections allowing it to continue burning fossil fuel.
Qatar World Cup games could start at 1000 GMT
AFP, Published on 04/12/2018
» DOHA - World Cup matches in Qatar could kick-off as early as 1000 GMT if it holds four games a day during the 2022 tournament group stage, organisers confirmed Tuesday.
Pipe bombs sent to Trump foes Obama, Clinton, CNN
AFP, Published on 25/10/2018
» NEW YORK: Pipe bombs were sent to Barack Obama, prominent Democrats and CNN - all hate figures for backers of President Donald Trump - in a coordinated plot to "terrorise" ahead of polarising US elections, officials said Wednesday.
Avoiding climate chaos means 'unprecedented' change: UN report
AFP, Published on 06/10/2018
» INCHEON (SOUTH KOREA) - The UN's 195-nation climate science body plunged deep into overtime Saturday to finalise a report outlining stark options -- all requiring a global makeover of unprecedented scale -- for avoiding climate chaos.
US, Japanese pair win Nobel Medicine Prize for cancer therapy
AFP, Published on 01/10/2018
» Two immunologists, James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan, won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for research that has revolutionised the treatment of cancer, the jury said on Monday.
UN report confronts nations with tough choices on climate
AFP, Published on 30/09/2018
» PARIS - The world's nations will gather at a UN conference in South Korea on Monday to review and approve a 20-page bombshell -- distilled from more than 6,000 scientific studies -- laying out narrowing options for staving off climate catastrophe.