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UK Labour party loses parliamentary seat to left-wing Greens
AFP, Published on 27/02/2026
» MANCHESTER (UNITED KINGDOM) - Britain's ruling Labour party on Friday lost a crunch local poll in one of its traditional northern English heartlands to the left-wing Greens, adding to the woes of unpopular Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
UK minister resigns over overseas aid cut
AFP, Published on 01/03/2025
» LONDON - UK international development minister Anneliese Dodds said on Friday she was resigning from the Labour government over cuts to overseas aid ordered by Prime Minister Keir Starmer to boost defence spending.
Rocketman (and woman): Elon and Gwynne, the pair who made SpaceX
AFP, Published on 25/05/2020
» WASHINGTON: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. -- commonly known as SpaceX -- is slated to send two astronauts into space on Wednesday. Despite not yet being 20 years old, the company has already developed a creation myth: on Sept 28, 2008, its first rocket Falcon 1 launched for the fourth time.
NASA, SpaceX target historic spaceflight despite pandemic
AFP, Published on 02/05/2020
» WASHINGTON - NASA and SpaceX said Friday they were pressing ahead with plans to launch astronauts to space from US soil for the first time in nearly a decade later on this month, despite the coronavirus pandemic.
India to mark 100th anniversary of Amritsar massacre
AFP, Published on 13/04/2019
» AMRITSAR (INDIA) - India was to mark Saturday the 100th anniversary of the Amritsar massacre, one of the worst atrocities of British colonial rule for which London has yet to apologise.
Reality TV: Camera-toting sharks hunt seals in kelp forests
AFP, Published on 03/04/2019
» PARIS - Great white sharks fitted with cameras on their dorsal fins have been filmed for the first time stalking prey in dense kelp forests long thought to be no-go zones for the top-level predators.
SpaceX vows manned flight to space station is on track
AFP, Published on 14/08/2018
» LOS ANGELES - Tech magnate Elon Musk's SpaceX vowed Monday to send its first astronauts into orbit on schedule next year -- part of a drive to restore America's dominance of the space race.
Cricketers' union wants Smith, Warner 'disproportionate' bans reduced
AFP, Published on 03/04/2018
» SYDNEY - Bans handed to Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft should be reduced, the Australian cricketers' union said Tuesday, arguing the punishment was disproportionate to previous ball-tampering cases.
Swansea scrape past Wednesday into FA Cup quarters
AFP, Published on 28/02/2018
» LONDON: Swansea booked an FA Cup quarter-final meeting with Tottenham Hotspur or Rochdale as manager Carlos Carvalhal beat his old side Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 in a fifth-round replay on Tuesday.