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New research measures how much plastic is lethal for marine life
AFP, Published on 18/11/2025
» NEW YORK - Marine animals inevitably eat what we toss in the ocean, including pervasive plastics -- but how much is too much?
Mexico star Hernandez sorry for sexist comments
AFP, Published on 25/07/2025
» MEXICO CITY - Mexican football icon Javier Hernandez apologised on Thursday for making sexist remarks which led to him being sanctioned by Mexico's football federation and his club Guadalajara.
Activists glue hands to Goya frames at Prado: Spanish police
AFP, Published on 05/11/2022
» MADRID - Two climate activists on Saturday each glued a hand to the frames of two paintings by Spanish master Francisco Goya at the Prado museum in Madrid, police said.
Climate activists hurl pea soup on Van Gogh in Rome
AFP, Published on 05/11/2022
» ROME - A group of activists on Friday splashed pea soup onto a Vincent van Gogh masterpiece in Rome, in a protest they warned will continue until more attention was paid to climate change.
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dead at 90
AFP, Published on 29/04/2021
» WASHINGTON - American astronaut Michael Collins, who piloted the Apollo 11 command module while his crewmates became the first people to walk on the Moon, died on Wednesday after battling cancer, his family said.
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dead at 90: family
AFP, Published on 29/04/2021
» WASHINGTON - American astronaut Michael Collins, who flew the Apollo 11 command module while his crewmates became the first people to land on the Moon on July 20, 1969, died on Wednesday after battling cancer, his family said.
Human-like neural activity detected in lab grown mini brains
AFP, Published on 30/08/2019
» WASHINGTON - Scientists reported Thursday they had picked up human-like electrical activity in lab-grown brains for the first time, paving the way to model neurological conditions and answer fundamental questions on how our gray matter develops.
50 years ago, humanity's first steps on another world
AFP, Published on 20/07/2019
» WASHINGTON - Fifty years ago on Saturday, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans in history to set foot on the Moon, an event watched on television by half a billion people.