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Relativity Space to make third bid to launch 3D-printed rocket
AFP, Published on 23/03/2023
» WASHINGTON - The world's first 3D printed rocket is scheduled to make its third attempt to lift off on Wednesday for the maiden flight of an innovative spacecraft billed as being less costly to produce and fly.
French court orders fishing bans to protect dolphins
AFP, Published on 20/03/2023
» PARIS - France's top administrative court on Monday ordered the government to ban fishing in parts of the Atlantic to protect dolphins which have washed up dead in their hundreds.
Hamburg gunman: disturbed entrepreneur who penned apocalyptic book
AFP, Published on 12/03/2023
» HAMBURG: Details are emerging about the gunman who shot dead six Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany, painting a picture of a disturbed businessman who battled paranoia and penned an apocalypse-themed book.
Greek train tragedy sheds light on chronic state failures
AFP, Published on 03/03/2023
» ATHENS - The train tragedy that unfolded in Greece this week, claiming dozens of lives in the country's worst rail disaster, has exposed chronic failures by successive administrations, insiders say.
Electric boat goes airborne for cleaner ocean voyage
AFP, Published on 17/02/2023
» SAUSALITO (UNITED STATES) - Appearing at a glance to be just a simple pleasure boat floating on the San Francisco Bay, as the hydrofoil-equipped vessel picks up speed it suddenly begins rising above the water, grabbing the attention of passengers on a nearby ferry.
Mine a mixed blessing
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/02/2023
» As Wendsler Nosie finished his evening prayers sitting before a mesquite fire, a ceremonial yucca staff festooned with eagle feathers by his side, he gazed sternly towards a distant mesa where mining companies hope to extract more than 1 billion tonnes of copper.
Children found alive as quake toll tops 22,000
AFP, Published on 10/02/2023
» KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey: Rescuers pulled children alive on Friday from the rubble of the Turkey-Syria earthquake as the death toll surpassed 22,000 and bitter cold compounded the suffering of the homeless.
After the silence, body bags: Turkish town counts its dead
Published on 10/02/2023
» During an "agonising" 10-minute wait, the jackhammers and excavators fell silent, traffic on a four-lane highway next to the pile of rubble came to a standstill with car engines switched off.
Death toll tops 20,000 from Turkey-Syria quake as hopes fade
AFP, Published on 10/02/2023
» BAB AL-HAWA BORDER CROSSING (SYRIA) - The death toll from the massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria kept on climbing Thursday, topping 20,000 as the first UN aid reached Syrian rebel-held zones but hopes of finding more survivors faded.
Hopes fade as quake toll reaches 17,500
AFP, Published on 09/02/2023
» BAB AL-HAWA BORDER CROSSING, Syria: Hopes were fading Thursday for rescuing survivors of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, which has killed over 17,500 people in one of the deadliest tremors in decades.