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Virgin Galactic rockets its first tourist passengers into space
AFP, Published on 11/08/2023
» WASHINGTON - Virgin Galactic launched its first tourist passengers into the weightlessness of space Thursday, the culmination of a nearly two-decade commercial pursuit, the company said.
UK to roll out first driverless bus service
AFP, Published on 11/05/2023
» QUEENSFERRY (UNITED KINGDOM) - The UK will roll out its first driverless bus network in Scotland next week with drivers on standby behind the steering wheel, ready to take control should an emergency arise.
Sweden's teens drive Porsches and BMWs, no licence needed
AFP, Published on 20/03/2023
» HUDDINGE, Sweden: Too young for a driver's licence at 15, Evelina Christiansen is already cruising in a sleek BMW in Sweden, where teens can drive any car modified to roll no faster than a golf cart.
40 killed in Senegal bus disaster
AFP, Published on 08/01/2023
» DAKAR - Forty people were killed and 85 were injured when two buses crashed in a head-on collision overnight on an arterial road in Senegal's central Kaffrine region, the government said on Sunday.
Japan's 'Little Trains that Could' battle for survival
AFP, Published on 29/12/2022
» CHOSHI (JAPAN) - In the driver's seat of a two-carriage train, Katsunori Takemoto puts on his white gloves and checks the antiquated gauges before setting out alongside cabbage fields in Japan's rural Chiba.
'Work to be done': aviation still overwhelmingly male
AFP, Published on 22/07/2022
» FARNBOROUGH (UNITED KINGDOM) - Rebecca Lutte regularly takes to the skies behind the controls of her RV-10 kit plane.
Iran will 'avenge' killing of Guards colonel: president
AFP, Published on 23/05/2022
» TEHRAN: Iran will avenge the killing of a Revolutionary Guards colonel who was shot dead in Tehran, President Ebrahim Raisi warned on Monday.
Iran says Guards colonel shot dead in Tehran attack
AFP, Published on 23/05/2022
» TEHRAN - An Iranian Revolutionary Guards colonel was shot dead outside his Tehran home on Sunday, the Guards said, blaming his "assassination" on assailants linked to the United States and its allies.
Mike Tyson to face no charges over plane fracas: US prosecutor
AFP, Published on 11/05/2022
» LOS ANGELES: Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson will not face criminal charges over repeatedly punching a fellow plane passenger, a prosecutor in California said Tuesday.
In tragic Bucha, people search for the missing
AFP, Published on 07/04/2022
» BUCHA (UKRAINE) - As Bucha emerges from the horror of the Russian occupation, townspeople are desperate to know the fate of loved ones. Some know how their story ends. Others still wait to find out, hoping against hope it will not end in tragedy.