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Nine killed as driver plows into Filipino festival in Canada
AFP, Published on 27/04/2025
» VANCOUVER - Canada said Sunday that a man staged a deliberate attack by driving his car into a crowd at a Filipino street festival and killing nine people, but the assault was not considered to be terrorism.
Nine killed as driver ploughs into Vancouver festival crowd
AFP, Published on 27/04/2025
» VANCOUVER - A driver killed at least nine people when he ploughed a vehicle through a crowd at a Filipino cultural celebration in Vancouver, police in the Canadian city said Sunday.
NASA announces two new missions to Venus
AFP, Published on 03/06/2021
» WASHINGTON - NASA announced two new missions to Venus on Wednesday that will launch at the end of the decade and are aimed at learning how Earth's nearest planetary neighbor became a hellscape while our own thrived.
Arnis, Philippines martial art that evokes Magellan's nemesis
AFP, Published on 07/12/2019
» ANGELES CITY (PHILIPPINES) - To the untrained eye, arnis -- the stick-wielding martial art of the Philippines -- is brutal and frenzied, but behind the chaos lies a tradition dating back hundreds of years.
500 years on, how Magellan's voyage changed the world
AFP, Published on 10/08/2019
» LISBON - Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the way around the globe for the first time.
500 years on, how Magellan's voyage changed the world
AFP, Published on 05/08/2019
» LISBON: Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the way around the globe for the first time.
Chilean Patagonia: an open-air lab to study climate change
AFP, Published on 14/01/2019
» SENO BALLENA (CHILE) - In one of the most inhospitable places on Earth, the southernmost part of Chile's Patagonia region, scientists are studying whales, dolphins and algae in order to help predict how climate change will affect the world's oceans.