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'It wasn't working': Canada province ends drug decriminalization
AFP, Published on 01/02/2026
» VANCOUVER - Over 35 years as a drug user, Vancouver resident Garth Mullins said he's had "hundreds and hundreds" of interactions with police, and long believed drug decriminalization was smart policy.
Trio wins physics Nobel for quantum ‘tunnelling’
AFP, Published on 07/10/2025
» STOCKHOLM - Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret and American John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work on quantum physics in action, the Nobel jury said.
South Korea to ban mobile phones in classrooms
Reuters, Published on 27/08/2025
» SEOUL - South Korea passed a bill on Wednesday to ban the use of mobile phones and other digital devices in school classrooms nationwide, as concern grows about the impact of heavy social media use among the young.
Swiss pilot breaks solar-powered plane altitude record
AFP, Published on 13/08/2025
» GENEVA - Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan has beaten the altitude record for a solar-powered electric plane in a flight that took him soaring to 9,521 metres, his team announced on Wednesday.
Groundbreaking first images from Vera Rubin Observatory
AFP, Published on 23/06/2025
» WASHINGTON - The team behind the long-awaited Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile published their first images on Monday, revealing breathtaking views of star-forming regions as well as distant galaxies.
Dehorning of S.African rhinos slashed poaching: study
AFP, Published on 06/06/2025
» JOHANNESBURG - The dehorning of rhinos resulted in a nearly 80-percent reduction in the poaching of the animals during a seven-year study in a major South African conservation area, researchers said Thursday.
Radical wind-powered mast propels ship across Atlantic
AFP, Published on 17/03/2025
» KINGSTON UPON HULL, UK - A pioneering rigid shipping mast has set off on its first journey, harnessing the wind to propel a cargo ship from England to Canada and using less fuel to help reduce emissions.
Nepal community efforts revive red panda population
AFP, Published on 14/03/2025
» TāPLEJUNG — Nepali police officer Jiwan Subba still feels pangs of regret decades after he bludgeoned a strange creature he found wandering in his barn, not realising it was an endangered red panda.
NASA probe makes closest-ever pass by the Sun
AFP, Published on 24/12/2024
» WASHINGTON - NASA's pioneering Parker Solar Probe made history on Tuesday, flying closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft with its heat shield exposed to scorching temperatures of more than 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit (930 degrees Celsius).
Last marine heat wave providing lessons for the future
Published on 02/12/2024
» SAN FRANCISCO — They call it “the Blob". A decade ago, sea surface temperatures in the Pacific soared 11 degrees Celsius above normal.