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Hong Kong to launch AI-powered weather forecasting
Published on 28/01/2026
» HONG KONG - A team of scientists in Hong Kong has developed an artificial intelligence weather-forecasting system to predict thunderstorms and heavy downpours up to four hours ahead, compared with the range of 20 minutes to two hours now.
Submersibles revealing mysteries of the deep sea
AFP, Published on 26/01/2026
» ABOARD OCEANXPLORER, Indonesia - A dome-fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000 metres in search of new species, plastic-eating microbes and compounds that could one day make medicines.
Racing towards great white sharks in Australia
AFP, Published on 11/12/2025
» SYDNEY - Sensible people might prefer to flee at torpedo speed from a great white shark, but there’s one job in Australia that pays you to race towards the predators.
Poll shows majority in EU see ‘high risk’ of war with Russia
AFP, Published on 04/12/2025
» PARIS - A majority of citizens across nine European Union countries see a high risk of war breaking out between the bloc’s members and Russia, according to a survey by the polling group Cluster 17 published on Thursday in the French international affairs journal Le Grand Continent.
Seal milk is the cream of the molecular crop
New York Times, Published on 26/11/2025
» NEW YORK — Collecting milk from a nursing seal is no easy task.
India probes deadly Delhi car blast
AFP, Published on 11/11/2025
» NEW DELHI - India’s defence minister vowed on Tuesday that those responsible for a deadly car explosion in the heart of the capital that killed at least eight people will face justice.
France arrests five new suspects over Louvre heist: prosecutor
AFP, Published on 30/10/2025
» PARIS — French police have arrested five more people, including a prime suspect, over this month's daring Louvre museum robbery, the Paris prosecutor said on Thursday.
Archaeologists unearth clues on French colonial massacre in Senegal cemetery
AFP, Published on 28/10/2025
» THIAROYE — Holes in the ground, clods of earth next to headstones, dislocated concrete outlines: the Thiaroye military cemetery near Dakar bears the marks of recent excavations meant to unearth the truth behind a WWII-era massacre by French colonial forces.
Two suspects arrested in Louvre jewel heist
AFP, Published on 26/10/2025
» PARIS - French authorities have detained two of the suspected robbers believed to have stolen precious crown jewels from the Louvre in a museum heist that stunned the world, officials said Sunday.
French police hunt Louvre jewel thieves
AFP, Published on 20/10/2025
» PARIS - The hunt was on Monday for the band of thieves who stole eight priceless royal pieces of jewellery from the Louvre Museum in the heart of Paris in broad daylight.