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Launch of Moon rocket scrubbed again
AFP, Published on 03/09/2022
» KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida: NASA on Saturday scrapped a second attempt to get its new 30-storey rocket off the ground and send its uncrewed test capsule toward the Moon after engineers detected a fuel leak.
Bitcoin 'revolution' a work in progress
Published on 03/09/2022
» El Salvador President Nayib Bukele took the stage to fireworks, announcing to a cheering crowd of crypto enthusiasts at a beachside confab that Bitcoin would revolutionise his country.
Nirvana album cover lawsuit dismissed
Published on 03/09/2022
» LOS ANGELES: Nirvana has won the dismissal of a lawsuit by a man who claimed his depiction as a naked four-month-old baby on the cover of the band’s groundbreaking 1991 album Nevermind was child pornography.
Turkey offers to mediate in Ukraine nuke plant standoff
AFP, Published on 03/09/2022
» KYIV: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered on Saturday to mediate in the standoff over a Russian-occupied nuclear power station in war-torn Ukraine that has raised fears of an atomic disaster.
Liverpool and Everton battle to draw
Published on 03/09/2022
» LIVERPOOL: VAR was the centre of attention once more as Everton were denied a second-half winner in a feisty 0-0 draw with Merseyside rivals Liverpool in the Premier League on Saturday.
Shenzhen placed under Covid lockdown
Published on 03/09/2022
» SHENZHEN, China: Most residents of the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen went into a weekend lockdown on Saturday as mass Covid-19 testing kicked off across the city of 18 million just over the border from Hong Kong.
Ousted Sri Lanka leader faces arrest calls
AFP, Published on 03/09/2022
» COLOMBO: Deposed Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa faced calls for his arrest Saturday after returning home from self-imposed exile under the protection of his successor's government.
Teen found dead in forest after skipping class
Online Reporters, Published on 03/09/2022
» BURI RAM: A Grade 12 student was found dead in a forest behind her school after she and two classmates skipped a prayer class on Friday, police said.
Russians bid farewell to Gorbachev, but without Putin
Published on 03/09/2022
» MOSCOW: Russians on Saturday paid their final respects to the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, in a ceremony held in Moscow without much fanfare and with President Vladimir Putin notably absent.
Mekong tributaries burst banks, flooding 4,000 rai
Published on 03/09/2022
» NAKHON PHANOM: Two major tributaries of the Mekong River have burst their banks, flooding about 4,000 rai of paddy fields in Sri Songkhram district of this northeastern province.