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Catapulting spider winds up web to launch at prey: study

by Issam AHMED WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Just when you thought spiders couldn't get any more terrifying. A study…

UN chief says world ‘not on track’ with climate change

Wellington, New Zealand (AFP) -- UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres launched a brief South Pacific tour in New Zealand Sunday,…

Facebook sues South Korea data analytics firm

  SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) -- Facebook is suing South Korean data analytics firm Rankwave to make sure it…

Singapore reports first case of rare monkeypox virus

SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) -- Singapore has reported its first ever case of monkeypox, brought in by a Nigerian man thought…

Mexico City bans disposable plastics

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) -- Mexico City's legislature voted Thursday to ban businesses from buying, selling or giving their customers…

Cyprus’s emblematic wild sheep lock horns with mountain farmers

by Claire Gounon GERAKIES, Cyprus (AFP) -- Surveying his orchard in the Troodos Mountains, Cypriot farmer John Papadouris is convinced…

Amazon’s Bezos unveils lunar lander project ‘Blue Moon’

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Jeff Bezos, who heads both Amazon and space company Blue Origin, unveiled a lunar lander…

Camiguin could hit 1M tourists, bolstered by Skyjet’s game-changing direct flights to the “island born of fire”

By Caesar Vallejos OPEN FOR BUSINESS, Eagle News Service Foreign and local tourists can now easily “come again” to Camiguin…

New space race to bring satellite internet to the world

by Ivan Couronne WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Anxiety has set in across the space industry ever since the world's…

DR Congo: Ebola claims over 1,000 lives, Guterres commits ‘whole’ UN system, to help ‘end the outbreak’

Now in its tenth month, the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has claimed more than…

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