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For the first time in about four billion years of life on the earth, one species is learning not just to read the book of life but to write new versions. Our quest to understand and explain the natural world has always carried a double consequence: every success also enhances our ability to change the…
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A reconstruction of the marine reptile Tylosaurus rex in the Cretaceous-era Western Interior Seaway of North America. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Tyrannosaurus rex was a huge land predator during the twilight of the age of dinosaurs. But it was not the only T. rex that terrorised the Cretaceous Period. There also was a marine reptile…
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Furaha Tikamanyire, a Congolese health worker who recovered from the Ebola virus receives her certificate of discharge at the Evangelical Medical Center, as she stands with Director-General of the WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 31, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Four nurses who were being treated…
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In this image from video circulating on social media, protesters dance and cheer around a bonfire as they take to the streets of Tehran, Iran, on Jan. 9, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Iran executed two men convicted over their role in unrest in Tehran in January 2026, including setting fire to a mosque, damaging…
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Mohammed Siraj’s Instagram story after short-circuit forces Gujarat Titans players, staff to be evacuated from the team bus in Ahmedabad. Photo Credit: Mohammed Siraj Instagram In a safety scare for the Gujarat Titans players and support staff, they had to be evacuated from the team bus after a short circuit caused a breakdown of the…
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Representative image. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Summer travel and IPL fever pushed transactions through the popular Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to a record high of ₹29.90 lakh crore and 23.2 billion in value and volume terms, respectively, in May, according to data released by the National Payments Corporation of India. National Payments Corporation of…
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The deceased were trying to cultivate the land of a man who was murdered a few years ago. | Photo Credit: Photo for representation only Twelve persons were arrested on the charge of killing six persons in Govindpur village, near Chadchan of Vijayapura district in Karnataka, on May 29 in connection with a land dispute….
Celebrations were blighted by clashes between youths and police in Paris and other cities, cars set on fire and shops looted. | Photo Credit: Reuters France said on Monday (June 1, 2026) that nearly 900 people had been arrested in riots that broke out after Paris Saint-Germain club won the coveted Champions League for a…
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Tough-on-crime outsider Aberaldo de la Espriella took the lead in Colombia’s presidential race in the first round of voting on Sunday (May 31, 2026) night, setting up a runoff with Iván Cepeda, an ally of Colombia’s outgoing President Gustavo Petro who questioned the results of the election. With no candidate taking an outright majority of…
An electric power vehicle enters a Hanwha Aerospace facility following an explosion in Daejoen, South Korea on June 1, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP An explosion and fire occurred at a defence company in South Korea on Monday (June 1, 2026), killing five people and injuring two others, officials said. The deadly incident happened at…
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