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Starliner astronauts won’t return home until at least March after latest NASA delay

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2 mn readNASA’s Starliner astronauts have had their homecoming delayed yet again. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore weren’t supposed to be at the International Space Station beyond a few days in June when they reached the orbital outpost on the inaugural flight test for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. But their return was delayed multiple times until NASA finally decided […]

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Artists imagine a new utopia for Kenya’s capital

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3 mn readKenya’s capital, Nairobi, has long been known as “the green city in the sun” because of its mix of forest and grasslands among the urban sprawl, but it all depends on where you are viewing it from. Seen from one of the city’s comfortable apartment blocks or homes, then yes, perhaps – from one of […]

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Bear-leather shoes and Roman ‘good-luck’ coins: The lost worlds emerging from glaciers

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7 mn readAs glaciers and ice patches melt, they reveal untold stories of human skill, adventure, faith – and deadly conflict. Some 5,000 years ago, a tattooed man in his 40s, with brown eyes and thinning black hair, climbed a steep mountain in the Ötztal Alps, on the border between what is now Italy and Austria, to a mountain ridge more than […]

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The Trans Dinarica: A new 5,500km bike trail connecting one of Europe’s most remote regions

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4 mn readLinking eight Balkan nations, the new Trans Dinarica cycling trail twists through some of the continent’s most stunning – and least-visited – landscapes. The asphalt vanished as the road gently climbed through the pastures. Two small dogs ran towards me from a wooden Montenegrin shepherd’s hut, happily wagging their tails. I was tempted to play with […]

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France flies out 2 Mirage fighter jets from Chad to signal beginning of military withdrawal

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2 mn readFrance flew out the two Mirage fighter jets it had stationed in Chad on Tuesday, signalling the beginning of the withdrawal of its military forces from the former French colony in Central Africa that last month broke off its defense cooperation agreement with Paris. The pair of Mirage 2000-D fighters took off after midday from […]

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Deadly virus samples went missing from lab in ‘major biosecurity breach,’ say authorities

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3 mn readHundreds of deadly virus samples are missing from a laboratory in Australia, the Queensland government announced on Monday. The government has instructed Queensland Health — Australia’s public health department — to launch an investigation into what’s being described as a “major historical breach of biosecurity protocols,” according to the online media statement. It was reported that 323 […]

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