- Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak dies at 91
Egypt’s ousted former president Hosni Mubarak has died at the age of 91, state television said on Tuesday, weeks after undergoing surgery.
read more ...3 hours ago - Spanish opera star Placido Domingo apologises over sexual harassment
Opera singer Placido Domingo apologised to the women who accused him of sexual harassment for the “pain” he caused them and accepted “full responsibility” in a statement sent on Tuesday to Spanish news agency Europa Press.
read more ...4 hours ago - Merkel’s crisis-hit CDU party to elect new leader in April
Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU) said on Monday they would hold a congress on April 25 to pick a new leader who they want to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel, scrambling to resolve a crisis shaking the party’s hold on power.
read more ...7 hours ago - Washington pledges $1 billion for coronavirus vaccine as pandemic risks grow
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U.S. President Donald Trump will seek $2.5 billion from Congress to fight the coronavirus epidemic and U.S. and South Korean militaries are considering scaling back joint training as the virus spreads in Europe and the Middle East.
read more ...11 hours ago - Basketball legends honour Kobe and Gianna Bryant at LA memorial
A gallery of basketball legends joined thousands of Kobe Bryant fans in Los Angeles on Monday to pay homage to the transcendent NBA star, his daughter and seven others who died last month in a helicopter crash that sent shockwaves through the world of sports and beyond.
read more ...16 hours ago - Legal loopholes allow endangered rosewood to be exported from Mali to ChinaKosso, an endangered type of rosewood that grows in West Africa, is under threat because of high demand in China, where its timber is used to make luxury furniture. The harvest and export of kosso wood is supposed to be strictly controlled as it is protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. This is not the case
read more ...19 hours ago - NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who inspired the film ‘Hidden Figures’, dies at 101
Katherine Johnson, the black woman whose mathematical genius took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregated NASA as portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures” to a key role in sending humans to the moon, died on Monday at the age of 101, NASA said.
read more ...22 hours ago - China ‘comprehensively bans’ wildlife trade over coronavirus
China on Monday declared an immediate and “comprehensive” ban on the trade and consumption of wild animals, a practice believed responsible for the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
read more ...1 day ago - Invader’s ‘Rubik Mona Lisa’ shatters estimate at Paris modern art auction
A French street artist’s interpretation of the Mona Lisa made of 330 Rubik’s Cubes sold for 480,200 euros ($520,680) on Sunday at a modern art auction in Paris, well above presale estimates of up to 150,000 euros, organisers Artcurial said.
read more ...1 day ago - Facing extradition, whistleblower Assange returns to spotlight
A fearless campaigner for democratic openness, or a criminal trying to avoid justice: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a highly polarising figure who finds himself once again at the centre of global attention.
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