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July 25, 2024 10:56 AM

Lunar occultation of Saturn observed across various locations in India

Various parts of the country witnessed Shani Chandra Grahan, also known as the Lunar Occultation of Saturn, on the night of July 24-25. The eclipse was visible in different parts of the country, including the India Gate area in Delhi, and West Bengal's Kolkata. Shani Chandra Grahan or Lunar Occulta...

July 24, 2024 10:38 AM

G20 draft communique sees growing chance of global economic ‘soft landing’

Group of 20 finance leaders are expected to cheer the growing likelihood of a global economic "soft landing" while warning of the risks from unspecified "wars and escalating conflicts," according to a draft communique seen by Reuters on Tuesday. Speaking to the press, Brazil's G20 finance track coo...

July 22, 2024 10:03 AM

With Kamala Harris, Democrats would bet against US history of sexism, racism

The Democratic party will be taking a historic gamble if it now turns to Vice President Kamala Harris to become its presidential candidate, betting that a Black woman can overcome racism, sexism and her own missteps as a politician to defeat Republican Donald Trump. President Joe Biden, 81, announc...

July 21, 2024 3:48 PM

Bangladesh top court scraps most job quotas that triggered deadly protests, media say

Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Sunday scrapped most of the quotas on government jobs that have sparked student-led protests in which at least 114 people have been killed in the South Asian country, local media reported. The court's Appellate Division dismissed a lower court order that had reinstated...

July 19, 2024 4:13 PM

How Iran’s Khamenei elevated a little-known moderate to the presidency

When intelligence officials briefed Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in May ahead of a snap presidential election, their report was grim: angered by economic hardship and crackdowns on social freedoms, most Iranians planned to boycott the vote and turnout would only be about 13%. That's...

July 18, 2024 2:02 PM

Say cheese: Japanese scientists make robot face ‘smile’ with living skin

Japanese scientists have devised a way to attach living skin tissue to robotic faces and make them "smile," in a breakthrough that holds out promise of applications in cosmetics and medicine. Researchers at the University of Tokyo grew human skin cells in the shape of a face and pulled it into a wi...

July 18, 2024 2:03 PM

Ukraine rushes to create AI-enabled war drones

In Ukraine, a handful of startups are developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems to help fly a vast fleet of drones, taking warfare into uncharted territory as combatants race to gain a technological edge in battle. Ukraine hopes a rollout of AI-enabled drones across the front line will help it...

July 16, 2024 2:20 PM

J.D. Vance once compared Trump to Hitler. Now they are running mates

Eight years ago, in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, J.D. Vance was a bitter critic of Donald Trump. Publicly, he called the Republican presidential candidate an "idiot" and said he was "reprehensible." Privately, he compared him to Adolf Hitler. But by the time the former president ...

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