German top court strikes down plank of anti-terror law
Fri, 2020-12-11 18:05 Germany’s top court said on Friday it had struck down a key passage of an anti-terror law on data protection grounds,...
UK says ‘deeply concerned’ after HK’s Jimmy Lai charged
Author: AFP ID: 1607698969439111100 Fri, 2020-12-11 13:35 LONDON: Britain expressed alarm on Friday after Hong Kong media tycoon and Beijing critic Jimmy Lai, who...
Argentina’s abortion bill is backed by lower house of Congress
Argentina’s lower house of Congress has approved a landmark government-backed bill to legalize abortion Friday morning, a big step forward for the legislation that...
Child’s bones buried 40,000 years ago solve long-standing Neanderthal mystery
We don’t know whether it was a boy or a girl. But this ancient child, a Neanderthal, only made it to about two years...
Army officer’s secret journal could offer new clues about the UFO crash in Roswell in 1947
An army officer was among the first people to inspect wreckage of a so-called UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico, and he may have...
This new image reveals a sunspot in unrivaled detail
The largest solar telescope on Earth has gotten the sharpest glimpse ever of a sunspot. Vaguely resembling a sunflower — or the Eye of...
World’s largest iceberg still barreling toward penguin habitat, new footage confirms
Iceberg A-68a is just a few hundred miles from crashing into South Georgia island, new photos from the Royal Air Force reveal.
The Wan Chai connection: The Washington-accused drug lords, gun runners and dictators’ financiers tied to one Hong Kong district
The Hong Kong neighborhood of Wan Chai may be home to the most eclectic and densest concentration of US-sanctioned enterprises anywhere on the planet.
Australian Covid-19 vaccine trials ended after test subjects return ‘false positive’ HIV results
An Australian produced coronavirus vaccine candidate has been scrapped after trial participants returned false positive test results for HIV, developers announced Friday.
See how Verbier, Switzerland, is staying open amid pandemic
While the European Union’s four biggest skiing destinations – Germany, France, Italy and Austria – have decided to keep their ski lifts closed over...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
What has Perseverance found in two years on Mars? 
This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
Greta Thunberg’s new book urges the world to take climate action now