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Several college football players required treatment after being struck by lightning in worrying scenes during a match in Jamaica. Lightning struck the pitch late on in the match between Wolmer’s Boys’ School and Jamaica College in Kingston on Monday. Footage of the incident shows the moment of the strike, followed …

A man from California is the seventh person to die from a suspected vaping-related illness in the US, reports say. The man, in his 40s, had been ill for a number of weeks before he succumbed to a “severe pulmonary injury associated with vaping”, according to Tulare Country public health …

The ozone hole over Antarctica this year could be one of the smallest seen in three decades, say scientists. Observations of the gas’s depletion high in the atmosphere demonstrate that it hasn’t opened up in 2019 in the way it normally does. The EU’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) says …

Pakistan’s technology minister has confirmed that the country will be sending its first astronaut to space within the next three years, with the assistance of China. In an interview Sunday, Minister Fawad Chaudhry said that the selection process will begin in 2020 as Pakistan and its partner China commence preparations …

A Florida man who dragged a shark to its death from a high-speed boat has been jailed for 10 days. Robert Benac III will pay a $2,500 fine, perform 250 hours of service at an animal shelter and lose his fishing license for three years after pleading guilty to a …

More than 2,000 medically preserved fetal remains have been found at the Illinois home of a former Indiana abortion clinic doctor who died last week, authorities said. The Will County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release late Saturday that an attorney for Dr. Ulrich Klopfer’s family contacted the coroner’s …

It may be the most valuable football club in the world, but it has taken until 2019 for Real Madrid to have its own women’s team. After a meeting of the club’s socios, the club will have a women’s football team for the first time next season. Earlier this year, …

Apple unveiled its latest slate of iPhones on Tuesday at a widely-covered media event at its campus in Cupertino, California. The new lineup includes the iPhone 11, an entry-level device, as well as the higher-end iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max, which have four-figure price tags. The company’s iPhone …

After a field experiment between 2013 and 2015, genetically modified mosquitoes are breeding in Brazil, while according to the researchers’ original plan, all released mosquitoes and their offspring should have died. An attempt to contain the populations of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti in Brazil may have failed. It …

A group of Brazilian anthropologists and environmentalists has put forward Chief Raoni Metuktire of the Kayapó tribe as a candidate for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for a lifetime of work protecting the Amazon rainforest. Raoni, an unmistakable Amazon icon with his large lip plate, yellow macaw-feather headdress, and earrings, …

Iraq on Saturday signed a gas plant development deal worth USD 1.3 billion with German industrial group  and Egypt-based firm Orascom, as part of efforts to rebuild the war-torn country’s electricity infrastructure. The contract was sealed amid ongoing talks over Iraq’s energy infrastructure in the capital Baghdad, the Iraqi ministry …

Iraqi political and economic circles are optimistic about the upcoming four-day visit of Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to Beijing on September 19. It is reported in some economic circles that the visit will lead to the signing of about 30 memorandums of understanding (MoU) between Baghdad and Beijing …

A rare full moon, known as a “micro moon” will coincide with another rare event this week: Friday 13th. Our satellite will be at the furthest point in its orbit around the Earth. As a result, the moon will appear both smaller and dimmer in the night sky when viewed …

A U.S. Navy destroyer sailed near islands claimed by China in the South China Sea on Friday, the U.S. military said, a move likely to anger Beijing. The busy waterway is one of a growing number of flashpoints in the U.S.-Chinese relationship, which include an escalating trade war, American sanctions …

  Medical workers say Michael Schumacher is “conscious” after present process stem-cell therapy in Paris, in accordance with a French newspaper. The seven-time Method One champion was admitted to the Georges-Pompidou hospital on Monday, in accordance with Le Parisien, which mentioned he was being handled by cardiovascular surgeon Philippe Menasché, …

Facebook has sanctioned Benjamin Netanyahu’s official page after a post called on voters to oppose a government composed of “Arabs who want to destroy us all – women, children and men.” The social media company said the post violated its hate speech policy. Facebook consequently disabled the page’s automatic chat …

The Iraqi Economic Council member, Ghadir al-Attar announced on Thursday that the visit of French President, Emmanuel Macron to the country will witness signing a contract for the construction of Baghdad suspension train. Al-Attar said in a statement today that “French President, Emmanuel Macron will visit the capital Baghdad during …

The founder of Huawei Technologies Ren Zhengfei said he is ready to share the company’s 5G technology with potential Western buyers. According to Ren, this would help level the playing field in global telecommunications. In an interview with the Economist, he said that Huawei is willing to give buyers perpetual …

A group of astronomers may have found Earth’s long-lost cousin, discovering the first-ever “habitable” terrestrial planet with water in its atmosphere, according to new research aided by the Hubble telescope. Known as K2-18 b, the mysterious exoplanet is twice the size of Earth with eight times its mass, but its …

US President Donald Trump has announced that his administration will ban flavoured e-cigarettes, after a spate of vaping-related deaths. Mr Trump told reporters vaping was a “new problem”, especially for children. US Health Secretary Alex Azar said the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would finalise a plan to take all …