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Singing your nation’s anthem could become illegal in Slovakia unless lawmakers can reverse a bill they recently passed by “mistake.” The new rules were snuck in by the nationalists, and no one noticed. According to local media, lawmakers in the central European country of Slovakia initially wanted to amend the …

Japan’s space agency has dropped a bomb the size of a baseball onto an asteroid in an effort to understand the origin of the solar system. The Hayabusa2 spacecraft was used to fire the copper explosive towards the asteroid, named 162173 Ryugu, making a crater which it could then collect …

A good-natured Scottish pensioner who experiences virtually no pain has superhuman healing and remains unflappable in life-threatening situations may sound like a Marvel spin-off but has just been reported in a leading scientific journal. UK researchers have discovered Jo Cameron’s, now 71, remarkable abilities are apparently down to a previously …

A four-legged creature that had a tail and webbed feet similar to those found on otters has been identified as an ancestor of the whale. Fossils unearthed in Peru have led scientists to conclude that the enormous creatures that traverse the planet’s oceans today are descended from small hoofed ancestors …

More than 540 million records of Facebook users were exposed by publicly accessible Amazon S3 buckets used by two third-party apps to store user data such as plain text app passwords, account names, user IDs, interests, relationship status, and more. As discovered by the UpGuard Cyber Risk team, Mexico-based media …

Former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn has been rearrested in Tokyo on fresh financial misconduct allegations. Authorities arrested the 65-year-old less after he was dramatically freed on bail last month in Japan following more than 100 days in detention. According to local media, prosecutors entered Ghosn’s temporary accommodation in central Tokyo …

Maradona has slammed the US’ attempts to interfere in Venezuela’s domestic matters, as Washington is calling for Maduro to resign and supporting self-proclaimed interim President Juan Guaido amid a political crisis in the Latin American country. Diego Maradona, a football legend now training the Mexican club Dorados de Sinaloa, is …

Diets lacking in healthy food are responsible for more deaths across the globe than smoking, a major new study has concluded. The research, published in the British journal The Lancet, claims that around 11 million deaths per year — or one in five — are a result of a poor …

The number of new corals on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has plunged by 89% since unprecedented bleaching events in 2016 and 2017, scientists say. The events, which damaged two-thirds of the world’s largest reef system, are now being blamed for triggering a collapse in coral re-growth last year. “Dead corals …

Game of Thrones tops the charts when it comes to fans downloading illegal copies of the episodes on the internet. For example, the first four episodes of season 5 leaked back in 2015, and a couple of season 7 episodes got out back in 2017. Some fans opted not to …

A kindergarten teacher in China’s Henan province has been detained after she allegedly poisoned 23 children by putting nitrite into their food. The victims, who were all students at Mengmeng kindergarten in Jiaozuo city, fell ill after eating porridge supplied by the school on Wednesday morning, according to a statement …

Nigerians are ordering pizzas from London and transporting them over 3000 miles using British Airways, the country’s Minister of Agriculture has claimed. According to Audu Ogbeh, the African nation’s new international takeaway trend has become “annoying” and officials are desperate to bring an end to it. Speaking at a Senate …

UK officials have delivered a harsh rebuke to Chinese tech giant Huawei by raising new concerns over its engineering work and questioning the company’s commitment to security.The Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre, which monitors the company’s activities in the United Kingdom, said it has identified another round of “significant technical …

Dubai’s economy grew 1.94 percent in 2018, the government said on Wednesday, hitting its slowest pace since a contraction in 2009 when the economy was hobbled by a debt crisis. “A weakening external backdrop, a strong U.S. dollar and the ongoing correction in the property market are headwinds for a …

Oil rose to around $68 a barrel on Tuesday as OPEC supply cuts and expectations of lower U.S. inventories outweighed concern about weaker demand due to an economic slowdown.The price of global benchmark Brent crude has risen by more than 25 percent in 2019, supported by supply curbs by the …

An eight-year-old homeless refugee from Nigeria has been crowned chess champion in New York’s annual state-wide tournament. Tanitoluwa Adewumi, who lives in a Manhattan homeless shelter with his family, beat off several children with their own private chess tutors to win the third grade title. Known as Tani to his …

  Oil prices rose to new 2019 highs on Tuesday, supported by supply cuts from OPEC and falling output Brent crude oil futures were up 55 cents at $68.09 per barrel at 1145 GMT, having earlier risen to a new 2019 high of $68.16 a barrel, their highest since November …

Historic St. Sulpice church caught fire in Paris on Sunday. The blaze had damaged the main door as well as an internal staircase. Twenty firefighters arrived at the scene to put out the fire that had engulfed the church, which was completed in the 19th century, the French BFMTV reported …

The US president and top defense officials have alleged that the Chinese military benefits from the work that Google is doing in China. Last year, Trump unleashed a large-scale trade war against Beijing, partly due to the alleged theft of US intellectual property. Google has pushed back accusations of helping …

Boeing shares slumped almost 13 percent on after the second fatal crash of one of its 737 Max 8 planes. The sell-off wiped around $30bn (£23bn) wiped off Boeing’s valuation leaving the world’s largest plane manufacturer on track to record its biggest single-day trading fall in two decades as concerns …