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LONDON — Russia launched its first mission to the moon in nearly 50 years on Friday, racing to land on the lunar south pole before a spacecraft from India gets there. The launch of the Luna-25 craft to the moon was Russia’s first since 1976, when it was part of the Soviet Union, and is being […]
SYDNEY — A new generation of stars has emerged at the Women’s World Cup. While the likes of Brazil’s Marta, Canada’s Christine Sinclair and America’s Megan Rapinoe have played in the tournament for the last time, there is a rich flow of talent coming through to take their places. “We are on the cusp, and what […]
The deaths — reported by Maui County officials as a blaze torched the area, including the historic town of Lahaina — appear to make the wildfire the second deadliest in the United States in a century. It trails only California’s Camp Fire, which killed 85 people in 2018. The blaze that ravaged Lahaina was 80% […]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden expanded federal aid for Hawaii on Thursday as deadly wildfires engulfed the island of Maui, and he expressed condolences for the devastation in a call with the state’s governor. Biden approved a disaster declaration for Hawaii aimed at spurring resources to allow the island to rebuild, the White House said in […]
Sydney Sweeney thrives on “chaos”. The 25-year-old actress has enjoyed a meteoric rise over recent years, and Sydney insists she doesn’t have any intention of slowing down. The Hollywood star told Variety: “Sometimes I love this crazy run I’m on, because I fall in love with so many characters and I want to do them […]
Thousands of Hawaii residents raced to escape homes on Maui as blazes swept across the island, destroying parts of a centuries-old town and killing at least 36 people in one of the deadliest U.S. wildfires in recent years. The fire took the island by surprise, leaving behind burned-out cars on once busy streets and smoking […]
Taylor Swift officially announced the release of her 1989 re-recording during her final Los Angeles show on Wednesday. Fans had been speculating that the singer would announce the re-recording on the final night of her six-show residency at the SoFi Stadium on 8 August, which is written as 8/9 in America. Throughout the show, she […]
JAKARTA — Indonesia’s capital Jakarta topped the list as the world’s most polluted city on Wednesday, having consistently ranked among the 10 most polluted cities globally since May, according to data by Swiss air quality technology company IQAir. Jakarta, which has a population of over 10 million, registers unhealthy air pollution levels nearly every day, according […]
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — Players who reached the knockout round at the Women’s World Cup got larger individual bonuses that can be life-changing for many of them. FIFA designated $30,000 for the 732 players among 32 teams in the tournament field. The payout rises to $60,000 for players on the 16 teams that advanced out of […]
SAN FRANCISCO — The White House on Wednesday said it had launched a multimillion-dollar cyber contest to spur use of artificial intelligence to find and fix security flaws in U.S. government infrastructure, in the face of growing use of the technology by hackers for malicious purposes. “Cybersecurity is a race between offense and defense,” said Anne […]
