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Global landmarks including the Eiffel Tower in Paris and Sagrada Família Basilica in Barcelona switched off their lights for an hour at 20:30 local time on Saturday night to mark Earth Hour. The global event, organised by the Earth Wide Fund for Nature, takes place every year to raise environmental awareness. It aims to encourage […]

More than 50 years ago, America’s Apollo missions made history when the first humans set foot on the lunar surface. With six landings in total, it felt like the Moon had been well and truly ticked off the space to-do list. So why is the US spending so much time, effort and funds racing to […]

Australian fugitive Dezi Freeman was reportedly shot and killed by police on Monday. Freeman had been wanted by authorities since he gunned down two police officers on his property in the minor Victorian town of Porepunkah last August. Here’s everything we know so far about how the seven-month manhunt came to an end. Mourners gather […]

Nasa astronauts are gearing up for the first lunar fly-around mission in more than half a century. Nasa’s Dustin Gohmert is responsible for engineering the spacesuits at Johnson Space Center’s Orion Crew Survival Systems Lab. Years in the making, the suits are designed to protect the astronauts during launch and landing, as well as possible […]

Farm work is personal for many humans in the state of California, where nearly three-quarters of America’s fruits and nuts are grown. That’s why, when sexual abuse allegations against famed farmworker union activist Cesar Chavez came to light in March, it sent shockwaves throughout the state. “As the daughter and granddaughter of farmworkers, this is […]

The head of its armed forces, Field Marshal Asim Munir, is in US President Donald Trump’s favour. The US leader frequently refers to him as his “favourite” Field Marshal and has previously spoken about how Munir knows Iran “better than most”. Iran is not only a neighbour of Pakistan, with whom it shares a 900km […]

The crew includes three Nasa astronauts – Commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch – along with Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency. Not only are they accomplished pilots, engineers and scientists, they are also spouses and parents balancing a heroic adventure against the risks they and their loved ones will face. Here’s […]

Seven months ago, few outside of the Australian state of Victoria had heard of the town of Porepunkah, with its population of just over 1,000 citizens. But the fatal shooting of two police officers by local Dezi Freeman last August, and the manhunt that followed, thrust it into the headlines not just in Australia, but […]

A US freelance journalist has been kidnapped in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, and one of the suspects is linked to an Iran-backed militia, Iraqi and US officials say. Shelly Kittleson was abducted on Tuesday evening, mentioned Al-Monitor, a news outlet for which she has contributed articles. The Iraqi interior ministry commented security forces had chased […]

Israel’s defence minister has noted a buffer zone will be set up inside southern Lebanon and that Israel will keep security control over a swathe of the territory even after the end of the current war against the armed group Hezbollah. Israel Katz mentioned the area to be occupied would go up to the Litani […]