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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 22, 2025 - Curtin University scientists have identified evidence of a giant asteroid impact hidden in tiny fragments of natural glass, known as tektites, found only in Australia. Tektites form when a spa
Sep 22, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 20, 2025 - Journalists covering the Pentagon will have to pledge to access only authorized information or lose their press credentials, the Department of War announced Friday.
Sep 20, 2025
Paris (AFP) Sept 19, 2025 - With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere and sent fiery fragments shooting to the ground, gathering new information about how these space rocks disintegrate.
Sep 19, 2025
United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 19, 2025 - A multinational treaty to protect vast expanses of the world's oceans is finally set to become law in January 2026, with environmentalists hailing its enactment Friday as crucial to safeguarding the marine ecosystems.
Sep 19, 2025
Abidjan (AFP) Sept 19, 2025 - Jihadists allied to Al-Qaeda have launched a blitz of raids on Malian industrial sites run by foreign firms, especially Chinese, as a tactic to undermine the ruling junta.
Sep 19, 2025
Plaridel, Philippines (AFP) Sept 19, 2025 - The dike meant to protect the Philippine town cost taxpayers nearly $2 million, but when a minister visited this month he found little more than dirt hastily dumped along the river's banks.
Sep 19, 2025
Bangkok (AFP) Sept 19, 2025 - Tapanuli orangutans are the world's most endangered great ape. Fewer than 800 remain, all previously thought to be in their native Indonesia. But now an Indian zoo says it has one.
Sep 19, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Sept 19, 2025 - China cautioned Papua New Guinea against undermining its interests and sovereignty in signing a mutual defence pact with Australia widely seen as a counter to Beijing's growing influence in the Pacific.
Sep 19, 2025
Paris (AFP) Sept 18, 2025 - Global deaths linked to wildfire smoke could rise six-fold to 1.4 million people a year by 2100 even with moderate levels of global warming, according to research published Thursday.
Sep 18, 2025
Taipei (AFP) Sept 18, 2025 - Taiwan will jointly manufacture a missile and an underwater drone with a US company for the first time, officials said Thursday, as Taipei seeks to boost domestic weapons and ammunition production.
Sep 18, 2025
Geneva (AFP) Sept 18, 2025 - Climate change is spurring increasingly erratic and extreme swings between deluge and drought globally, with cascading repercussions for societies, the United Nations warned on Thursday.
Sep 18, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Sept 18, 2025 - Almost eight decades after Colin Wyatt stole and then vandalised thousands of precious Australian butterfly specimens, scientists are still untangling his web of deception.
Sep 18, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 18, 2025 - Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have signed a mutual defense agreement, deepening their decades-long security partnership as tensions in the region heighten following Israel's attack on Qatar last week.
Sep 18, 2025
Paris (AFP) Sept 17, 2025 - Scientists estimated Wednesday that rising temperatures from human-caused climate change were responsible for roughly 16,500 deaths in European cities this summer, using modelling to project the toll before official data is released.
Sep 17, 2025
Gurdaspur, India (AFP) Sept 17, 2025 - The fields are full but the paddy brown and wilted, and the air thick with the stench of rotting crops and livestock - the aftermath of record monsoon rains that have devastated India's breadbasket.
Sep 17, 2025
Washington (AFP) Sept 17, 2025 - President Donald Trump's administration has not offered a credible legal justification for US strikes targeting alleged drug smugglers, experts say, warning that he appears to be claiming an unlawful license to kill.
Sep 17, 2025
