NOVEMBER 29, 2021
The Pando Aspen Clone, considered the world's largest single organism, is being eaten by deer and elk. - Jon G. Fuller/VWPics/AP
In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that provides an entire ecosystem on which plants and animals have relied for thousands of...
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Durban, South Africa — COVID researchers suit up in protective gear before heading into the Africa Health Research Institute's high-security bio-hazard lab, where they are growing live Omicron, which will be tested against the blood of fully immunized people, as well as those who were previously infected.
"This is probably the most mutated virus we'd ever seen," said...
NOVEMBER 28, 2021
A team of experts has found a mummy estimated to be at least 800 years old on Peru's central coast, one of the archaeologists who participated in the excavation said on Friday.
The mummified remains were of a person from the culture that developed between the coast and mountains of the South American country. The mummy, whose gender...
NOVEMBER 28, 2021
NEW DELHI: Independent directors and non-executive directors on board a top social media, internet or electronics hardware company should also face legal and criminal proceedings for willful offenses around data violations and in cases of complicity or negligence, the parliamentary panel on personal data protection (PDP) has said.
The committee, that went threadbare into the various provisions of...
NOVEMBER 27, 2021
HALIFAX, Canada — A top Space Force official admitted on Saturday that the U.S. has “catching up to do very quickly” to match Beijing’s hypersonic capability, one week after China successfully launched a missile that circled the globe before striking a target.
Russia also launched a hypersonic missile from a warship in the Arctic this week, underscoring how...
NOVEMBER 27, 2021
A group of up to 30 people robbed a Best Buy store in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area on Black Friday, according to authorities.
The theft resembles other mass robberies recently seen across the country. In such cases, several robbers swarm a store, ransack the shelves and run away, sometimes assaulting shoppers and store employees in the process.
Police in...
NOVEMBER 26, 2021
People ride the temporarily deflated Blues Clues float during the 95th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 25, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
Shoppers typically bear the brunt of Black Friday frenzy while clamoring over discounted holiday merchandise, but concerns over the new COVID variant gave investors and traders a dollop of holiday...
NOVEMBER 26, 2021
International passengers walk through the arrivals area at Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport on November 26, 2021 in London. 2021. - Leon Neal/Getty Images
Hundreds of passengers from South Africa were being held at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam on Friday after the Netherlands imposed new travel restrictions amid concerns over an aggressive mutation of the Covid-19 virus.
The European...
NOVEMBER 26, 2021
French President Emmanuel Macron, left, listens to Italian Premier Mario Draghi during a joint press conference at Villa Madama in Rome, Friday, Nov. 26, 2021, after signing the Quirinale Treaty between Italy and France, which aims to provide a stable and formalized framework for cooperation in relations between the two countries. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, Pool)
CALAIS, FRANCE —...
NOVEMBER 25, 2021
In a major setback to cryptocurrencies in India, the Centre on Thursday clarified that they will not be accorded the status of legal tender by any means. This came days after the finance ministry finalized and circulated a Cabinet note for further discussions on creating a regulatory regime for an official digital currency issued by the Reserve...
