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Domestic tourism in Kilimanjaro takes shape this Christmas

Setting the agenda for domestic and regional tourism in East Africa, Christmas and New Year trips in Northern Tanzania and parts of Kenya have...

California approves driverless delivery service

Nuro's autonomous vehicles will take to streets as early as 2021.

Japanese spacecraft’s gifts: Asteroid chips like charcoal

They resemble small fragments of charcoal, but the soil samples collected from an asteroid and returned to Earth by a Japanese spacecraft were hardly...

Laptops, desktop sales see ‘renaissance;’ shortages won’t ease until 2022

The world stocked up on laptop and desktop computers in 2020 at a level not seen since the iPhone debuted in 2007, and manufacturers...

Scientists pioneer new method of measuring electricity in cells

Electricity is a key ingredient in living bodies. We know that voltage differences are important in biological systems; they drive the beating of the...

Black US doctor dies of COVID alleging racist hospital care

A black physician in Indianapolis died with COVID-19 weeks after she accused a doctor of denying her proper medical care because of her race.

Japan aims to eliminate gasoline vehicles by mid-2030s, boost green growth

Japan aims to eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles in the next 15 years, the government said on Friday in a plan to reach net zero carbon...

Story of one-year-old Abdullah is story of Yemen

By Rosemary Misdary

Thousands of migrants left without shelter after Bosnia camp burned down

More than a thousand migrants from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were left to sleep in the cold after their camp in...

DNA from Guam’s indigenous peoples traced to Taiwan: Study

A team of archeologists from Taiwan and other countries has found that the origins of the Chamorro people in Guam are closely linked to...

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