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Europe sizzled under a continent-wide heatwave on Wednesday, with London bracing for Britain`s hottest June day since 1976 as Portugal struggled to stamp out deadly forest fires. Paris: Europe sizzled under a continent-wide heatwave on Wednesday, with London ...

A newspaper in Siberia said on Wednesday it was threatened with retribution after reporting the death in Syria of a Russian private military contractor.

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[China]July 26 (ANI): The People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) has traditionally been a defensive military force designed to protect Chinese airspace and territory. However, under its current offshore defense doctrine strategy, the PLA has moved its ...

Hoskote's Dodda Amanikere lake is on death row, courtesy the municipal council of the town. The municipal council has chosen this massive lake with a circumference of 9 km for dumping its waste. "Dumping was going on stealthily for about a year and the ...

Students from various parts of the country witnessed a live asteroid watch at the Nehru Planetarium on Friday in celebration of Asteroid Day organised by astronomy education organisation SPACE India.Asteroid Day is observed each year on June 30 to commemorate ...

An asteroid strike on the Earth is just a matter of time and such events could destroy major cities, experts warn. According to Alan Fitzsimmons from Queen's University Belfast in the UK, it is a case of when an asteroid collision will happen, rather than if ...

These eight odd photos prove it's a mad, mad world! A break dancer stands on his head in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters A man carries his wife over an obstacle while racing in the Wife Carrying competition to mark the City Day in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia. Photograph: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters Vendors dance to exercise at a food market in the afternoon where there are less customers, in Nanning, Guangxi province, China.

A rare Afghan marsh that was once a royal hunting ground is set to come under the official protection of the UN environment agency, with the aim of saving hundreds of migratory bird species. On the long, arid journey to the Caucasus and Siberia, across the ...