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By Mathias CENA Japan will begin releasing wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday in an operation it insists is safe but has generated a fierce backlash from China. The beginning of the discharge of around 540 Olympic swimming pools’ worth of water into the Pacific over several decades is a big step in decommissioning the still highly dangerous site 12 years after one of the world’s worst nuclear accidents. Plant operator TEPCO […]
By Glenn Chapman with Alex PIGMAN in Washington DC US chip giant Nvidia, whose products play a crucial role in artificial intelligence systems, crushed expectations on Wednesday, as the post-ChatGPT AI frenzy continues to lift the tech sector. The Silicon Valley-based company said sales doubled year-on-year to $13.5 billion in the latest completed quarter, leaving a net profit of $6.2 billion — an eye-watering 843 percent higher than a year before. Signaling that the boom […]
PARIS, Aug 23, 2023 (AFP) – Temperatures in France hit an all-time high for late summer on Tuesday, the weather authority said, as the country continues to swelter under a punishing heatwave. The nationwide average temperature over 24 hours hit 27.1 degrees Celsius (81 Fahrenheit), Meteo France announced Wednesday — ahead of an expected peak in the August hot spell expected in the second half of the week. Such continuously high temperatures have never been […]
NEW DELHI, Aug 23, 2023 (AFP) – India became the first nation to successfully land a craft on the Moon’s south pole on Wednesday, the latest milestone in a renewed push for lunar exploration that has drawn in both the world’s top space powers and new players. New Delhi’s attempt came days after the crash-landing on the Moon of Russia’s Luna-25 probe. Here is the latest on various missions to the celestial body: – India’s […]
BENGALURU, India, Aug 23, 2023 (AFP) – India on Wednesday became the first nation to land a craft near the Moon’s south pole, a historic triumph for the world’s most populous nation and its ambitious, cut-price space programme. The unmanned Chandrayaan-3, which means “Mooncraft” in Sanskrit, touched down at 6:04 pm India time (1234 GMT) as mission control technicians cheered wildly and embraced their colleagues. Its landing comes days after a Russian probe crashed in […]
BENGALURU, India, Aug 23, 2023 (AFP) – India’s lunar spacecraft landed safely near the Moon’s little-explored south pole on Wednesday, sparking wild celebrations and applause among technicians guiding the mission. “Chandrayaan-3 has successfully soft-landed on the Moon,” the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced at its headquarters. India Moon landing is “historic day”, says PM Narendra Modi. This is a developing story.
By Aishwarya KUMAR India readied Wednesday to become the first nation to land a spacecraft on the Moon’s south pole, days after a Russian probe crashed in the same region. The latest attempted Moon landing is a historic moment for the world’s most populous nation, as it rapidly closes in on milestones set by global space powers. Chandrayaan-3, which means “Mooncraft” in Sanskrit, is scheduled to touch down shortly after 6:00 pm India time (1230 […]
By Issam AHMED WASHINGTON, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – From Quebec to British Columbia to Hawaii, North America is facing an extraordinary wildfire season — and regions both near and far have found themselves increasingly blighted by smoke exposure. Here’s what you should know about air pollution from these blazes. – What we know – One of the defining aspects of smoke from wildfires is “particulate matter” — toxins that, in their numbers, can make […]
Just three weeks old, a giraffe in the southern US state of Tennessee is already making headlines for its unique characteristics, or rather lack thereof: it has no spots. Described by Bright’s Zoo director David Bright as very rare, the animal known as a reticulated giraffe was born on July 31 and now stands six feet tall. Bright said the female is “a beautiful solid brown,” without any of the species’ distinctive patterns which help […]
One of the world’s oldest elephants has died on an Indian tea farm at an estimated age of 89, caretakers said Tuesday. While not possible to confirm the elephant’s exact age, it is known that he was brought to work on a tea estate by a British farmer during colonial rule in the 1940s. Caretakers said he was about 89 years old. Dubbed “Bijuli Prasad” — in the style of human Indian names — the […]
Hunters in Japan’s remote north have killed an elusive and infamous brown bear nicknamed “Ninja” that attacked at least 66 cows, officials said Tuesday. The exploits of “OSO18”, as the bear was named, attracted considerable news coverage including dramatic television documentaries. The animal is believed to have started attacking livestock in 2019 in eastern areas of Hokkaido, Japan’s sparsely populated main northern island. Its habit of not eating the dairy cows that it attacked — […]
Russia’s first Moon mission in almost 50 years, the Luna-25 probe, has crashed on the Moon’s surface after an unspecified incident during pre-landing manoeuvres, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said Sunday. The crash comes almost a year and a half into Russia’s Ukraine offensive that has seen Moscow isolated, with punishing sanctions that have affected its space industry. The failed mission also comes as several companies and nations have entered a Moon race, and put […]
