Wed 11 October 2023: Tragically, the Welsh woman who choked to death during a marshmallow-eating challenge is not the first person to pass away after a stunt of this kind, media reported. The woman, identified as Natalie Buss by UK media, passed away during a Beddau RFC in Rhondda Cynon Taf rugby club fundraiser. She […]
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Wed 11 October 2023: The US Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, on Wednesday said a G7-led price cap on Russian oil had sharply reduced Russian revenues over the past 10 months, and that it was critical to keep imposing severe and increasing costs on Russia over its war in Ukraine. Reuters reports she added that global energy […]
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Wed 11 October 2023: A Minnesota horticulture teacher set a world record in California on Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after growing a giant jack-o’-lantern gourd. Travis Gienger, a horticulture and landscape teacher at Anoka Technical College, set a new world record Monday for growing the plumpest pumpkin on the planet after growing one weighing […]
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Tue 10 October 2023: British Transport Police is carrying out “high visibility patrols” to ensure communities feel safe following the Israel-Hamas conflict. “Everyone has the right to travel safely, and no one should be targeted because of who they are,” the police force said. It comes as several warnings have been issued about hate crime […]
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Tue 10 October 2023: Russia launched 36 drone attacks overnight on Ukraine, according to Kyiv’s air force, in Moscow’s latest air raid targeting the country. Ukraine’s air force said in a statement on Tuesday that its defence systems had destroyed 27 of the drones. The attacks using Iran-made Shahed drones targeted the Odesa, Mykolaiv and […]
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Image Credit: NASA Tue 10 October 2023: NASA is gearing up to unveil the sample collected from the Bennu asteroid during the groundbreaking OSIRIS-REx mission on October 11. The results of their analysis of the returned asteroid sample will also be discussed for the first time on the same day. Launched in September 2016, OSIRIS-REx […]
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Mon 09 October 2023: Russia’s space agency said on Monday that its multipurpose Nauka module attached to the International Space Station suffered a leak of a backup cooling system used to regulate onboard temperatures for astronauts. The crew and the station “are not in danger” as astronauts assess the leak, Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, […]
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Mon 09 October 2023: Police chiefs have been urged to step up patrols to prevent anti-Jewish disorder following the violence between Hamas and Israel. Home Secretary Suella Braverman has written to forces in England and Wales telling them to “use all available powers to prevent disorder and distress to our communities”. She said officers should […]
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Mon 09 October 2023: Russian ruble plunged to a 18-month low against U.S. dollar on Monday, exceeding 102 level. According to data from the Moscow stock exchange, the ruble lost 1.7% to 102.1 per dollar, the lowest since March 2022. Analysts said the fall was led by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war besides the escalating conflict […]
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Mon 09 October 2023: Harvard University Professor Claudia Goldin has been honoured with the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2023, as announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. This esteemed recognition, officially known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was awarded to Professor Claudia Goldin in acknowledgment […]
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