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What's New
- NASA Discovers Star System With 8 Planets
- Baby Girl Born From Embryo Frozen 24 Years Ago
- Robert Mugabe – Long-time President of Zimbabwe Dies
- Missing Australian Sub Finally Found
- US Life Expectancy Drops Because of Opioid Abuse
- World Health Organisation Introduces Gaming Disorder
- Thousands of Nazis Escaped to South America After World War II
- NASA Plans Mission to Alpha Centauri
- Nepal Bans Solo Mountain Climbers
- Regular Exercise Can Improve Your Memory
- Cailfornia Legalises Marijuana For Recreational Use
- China Bans Ivory Trade
- 2017 Safest Year in Air Travel
- First Manned Landing on the Moon - 50 Years Ago
- Chocolate in Danger of Becoming Extinct
- Bleaching Endangers World's Coral Reefs
- Equal Pay For Men and Women in Iceland
- Iran Bans English From Primary Schools
- Amazon Celebrates 25th Birthday
- Ozone Layer Over Antarctica Is Slowly Recovering
- One of the Biggest Diamonds Ever Discovered in Lesotho
- Ford To Invest $11 Billion in Electric Cars
- Hong Kong Protests Against Deportation Law
- EU Plans To Recycle All Plastic Waste by 2030
- World's Largest Flooded Cave Discovered in Mexico
- UK Government Appoints Minister For Loneliness
- New Blood Test May Be Able To Detect Cancer
- Amazon Go - The First Automated Store
- Cloning of First Monkeys in China
- Coca-Cola Wants To Recycle All Packaging By 2030
- Oldest Human Fossil Found Outside Africa
- India's Unwanted Girls
- Polar Bears Could Face Extinction Earlier Than Thought
- Twitter Announces First Profits
- SpaceX Launches World's Most Powerful Rocket
- Stephen Hawking Dies Aged 76
- Liverpool Win Champions League For 6th Time
- Plastic Found in Bottled Water
- New Eurostar Service Between London and Amsterdam
- Putin Wins Fourth Term as Russian President
- Kosovo - Ten Years of Independence
- German Cities Plan To Start Free Public Transport
- Scientists Come One Step Further in Creating Quantum Computers
- New Measles Outbreak in Europe
- World's Fishing Fleets Tracked From Space
- 4400 Year-Old Tomb Found Near Giza Pyramids
- MH370 - A Plane That Went Missing 5 Years Ago
- Malala Yousafzai Returns To Pakistan
- Winnie Mandela - South Africa's Mother of the Nation
- East African Rift is Growing Quickly
- Apple Worth 1 Trillion Dollars
- Australia's Population reaches 25 Million
- NASA Parker Probe On Journey To The Sun
- Jakarta - A Sinking City
- Mediterranean Migrant Crisis Causes More Deaths
- Porsche To Stop Production of Diesel Cars
- More and More Children with Food Allergies
- Hong Kong-China High Speed Rail Link
- Voyager 2 Becomes Second Object to Leave Solar System
- China's Population Reaches Peak in 2029
- Macedonia and Greece End Name Argument
- The World's First Solar-powered Airport
- China Space Probe Lands on Dark Side of the Moon
- Dubai Remains World's Busiest Airport For International Travelers
- Polar Vortex - When Arctic Air Moves South
- Cuba Opens First Roman Catholic Church Since 1959
- New England Patriots Beat L.A. Rams For Sixth Super Bowl Win
- Germany To Close All Coal-Powered Plants By 2038
- Climate Change Could Melt Himalayan Glaciers
- Forbidden City in Beijing Opens For Special Night Tour
- Turkey Votes for New Constitution
- Nelson Mandela – South Africa’s First Black President
- Rosa Parks' House Rebuilt in Berlin
- China's New Baby Boom
- Crimea – Three Years After Russia’s Takeover
- Breaking2 – How Nike Wants to Break the 2-Hour Marathon
- Astronomers Discover Earth-Sized Planets Around Nearby Star
- Albert Einstein
- How Bad Is Sitting For Us ?
- Local Residents Opposed to US-Mexican Wall
- World's Largest Offshore Windfarm
- Volkswagen Becomes World's Largest Carmaker
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 – An Unsolved Mystery
- Hollywood Legend Zsa Zsa Gabor Dies at 99
- Robot Technology Years Away From Elderly Care
- Voluntourism - A New Trend in Travel
- Antonio Guterres Becomes New Secretary General of UN
- Bananas - The Green Gold of Angola
- Laser Pointer Incidents on the Rise
- The Euro Turns 15
- China Announces Ban on Ivory Trade
- India Wants Kohinoor Diamond Back
- The First Free Black Town of the New World
- Pacific Island Gets 100% Of Its Energy From The Sun
- Alabama Faces Uncertain Future After Drought
- Sadiq Khan - London's New Muslim Mayor
- John Glenn - The First American to Orbit the Earth
- European Central Bank Stops Printing 500-Euro Banknote
- 50 Years After China's Cultural Revolution
- Is Craig Wright the Bitcoin Founder?
- Netherlands Want to Ban Non-Electric Cars
- Donald Trump to Become 45th US President
- Reducing Food Waste Helps Fight Climate Change
- Leicester City - Underdogs Win Premier League
- 400th Anniversary of William Shakespeare's Death
- The Chernobyl Disaster - 30 Years Later
- Drone Racing - Sport of the Future ?
- Japan Set For Invisible Trains By 2018
- The Hungarian Uprising of 1956
- Abortion Remains Illegal in Northern Ireland
- Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruptions More Massive Than Thought
- Capital Punishment on the Rise in 2015
- Facebook Introduces Chatbots to Messenger
- Amphibians
- China Wants To Become A Soccer Superpower
- China Faces Problems With Drinking Water
- Panama Papers-Biggest Document Leak in History
- Congo Conflict Endangers Gorilla Population
- Apple celebrates 40th birthday
- Disney's New Jungle Book Starts in Cinemas
- Great Barrier Reef Suffers From Bleaching
- Obesity Around the World Continues to Rise
- Workers Abused at World Cup Sites in Qatar
- World's Largest Cruise Ship on Trial Voyage
- Japan's Population is Declining
- Streaming Music Earns More Money Than Downloads
- Monarch Butterfly Makes Comeback in North America
- Rolling Stones Play Historic Concert in Cuba
- Dutch Football Legend Johan Cruyff Dies at 68
- Former Serb Leader Radovan Karadzic Guilty of Genocide
- Fukushima - 5 Years Later
- Poaching of African Elephants Still Goes On
- Google's Artificial Intelligence Software Wins Go Contest
- New Cancer Treatment Provides Hope for Patients
- Zimbabwe Plans to Nationalise Diamond Industry
- China Bans Immoral Content From Television
- President Obama on Historic Visit to Cuba
- Iceberg Traps Antarctic Penguins
- Happiness Can Cause Heart Problems
- Starbucks To Open First Store in Italy
- Men Get Paid More on eBay
- Michael Phelps - Most Successful Swimmer of All Times
- Leonardo DiCaprio Finally Wins Oscar
- Beijing is Billionaire Capital of the World
- Gianni Infantino Becomes President of FIFA
- Flashes of Light May Cure Jet Lag
- New Virgin Galactic Spaceship Presented
- Sperm Whales Washed Up On North Sea Coast
- Bosnia-Herzegovina Wants to Become EU Member State
- Mexico's Tax on Sugary Drinks
- Bolivia's Second Largest Lake Disappears
- Secret Letters of Pope John Paul II
- Internet Slowly Comes to Cuba
- Air Pollution Causes Millions of Deaths Every Year
- More Americans Use Online Dating Websites
- Titanic II Set to Sail in 2018
- Year of the Monkey in China
- Spelling Changes to French Language
- Scientists Discover Gravitational Waves
- More Plastic Than Fish in the Oceans By 2050
- Ancient Massacre in Kenya Discovered
- McDonald's Opens New Restaurants in Russia
- British Woman Gets Bionic Eye
- Zika Virus Spreads Throughout Latin America
- First Gulf War - 25 Years Later
- Costa Rica Achieves 99% Renewable Energy
- Planet Nine - A New Planet Beyond Pluto?
- Ascension Island To Become New Marine Reserve
- Worst Passwords of 2015
- Microsoft Starts Minecraft For Schools
- 62 Richest People Own As Much As Half The World's Population
- Air France Stops Flying Boeing 747
- Nuclear Deal Ends Sanctions Against Iran
- Wikipedia Celebrates 15th Anniversary
- Troubled Times for Macau's Casinos
- 100 Million Ryanair Passengers in 2015
- North Korea's Secret Computer System - Red Star OS
- Pokémon Go Sets Off Worldwide Hype
- Ransomware - A New Computer Threat
- Why Humans Need Less Sleep Than Other Animals
- Netflix Reaches Almost All Countries in the World
- Blood Pressure Drugs For All Patients ?
- Rio de Janeiro's City of God
- Eagles of Death Metal Return To Paris
- New Social Robot Introduced In Singapore
- Africa's Biggest Jesus Statue in Nigeria
- Strongest El Nino in HIstory
- 2015 Was A Dangerous Year For Journalists
- Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" Published Again
- Cuban Doctors Need Permission to Leave The Country
- German Scientists Test Nuclear Fusion Machine
- Is There a Hidden Chamber in Tutankhamun's Tomb ?
- New Panama Canal Opens
- Superflare From the Sun Could Threaten Life on Earth
- Japan Builds India's First Bullet Train
- Hunt For Nazi Gold Train in Poland
- SpaceX Lands Rocket Successfully
- One Million Migrants in Europe in 2015
- Chandigarh - India's First Planned City
- Beatles Release Music on Streaming Websites
- The Balkans
- Tatoos Are Becoming More Popular
- NASA is Looking For New Astronauts
- Saudi Arabia Executes 47 People
- Baidu Plans Self-Driving Car
- Mother Teresa To Become A Saint
- Britain Closes Last Underground Coal Mine
- Sweden On Its Way To A Cashless Society
- Jean-Marc Bosman - The Player Who Changed Football
- Theresa May Becomes Britain's New Prime Minister
- Air Pollution Causes Red Alert in Beijing
- Obesity Threatens Women's Health in Great Britain
- Saudi Arabia Plans World's Tallest Skyscraper
- Mount Etna Erupts Again
- Cuban Refugees On Their Way To The United States
- Are Bananas Becoming Extinct?
- Columbia Finds Sunken Treasure
- Japan Continues Whaling in the Antarctic
- Queen Elizabeth II Celebrates 90th Birthday
- Porsche Plans to Build Electric Car
- Angela Merkel - TIME's Person of the Year
- Saudi Arabian Women Allowed to Vote
- Disney Opens New Theme Park in Shanghai
- Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Fight Malaria
- Star Wars - The Force Awakens
- Is Running a Marathon Under Two Hours Possible ?
- Climate Agreement Reached in Paris
- Star Trek Returns to TV in 2017
- Lack of Snow in the Alps
- City of the Future in New Mexico
- Muhammad Ali, World's Greatest Boxer, Dies at 74
- Black Holes
- Far Right Parties on the Rise in Europe
- Instagram Celebrates 5th Anniversary
- Britain Votes to Leave the European Union
- China Announces End of One Child Policy
- International Space Station Celebrates 15th Birthday
- 46 Million Live in Modern Slavery
- San Andreas Fault - Getting Ready For the Big One
- China With Another New Supercomputer
- Sunscreens and How To Use Them
- David Bowie
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