Spacecraft launches towards knocked-off-course asteroid
The mission aims to re-visit the asteroid Nasa diverted when it crashed a probe into it.
07
Oct
Yearly Archives: 2024
07
Oct
Spacecraft to launch towards knocked-off-course asteroid
The mission aims to re-visit the asteroid Nasa diverted when it crashed a probe into it.
07
Oct
Ethiopia president replaced after falling out with PM
Sahle-Work Zewde was the country’s first female head of state – a largely ceremonial position.
07
Oct
Drug-related killings shake French city of Marseille
Prosecutor says city faces “savagery” after taxi driver killed by 14-year-old and another child, 15, is stabbed to death.
07
Oct
Russia sentences 72-year-old American to jail on mercenary charges
Prosecutors said Stephen Hubbard was fighting on the Ukrainian side when he was captured by Russian forces in 2022.
07
Oct
Japan’s government admits editing cabinet photo
A government spokesperson admitted “minor editing” had been made to the image after online speculation.
07
Oct
My son’s not a monster, says Diddy’s mother
Janice Combs says her son is “not perfect” but is not guilty of the sex charges filed against him.
07
Oct
Nobel Prize goes to microRNA researchers
US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun helped explain how genes work inside the human body.
07
Oct
Hurricane Milton threatens more devastation in Florida after Helene
Evacuations are planned just days after the US’s deadliest mainland storm since Katrina in 2005.
07
Oct
Author to go on trial in France for downplaying Rwanda genocide
French-Cameroonian writer Charles Onana faces trial in Paris over a controversial book about the killings.
