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The BepiColombo spacecraft, a joint project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), flew by Mercury overnight, its closest approach being just 199km (123 miles) above the surface of the hard-to-reach planet. It snapped a handful of photos showing the densely cratered surface of …

The pressure continues to rise on United’s Norwegian boss after yet another insipid performance this time at home to Everton, and when interviewed on live television by the club’s own station MUTV, these two fans couldn’t help but offer a concise description in United’s woes. “What did you think of …

Dum, dubba dum, dubba dum, dubba dum… that rolling bass at the start of The Sopranos TV show was a cast-iron guarantee. It meant strict quality control, a promise that a genius had his hand gripped tight to the tiller – upon the characters, upon the plot and upon the …

The possibility of soaring oil prices and high inflationary pressure could become the trigger for a global crisis, the analysts warned in a note carried by Bloomberg. According to the multinational, gas-to-oil switching with record-high natural gas prices could cause additional oil demand.  Moreover, energy demand is expected to grow …

The mining operation, run by the state-controlled energy company LaGeo SA de CV, managed to generate 0.00599179 bitcoin, or about $269, using geothermal power from volcanoes, Bukele tweeted. Earlier this week, the president shared on Twitter a video of government-branded shipping containers carrying digital-currency miners to an energy facility in …

In the video, shared on Twitter by a user named Taylor Soper, an alligator can be seen half-submerged in a pond, another’s tail and back feet wriggling in its chops. In a matter of seconds, as the cannibal chews and swallows, just one of the feet can be seen, before …

A night patrol on the beach at Dunkirk last week came upon eight Iranian Kurdish men carrying a dinghy toward the shore and opened fire on them, the Daily Mail reported on Saturday. Two of the men were taken to hospital, one with a fractured leg and another with a …

International commentary has been quick and, in the case of the US and EU, sometimes misleading. In part, that’s due to the news cycle’s demand for rapid responses. But there’s another reason as well: when it comes to the relationship between Moscow and Ankara, many observers put the cart before …

In recent times, liberals’ desire to embrace the burgeoning trans movement has meant that if someone says they’re trans, people have been encouraged to support them unconditionally. On the surface, this may appear to be ‘doing the right thing’. But according to one woman who has detransitioned, there is a …

Mohammed Khalifa was charged with conspiring to provide material support to IS resulting in death, the US Department of Justice announced on Saturday. Khalifa was captured in 2019 by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-supported and predominantly Kurdish faction in Syria’s multi-front civil war. According to a Justice Department …