Thousands of people were urged to flee an out-of-control wildfire burning around communities near Los Angeles on Thursday, with scores of homes already lost to the fast-moving flames.Fierce seasonal winds had cast embers up to three miles (five kilometers) from the seat of the fire around Camarillo, with new spots burning on hillsides, farmland and …
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Yannick Bestaven already knows what it feels like to win the Vendee Globe but the 51-year-old Frenchman cannot resist the call of the solo, non-stop round the world yacht race, which sets off from Les Sables-d’Olonne on the Atlantic coast on Sunday.”For me, this race is the holy grail of solo racing,” he told AFP.”It’s …
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Venerated as incarnations of Hindu deities, India’s sacred cows are also being touted as agents of energy transition by a government determined to promote biogas production to cut its dependence on coal.It is an understatement to say that Nakul Kumar Sardana is proud of his new plant at Barsana, in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state.Firstly, …
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For King Faisal, a 20-year-old winger from Ghana, the invitation to move to Brazil to play football is easily summed up: “It was a dream.””I believed when I came here, it would help me change the life of my family and many other people,” he told AFP in Sao Paulo.For the past year and a …
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Injury-hit Manchester City are desperate to snap their losing streak in their final Premier League game before the international break as Chelsea aim to deepen Arsenal’s misery.Elsewhere in the English top flight, Ruud van Nistelrooy takes charge of his final game as interim manager of Manchester United and winless Wolves play fellow strugglers Southampton.AFP Sport …
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US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday made the first appointment of his new administration — naming a chief of staff — with other key jobs set to be filled in the “days and weeks ahead,” according to his team.”There are some people that will be returning (from Trump’s first term),” senior Trump aide Jason Miller …
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One Direction star Liam Payne consumed cocaine, alcohol and a prescription antidepressant before falling to his death from a Buenos Aires hotel balcony last month, Argentine prosecutors said Thursday.The prosecutor’s office added that three people were charged with supplying him with drugs and one of them was also charged with abandoning a person in a …
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A portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing became the first artwork by a humanoid robot to be sold at auction, fetching $1,320,000 on Thursday.The 2.2 metre (7.5 feet) portrait “A.I. God” by “Ai-Da”, the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist, smashed pre-sale expectations of $180,000 when it went under the hammer at London auction house Sotheby’s …
Joe Biden pledged a peaceful transfer of power Thursday after Donald Trump’s decisive US election win, while the Republican showed his intent to ditch the outgoing president’s policies by suggesting he would talk to Vladimir Putin.Biden, 81, urged Americans in a solemn televised address to “bring down the temperature,” in stark contrast to Trump’s refusal …
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Plea agreements with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants are valid and binding, a US military judge said in a ruling published Thursday, three months after the deals were scrapped by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.The agreements — which are understood to take the death penalty off the table — had triggered anger …
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