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A World Remembers: Memorials honour COVID-19's 5 million dead

Saturday, 30 October 2021, 11:36 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

The Italian city that suffered the brunt of COVID-19’s first deadly wave is dedicating a vivid memorial to the pandemic dead: A grove of trees, creating oxygen in a park opposite the hospital...

Earth gets hotter, deadlier during decades of climate talks

Saturday, 30 October 2021, 10:06 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

World leaders have been meeting for 29 years to try to curb global warming, and in that time Earth has become a much hotter and deadlier planet.  Trillions of tons of ice have disappeared...

European consumer prices hit highest level in over 13 years

Saturday, 30 October 2021, 07:16 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Consumer prices across the 19 European Union countries that use the euro currency have spiked to the highest level in over 13 years on the back of soaring energy prices and pent-up demand during the...

G20 leaders to confront energy prices, other economic woes

Saturday, 30 October 2021, 07:13 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Leaders of the Group of 20 countries gathering for their first in-person summit since the pandemic took hold will confront a global recovery hampered by a series of stumbling blocks: an...

Biden: Pope told me that I should 'keep receiving Communion'

Saturday, 30 October 2021, 07:10 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Face to face at the Vatican, President Joe Biden held extended and highly personal talks with Pope Francis on Friday and came away saying the pontiff told him he was a “good Catholic” and...

Facebook Inc. rebrands as Meta to stress ‘metaverse’ plan

Thursday, 28 October 2021, 21:26 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself as Meta in an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future — what Zuckerberg calls the...

EU court tells Poland to pay $1.2M a day in judicial dispute

Wednesday, 27 October 2021, 15:25 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

The European Union upped a standoff with Poland over judicial independence and the primacy of EU over national law on Wednesday when the bloc's top court fined the recalcitrant member nation $1.2...

Watch: Catania under water as heavy rains hit Sicily

Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 15:07 Last update: about 6 years ago

Catania was under water in the last hours as heavy rains hit the island of Sicily and the south of Italy. Malta has also been battered by heavy rainfall in the last 24 hours. Italian news...

Let computers do it: Film set tragedy spurs call to ban guns

Monday, 25 October 2021, 07:09 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

With computer-generated imagery, it seems the sky’s the limit in the magic Hollywood can produce: elaborate dystopian universes. Trips to outer space, for those neither astronauts nor...

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