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Watch live as International Olympic Committee members elect a new president at the 144th IOC session in Greece. The contest is widely seen as narrowing to three of the seven candidates: IOC Vice President Juan Antonio Samaranch and a pair of two-time Olympic gold medalists, Sebastian Coe and Kirsty Coventry.Continue Reading

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Rwanda denies link to M23 rebels as trade in smuggled DRC minerals is said to hit $1bn a year., In Pictures Rwanda denies link to M23 rebels as trade in smuggled DRC minerals said to hit $1bn a year. History Illustrated is a series of perspectives that puts news eventsContinue Reading

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As a Palestinian student, my time at Columbia University has been marked by fear, uncertainty and intimidation., On March 5, I watched dozens of police officers – invited onto campus by Columbia University’s Barnard College to break up a peaceful sit-in calling for the reversal of expulsions of three pro-PalestineContinue Reading

Aliens abduct space-crazed kid in wild new trailer for Pixar’s ‘Elio’ (video)

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After making a course correction with a number of reshoots and directorial shuffling, “Elio” is poised to be Disney & Pixar’s next potential blockbuster when the kid-centric sci-fi comedy drops into our galaxy with a rescheduled release date of June 20, 2025 and we’ve got a vibrant new trailer to share. “Elio’s” family-friendly plotline orbitsContinue Reading

Large alien planets may be born in chaos, NASA’s retired exoplanet-hunter finds

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A illustration shows an exoplanet in orbit around its star. (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Scientists have used data from NASA’s retired planet-hunting space telescope ‘Kepler’ to discover that small and large worlds have very different upbringings. The team found that larger planets on non-circular orbits are more likely to have grown inContinue Reading