Pellizzari takes Vuelta stage 17 honours
Italy's Giulio Pellizzari upstaged the big guns in Wednesday's Vuelta a Espana 17th stage as Jonas Vingegaard retained the leader's red jersey.
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Deadly floods inundate Indonesia's Bali and Flores islands
Flash floods swept two Indonesian islands, including tourist hotspot Bali, killing at least 13 people, with six others missing, the country's disaster agency said on Wednesday.
Read moreSyrian jailed for life over Islamist knife attack at German festival
A Syrian man was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for killing three people and wounding eight in an Islamist-motivated stabbing spree at a summer festival in Germany last year.
Read moreUS says backs S.Korea investment as plane fetches detained workers
The United States said Wednesday that it welcomed investment from South Korea, which dispatched a plane to repatriate hundreds of workers arrested in an immigration raid that shocked the close US ally.
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Gravitational waves from black hole smash confirm Hawking theory
Ripples in spacetime sent hurtling through the universe when two black holes smash into each other -- a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein -- have confirmed a theory proposed by fellow physicist Stephen Hawking over 50 years ago, scientists announced Wednesday.
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Israel launches deadly strike on Yemen rebel media arm
Israeli air strikes hit the media operation of Yemen's Huthi rebels on Wednesday, killing and wounding an unspecified number of people, the group said.
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Fossil energy 'significant' driver of climate-fuelled heatwaves: study
Fossil fuel and cement producers have contributed "significantly" to the growing number and intensity of climate-change-driven heatwaves, according to a study published on Wednesday in Nature.
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Oldest known lizard ancestor discovered in England
Scientists announced Wednesday they have discovered the oldest-known member of the lizard family in southwest England, a tiny creature that used its surprisingly large teeth to hunt cockroaches 242 million years ago.
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Smoke from 2023 Canada fires linked to thousands of deaths: study
Canada's record-breaking 2023 wildfires exposed more than 350 million people in North America and Europe to air pollution that likely contributed to tens of thousands of deaths, according to new estimates published Wednesday.
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Software company Oracle shares surge more than 35% on huge AI deals
Oracle shares surged more than 35 percent in early trading Wednesday after the software giant projected massive revenue growth based on contracts tied to artificial intelligence.
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