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The threat to its business model puts pressure on Uber to move faster toward its vision of dispatching self-driving cars to provide rides on demand
World
21.08.2024
Uber-Lyft to stop California services absent reprieve
Faces covered in white dust and chisels in hand, marble sculptors in Myanmar say the hills that have given them a livelihood for generations are disappearing, as large companies reap the rewards of the prized white rock. The deafening sound of cutting...
World
21.08.2024
'We want our mountains back': the fight over Myanmar's marble hills
Israel carries out air strikes against Hamas targets in Gaza, hours after warning the Palestinian Islamist group that it risks war if it fails to end repeated launches of arson balloons across the border
World
21.08.2024
Israel bombs Gaza after warning Hamas it risks war
Earth's oceans contain an estimated 150 million tonnes of plastic, often in the form of microplastic particles
World
21.08.2024
Atlantic plastic levels far higher than thought: study
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Hristo Ivanov was a minister in a previous Borisov government before starting his own anti-corruption party
World 21.08.2024
Varied faces of Bulgaria's anti-corruption protests
Six members of the specialist clean-up team are travelling to Mauritius from Japan
World 21.08.2024
Japan experts head to Mauritius for oil spill clean-up
Teenager Bella Achieng works alongside her mother in Nairobi after the school year was cancelled in Kenya due to the coronavirus
World 21.08.2024
Kenyan students mourn lost year as school scrapped over virus
The suspect is accused of pushing the eight-year-old boy and his mother onto the tracks in an apparently random attack at Frankfurt's main station last year
World 21.08.2024
Eritrean on trial for pushing boy under German train
A man walks past a sign urging people to wear face masks in Melbourne as the city battles an outbreak of COVID-19
World 21.08.2024
Coronavirus vaccine should be mandatory in Australia: PM
Harel Barak (L) and his husband Yakir Kanneli (R) pose for a picture with an empty stroller at a park in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv
World 21.08.2024
Israeli same-sex couples seek end to surrogacy discrimination
Patti Cosper, the daughter of rape survivor Patricia Murphy shows Joseph James DeAngelo the middle finger after reading a statement on her mother's behalf during the first day of victim impact statements at the Gordon D. Schaber Sacramento County Court...
World 21.08.2024
'May you rot in prison': US 'Golden State Killer' victims speak out
The ice axe that was used to kill Leon Trotsky disappeared shortly after the gruesome murder on August 20, 1940, before espionage historian Keith Melton finally tracked it down in 2005
World 21.08.2024
The axe that killed Leon Trotsky now a museum exhibit
Graft scandals linked to the coronavirus crisis have heightened anger about South Africa's poverty and inequality
World 21.08.2024
Coronavirus graft scandals shake South Africa's president
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