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Uganda equal lowest ever T20 WC score in defeat to WI

Timesofindia.indiatimes.com (sports) 

Uganda's Twenty20 World Cup performance reached its lowest score ever with a 39-run total against the West Indies, similar to the Netherlands' record low against Sri Lanka in 2014. The West Indies secured a 134-run victory, marking the second-largest winning margin in T20 World Cup history. Juma Miyaji scored 13 from 20 deliveries.

USMNT unravels against Colombia in Copa América tune-up - The Washington Post

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  1. USMNT unravels against Colombia in Copa América tune-up  The Washington Post
  2. USMNT gets 'wake-up call' in 5-1 rout by Colombia  ESPN
  3. USMNT called out for ‘lack of respect’ in Colombia drubbing as Gregg Berhalter reacts to pre-Copa America ‘wake-up call’  Goal.com
  4. USMNT vs. Colombia: Match Preview | U.S. Soccer Official Website  U.S. Soccer
  5. USMNT 1-5 Colombia: Mistake-happy Yanks punished by impressive Cafeteros  Yahoo Sports

‘Basuto’: a lost chapter in Malta’s war

Times of Malta 

Malta Convoy: Basutos Deal with the Overflow Mail on the Causeway, The Palace, Valletta by Leslie Cole. Photo: Imperial War Museum, London (Art. IWM ART LD 3254).

JEE-Advanced Topper 2024: IIT Delhi zone's Ved Lahoti tops

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

JEE-Advanced Topper 2024: Ved Lahoti from the IIT Delhi zone secured the top rank in the JEE-Advanced 2024 by scoring 355 out of 360 marks. Out of 48,248 qualifiers, 7,964 are female. Dwija Dharmeshkumar Patel from the IIT Bombay zone is the highest-ranked female, placing 7th overall. JEE-Advanced admits students to India's prestigious IITs.

Environmental activist 'detained' in Uganda, NGOs say

Energy-daily.com 

Kampala (AFP) June 7, 2024
An environmental activist in Uganda opposed to a huge oil drilling project headed by French giant TotalEnergies has been detained by soldiers, two NGOs said Friday. Stephen Kwikiriza has not been heard from for three days, according to the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). "In a particularly worrying escalation of repression, Stephen Kwikiriza, from the Environmental Gove

Electrified Charcoal Sponge Captures CO2 Directly from Air

Energy-daily.com 

London, UK (SPX) Jun 07, 2024
Researchers have developed a low-cost, energy-efficient method for making materials that can capture carbon dioxide directly from the air. Researchers from the University of Cambridge used a method similar to charging a battery to charge activated charcoal, commonly used in household water filters. By charging the charcoal 'sponge' with ions that form reversible bonds with CO2, the r

COP29 climate hosts say they'll keep expanding fossil fuels

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Bonn (AFP) June 7, 2024
The incoming president of the COP29 UN climate summit in Azerbaijan told AFP on Friday that his country would keep increasing fossil fuel production "in parallel" with investments in cleaner alternatives. Mukhtar Babayev defended his country's hosting of the world's most important climate summit despite its surging natural gas exports, even as UN chief Antonio Guterres renewed calls this wee

The unexpected origins of a modern finance tool

Energy-daily.com 

Boston MA (SPX) Jun 09, 2024
In the early 1600s, the officials running Durham Cathedral, in England, had serious financial problems. Soaring prices had raised expenses. Most cathedral income came from renting land to tenant farmers, who had long leases so officials could not easily raise the rent. Instead, church leaders started charging periodic fees, but these often made tenants furious. And the 1600s, a time of religious

China's Xi hails Brazil ties as VP Alckmin visits Beijing

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Beijing (AFP) June 7, 2024
Xi Jinping hailed China's friendship with Brazil on Friday, telling visiting Vice President Geraldo Alckmin their ties "go far beyond the scope of bilateral relations". Beijing is the South American country's top trading partner, exceeding $180 billion in each-way trade in 2023, with semiconductors, phones and pharmaceuticals dominating exports to Brazil. Since returning to power last ye

BYD says to build second EU factory despite EV slowdown

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Monaco (AFP) June 7, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD is still committed to building a second factory in Europe and will roll out hybrid cars as the EV market slows down, a group executive told AFP. Stella Li, vice president for Europe and the Americas, also shrugged off a European Union probe that could lead to tariffs on Chinese EVs. "When your competition worries about you, that means that you're super

UAH Research Suggests Gravity Without Mass Could Eliminate Need for Dark Matter

Spacedaily.com 

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 07, 2024
Dark matter, hypothesized to explain gravitational effects that general relativity cannot, remains enigmatic since its proposal in 1932 by Dutch astronomer Jan Oort. Dr. Richard Lieu from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has published a paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society proposing an alternative theory. Lieu's work suggests gravity can exist without mass,

Artificial gravity space stations in development for Europe

Spacedaily.com 

Paris, France (SPX) Jun 09, 2024
Many are familiar with movies like "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Star Trek," where astronauts live and work on space stations with artificial gravity. This science fiction is becoming reality. ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and Vast CEO Max Haot signed a Memorandum of Understanding for future Vast space stations during Space Day at the Berlin International Airshow (ILA) on June 6, 20

Apollo 8 astronaut dies in small plane crash at age 90

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Washington (AFP) June 8, 2024
William Anders, the former US astronaut who took the historic "Earthrise" photo from space over 55 years ago, died in a plane crash on Friday at the age of 90, his family said. Anders had been piloting a small plane which crashed off the coast of Washington state on Friday morning, his son told US media. Anders was alone in the plane. His body was later recovered by a dive team, The Seat

Rocket Lab plans 50th Electron mission to deploy five satellites for Kineis

Spacedaily.com 

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 07, 2024
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) ("Rocket Lab or "the Company) has announced the launch window for its 50th Electron mission, which will deploy five Internet-of-Things (IoT) satellites for French company Kineis. The 'No Time Toulouse' mission is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand during a 14-day launch window that opens on June 19th, 2024, NZST.

New spectrograph to aid in search for extraterrestrial life

Spacedaily.com 

Paris, France (SPX) Jun 09, 2024
ESO has signed an agreement with an international consortium of institutions for the design and construction of ANDES, the ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph. The ANDES instrument will be installed on ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). It will be used to search for signs of life in exoplanets and look for the very first stars, as well as to test variations of the fundamental cons

Earliest detection of metals challenges understanding of first galaxies

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London, UK (SPX) Jun 09, 2024
Astronomers have detected carbon in a galaxy just 350 million years after the Big Bang, marking the earliest detection of any element in the universe other than hydrogen. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge observed a very young galaxy in the early universe and found that it contained surprising amounts of car