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Fighting fires: Samsung struggles to limit damage from smartphone recall

Fighting fires: Samsung struggles to limit damage from smartphone recall

Heated meetings, sacrificed holidays and teams monitoring social media round-the-clock to track whether there have been any new smartphone fires:…
Exclusive: US lawmakers to investigate funding of WHO cancer agency

Exclusive: US lawmakers to investigate funding of WHO cancer agency

Oct 6 Officials from the U.S. government's health research agency are to be questioned by a congressional committee about why…
Twitter shares plunge on report bidders are scarce

Twitter shares plunge on report bidders are scarce

TWITTER Inc shares plunged on Thursday as fears mounted that a much-anticipated auction of the social media company will draw…
Successful escape, landing for Blue Origin’s rocket

Successful escape, landing for Blue Origin’s rocket

Blue Origin, the aerospace company headed by Amazon.com chief Jeff Bezos, ran a successful test Wednesday of an emergency escape…
Done deal: Paris climate pact to enter into force

Done deal: Paris climate pact to enter into force

A hard-fought climate rescue pact concluded last December in the French capital will enter into legal force next month, earlier…
Egypt to be free of hepatitis-C by 2020: health minister

Egypt to be free of hepatitis-C by 2020: health minister

Egypt's health minister announced on Tuesday that more than 800,000 people have been treated for hepatitis C since January 2016,…
Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for US intelligence: sources

Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for US intelligence: sources

Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific…
World’s first child born to three parents

World’s first child born to three parents

The first child with DNA from three parents was born in New York last spring. The birth was the result…
Japan’s Ohsumi wins Nobel for studies of cell ‘self-eating’ process

Japan’s Ohsumi wins Nobel for studies of cell ‘self-eating’ process

Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries related to the degrading…
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