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Shatner will become the oldest person to go to space, breaking the record set only recently by 82-year-old Wally Funk, who travelled on the New Shepard’s first crewed spaceflight in July. Funk was one of the Mercury 13 women who qualified for spaceflight in the 1960s but never flew.

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Many Newcastle United fans cheered the announcement on October 7 that their club had finally been sold for £305 million.

As of Wednesday 13 October, McDonald's lovers will be able to purchase the new Cadbury Caramilk McFlurry from stores nationwide.

The High Court has unanimously rejected claims by mining magnate Clive Palmer and his company Mineralogy that legislation passed by the Western Australian parliament intended to prevent him from claiming billions in damages was unconstitutional.

Lack of access to funding is one obstacle to Māori participating more fully in New Zealand’s economy, new report finds.

Aussie expertise to develop a lunar-surface rover that will play a part in planning for a sustainable human presence on the Moon.

In early 2020, we detected an unusual radio signal coming from somewhere near the centre of our galaxy. The signal blinked on and off, growing 100 times brighter and dimmer over time.

European and Asian gas prices are at an all-time high, the oil price is at a three-year high, and the price of coal is soaring on the back of energy shortages across China, India and Germany.

A breakthrough has been made in the Madeleine McCann case. Investigators believe that the Identified is indeed the murderer.

Graduates entering an ever-more-competitive job market are often unaware of the skills and values they offer employers. The challenge is greater with emerging job roles that require certifications and both multidisciplinary skills and specialist knowledge, even for entry-level positions.

So far in the pandemic, state public health advice has been front and centre of public messaging about protecting the community from the spread of COVID-19.

When the Nobel Prize-winning US physicist Robert Hofstadter and his team fired highly energetic electrons at a small vial of hydrogen at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in 1956, they opened the door to a new era of physics.

Business body says the state needs a ‘circuit-breaker announcement’, not conflicting messages about a possible Christmas reopening.

Sustainable-population advocacy group says country’s politicians must stand up to the self-interested ‘Big-Australia’ lobby.

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Recent incursions by the Chinese air force into Taiwan’s air defence zone have ratcheted up already tense relations, with the US and Australia both warning China about undermining regional peace and stability.

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In the UK over the last few weeks, there have been a growing number of reports of people testing positive for COVID on a lateral flow test (LFT) but then negative on a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test.

While humans have walked on the Moon and sent probes all over the solar system, our understanding of our own brain is still severely lacking. We do not have complete knowledge of how brain structure, chemicals and connectivity interact to produce our thoughts and behaviours.

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On first glance, October’s jobs report may not be anything to cheer about. Released on Oct. 8, 2021, it shows that just 194,000 jobs were added in the month – well short of the 400,000-plus figure that many economists had predicted.

Carbon offsetting has been in the news lately after a report raised concerns about the integrity of the federal government’s offsetting scheme, the emissions reduction fund.

Not one to miss a chance to highlight his state’s economic might and the importance of its resources sector, McGowan has a field day.

Commonwealth Bank and Commonwealth Securities alleged to have underpaid nearly 7,500 workers to the tune of $16,5-million.

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The Pandora Papers — the biggest-ever leak of records showing how the rich and powerful use the financial system to maximise their wealth — shows the distinction has lost its meaning.

The work of Julius and Patapoutian has greatly expanded scientists’ views of how the nervous system deciphers the external and internal world by introducing us to entirely new classes of sensory receptors.

The world’s first mass vaccination program against malaria, announced this week, is set to prevent millions of children from catching malaria and thousands dying from this debilitating disease.

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Lava was still flowing on the surface of the Moon 1.97 billion years ago – and now we have the rocks to prove it. This is the result of new work from an international collaboration of planetary scientists, of which we’re a part, published in the journal Science.

Boris Johnson has declared that his government plans to build a “high-skill, high-wage” economy across the UK. But it will not be an easy thing to deliver.

International study led by University of Queensland academics finds that women and young people in Covid-wracked countries are hardest hit.

As British workers prepare for a return to the office, researchers warn of disruption while everyone determines what works – and doesn’t.

China will now extract more coal in 2021 than the 3.9 billion tonnes it extracted in 2020, as well as quietly importing more from places like Australia.

As NSW and Victoria speed toward target COVID vaccination rates and the associated relaxation of lockdown rules, many are considering a trip to the local pool in the near future.

Hopping on your bike when it’s raining, or snowing, might seem unappealing. But our research has found inclement weather conditions deter some cyclists more than others.

Early in the pandemic, scientists thought “convalescent plasma” might be a way to treat COVID-19.

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English is considered the language of international science. But our new research reveals how important scientific knowledge in other languages is going untapped. This oversight squanders opportunities to help improve the plight of the one million species facing extinction.

Would-be home buyers who meet the financial thresholds will require only a small deposit and won’t have to pay Lenders’ Mortgage Insurance.

Hospitals and mortuaries in Australia’s island neighbour said to be at capacity as new infections strain the country’s medical services.

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To rein in the greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts from livestock farming and to reduce diet-related diseases, people in the UK must eat 30% less meat by the end of the decade, according to a recent report commissioned by the government.

Just 5% of employed people in the UK worked from home in 2019. The onset of the pandemic and the overnight shuttering of offices during the first lockdown meant 47% of employees were doing the same in April 2020.

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It's fair to say that technology and the internet have changed our lives. One of the areas where this is most apparent is in the way we manage our finances. From trading to banking and the way we pay for our groceries, everything is changing in ways we couldn't have...

Squid Game is anything but your typical, saccharine, soft-glow Korean television drama. In this biting commentary on life in South Korea today, viewers are presented with a twisting, technicolour story of violence, betrayal and desperation.