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Three years after the "dieselgate" scandal shook it to its foundations, Volkswagen next week faces a first major court case in Germany over cheating emissions tests on millions of vehicles worldwide. From 10:00 am (0800 GMT) on Monday, the regional court in Brunswick will examine whether the auto g...
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Former former USA Gymnastics trainer Debra Van Horn, who worked with Larry Nassar, was arrested on a charge of sexually assaulting a child
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Searchers were digging through mountains of debris for survivors
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Language detectives say the key clues to who wrote the anonymous New York Times opinion piece slamming President Donald Trump may not be the odd and glimmering "lodestar," but the itty-bitty words that people usually read right over: "I," "of" and &quo...
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It was just a couple of weeks ago that the discovery of a frozen baby horse began to spread. The animal, which is thought to be as old as 40,000 years, was found frozen in Siberia, and the well-preserved remains offered researchers a glimpse at a species of wild horse that has long been extinct. Now...
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Two of the snakes were 10-foot (3-meter) pythons
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Mexican drug cartels frequently use similar sites to dispose of their victims
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Adam Rutherford takes the show to Dublin this week, to wrestle with great matters of biological complexity. Trinity College Dublin has organised a mass gathering of some of the world's leading researchers in the life sciences to mark the 75th anniversary of one of the most influential series of lect...
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Norwegian metals group Norsk Hydro said Thursday it has reached agreement with the Brazilian authorities following a dispute over the discharge of untreated water from its aluminium factory Alunorte, the largest in the world. Brazilian authorities had accused Norsk Hydro of having contaminated the...
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Kim declared his commitment to a Korea "without nuclear weapons" in the statement
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Crew members last week found the hole - roughly 2 millimetres in diameter - on the inner wall of Russia's Soyuz module on the orbital space station after ground operators reported slight dips in pressure levels. Its origin, however, remains a mystery to U.S. and Russian space officials. Dmitri Rog...
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There's a sea of open research data available on the web, but it can be time-consuming to sift through those sites to get at the data -- and it's not always presented in an easy-to-parse format. Google hopes it can make that information more accessible to scientists, journalists and plain old data...
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This is a& re-post from Carbon Brief by Daisy Dunne An additional 290 million people could face malnutrition by 2050 if little is done to stop the rise of greenhouse gas emissions, a study finds. The increased presence of CO2 in the atmosphere could cause staple crops to produce smaller amounts of n...
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The company's new campaign has already sparked vigorous debate
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The mother had told police her two-year-old went missing after they hitchhiked home