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Washington: The risk of a nuclear "Armageddon" is at its highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, US President Joe Biden has said.Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin was "not joking" when he spoke of using tactical nuclear...

Colombo: A Brisbane-based company that invented a smartphone app it says can diagnose Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses by listening to someone cough has been purchased by Pfizer for nearly $180 million.ResApp Health Ltd uses diagnostic technology developed by...

Bangkok: At least 31 people, including children, were killed in a mass shooting at a childcare center in northeast Thailand's Nong Bua Lamphu province on Thursday, the police told Xinhua.TV footage showed ambulances and families of the victims gathering...

Moscow: SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk said on Thursday that despite most of Ukraine's regions wanting to remain Ukrainian the eastern regions prefer Russia.Musk made the statement on Twitter in response to a comment by US Senator Lindsey...

Moscow: IAEA head Rafael Grossi pledged the UN nuclear watchdog’s support for Armenia on Wednesday as it looks to step up nuclear energy production.Grossi inspected the country’s only nuclear power plant in Metsamor on Tuesday and met with President...

Bhubaneswar: India U-17 women’s team head coach Thomas Dennerby on Wednesday announced a 21-member squad for the FIFA U-17 World Cup 2022 scheduled to begin on October 11.India have been drawn in Group A alongside USA, Morocco and Brazil....

Stockholm: Carolyn R Bertozzi and K Barry Sharpless from the United States and Morten Meldal from Denmark shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences...

Lausanne: International Boxing Association (IBA) on Wednesday lifted its ban on Russia and Belarus from competing at its events with immediate effect."The Board of Directors voted in favor to cancel its previous decision and allow boxers of Russia and...

Stockholm: Alain Aspect from France, John F. Clauser from the United States and Anton Zeilinger from Austria won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on quantum information science, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on...

Tokyo: North Korea has fired a suspected missile over Japan, in what appears to be a deliberate escalation to get the attention of Tokyo and Washington.The ballistic missile travelled about 4,500 km before falling into the Pacific Ocean --...