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McDonald’s Quarter Pounder returns after E. coli testing rules out beef

Bavarian tradition honors St. Leonhard, patron saint of farmers, horses and livestock

How to prepare for potential health effects of upcoming end to daylight saving time

‘Venom: The Last Dance’ misses projections as superhero films’ grip on theaters loosens

Thousands turn out for Thai royal barge pageantry

War casts shadow over Lebanon’s ancient Baalbek

NASA astronaut released from hospital after return from space station

Major Vatican meeting sidelines talks of women priests, deacons

NASA astronaut hospitalized upon return from extended stay in space

Bassist Lesh, founding member of Grateful Dead, dies at 84

Climate finance to take center stage at COP29

Four astronauts return to Earth after being delayed by Boeing’s capsule trouble, Hurricane Milton

How Afghan, Pakistani clerics battle polio vaccine misinformation

US military, intelligence agencies ordered to embrace AI

AI decodes oinks and grunts to keep pigs happy in Danish study

China space plan highlights commitment to space exploration, analysts say

Royalanimal.com domain for sale!

Snakebite victims in Southern Africa struggle to get antivenom

Polio strikes as misinformation fuels vaccine refusal in Pakistan and Afghanistan

Chinese official urges Apple to continue ‘deepening’ presence in China

E. coli outbreak tied to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder kills 1, sickens dozens in US

Polio resurfaces in Ivory Coast, threatening country’s children

Ukrainians find normalcy between shellings in Sumy ‘art yard’  

New mpox variant detected in Germany

China unveils first diagnosis guidelines to battle escalating obesity crisis

‘Garbage in, garbage out’: AI fails to debunk disinformation, study finds

French government takes new blows over deal to sell painkiller maker to US fund

Microsoft to allow autonomous AI agent development starting next month

Environmental delegates gather in Colombia for a conference on dwindling global biodiversity

WHO urges Rwanda to see off Marburg outbreak

‘Smile 2’ grinning to No. 1 at box office; ‘Anora’ glitters

Tiny Caribbean island of Anguilla turns AI boom into digital gold mine

Whooping cough is at a decade-high level in US

Kidney transplants are safe between people with HIV, US study shows

Polio crisis deepens as Pakistan reports new cases

Cher, Mary J. Blige, Ozzy Osbourne among Rock Hall of Fame inductees

6-time Olympic cycling champion Hoy reveals he has terminal cancer

Nigeria rolls out long-anticipated malaria vaccine

Nepal’s Sherpas deserve more, says teen who scaled world’s 14 tallest peaks

Drone maker DJI sues Pentagon over Chinese military listing

Aging farmers face extreme temperatures as they struggle to maintain Japan’s rice crop

Pressure grows for nations to deliver on promised biodiversity targets at UN conference

Acik Radyo falls silent as Turkish media regulator revokes license

Namibia hosts workshop on health care access to LGBTQ+ community

Moonlight may hamper views of Orionid meteor shower, debris of Halley’s comet

Residents on Kenya’s coast use app to track migratory birds

Death of ex-One Direction member Liam Payne at 31 shocks fans around the world

Deepfakes featuring deceased terrorists spread radical propaganda

US prosecutors see rising threat of AI-generated child sex abuse imagery

One Direction singer Liam Payne dead after falling from Buenos Aires hotel balcony

Colombian ranchers aim to prove beef production can be good for planet

US Supreme Court declines to pause EPA power plant emissions rule

Listeria recall grows to 5.4 million kilograms of meat and poultry

South African artists, influencers with albinism fight stigma

Zimbabwean comedian wows audiences on America’s Got Talent

Growing number of young women say abortion rights top election issue

China says unidentified foreign company conducted illegal mapping services

Chinese cyber association calls for review of Intel products sold in China

‘Age of electricity’ to follow looming fossil fuel peak, IEA says

EU AI Act checker reveals Big Tech’s compliance pitfalls