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Google to invest $6.4bn

The investment is its biggest-ever in Germany.

Pfizer poised to buy Metsera

The pharma giant improved its offer to $10bn.

Ozempic maker lowers outlook

The company posted tepid Q3 results.

Kimberly-Clark to buy Kenvue

The deal is valued at $48.7 billion.

BYD Q3 profit down 33%

This was a 33% year-on-year decrease.

‘Dark universe detective’ telescope releases first data

Paris, France - Europe's Euclid space telescope, which is on a mission to shed light on the mysteries of dark...

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Saudi Space Agency launches ‘Space Futures Centre’

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - The Saudi Space Agency (SSA) announced Sunday the launch of the Centre for Space Futures, the...

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Flood of net zero vows suffer ‘credibility gap’: report

While countries, cities and companies have massively ramped up net-zero emissions promises in recent months there remain "major flaws" in...
  • Most rich countries have announced they will be net zero by 2050, while China and India have vowed to reach that point by 2060 and 2070, respectively
  • The report draws on a database of over 4,000 governments, cities, states and major companies and comes as climate negotiators are meeting in Germany
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Cut airline emissions to meet Paris targets: report

The world needs "early, aggressive and sustained" government intervention to cut aviation emissions if Paris Agreement temperature goals are to...
  • Airlines must start to slash emissions before the end of the decade and by 2025 if possible, said the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) in a new report
  • Earth's average surface temperature has already risen 1.2C above preindustrial levels
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UAE blazes a trail with AI, leads Europe and MENA

The Gulf country leads EMEA in the leverage of data, data science, and AI for the purposes of decision making...
  • The UAE has established itself as a world leader in AI, having been the first nation to appoint a minister of state for AI
  • Data science and AI are advancing, yet managers and non-managers in the UAE have different perceptions about data utility and AI's role
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Saudi Space Commission to launch ‘Madar’ training program for students, workers

Saudi Space Commission will help and train 1,000 students and workers about space to national capabilities, cadres and skills in...
  • Saudi Space Commission will teach 1,000 male and female trainees from various scientific specialties about the space sector
  • The program aims at raising the level of knowledge by providing theoretical and practical courses in the space sector
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UAE to chair Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

The UAE has been chosen to lead the Committee on The Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPOUS) out of 100...
  • COPOUS is one of the largest UN committees playing a major role in governing the exploration and use of space
  • The Committee is part of The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), and reports to the Fourth Committee of the General Assembly
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Iraq battles with outbreak of deadly nose-bleed fever

Spraying a cow with pesticides, health workers target blood-sucking ticks at the heart of Iraq's worst detected outbreak of a...
  • The sight of the health workers, dressed in full protective kit, is one that has become common in the Iraqi countryside, as the Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever spreads
  • Transmitted by ticks, hosts of the virus include both wild and farmed animals such as buffalo, cattle, goats and sheep
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Boeing Starliner completes key test mission to ISS

Astronauts living aboard the station opened the hatch and "greeted" the capsule's passengers: Rosie the Rocketeer, a mannequin equipped with...
  • The gumdrop-shaped spaceship landed in a puff of sand at 4:49 pm local time (2249 GMT) in the New Mexico desert
  • Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) was the last hurdle for Starliner to clear before it carries humans in another test flight due to take place by the end of this year
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From ‘child of war’ to two-term WHO chief

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the first African to head the WHO, was re-elected on Tuesday, tearfully accepting a second term as...
  • The UN health agency did not provide a breakdown, but sources in the room said he had received 155 of the 160 votes cast
  • The 57-year-old malaria expert has also increasingly been sounding the alarm over the heavy toll that conflicts like the war in Ukraine are taking on global health

Boeing’s Starliner docks with ISS in high-stakes test mission

NASA is looking to certify Starliner as a second "taxi" service for its astronauts to the space station a role...
  • Starliner spaceship made contact at 8:28 pm Eastern time, 24 hours after it took off from the Kennedy Space Center
  • Success of spaceship will be the key to re-establish Boeing's credibility after its first launch in 2019 which was failed to dock with the ISS due to software bugs
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MBRSC and EGA look to collaborate in field of research

Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre and Emirates Global Aluminum (EGA) are looking to collaborate in research and the use of...
  • Al Marri was received at EGA's Jebel Ali site in Dubai by Chief Executive Officer Abdulnasser bin Kalban, and the company's leading technologists
  • The two parties discussed potential future synergies, including the use of EGA metal by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in constructing its next spacecraft

‘Dark universe detective’ telescope releases first data

Paris, France - Europe's Euclid space telescope, which is on a mission to shed light on the mysteries of dark...
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UAE and Russia look to boost ties in education, space, scientific research

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NASA to publish long-awaited UFO report

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Iran and Russia sign deal to build research spacecraft in two years

Tehran, Iran-- Iran and Russia are looking to build a research spacecraft within two years and in this connection top...
  • The Scientific and Research Department at the University of Tehran has set up a secretariat to oversee the project
  • The Islamic republic's vice president has directed the Plan and Budget Organization of Iran to finance part of the joint project
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Lab-grown human ’embryos’ offer new research hope

The research and other recent work shows "that models of human embryos are getting more sophisticated and closer to events...
  • Earlier this year, several labs around the world released pre-print studies that had not been peer-reviewed, describing their development of early human embryo-like structures
  • The research was welcomed by some scientists as an "impressive" advance that could help unlock secrets about the precarious early stages of pregnancies, when failure is most common
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Sultan AlNeyadi is back but his mission will continue, says MBRSC

According to MBRSC, Sultan AlNeyadi will continue his mission in order to benefit from the scientific experiments that he took...
  • Once the spacecraft splashed down, the astronauts were carried out of the capsule and placed in a gurney-type transport
  • Being the first Arab astronaut to do a spacewalk, Al Neyadi was seen smiling and waving to the camera after leaving the capsule