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The 2024 Paris Olympics aim to be the greenest edition on record, and the first compatible with the Paris climate agreement. Talk of "green games" goes back to April 2021. At the time, the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (OCOG) had even aspired to carbon neutrality by removing more greenhouse g

The President of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote, has been invited by President Brice Nguema of Gabon to invest in cement and fertiliser production in the country. According to a statement on Tuesday by the media office of Dangote Group, the billionaire was invited to explore investment opportunities in cement and fertiliser, at a time

John Mayall, the British blues pioneer whose 1960s music collective the Bluesbreakers helped usher in a fertile period of rock and brought guitarists like Eric Clapton to prominence, has died at 90, his family said Tuesday. Mayall, a singer and multi-instrumentalist who was dubbed “the godfather of British blues,” and whose open-door arrangement saw some

KUALA LUMPUR: Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil has expressed serious concern over the growing trend of traditional crimes moving into cyberspace and social media.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, around half of Earth's oxygen comes from the ocean. The production can typically be linked to oceanic plankton, drifting plants, algae and certain bacteria, with all four are capable of photosynthesis.

A six-year New Zealand inquiry into abuse, neglect and exploitation of children and vulnerable adults in state, foster and faith-based care between 1950 and 1999 found nearly a third of those in care were physically, sexually, verbally or psychologically harmed

Some Olympians become cultural icons

The vice president may have stopped the Democratic death march, but weaknesses remain.

French businesses had hoped the Games would bring an economic boom, but metal fences and police checkpoints have turned some areas of Paris into dead zones.

A boycott by some Democrats of the Israeli prime minister’s speech will highlight the deep anger within the party’s base about his conduct of the war against Hamas.

Luis Severino is currently the Mets’ best starter — and advance scout.

I am beginning to think that a large part of our problems with lying incompetents in positions of public trust reside with the fact that people no longer have much sense of shame, dignity or embarrassment.

The operation to flush out miltants is in progress, says Army.

1. Why Google’s cookie deprecation reversal isn’t actually a reprieve for publishers  Digiday
2. Google Confirms Bad News For 3 Billion Chrome Users—You Will Still Be Tracked  Forbes
3. Why Privacy Badger Opts You Out of Google’s “Privacy Sandbox”  EFF
4. Google cookie U-turn could be another meteor heading for publishers  Press Gazette
5. Google has changed its mind about 'killing' third-party tracking cookies  Mashable

MRF declared a Rs 194 Q4FY24 dividend per share and a total annual dividend of Rs 200 for FY24, with a July 25 record date. Shares closed at Rs 1,31,267.70 on BSE. Prior dividends include Rs 3 interim and Rs 169 final.

So glad to hear that our military considers this huge taxpayer-funded boondoggle such a success.

Iron-ore dropped to near the $100 a ton threshold as a policy meeting in China failed to deliver major stimulus, while supplies remained robust. The steelmaking material fell as much as 2.3% to $101.10 in Singapore, with futures on track for a third day of losses. The outcome of the Third Plenum, a twice-a-decade conclave of Communist Party officials last week, underwhelmed investors, with few steps to boost metals demand or fix the property crisis.

There are two sides to everything, even the national debt.

US man involved in Capitol riot charged with fleeing to Ireland to avoid jail

There were distinct patterns of cut marks, bone breakage in cooked vs. uncooked birds.

1. Want to cook like a Neanderthal? Archaeologists are learning the secrets  Ars Technica
2. Scientists try to replicate ancient butchering methods to learn how Neanderthals ate birds  Phys.org
3. Neanderthal cooking skills put to the test with birds and stone tools  New Scientist
4. Neanderthals ate birds. But how?  Popular Science
5. The earliest Sunday roast? Neanderthals were 'sophisticated cooks' capable of roasting small birds for dinner,  Daily Mail

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Roasted vegetables: Cal Raleigh, +.055 WPA

Boiled vegetables: Logan Gilbert, -.216 WPA

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The school district has lots of problems. Don’t expect them to be solved by board members who make Inspector Clouseau look like Sherlock Holmes.

Singapore, which subsists on imported food, is looking to secure its future with new ways of feeding its people.