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Gamescom: Video gamers set for world's biggest trade show
Organisers expect the event, which runs until Sunday in the western city of Cologne, to welcome more than 300,000 people as firms hype forthcoming big releases like "Indiana Jones and the Great Circle" and "Call of Duty: Black Ops 6"
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Vulnerable Sydney faces hotter days, rising seas
The New South Wales state government warned Sydney could be 1.8 degrees Celsius (3.2 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer by 2050, and around double that by 2090, if warming is unchecked
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Royal Stag and Blenders Pride form the bedrock of Pernod Ricard India's success: Kartik Mohindra
Pernod Ricard India launched new versions of Royal Stag and Blenders Pride on August 20. Its CMO talks about the new spirits, the company's innovation strategy, its vision for India and more
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Argentine lithium a boon for some, doom for others
With its neighbours Chile and Bolivia, Argentina forms Latin America's so-called "lithium triangle," where the metal nicknamed "white gold" is found in quantities larger than anywhere else on Earth
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Greeks try tropical crops in climate change experiment
The initiative is part of a study by Greek state agriculture institute Demeter to determine whether tropical fruits could help address the country's looming drought problem
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Climate change fuelled deadly Kerala landslides, say scientists
Monsoon rains battered the southern coastal state of Kerala and triggered landslides on July 30, burying homes and residents in Wayanad district under tonnes of rock and soil
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Students want more environmental health taught in medical schools
Offer more courses on climate health in medical schools: this is the demand of a group of students, whose voice has been relayed in an article published in early August in the journal Nature Medicine
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AI may reproduce gender, ethnicity biases in mental health tools
Stereotypes die hard. And according to researchers at Colorado's University of Boulder, algorithms have also picked up these clichés
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Extreme heat exposure on the rise for millions of kids: UN
The bodies of young children are not like little adults, they have much more vulnerability to extreme heat," UNICEF advocacy chief Lily Caprani told AFP, also warning of dangers for pregnant women
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Top 5 hotels in the world in 2024
A hotel in India has been crowned number one in Travel + Leisure's World's Best Awards survey
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Inside Disney's billion-dollar blockbusters
With Inside Out 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine, Disney Entertainment has given unprecedented hits in the last two months. The former has already emerged as the highest-grossing animated movie ever