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Viewed from above, 89 wind turbines form a striking hexagon of white pinpoints against dark blue water. What makes Windpark Fryslân unusual isn’t just its shape, but the fact that the offshore wind farm isn’t far out in the ocean. It’s just six kilometres from a shore dotted with villages in …

Bill Gates pledged on Thursday to give away $200 billion US via his charitable foundation by 2045 and lashed out at Elon Musk, accusing the world’s richest man of “killing the world’s poorest children” through huge cuts to the U.S. foreign aid budget. The 69-year-old billionaire co-founder of Microsoft said he was speeding up his plans to divest …

Rachel Homan’s curling team went the distance to reach the final of the women’s world championship. Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes navigated waves of momentum swings in a 6-5 win in an extra end over South Korea’s Gim Eun-ji in Saturday’s semifinal in Uijeongbu, South Korea. The Canadians meet …

On a weekday at the world’s largest refugee camp, dozens of women and men form two surging queues, pushing to reach the front of the line to get their official aid registration cards processed. The crowd is made of refugees from neighbouring Myanmar’s persecuted Muslim minority Rohingya community, recently arrived …

केप टाउन2 घंटे पहले कॉपी लिंक मुहसिन हेंड्रिक्स ने समलैंगिक मुसलमानों का सपोर्ट करने के लिए द इनर सर्कल की स्थापना की थी। दुनिया के पहले घोषित समलैंगिक इमाम मुहसिन हेंड्रिक्स की शनिवार को दक्षिण अफ्रीका में गोली मारकर हत्या कर दी गई। मीडिया रिपोर्ट्स के मुताबिक एक अन्य व्यक्ति …

Mikaela Shiffrin says she is dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder following a crash in November and will not defend her gold medal in giant slalom at the alpine skiing world championships. The American holder of a record 99 World Cup wins suffered a deep puncture wound when she fell in …

Along with the blazing-red serge uniform of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, there is perhaps no other official ensemble as instantly recognizable as that of the Swiss Guards, the elite cadre that has been safeguarding the pope for more than five centuries. A striking combination of bold colors and Renaissance-inspired …

Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan have announced plans to work toward a merger, forming the world’s third-largest automaker by sales as the industry undergoes dramatic changes in its transition away from fossil fuels. The two companies said they had signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday and that smaller Nissan …

Jai Dhar looks through the window of his New Delhi house and sees the thick smog that has engulfed the city. With his severe allergies and asthma, the pollution makes it difficult for him to breathe. It also leaves him feeling gloomy. “The whole city has suddenly changed. It looks …

A Sherpa teenager who became the youngest person to scale all the world’s 14 highest peaks returned home to Nepal on Monday to a hero’s welcome. Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18, reached the 8,027-metre summit of Mount Shishapangma in China last week, completing his mission to climb the world’s peaks that are more …