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Euclid telescope snaps best photo yet of Milky Way's heart

Euclid telescope snaps best photo yet of Milky Way's heart

The Euclid space telescope has captured the largest and most detailed photo ever taken of our galaxy's crowded heart, a dazzling image packed with 60 million stars, the European Space Agency said Wednesday.

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S.Korea chip giant SK hynix seeks $29 bn in Nasdaq listing: regulatory filing

S.Korea chip giant SK hynix seeks $29 bn in Nasdaq listing: regulatory filing

South Korea's SK hynix, a maker of memory chips for artificial intelligence data centres, said Wednesday it plans to raise 45.45 trillion won ($29 billion) through a listing on Wall Street's tech-heavy Nasdaq stock index.

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French-German tank maker KNDS fires starting gun on mega-IPO

French-German tank maker KNDS fires starting gun on mega-IPO

French-German tank maker KNDS said Wednesday that it would launch a stock market flotation in Paris and Frankfurt within weeks, firing the starting gun on Europe's biggest defence sector IPO in years.

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H5 bird flu detected in second Australia state

H5 bird flu detected in second Australia state

Scientists have detected the highly contagious H5 bird flu strain in a second Australian state, the nation's agriculture minister said on Wednesday.

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Major power outage in France as Europe wilts under record heat

Major power outage in France as Europe wilts under record heat

Europe braced Wednesday for another day of a sweltering heatwave that has smashed records, left tens of thousands of people without power and sent air conditioner sales zooming in a continent unused and ill equipped to handle searing heat.

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Brazil aim for last 32 as World Cup goes into hectic phase

Brazil aim for last 32 as World Cup goes into hectic phase

Brazil will seek to book their place in the last 32 of the World Cup on Wednesday when they face Scotland as the tournament shifts to a breathless six games a day.

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Back in stork: returning birds bring joy to Croatian village

Back in stork: returning birds bring joy to Croatian village

Spring brings flocks of noisy visitors to the sleepy Croatian village of Cigoc, outnumbering the locals, filling prime rooftop real estate and flying off again without spending a single cent.

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Necessity drives gold miners in DR Congo's Ebola epicentre

Necessity drives gold miners in DR Congo's Ebola epicentre

In the mines of Mongbwalu, the epicentre of an Ebola outbreak in the northeastern Democratic Republic Congo, gold prospectors have no choice but to overcome their fear of the virus and carry on their backbreaking work.

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Japan PM heckled at WWII memorial

Japan PM heckled at WWII memorial

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was heckled at a World War II memorial event by protesters angry about Tokyo's further shift away from its decades-long pacifist stance, television footage showed.

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Colombia beat DR Congo 1-0 to reach World Cup knockouts

Colombia beat DR Congo 1-0 to reach World Cup knockouts

Colombia finally broke down a stubborn DR Congo side on Tuesday to secure a 1-0 win that guaranteed their place in the World Cup knockout rounds.

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