Paul McCartney recalls Yesterday with first album in five years
British pop legend and former Beatle Paul McCartney on Thursday released a new single and announced his first album in over five years, examining his life in Liverpool before global stardom.
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'True miracle': Napoleon's long-lost hat to go on display
A newly discovered hat believed to have been worn by Napoleon Bonaparte during his exile on the island of Saint Helena is set to go on display outside Paris later this year, historians said on Thursday.
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Lost in space: Sperm struggles to navigate during weightless sex
Scientists have used a tiny plastic "obstacle course" to test how much sperm would struggle to navigate during sex in the weightlessness of space.
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G7 meets in France hoping to heal transatlantic Iran rift
European and allied nations on Thursday looked for ways to narrow differences with the United States on the Middle East war as a two-day meeting of G7 foreign ministers got underway outside Paris.
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IOC's gender test directive throws up multiple questions
The International Olympic Committee's announcement on Thursday that it is reintroducing gender testing to protect the female category, after last being used at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, raises practical, legal, ethical and scientific questions.
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Trump insists Iran operations 'extremely' ahead of schedule
US President Donald Trump said Thursday that the Iran war was "extremely" ahead of schedule, as he pushed Tehran to make a deal at his first cabinet meeting since the conflict began nearly a month ago.
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Bab al-Mandeb Strait: another key shipping route under threat
Here are facts and figures about the Bab al-Mandeb strait, a crucial passage into the Red Sea that Iran has threatened to target if US forces launch a ground assault on its territory.
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Families of Kabul bombing victims still search for answers
Abdul Hai Hamidi gently opened each of the dozens of coffins, hoping to recognise one of his relatives who was killed in a Pakistani strike on a Kabul drug treatment centre.
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Police detain French ex-cop suspected of killing mothers of his children
Portuguese police have arrested a former French police officer suspected of killing his partner and his ex-girlfriend after kidnapping them and their children.
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Venezuela's Maduro back in court after stunning US capture
Ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro was back in a New York court Thursday for his second appearance since his capture by US forces in an extraordinary nighttime raid.
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