New readings from NASA’s Maven mission indicate that the upper atmosphere on Mars is lost at a rate of 10 pounds a second during solar storms.
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First Draft: Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee, in Big Blow to Their Campaigns, Are Cut From Main Debate Stage
Fox Business Network, the host of the next Republican presidential debate next week in Milwaukee, announced the qualifiers for the main stage, and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey did not quite make the cut.
Indiaspora: India sends most migrants to OECD
Both the countries of origin (where people emigrate from) and the profile of migrants has changed significantly in recent years.
Kuwait stops issuing visas to Indian helps
Maids and other domestic workers from India, particularly those in Tamil Nadu large numbers of whom seek employment in the Gulf, will not be able to seek employment in Kuwait, which on Wednesday officially suspended issuing entry visas to Indian domestic workers.
Urdu poems to vanish from textbooks in Rajasthan
In its ongoing mission to revolutionize school education, the Vasundhara Raje government plans to omit from Hindi text books stories and poems written by noted Urdu writers Ismat Chugtai and Safdar Hashmi and short narratives that revolve around Muslim characters.
California man has tapeworm removed from his brain in life-saving surgery
Luís Ortíz, 26, became disoriented and started vomiting, and doctors found the larva embedded in a cyst that was stemming the flow of water to his brain
When the headaches first started in late August, Luís Ortíz tried to ignore them.
But after a day spent skateboarding in early September, the 26-year-old university student found the pain had become too much to bear.
Survey: Half of black millennials know of police abuse
WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, more than half of African-American millennials indicated they, or someone they knew, had been victimized by violence or harassment from law enforcement, a new report says….
Protest against Trump hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ grows
NEW YORK (AP) — Pressure continued to mount on NBC to cancel Donald Trump’s guest-host appearance on this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” as a coalition of advocacy groups delivered petitions to the network Wednesday calling for him to be dropped from the show….
Afghan woman who set up secret girls’ schools under Taliban awarded prize
Sakeena Yacoobi, who supported underground schools at a time when the Taliban banned education for girls, has been awarded a prize in innovation for education.
UK unveils powers to spy on web use, raising privacy fears
Britain unveils plans for sweeping new surveillance powers, including the right to find out which websites people visit, measures ministers say are vital to keep the country safe but which critics denounce as an assault on freedoms.
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