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On This Day In Space! Jan. 26, 1978: International Ultraviolet Explorer Launched On January 26, 1978, the International Ultraviolet Explorer launched into orbit on a mission to study ultraviolet light emitted by stars and other bright objects in the universe. Because a lot of that UV light is absorbed by Earth's ozone layer, astronomers needed a space-based observatory to look at it.
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Trump takes on the mantle of salesman-in-chief The president of the US is America's commander-in-chief. In Davos, the world saw an American president take on a new role: salesman-in-chief. Donald Trump's speech at the World Economic Forum was a blunt appeal to business to come and invest in the US. In his effort to persuade the corporate ...
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Dozens killed in fire at Miryang hospital Al Jazeera's Cathy Novak, reporting from Seoul, said President Moon Jae-in had called an emergency meeting with his top advisers. "He said it was an extremely regrettable situation," Novak said. "There were around 100 people in the hospital itself at the time, and another 96 people in an adjacent ...
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Ancient jawbone 'a revolution' in understanding of human evolution The discovery of a prehistoric jawbone in a cave in Israel forces scientists to rethink theories of how the earliest humans came to populate the planet and is a "welcome surprise", according to an Irish palaeontologist. The fossil, dated to nearly 200,000 years ago, suggests our ancestors left Africa, where ...
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US economy grows 2.6% in last quarter of 2017 The return of the American consumer, whose spending grew at its quickest pace in a year and a half in the run-up to Christmas, is helping extend a multiyear expansion that stands to gain further traction from recent Republican tax cuts. Gross domestic product grew by an annualised 2.6 per cent in the ...
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